Compensation & Benefits Manager
Laureate Vocational Saudi Arabia
Total years of experience :26 years, 5 Months
Laureate Saudi Arabia, a division of Laureate International Universities USA is one of the biggest education providers in Saudi Arabia.
Key Responsibilities:
• Human Resource Planning, Organizing, Monitoring & Controlling to achieve targeted results within timeline.
• Managing Performance Management through SHRPS ( Strategic Human Resources Planning System).Identifying skill gaps and inducting training, mentoring and coaching employees to help achieve the targeted results
• Educating employees about Positive Leadership initiative under Laureate's Our Movement.
• Managing leadership training and developments needs for Managerial personnel in association with Laureate Academy.
• Identifying & assisting with professional development needs for employees in association with Udemy online learning portal.
• Communicating employees about company's Ethics & Compliance philosophy.
• Formulating HR policies & procedures and publishing it in HR Manual.
• Keeping abreast with Salary structure in order to retain and attract the best talents.
• Managing employee benefits programs.
• Integral part of Organizational leadership team.
• Organizing & anchoring company events.
• Managing Human Resources Management System.
Obeikan Education Co, a subsidiary of Obeikan Group of Companies, partners with other businesses to explore and exploit business development opportunities in field of Education and Training particularly in mastery of English Language.
Key Responsibilities:
• Jointly responsible for recruitment which includes defining the job, creating job description and job specifications, posting jobs, screening suitable candidates, assessing individuals, and assisting in their mobilization while successfully completing all visa formalities.
• Headed the payroll section responsible for approximately 350 employees salaries and benefits.
• Recorded information in the Human Resource Information System.
• Oversaw the entire process of employee induction into the company starting from interviewing to selection, short listing, orientation, recording details in BAAN System, and preparing payroll.
• Handled all important computations for payroll while accounting for cash advances, housing allowances, leaves, and other calculations involved.
• Responsible for handling all HR related correspondence requests including final settlements, recommendation letters, internal memos and notices.
• Processed different HR forms of employees while assisting them in filling important information to be used for future references.
• Prepared annual performance reports of the employees while making recommendations about appraisals and promotions.
• Scrutinized current work processes while providing recommendations for improvements required to contribute to betterment of company work efficiency.
• Recognized the need for training of employees and accordingly developed courses which would help them better perform their duties.
Safilo is one of the leading 80 year old conglomerates based in Padova Italy with factories and sales offices across the world and more than 20 well established sunglass brands.
Key Responsibilities:
• Worked on improving overall customer support offered after sales to resolve any issues faced by following up with relevant department.
• Contributed business acumen and marketing knowledge in preparation of annual marketing plan for the company within the assigned territory.
• Collaborated with different departments of the company including sales, marketing and supply chain to develop future sales forecasts and accordingly direct marketing efforts.
• Travelled to different locations in order to build strong business partnerships with distributors for increased product market reach.
• Strived to exceed assigned business development targets by attending industry events and other occasions with the potential to develop promising leads.
• Managed relationship with key accounts of the company while introducing them to new product variety in order to create up-selling and cross-selling opportunities.
• Delegated individual sales target while setting junior sales staff accountable for the assigned business development goals.
Mangalam Daily belongs to Managalam Publications Ltd, a 50 years old enterprise and one of the fastest growing regional companies with more than 1 million in circulation for the weekly publication.
Key Responsibilities:
• Built and improved business relationship with customers to ensure they were communicated about latest promotion offerings, seasonable discounts and advertising slots available.
• Collaborated with the marketing and advertising department to create new opportunities for increasing advertisement space made available.
• Worked on improving the brand’s image in a highly competitive market to help retain and increase current base of regular advertisers.
• Conducted marketing events for the newspaper in order to increase its awareness and worked with intermediary advertising agencies for promotion.
• Acted as a mentor for junior sales staff by recommending the company on promoting right talent to top.
The company is a sole proprietor specializing in marketing and promotion of Photo Copiers all across Southern India.
Key Responsibilities:
• Proactively monitored the market to identify new niches to market company’s Canon copier brand in order to increase market penetration.
• Strive to generate more sales leads while working on important business development tools including telemarketing, market visits, and presentations.
• Regularly attended all important industry events to showcase company’s copier products to customers while grabbing opportunities to generate leads.
• Generated detailed market oriented proposals of copiers for customers to present them with important features and cost benefits available.
Project Work: Reliance Industries Ltd, Bombay. Executive Development Programs Attended: • Personal Effectiveness- Grey Cells , Bombay. • Leadership Training- Tuff Trak , Bombay Memberships: • Member at Toastmasters International. Past VP at Wisdom Toastmasters Club. Certificates: 1.Presentation Skills certification from Harvard Manage mentor. 2.Coaching certification from Harvard Manage mentor. 3.Crisis Management certification from Harvard Manage mentor. 4.Feedback Essentials certification from Harvard Manage mentor. 5.Meeting Management Essentials certification from Harvard Manage mentor. 6.Writing Skills certification from Harvard Manage mentor. 7. Storytelling for public speaking from Udemy. 8.Teach anything in workplace from Udemy. 9. Understanding Performance Management from Udemy.