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UMAIR KHAN, Head of HR (People & Culture)

UMAIR KHAN

Head of HR (People & Culture)·Construction & Engineering Group

United Arab Emirates

Master's degree, General Management/ HR

Work experience

Total years of experience: 20 years, 6 months

Head of HR (People & Culture)

August 2019 - Present

Construction & Engineering Group

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

August 2019 - Present

The company is conglomerate having MEP, interior design, landscaping, swimming pool and Gas distribution division. I joined them as Head of HR & Admin to revamp organization from scratch and following are my scope of organization transformation; -


• ISO Certification & Implementation (9001; 14001; 45001)
• People & Culture management
• Workplace Wellbeing & Employees Fitness
• Digital HR Implementation
• Worker Welfare Management
• Workforce Planning & Resourcing
• HR Dashboard and Metrics
• HR Audits
• HR Policy & Code of conduct
• Performance Management
• Training & Development
• Employer Branding
• Insurance Management
• Compensation & Benefits
• PRO Management
• Administration
• Security Management

Company industry:
Construction & Building
Job role:
Human Resources and Recruitment

Director Resourcing – 6 Months Contract

December 2018 - June 2019

Griffith Brown Recruitment

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

December 2018 - June 2019

Company industry:
Recruitment & Employee Placement Agency
Job role:
Human Resources and Recruitment

Group HR Manager

March 2018 - November 2018

Coastal Investment Group

United Arab Emirates

March 2018 - November 2018

The company hired me to transform the HR department as the current team was unable to handle operations, leaving a huge messed-
up situation. I started overseeing the following and revamped within a few months; -

• Recruitment: a Massive end to end recruitment for different branches and business units.
• Organization Development / Change Agent: Restructure and re-engineer process of various departments. Eliminate
unnecessary positions to control organization budgets.
• PRO: Managing PRO, overseeing quota, new visas, renewal, health card, Emirates ID, trade license renewal, etc.
• Performance Management: formulate Job description and set KPIs, furthermore execute goal setting exercise to identify top
performers and weak employees.
• HR Policies: Revised HR policy as per UAE law aligned with the organizational vision and execute successfully to bring
disciplinary controls.
• Insurance: Rolled out best insurance and health provider coverage for all employees within organizational budget.
Key Achievements:
• Successfully executed organization restructuring and reduce surplus positions to control headcount.
• Executed Staffing plan exercise to develop budgets.
• Formulated KPI plan of peak and off-peak season and execute goal setting exercise on key business managers.
• Successfully recruited best European & South African Chefs to transform kitchen operations.
• Negotiated and triumphantly rolled out new health insurance plan to provide the best coverage to employees within company
budget.
• Implemented Corporate E-dirham to control cash exercise from PRO hands.

Company industry:
Hospitality & Accomodation
Job role:
Human Resources and Recruitment

Interim HR Director

August 2017 - February 2018

Reyadah Hospitality

United Arab Emirates

August 2017 - February 2018

Reyadah Hospitality is a group of companies owned by Emirates family, managing restaurant’s brand like Zushi, Rang, potato
station, Missmo. Circle & Slices are located in Sharjah. They’ve also introduced a food delivery company named as Food Taxi.
Furthermore, they have construction company known as Nabni and a Creative studio known as Kyan.

I worked as an Interim HR Director with a well-known brand of restaurants located at Sharjah. These restaurants are one of the top-notch brands with fusion concept. My project was to develop a complete HR department from the basis and help the brand to grow their team for new upcoming projects in Sharjah & Dubai. The project delivery duration was of 7 months. The project contains the development of effective recruitment of all Business Units, HR budget & Controls, HR operations, performance management, and turnkey administration.

Key Achievements:

• Developed HR department from scratch and rolled out HR policies to bring organizational controls.
• Hired best talented Executive Head Chefs for their different brands to revamp kitchen’s operation.
• Successfully managed health, vaccine and road approvals and brought monthly fines to Zero.
• Developed HR Metrics reports providing insight of headcount.

