HR Manager
HRInvest
Total years of experience :19 years, 3 Months
Developed and implemented HR Policies, and Employee Handbook and improve HR policies and procedures covering all functional areas of HR to be current, competitive and in compliance with Kuwait Labour Law and ensure effective communication and implementation of policies.
Organization Design
- Collaborate with the leadership team to ensure corporate and departmental structures support the organization’s growth plans, promote synergy, collaboration and optimum utilization of available resources. Custodian of the organization, department and position structures.
- Established and implement organization chart and match with the strategy and vision.
HR and Manpower Budgets
- Develop and monitor the annual HR budget covering Capex and Opex, including recruitment, Visa, Training, Payroll, benefits, recognition programs.
- Collaborate with function heads and the leadership team to anticipate the organization’s current and future workforce needs.
- Monitor department’s operational costs to identify deviations from department’s budget
Talent Planning, Recruitment and Onboarding
- Align recruitment planning and delivery to meet the talent requirements.
- Managed the activities of recruitment - sort, filter and review job applications, organized interviews and
tests for shortlisted candidates and provide recommendations to the Executive team on the candidate
selection.
- Provided a best practice recruitment process and manage external recruitment contracts.
- Ensure new recruits’ skill and culture fit to the organization using various in-house assessment tools as
well as accredited ones.
- Ensure efficient onboarding and induction to provide the best first impression for all new recruits.
Performance Management
- Played a pivotal role in developing a robust appraisal process to strengthen a high-performance culture.
- Managed annual/probationary appraisal cycle including training, launch, support and closure.
- Developed and implemented a performance improvement process.
- Present results with recommended merit increase and promotions to obtain approval from management
and Owners.
- Developed the employee Job Descriptions and KPIs and link the objectives with the performance
management, review the reports and make recommendations to the Executive Management and Heads.
Total Rewards Management
- Developed and implemented effective salary scale and grading structure.
- Regular review of compensation and grading structure including job evaluations, salary & benefits matrics
and annual bonus schemes in line with market.
- Develop increment budget, recommend merit or promotion increments/adjustments, implement
approved pay changes.
Employee Relations
- Lead investigations into employee complaints, performance issues or disciplinary concerns.
- Monitor and advise managers on the progressive discipline system of the company.
HR Reports and Analytics
- Present monthly and annual HR reports to management in business review meetings.
- Developed and maintain the human resources information systems to ensure records and keep
reporting.
- Analyses of the trends in each division in terms of turnover, hiring, promotions, and grievances to
determine support of actions.
- Reviewed the recruitment activities to ensure the manpower requisitions are timely processed.
- Review the existing HR processes and recommend improvements for timely provision of support
services.
HR Administration & Government Relations
- Managed the establishment of new companies, dealing with ministries registration licenses, renewing,
and subscriptions, Government certificates, labor contracts, registrations, visas, renewals, transfers and
labor cases.
- Managed the activities of Payroll Management processing, social security, leaves, deductions, allowances.
- Contributing the Company corporate strategy from the HR Operations perspectives, direct short-terms and long-range planning to support the strategic business goals.
- Develop and implement HR policies to meet the organizational strategies needs and comply with Kuwait labor law.
- Implementation of policies, procedures and techniques related to the HR function specifically and to meet company strategy, goals and objectives.
- Initiated the development of long Term incentive programs for executive team and Key Talents.
- Talent management identifies and filling the skill gap in a company by recruiting the high-worth individuals.
- Recruiting senior corporate level recruitment hires and advises on the broader talent management strategy.
- Managing the activities of recruitment, training, compensation & benefits, performance appraisals, Employee Relations and Government Relations and ensuring that the aforementioned units are following procedures and meeting objectives.
- Sort, filter and review job applications, organize interviews and tests for shortlisted candidates and provide recommendations to the executive team and functional heads regarding candidate selection.
- Provide a best practice recruitment process and manage external recruitment contracts.
- Managed the Performance Management system for the entire company on quarterly and yearly basis.
- Develops human resources budget and reviews status with each division of the organization on a regular basis.
- Managing the Payroll unit, compensation and benefits ( Salaries, leave and indemnities).
