People Engagement Partner
Careem
Total years of experience :10 years, 5 Months
Provided strategic thought leadership to SVP s of various business units to help drive business results that optimized
talent, structure, process and culture.
• Identified key initiatives and executed these to facilitate a healthy colleague NPS for various Business Units.
• Created and executed a talent strategy to ensure that net hea dcount movement is stable and key talent churn is low .
• Worked with people leaders to closely monitor people costs and w orkforce distribution. Successfully managed
workforce planning and hiring within budgets allocated for m y Business Units.
• Facilitated succession planning by identifying critical roles, successors (including readiness) and successor pool
development.
• Worked with HQ Talent Acquisition teams to facilitate Internal Talent Mobility for 30% vacancies within my Business
Units, enabling colleagues with opportunities to learn, grow, help reduce productivity loss and strengthen knowledge
transfer within the business.
• Managed talent reviews for teams in HQ with business leaders to develop managerial capability for people managers
as talent developers to identify/retain/develop and engage t alent.
• Strengthened monthly 1:1 practice embedded - had the highest completion rate of 80% in 2019 (YTD).
• Drove the inclusion and diversity agenda for my Business Unit s. Women in leadership roles rose from 14% to 20%
(overall) in 2019.
• Colleague #30 on the launch team responsible for leading all hiring initiatives for Product Management.
• Optimized existing process for clarity and speed. R educed Recruitment turnaround time by 80%.
• Successfully scaled the Product team by 6.6x within 6 months of joining the team.
• Ensured that the team was fully staffed to roll out initiativ es for launch.
• Provided visibility through daily dashboards to key stakeholders .
• Helped execute our systems strategy by facilitating the roll out of Greenhouse by training people leaders on using the system.
Co-Founder
•Created a business plan including product portfolio, price po ints, sales forecasts, special features, all existing and new channels of distribution, sales promotions and advertising t hat will be used to market the lead generation product-line.
• Drove HR, Operations, Strategy and complete P&L responsibility.
• Recruited, coached and led a team of 5.
• Designed and implemented sales strategies, ensuring business growth target of 70% and increased customer base by 12%.
• Identified and developed key accounts across the MENA region t o achieve business profitability.
•Hired to set up the company's first in-house HR function.
• Designed all policies, processes in line with labour laws and industry norms.
• Ensured that all colleagues were legally compliant; facilitat ed employee relations (internal & external) and day -to-day
operational, on the ground, support.
• Created and rolled out several employer branding, engagement and CSR initiatives.
• Project managed strategic hiring mandates at leadership level.
• Consistently met targets set on a monthly & quarterly basis.
• Generated a pipeline of AED 0.5 Million for the billing year .
• Encashed AED 250, 000 within the first quarter of joining .
• Designed and developed campus recruitment drive which was imp lemented for the first time in Novartis, this resulted in
successfully recruiting 20 Sales Management Trainees PAN India.
• Re-designed the new employee orientation and onboarding program fo r 30-60-90-day program.
• Successfully reduced agency spend by 30% through direct sourc ing for various roles.
• Created and rolled out several engagement activities and init iatives for a business unit of 300 colleagues.
• Maintained a 95% accuracy of all employee records, as per com pliance scores within the business.
• Facilitated employee relations (internal & external) and day -to-day operational, on the ground, support.
Hired in contractual capacity to help support in administrati ve duties to the Student services Department at DMC.
Graduated in Masters of strategic human resources with distinction