Head - Human Resources
Landmark Group - Kuwait
Total years of experience :18 years, 10 Months
As Head HR:
Collaborating with Territory Head to conduct Human Resources strategic planning in order to support business and achieve Territory goals.
Implementation of the new HR systems (Oracle cloud) with minimal disturbance.
Man power planning, Budgeting and costing for the Territory.
Conceptualizing and implementing various employee engagement initiatives.
To facilitate, monitor & follow-up performance appraisal process and reward & recognition programs in the territory in order to meet the objectives of Performance management.
Strategically approach towards talent management and succession planning.
Partnering with all stake holders of the business in order to achieve the objectives set for the HR function.
Managed workforce of 4000+ employees ranging 11 nationalities through a team of 25 HR representatives.
Man power planning, Budgeting and costing for the region.
Conceptualizing and implementing various employee engagement initiatives.
Strategically approach towards talent management and succession planning.
Partnering with all stake holders of the business in order to achieve the objectives set for the HR function.
Workforce Management - Initiating Transfers, Confirmations, Exits & Increments (At Appropriate Time).
To attend, counsel and redress grievances of employees and guide Line-managers in addressing specific grievances in order to foster good employee relations.
One point of contact for external training partners.
Set up and developed training team to drive the learning and development function.
To facilitate, monitor & follow-up performance appraisal process and reward & recognition programs in the organization in order to meet the objectives of Performance management.
Created and successfully implemented a platform to communicate with the employees.
Formulated sports events.
Various initiatives to boost up employee morale.
Regular drive to check the satisfaction levels of employees through engagement surveys.
Developed and rolled out incentive scheme for all the formats.
Framed policy and guideline for selecting the employee of the month.
Managed workforce of 4000+ employees ranging 11 nationalities through a team of 25 HR representatives.
Man power planning, Budgeting and costing for the region.
Conceptualizing and implementing various employee engagement initiatives.
Strategically approach towards talent management and succession planning.
Partnering with all stake holders of the business in order to achieve the objectives set for the HR function.
Workforce Management - Initiating Transfers, Confirmations, Exits & Increments (At Appropriate Time).
To attend, counsel and redress grievances of employees and guide Line-managers in addressing specific grievances in order to foster good employee relations.
One point of contact for external training partners.
Set up and developed training team to drive the learning and development function.
To facilitate, monitor & follow-up performance appraisal process and reward & recognition programs in the organization in order to meet the objectives of Performance management.
Created and successfully implemented a platform to communicate with the employees.
Formulated sports events.
Various initiatives to boost up employee morale.
Regular drive to check the satisfaction levels of employees through engagement surveys.
Developed and rolled out incentive scheme for all the formats.
Framed policy and guideline for selecting the employee of the month.
Recruitment & On-boarding
•Man power planning, Budgeting and costing.
•End to End Recruitment of Middle and Top Management - Pan India.
•Introduced innovative and cost effective recruitment process & minimized the recruitment cost to the minimal.
•Formalized the Induction process and trained the Regional HR on delivery.
•Vendor Management - Sourcing, Short listing, Negotiating and Finalizing Vendors. Maintain good rapport with the vendors.
HR Operations and Employee Engagement
•Workforce Management - Initiating Transfers, Confirmations, Exits & Increments (At Appropriate Time).
•Counseling employees to assess their expectations and provide solutions to help them perform better as professionals and as individuals.
•Plan and implement employee engagement activities to enhance employer branding.
•Drive the People Engagement Plan and the HR Calendar of Events
•Work with managers to build strong teams to increase employee touch, organize functional roundtables.
•Design an internal communication process to keep the employees updated about the latest happenings in the organisation.
•Coordinating and supporting the HR Operations Pan India from the corporate end.
Performance Management & Review
•To facilitate, monitor & follow-up performance appraisal process and reward & recognition programs in the organization in order to meet the objectives of Performance management.
•Counseling and providing solutions to employee’s problems such as non-performance, negative rating, slow learners etc.
Special Assignments
•HR Budget Templates & formulation.
•Generating regular MIS reports to assist the management.
•Prepare and analyze reports relating to the HR.
•Developed and rolled out incentive scheme.
•Framed policy and guideline for selecting the employee of the month and christened it as “Nova- The Brightest Star of the Month
•End to End Recruitment of Middle Management - Pan India.
•Induction planning and co-ordinating for the middle level management and above cadre.
•Address the issues of the Operations and other departments and co-ordinate to solve them.
•Input for Payroll Administration.
•To maintain the Employee Data Base.
•Time Keeping & Maintenance of Leave Records.
•Grievances Handling, Employee Relation Activities & Maintaining Employees Database.
•Generating regular MIS reports to assist the management
Key Responsibilities
•Vendor Management - Maintain good rapport with the vendors to generate desired numbers.
•Execute outstation visits for manpower requirement.
•Coordinate recruitment programs and related marketing initiatives such as various Promotional Events, Job Fairs on behalf of the Human Resources Department
•Input for Payroll Administration.
•To maintain the Employee Data Base
Key Responsibilities
•Vendor Management - Maintain good rapport with the vendors to generate desired numbers.
•Execute outstation visits for manpower requirement.
•Coordinate recruitment programs and related marketing initiatives such as various Promotional Events, Job Fairs on behalf of the Human Resources Department
Commenced career with…
Recruiter & Team Leader I-One Consultants (India) Jul’02 - May’05
ACHIEVEMENTS
At Landmark, KSA
•Recognized for:
•Transforming personnel function to structured human resource department.
•Various employee engagement initiatives.
•Reduced the employee cost through various initiatives.
•Introduced hand book for the employees as a guide to the company
•Organization structure creation and recruitment
•Recruited numbers from 1700 at the time of joining to 4000+, across various levels and vivid nationalities
•Revamped the entire performance management process and brought in parity
•Introduced PIP, Salary capping much ahead than the group initiated.
Other achievements
•HR process - Formulation and implementation at Odyssey
•Implementation of Oracle cloud for HR function in business
•Organization structure creation and recruitment for Odyssey, Home solutions and Aditya Birla.
•Instrumental in recruiting numbers from 170 to 8000+ alongside a small team of 10 executives in 12 months at Aditya Birla retail.
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