- Managing the government relations unit with their full processing ( Company’s MOSAL file, visa quota and the residencies)
- Provide administrative framework, leadership, motivation, functional direction and facilitate team communication to maximize team contribution in a proper work environment.
- Managing all types of ministries work established new companies, managing ministries registrations licenses, renewing, and subscriptions, Gov. Certifications.
- Managing the Admin team related to all types of ministers issues labor contracts, registrations, visas, renewals, transfers, medical team’s license and labor cases.
- Review the existing HR processes and recommend improvements for timely provision of support services.
- Managing and coordinating with Ministry of health related any clinical inspections.
- Managing the entire service contracts administration of the company and coordinate with Legal unit for compliance.
- Provide legal opinion on various labor matters for the group in coordination with the legal team.
- Managing the entire insurance portfolio of the group medical/ group life, property, money and cash, fidelity, and travel insurances.
- Negotiating the recruitment agreements and the service contracts with contractors and other third party.
- Serve as a member of the Executive Leadership with responsibility for back-office operations including Contracts, Legal, Human Resources, Recruiting, and Security that support rapid growth and operational objectives and helped the company in achieving the goals.
Review the HR & Admin Policies and Procedures and amended the existing P&P with industry best standards.
- Develops and implements human resources strategies and policies to meet organizational needs and comply with Kuwait labor law.
- Initiated the development of Long term Incentive programs for Senior Management Team and Key Talents.
- Managed the Performance Management system for the entire company on quarterly and yearly basis.
- Develops human resources budget and reviews status with each division of the organization on a regular basis.
- Provides guidelines and oversees management of human resources activities such as recruitment, performance review, benefits.
- Training, and employee relations, and resolves problems requiring senior management intervention.
- Directs development and maintenance of human resources information systems to ensure record keeping and reporting.
- Analyses trends in each division with regard to turnover, hiring, promotions, and grievances to determine support or action.
- Establish, update or modify the co. organization chart to be match with the strategy and the co, mission and vision.
- Establish, update or modify the CO. employees’ JD based on the positions and departments scope of work.
- Devise KPIs for the department and monitor them for deviations and ensure their alignment to the corporate strategy.
- Ensure there is update, sufficient and effective salary scale and grade structure in place.
- Review reports on employee attrition, performance, employee satisfaction, talent development and make recommendations to the Executive management.
- Monitor department’s operational costs to identify deviations from department’s budget.
- Review recruitment activities to ensure the manpower requisitions are timely processed.
- Monitor and review performance of staff in the HR and Admin. Sections to identify areas for improvement.
- Review the existing HR processes and recommend improvements for timely provision of support services.
- Provide administrative framework, leadership, motivation, functional direction and facilitate team communication to maximize team contribution in a proper work environment.
- Managing the activities of recruitment, training, compensation & benefits, performance appraisals, Employee Relations and Government Relations and ensuring that the aforementioned units are following procedures and meeting objectives.
- Sort, filter and review job applications, organize interviews and tests for shortlisted candidates and provide recommendations to the Executive team regarding candidate selection.
- Recruiting senior corporate level recruitment hires and advises on the broader talent management strategy.
- Provide a best practice recruitment process and manage external recruitment contracts.
- Managing all types of ministries work established new companies, managing ministries registrations licenses, renewing, and subscriptions, Gov. Certifications.
- Managing admin team related to all types of ministers issues labor contracts, registrations, visas, renewals, transfers and labor cases.
- Managing the activities of Payroll processing, social security, annual leaves & Indemnities.
- Supervised the entire service contracts administration of the company and coordinate with Legal unit for compliance.
- Provide legal opinion on various labor matters for the group in coordination with the legal team.
- Manage the entire insurance portfolio of the group medical/ group life
- Negotiating agreements and service contracts with suppliers, contractors and other third party.
- Serve as a member of the Executive Leadership Team with responsibility for back-office operations including Contracts, Legal, Human Resources, Recruiting, and Security that support rapid growth and operational objectives and helped the company in achieving the goals.
- Preparing and coordinating for the annual Corporate General Assembly Meeting.
mplementation of policies, procedures and techniques related to the HR function specifically and to meet company strategy, goals and objectives.
