ELIE SAABCorporate Development Director - People, Culture, Operations and Digital Transformation
Nov. 2019 - May. 2024Paris, London, Beirut, Milan, New York, Swiss, Gulf and MENARunning day to day operations across all the organization from people, to processes, digitalization and corporate functioning. Handling change management and strategic planning and implementation.
People:
- Reformed the internal structure globally to fit the organization's vision at 8 different business lines. - Reformed the retail internal structure, in terms of headcount, skills and operational guidelines.
- Increased efficiencies by almost 30% using automation and reviewing roles & responsibilities
- Recruited more than 200 talents while overseeing all the process (financial, legal, operational, cultural)
- Approve global payroll for a budget of over $12M
- Design and implement a performance based culture
- Cross Functional Team Leadership Change management and Culture transformation:
- Built change management plan in terms of people, processes and strategy
- Created tools and units to reform the culture without disrupting the past stories
- Established new departments and insourced functions that decreased cost by more than $500K and enhanced commitment and quality
- Created policies and procedures and restructured all internal departments to optimize workflows.
- Much more details and initiatives Leadership:
- Leading a diversified team of 500 people globally across Europe, States, Gulf and MENA
- Ensure a psychological safe environment
- Conflict resolution and continuous coaching
- Lead teams based on KPI's along with cultural fit and soft skills metrics
- Built the Executive team from hiring to managing. - Act as the CEO trusted advisor in terms of corporate functioning, employees and organizational design and behavior. Digital transformation:
- Lead the digital strategy and digital innovation.
- Lead the digital implementation of new ERP modules SAP B1
- Lead the testing of new environment and optimize processes - Creating along with stakeholders the omni channel presence
- Creating data analytics to measure several KPI's