Souad LEGHNIDER,

Souad LEGHNIDER

Location
United Arab Emirates
Education
Master's degree, Business Administration
Experience
13 years, 3 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :13 years, 3 Months

  • United Arab Emirates
  • My current job since April 2017
HR MANAGER at AKKA TECHNOLOGIES
  • United Arab Emirates
  • April 2017 to March 2021

Responsibilities:
• Recruitment
- Selected, coached, and led a team of 4 recruiters in hiring experienced engineers & managers in Railway, Defense, Aviation, IT, Energy mainly
- Aligned steadily the workforce planning with business objectives
- Elaborated tailor-made mass recruitment process within timeline and budget expectations
- Monitored monthly recruitment KPIs: time to hire, candidate experience
• Employee relations and engagement
- Advised and coached employees and managers on day-to-day HR practices
- Acted as HR Business Partner to senior leaders in leading HR operations upon business strategy and objectives
- Handled grievance and disciplinary procedures, conflict resolution
- Designed and updated company policies and procedures to ensure efficiency and consistency
- Managed staff wellness initiatives (move@work challenge) for employee engagement
• Talent and compensation management
- Developed with HR partners at the group level and implemented locally the 3 ‘Talentsoft’ HRIS modules: Recruiting, Mobility and Career & Performance Management
- Run the Performance Management cycle and upskilled people managers on the fundamentals
- Drove the talent management review including competency matrix, succession plans
- Designed incentive programs, reviewed pay and benefits schemes among sales teams, benchmarking
- Identified, prioritised current and future employee training needs
• Administration
- Negotiated and prepared employment agreements
- Revamped and oversaw the on-boarding/off-boarding process including mobilisation, induction and exit formalities to maximize employee experience
- Validated monthly payroll data submission
- Monitored monthly HR key metrics (turnover, diversity, promotions…)

Achievements:
 Consolidated and structured the Administration, Recruiting and HR functions
 Managed a team of 5 HR specialists/recruiters to deliver services within the
defined SLAs (Quality, time, accuracy, compliance, continuous improvement)
 Led project and change management with HRIS modules successfully implemented across the organisation

RECRUITMENT MANAGER at RIVIERE CONSULTING
  • France
  • June 2006 to July 2011

Responsibilities:
• Met on tight timelines the staffing needs of clients in Construction, Energy, Engineering industry for key positions:
- Defined job descriptions according to clients' needs and requirements
- Developed and drove the recruitment strategy by direct approach
- Implemented sourcing strategies using multiple channels to attract talented profiles
- Pushed ahead the selection process: screening, individual competency-based interviews, reference checks
- Provided thorough weekly reports to stakeholders
- Followed up the integration of hired candidates
• Trained, coached and managed a team of 4 researchers

Achievements:
 Led dozens of key recruitments every quarter
 Constantly exceeded individual targets, from 50K€ in 2006 to 210K€ in 2010

HR ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT at DELL SA
  • France - Montpellier
  • June 2003 to May 2004

Montpellier (France)

Responsibilities:
•Completed administrative formalities for employees
•Registered and updated data in the staff databases

Achievement:
•Dealt with the volume of activity (1200 employees on site)

Education

Master's degree, Business Administration
  • at University of Economics and Business administration
  • January 2005
Master's degree, Management
  • at Burgundy Business School
  • January 2004

Specialties & Skills

Employee Relations
Staff Training
Recruitment
Recruiting and selection process
change management
Full employment life cycle
employee relations
Reports - analytics
UAE Labour Law
HRMS implementation
compensation and benefit
Talent and performance management
Policies and procedures

Languages

English
Expert
French
Native Speaker
Spanish
Expert

Training and Certifications

CIPD L5 HR Management (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2022
DMCC regulations and UAE Employment Law (Training)
Training Institute:
Pinsent Masons
Date Attended:
January 2018

Hobbies

  • “R2S”professional support network
    Volunteer coordinator in organizing networking events/forums between members in UAE