Muhammad YASIR Siddique

Royal Philips is a diversified health and well-being company, focused on improving people's lives through meaningful innovation in the areas of Health Systems and Personal Health. The company is a global leader in Diagnosis & Treatment, Connected Care & Health Informatics and Personal Health. Heading up the rewards function for Middle East, Turkey, Africa, Central East Europe and Russia covering 29 geographies in two regions and reporting into the Global Head of Rewards. Working as a strategic partner with the leadership team to ensure all organizational benefits and compensation programs align with the organisation's vision and rewards philosophy.

Key focus areas:

• Promote high-performance culture; fostering a success-oriented, accountable environment
• Develop specifications for new plans and modify existing reward plans to maintain company's competitive position in market
• Manage design and delivery of compensation elements such as performance management , market pricing , salary structures , salary surveys , compensation administration policy and process, incentives design and merit budgets / plans
• Work closely with external providers to assess all benefit programs and market trends, develop / modify plans
• Ensure process efficiency in line with company's LEAN operating model
• Enhance organizational capability through Rewards training for HRMs, new employees and business leaders
  

Nestle is the world's leading nutrition, health and wellness company with operations in 83 countries worldwide. Lead the C&B function, reporting to the Regional HR Director. Responsible for Compensation & Benefits Strategy and Operations, HRIS, International Mobility and HR Administration across 13 countries (Middle East & Levant Region). Lead a team of 3 Senior Managers, a team of 16 employees and a total headcount of 3,500+ employees in the region.

Key focus areas:

• Responsible for driving 'pay for performance culture' across the organization
• Design of C&B strategies based on reward analysis across the region
• Collaboration with Nestle Business Services (NBS) to ensure flawless execution of HR operations
• Rollout of Business Excellence and Total Rewards Projects to drive efficiencies in the HR Operations
• Provide International mobility support to employees through a well-rounded transfer management process
• Design, communication& management of Employee Recognition program
• Management of C&B Dashboard and Strategic KPIs for better decision support of Leadership team

Mercer is a leading global provider of consulting, outsourcing and investment services, with more than 25,000 clients worldwide. As a senior consultant, I supervised a team of 5 consultants. The role had a sales development target of USD500,000 with a direct client interface to provide rewards solutions in the areas of benefit studies, compensation structure design and helping clients to setup rewards strategies based on industry best practices.

Key focus areas:

• Design of compensation programs including competitive analyses, survey development and administration of salary structure development, modeling of plan costs impact and employee communication/ roll-out
• Develop collaborative relationships with clients to understand their business, identify additional ways to be of service, ensure timely exchange of information and ensure client satisfaction through implementation of reward projects (job evaluation, pay-structure design, total rewards communication & benefit studies)

LG Electronics, Inc. is a global leader and technology innovator in consumer electronics, mobile communications and home appliances, employing more than 80,000 people working in over 115 operations facilities globally. Reporting to the Regional HR Director and covering 17 countries across the MENA region. I lead the C&B function with a team of 7 C&B specialists in 17 countries.

Key focus areas:

• Set up Remuneration function for MEA region in a matrixed environment
• Leadership and C&B functional support to subsidiary/branch HR managers in remuneration planning & administration
• Lead projects involving design and delivery of remuneration programs and initiatives including initial roll-out, communication and launch of total rewards across the region
• Thought leadership and training to business leaders and HR partners on organizational capability/effectiveness and continuous improvement practices on core C&B processes
  

DHL Express is the leading global provider of international courier and express services for business and private customers. It has the world's most expansive network covering more than 220 countries and territories. Reported directly to the C&B Director, covering 88 countries in the APEEMEA region. It was a standalone role responsible for providing guidance and tools for Salary Planning, Bonus Planning & Benchmark studies.

Key focus areas:

• Development and alignment of compensation and benefits policies with market practices and cost efficiency initiatives within the company
• Implementation of the bonus scheme including Corporate Executives
• Management of job evaluation system at the Regional Level
  

Nestle is world's largest F&B company. Nestle Pakistan has 5 factories and over 5,000 employees. Reported to the HR Director, headed a team of 4 employees. Main responsibilities included rollout of the Total Rewards Strategy, Job Design and evaluation, implementation of Employee Policies and Procedures, Incentive and Bonus Schemes and conducting Total Remuneration Surveys.

Key focus areas:

• Implementation of reward policies and benefit plans across the company to facilitate line management
• Revision of the bonus schemes in consultation with the Business Heads and HR Business Partners
• Conducted compensation and benefit studies with peer groups to provide insightful information on latest remuneration trends while ensuring a competitive positing in the market
• Preparation of Annual HR salary budget & Head count planning

Other assignments included the rollout of SAP as a Project Team Lead in HR and Training & Development in Nestle's one of the largest factory in the world from Aug 02 - Mar 05

SMEDA was established in 1998 to take on the challenge of developing Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Pakistan. Worked in SMEDA from Apr 99 - Jul 02 as Assistant Manager HR, looking after Recruitment, C&B and Training & Development