Company industry:
Hospitality & Accomodation
Job role:
Human Resources and Recruitment

Group Recruitment Manager

December 2014 - June 2017

Tech Group - Pvt JSC

Ajman, United Arab Emirates

December 2014 - June 2017

Tech Group is a conglomerate owned by the Royal family in Ajman. It is represented as one of top notch and the biggest group of northern emirates. They are currently engaged with many operations, details are mention below.


• Tech Engineering (MEP Division)
• Tech Construction (Civil Construction Division)
• Tech Foundation (Piling & foundation Division)
• Tech Wood (Joinery Division)
• Tech Alu Glass (Aluminium & Glass Division)
• Tech Remix: (Ready-mix & Concrete Division)
• Tech Block: (Block Division)
• Tech Steel: (Steel extrusion Division)
• Tech Diesel (Petroleum & Diesel Division)
• Tech Logistics (Heavy Automotive and plan repair Division)
• Tech Property
• R-Holding (Mother Concern)
• Ramada Hotel, Ajman (Hospitality)
• Ajman Academy (Share Holder Concern)
• Intego Health (New launching Hospitals x2)


• Developed new model and decreased recruitment search fees to 70% by designing, implementing and managing a RPO (recruiting process outsourcing) to address burst capacity hiring needs to support corporate move.
• Reduced time to hire from 60+ to 25 days and onboarding employees by end to end arrangements.
• Created and taught re-employment strategies for displaced employees.
• Average group recruitment volume is 500 staff (White collar) and 800 workers (Blue Collar) a year.
• Formulate Interview / Headhunting assessment forms to monitor talent mapping and market mapping exercise.
• Develop various types of strategies and plan to bridge gap between Business Units need and Recruitment Support.
• Explore and adopt different ways of searching and attracting talent through social networks, advertisement, headhunt, educational institute, competitors, professional forms, employee referrals and other professional network.
• Provide professional support and advice on recruitment to hiring and business unit managers.
• Establish relation with Job Portals providers such as bayt.com, monstergulf.com, naukrigulf.com, LinkedIn, Indeed, as well as manage our administrative account of Tech Group and negotiate the terms of business.
• Recruitment & Headhunting, Induction, Reference check, creating a talent pipeline, succession planning, manpower planning & budgeting, drafting of Organization chart, job design, Employee allocation and rotations.
• Design job grades, salary and benefit caps, Formulating HR Policies & Procedures, etc.
• Arranging & attending job fairs, University Recruitments, Overseas Recruitment, on-site recruitments, etc.
• Part of the cross-functional executive team tasked with designing organizational structures, grading framework, Job evaluation and reward systems. Personally, responsible for delivering organizational structures and job descriptions for divisions Developing and rolling out Recruitment leaflet, forms design, process flows, SOP’s, and policies.


PRO DEPT:

• Managing all teams of the PRO for Visa Quota, labour camps, visa process, visa cancellation, etc.
• Monitoring all delays and developing strategy to refine the turnaround time.
• Formulate & execute cash release strategy and reduce cash flow in hands of PRO.


Key Achievements:

• Built inhouse recruitment department and successfully delivered all hiring roles without utilizing any recruitment agency. Brought the Agency cost to zero. (Roles from Director to top down)
• Successfully rolled out Recruitment policies, induction process, HR manual and recruitment flow charts, camp, security and mobility policy.
• Developed Recruitment metrics for management reporting.
• Successfully negotiated various contracts with blue collar and temporary workers agencies.
• Camp transformation and reduced 40% of Camp’s conflicts.