- Plan for employee's performance appraisal using (key performance indicators), develop tools for appraisal, job evaluation and development.
- Talent management identifies and filling the skill gap in a company by recruiting the high-worth individuals.
- Resolve problems according to practices, labor law, policies and procedures.
- Contribute towards the formulation of HR strategy, budgets, policies, and procedures
- Documentation of Policies And Procedures
- Prepare and lead the implementation of HR goals and objectives, in alignment with business needs.
- Prepare, set and apply employee performance appraisal scales and standards according to the applicable policy.
- Prepare annual budget staff and office cost.
- Preparing Job descriptions.
- Review and evaluate quarterly and yearly and controlling the cost of the organization.
- Manpower planning "Hiring & reducing ".
- Monitor and recommend actions to maintain balance between control of costs, and attraction and retention of staff.
- Advise line managers on interpretation and implementation of HR policies and procedures.
- Supervising Payroll, Calculation of Annual leave & Indemnity for the Employees.
- Supervising & maintain a record of vacation & sick time used by each employee.
- Supervising & reviewing Staff leave & indemnity monthly and yearly schedule.
- Supervising & reviewing Social security for Kuwaiti.
- Renewing Company contracts, subscriptions, Gov. Certification & ministries registrations.
- Supervising internal circulars, memos and correspondence e.g.
- Supervising monthly company salary certificates for the ministry.
- Preparing manpower plan.
- Dealing with all recruiting agencies.
- Dealing with all advertising companies" related to recruitment "
- Electronic archives of all types of CVs and short listed the candidates.
- Strong negations.
- Preparing yearly training plan and evaluate the staff before and after the training
- Dealing with all training companies and following up.
- Establishing new companies.
- Managing the Payroll and all the transactions related (leaves, allowances & deductions).
- Supervising and preparing all types of certificate & contracts related to staff.
- Preparing Staff leave & indemnity monthly and yearly schedule.
- Add new employees to medical insurance policy.
- Responsibility of medical insurance (Cash & Card).
- Supervising & Preparing Social security for Kuwaiti staff.
- Supervising Residency System (Transfer & renew).
- Preparing all of Business trips related to top management and other staff.
- Organize hotel & air ticket booking.
- Renewing Company contracts, subscriptions, Gov. Certification & ministries registrations.
- Supervising & Issuing internal circulars, memos and correspondence e.g. holiday circulars.
- Supervising & Preparing monthly company salary certificates for the ministry.
- Supervising Employees Affairs and File System.
- Overall Official Documentation and Administrative Affairs.
- Dealing with all recruiting agencies.
- Strong negations.
- Plan for employee’s performance appraisal using (key performance indicators), develop tools for appraisal, job evaluation and development.
- Talent management identifies and filling the skill gap in a company by recruiting the high-worth individuals.
- Sourcing the Talent - attracting the Talent - recruiting the Talent - selecting the Talent - Retention the Talent.
- Preparing yearly training plan and evaluate the staff before and after the training
- Dealing with all training companies and following up.
- Dealing with Zain & Wataniya & Viva and following up.
- Establishing new companies.
- Dealing with insurance companies " life & medicals" and following up
- Following up with company's administrative work Visa quota, registrations, visas renewals - transfers & ministers issues.
- Contribute towards the formulation of HR strategy, budgets, policies, and procedures
- Documentation of Policies And Procedures
- Prepare and lead the implementation of HR goals and objectives, in alignment with business needs.
- Prepare, set and apply employee performance appraisal scales and standards according to the applicable policy.
- Prepare annual budget staff and office cost.
- Review and evaluate quarterly and yearly and controlling the cost of the organization.
- Manpower planning "Hiring & reducing ".
- Monitor and recommend actions to maintain balance between control of costs, and attraction and retention of staff.
- Advise line managers on interpretation and implementation of HR policies and procedures.
- Daily Monitoring and reviews and helping all department heads.
Responsibilities: -
- HR Administration
- Payroll
- Recruitment
- Training & Development
- Grading system
- Compensation & benefits.
Responsibilities: -
- HR Administration
- Payroll
- Recruitment
- Training & Development
- Grading system
- Compensation & benefits