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Head of HR
Taka Solutions, a Positive Zero companyHead of HR
Mar. 2024Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Business Partner
Arabian Gulf Steel Industries LLC (AGSI)Business Partner
Sep. 2023 - Mar. 2024Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Head of People & Operations
alfiiHead of People & Operations
Mar. 2023 - Sep. 2023United Arab EmiratesWe help companies thrive by taking better care of their people. alfii is an end-to-end HR automation platform designed to streamline and humanize people operations. Built with a simple and intuitive interface that’s refreshingly easy for both employers and employees to use, alfii is giving startups, SMEs and fast-growing companies the time, tools and insights they need to create and deliver a better, people-first experience for their teams.
HR & Ops Manager
NymCardHR & Ops Manager
Sep. 2021 - Nov. 2022United Arab EmiratesNymCard is the only BaaS provider based in the Middle East offering a modern payment issuing and processing platform that allows booming startups, Fintechs, large enterprises, and banks, in the MENA region to Instantly create, control, and distribute virtual or physical cards using their modern, fully public API platform. NymCard aims to bridge the gap of complex legacy systems by simply embedding finance into applications and customer journeys for payment innovators to work with.
Manager - People & Talent Operations
NervoraManager - People & Talent Operations
Nov. 2020 - Sep. 2021Dubai, United Arab EmiratesNervora is a media company building a portfolio of the Middle East’s most premier, authoritative content and experiences. Nervora publishes marquee fashion and lifestyle titles in both English and Arabic, including Vogue Arabia, Wired Middle East, and PopSugar Middle East, reaching a highly coveted audience of millions. We are hungry, passionate, and tireless — and we’re forging a future for quality media publications in the Middle East supported by a sophisticated sales team connecting brands with solutions across display, branded content, sponsorships, and experiential partnerships. Nervora was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Dubai
Senior Consultant - Digital Marketing
Cander GroupSenior Consultant - Digital Marketing
Nov. 2019 - Nov. 2020Dubai, United Arab EmiratesCander is the brain child of two ex colleagues with 40 years experience in some of the worlds leading recruitment companies. United by a passion for the difference that the right person, in the right job can make, they embarked on a mission to build a company that delivered on it’s goal to improve the working lives of there candidates and provide the highest possible service and transparency to our clients, and to always speak with candour. Our focus is on building global networks of highly skilled candidates that we can deliver to clients around the world. Our core areas of expertise lie in IT, Digital, Ecommerce, Risk, Regulation, Security, Compliance, Consulting & Operations. Our head office is strategically positioned in Dubai with over a third of the worlds population within a 4 hour flight. Our vision has always been to look beyond borders and focus on skills above geographies
Sr. Consultant
Kingston StanleySr. Consultant
Apr. 2019 - Nov. 2019United Arab EmiratesKingston Stanley is the leading specialist marketing recruitment agency in the Middle East, working exclusively with clients and candidates across the full spectrum of the marketing sector since early 2011. • Identifying new clients and maintaining existing client relationships. • Researching market trends, advising and consulting clients. • Offering consultative advice to clients within the area of specialism. • Headhunting candidates using a variety of different tools (both locally, regionally & globally) • Understanding and meeting client needs while adhering to the firm’s processes, providing international best practices on quality, delivery and customer service. • Identifying and attracting candidates to opportunities with Company clients. • Negotiating offer contracts between both clients & candidates • Collecting documents from candidates and scheduling flights/accommodation for interviews and relocations. • Building and maintaining candidate relationships. • Conducting telephonic and face-to-face interviews, competency-based interviewing. • Analysing and presenting candidate profiles with a high level of professionalism. • Preparing candidates for client interviews. • Coordinating candidate interview processes, psychometric assessments, scheduling and feedback. • Representing the Company with a high level of professionalism and expertise within your pointed market. • Contributing to Company publications, reports and articles on subject matter topics
Recruitment & Training Consultant
Enova (formerly MAF Dalkia)Recruitment & Training Consultant
Jan. 2016 - Sep. 2018Dubai• Responsible for all mid-senior level recruitment and onboarding for seven operating countries. • Advise department heads on market trends, budget restraints, market availability manpower strategy and skill gaps. • Developing digitise strategy with IT and division heads to streamline all the ‘paper forms’, reduce waste and improve the flow of approvals and procedures, including the creation of an online hiring portal. • Developed a recruitment/talent flow chart for the brand. • Ensure the brand was compliant with the UAE Labour Law in terms of all employee-related processes, including disciplinary procedures. • Identifying training needs and coordinating training delivery and allocation and management of the training budget. • Developing and delivering soft-skill training material to mid-level employees. • Created and implemented employee engagement improving the brand’s employee retention and long-term growth plans, including employee feedback and the brand’s quarterly newsletter. • Implementing the brand’s online technical skill assessment tool. • Creating and implementing employee career plan identifying skill and training gaps. • Setting up & implementing a new HRIS and assisting with KPI development and monitoring. • Producing monthly reports (budgets, training, recruitment & any other report requested by the HRD.) • Creating and running social responsibility programs for the brand. • Written & updated the employee handbook for the company & distributed to all employees (over 2000) for our different operating countries. • Write policies and procedures for the company and also updates dated policies & procedures • Handles the external audit for HR & Training. • Organise and manage the filing system. • Assists my line manager (HRD) with ad-hoc administration tasks, including correspondence, presentations, diary management and travel requests. • Orders office supplies as and when needed. • Other HR, operations, recruitment & training tasks as requested.
Senior Consultant - Marketing
Frontier IQSenior Consultant - Marketing
Nov. 2014 - Jan. 2016DubaiFrontier IQ's mission is to optimize our clients’ talent through executive search and training of key executives. The firm specialises in sourcing professionals from around the world for leading corporates and agencies in the MENA region. Various operational responsibilities • Website development design ideas. • Branded content design and creation. • Database and filing management. • Credit control. Compensation and benefits planning and management. • Payroll management. • Human Resource data software implementation and filing. • Key Performance Metrics management and reporting. • Performance and CRM Champion, advisor and company mentor for employees. • Organisational development, policy and procedure creation and management. Full P&L responsibility of recruitment service division • Performance management and development of a reporting line team of three. • Cultivating new client relationships and meeting client hiring demands. • Consulting and advising clients on hiring strategy and forecasting. • Candidate interviewing, selection and Client recommendations (DAPA – Diagnose, Agree, Propose, Agree).
Recruitment - Marketing & PR / Corporate Comms
Morgan McKinleyRecruitment - Marketing & PR / Corporate Comms
Oct. 2012 - Apr. 2014United Arab Emirates

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