I am a senior Human Capital leader with 20+ years of UAE and GCC experience, I have led human capital transformation across private equity, consulting, FMCG, engineering, and consumer-facing
organisations. I bring a proven ability to build HR functions from the foundation level, manage AED 25M+ annual HR budgets and AED 4M monthly payrolls, and act as a trusted advisor to executive leadership on people strategy, performance, and
governance.
In my last role as Head of Human Capital & Workplace Services at Gulf Islamic Investments, I lead HR, administration, IT, and workplace services across the UAE, India, and KSA, ensuring governance, cost control, and regulatory compliance across
five subsidiaries. I established organisational structures, job architecture, and reporting frameworks within the first 90 days and designed and implemented 16+ HR policies and procedures in collaboration with Legal and Internal Audit. I delivered full HR digitisation through Odoo, improving employee lifecycle efficiency, payroll accuracy, and data integrity. Partnering closely
with the Group CFO, I cascaded KPI frameworks into measurable performance dashboards while reducing recruitment costs by 15%, shortening time-to-hire by one month, and successfully recruiting 18 employees, including 5 UAE nationals, achieving
Emiratisation compliance.
Previously, across leadership roles at Buro Happold, SIG Group, KPMG Lower Gulf, and Wrigley (Mars), I consistently delivered measurable impact in performance management, rewards governance, workforce planning, and employee relations. Key
outcomes include improving appraisal completion rates from 80% to 90%+ across a 1,800-employee workforce, leading a WTW job grading programme impacting 350 employees across four countries, maintaining 3–5% employee turnover, and
managing complex, high-risk employee relations investigations in coordination with internal and external legal counsel.
I bring deep expertise in HR strategy, organisation transformation, HRIS implementation (SAP SuccessFactors, Odoo), GCC lMore...