Company industry:
Civil Engineering
Job role:
Human Resources and Recruitment

Sr. Group Resourcing Officer (Staff)

March 2014 - November 2014

Dutco Balfour Beatty LLC.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

March 2014 - November 2014

Dutco Balfour Beatty LLC was originally established in 1976 when the Dubai Transport Company (DUTCO) and UK-based Balfour Beatty joined forces to undertake the mega-project that was the construction of Mina Jebel Ali. After completion of the project, Dutco Balfour Beatty LLC then engaged in major civil works projects, which included the Arrivals Terminal at Dubai International Airport, “G” station power and water desalination facility, and, more recently, the construction of the Dubai Mall - the largest shopping mall in the world.

-Dutco Balfour Beatty
-Bk Gulf LLC

• Manpower planning, project budgeting, allocation of staff, updating pay structure, job posting, etc.
• Recruitment Cycle, Interviewing, headhunting, etc.
• Managing white and blue collar end to end process.

Company industry:
Construction & Building
Job role:
Human Resources and Recruitment

Principal Consultant/ Resourcing Partner

July 2012 - January 2014

UG INC. (Executive Search firm)

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

July 2012 - January 2014

ETek Global (UG INC) is the licensed staffing firm based in the United Kingdom and UAE. Having a strategic operation in India. The firm only deals in EMEA Region hiring and staffing. They have many high-profile clients in UAE, KSA, Qatar, Kuwait, and United Kingdom

• International Resourcing, staffing, researching, sniper hires, interviewing, negotiating, finalizing candidates, developing a talent pool, accumulate resume, updating database of EMEA & APAC Region.
• Hiring expertise in Health Care, Oil & Gas, Education, Construction, EPC, Automotive Engineers & Technical staff also dealing with fashion retail.
• Business development, preparing business deals & proposal to attract clients, account management, presentation to clients, Branding and research work on competitors, offering service test for retention.

Company industry:
Recruitment & Employee Placement Agency
Job role:
Human Resources and Recruitment

Lead Recruitment Consultant

May 2006 - April 2011

Roomi Group Inc. (Recruitment Agency)

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

May 2006 - April 2011

Roomi Group was a Recruitment consultancy covering recruitment needs of construction and contracting clients in the UAE.

• International Resourcing, staffing, researching, sniper hires, interviewing, negotiating, finalizing candidates, developing a talent pool, accumulate resume, updating database of MENA Region.
• Business development, preparing business deals & proposal to attract clients, account management, presentation to clients, Branding and research work on competitors, offering service test for retention.
• An internal team training, performance appraisal, designing rewards structure for achieving.
• Organization is branding, employee engagement, etc.

Company industry:
Recruitment & Employee Placement Agency
Job role:
Human Resources and Recruitment

Assistant Manager HR & Administration

July 2004 - April 2006

Seatrail, LLC (Steel Extrusion Industry)

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

July 2004 - April 2006

A Seatrail is a steel fabrication company based in Dubai. I was looking after the following;

• Recruitment & Selection, HR Operation, Compensation & Benefit.
• General Administration.
• Camp Management
• Managed White and Blue Collars (End to end procedures)

Company industry:
Industrial Production
Job role:
Human Resources and Recruitment

Education

University of Wolverhampton, UK

April 2017

April 2017

Master's degree, General Management/ HR

United Kingdom

EduQual, UK

May 2015

May 2015

Diploma, Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM)

United Arab Emirates

Post graduate Diploma in Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM)

Karachi UniversityCollege for Men

July 2001

July 2001

Bachelor's degree, General Management

United Arab Emirates

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Talent Acquisition
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HR Transformation
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HR Transformation
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Organization Development
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Organization Development
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Employer Branding
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HUMAN RESOURCES
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ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
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RECRUITING
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STAFFING
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STAFFING
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BUDGETING
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CEO
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MANAGEMENT
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MANAGEMENT
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ORGANIZATIONAL SKILLS
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POLICY ANALYSIS
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talent acquisition
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talent acquisition
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Employer Branding
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Employer Branding
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Cultural Diversity
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Cultural Diversity
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Organization Development
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Organization Development
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HR Transformation
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