Dynamic Talent Acquisition professional with a passion to create influence and impact in enhancing the Talent Acquisition function . Creating innovative Talent Acquisition strategy, Employer Branding and engaging with early talent truly motivate me. My journey of over 12 years’ experience in the realm of Talent Acquisition, I have built my core around Leadership talent, maintaining positive candidate and stake holder experience to build future leaders.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Talent Acquisition Lead
Mumzworld.com
09.2023 - Current
Leading the hiring for Mumzworld and Pharmaciaty with focus on leadership hiring
Streamlining recruitment SOP and policies
Launching the Mumzworld Returnship Program with focus on employer branding.
Assistant Manager – Talent Acquisition (COE)
Aster DM Healthcare
07.2021 - 09.2023
Building the Digital Health tech division for the group
Leading the leadership hiring for the group across GCC
Launched the Employee referrals programs for the group
Key contributor in special projects such as Employer branding, Emiratization, People of Determination
Streamlining the campus engagement and hiring process.
Talent Acquisition (Contract)
Jashanmal National Company
04.2021 - 06.2021
Managing the Talent Acquisition function for the GCC region
Participate in policy formulations and roll out
Liaising with marketing team for Employer branding activities.
Senior Resourcer
Food People Consultancy
03.2019 - 05.2020
Working on critical roles with clients in the Food industry – Senior level assignments
Developing extensive market maps for the region on diverse roles; competitor analysis and salary benchmarking
Leading in-house trainings on candidate search techniques on LinkedIn, LinkedIn Recruiter and google
Assisting on internal policies and procedures
Leading the Campus Engagement activities of Food People
Managing the internal ATS – monitoring the flow of applications, job postings, and candidate database.
Talent Acquisition Specialist - GCC
Landmark Group
08.2017 - 02.2019
Responsible for overall Talent Acquisition (strategy, implementation and evaluation) in all 6 markets
UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, KSA and Qatar for their Hospitality division
Recruitment Business partnering with Business Heads to optimize effective recruitment and selection activities, strategy formulation, ensuring timely on boarding of selected candidates and ensuring agency alignment for the same
Managing 3 interns for the execution of talent acquisition processes across Landmark hospitality
Responsible for maintaining the required Saudization levels for Landmark Hospitality in KSA
Measuring effectiveness of recruitment channels, providing solutions for optimizing cost of recruitments and maintaining relevant dashboards for SLA’s, cost of hire in line with attrition data
Liaising with agencies for overseas hire, contract renewals as well as completing legal mandatory requirements for overseas recruitment (job order completion, attestation, embassy coordination)
Preparation of offer letters, on boarding of selected candidate and executing the Induction for Landmark Hospitality
Sourcing through different channels such as careers website, job portals, LinkedIn, Instagram, overseas trips, campus recruitments and networking
Building and identifying talent pools for critical vacancies at all times
Involved in employer branding activities and promoting the company’s career website
Ensuring process adherence and compliance from the audit perspective, right from the Recruitment.
Talent Acquisition Specialist – Human Resources
Axiom Telecom
01.2014 - 03.2015
Successfully delivered an Interview Skills Training Workshop to Hiring Managers across the business
Identified and delivered trainings on various soft skills like business communication, public speaking and communication
Skills within department
Coached the Talent Acquisition team in Saudi Arabia in the use of recruitment portals
Review of existing policies and implementation
Involved in reviewing and rewriting company HR policies
Recruiting for senior level corporate roles, UAE Nationals and special projects
Promoting and improving the Employee referral scheme within the organization
Identifying future talent needs and developing talent pools by organizing and participating in manpower planning sessions and attrition tracking
Develop relationships with third party recruitment agencies to manage the recruitment and selection
Preparing and maintaining Dashboards on critical recruitment metrics
Part of the team involved in redesigning the company career website and participating in Employer Brand building activities
Planning and executing recruitments for new stores openings in order to make the staff available on time for pre-retailing trainings
Creating process documents for information sharing with the operations
Conducting weekly meetings, delegating tasks within the team to meet the vacancies well in time
Participated and involved in job fairs and out location recruitment trips.
Functional Specialist – HR
Sutherland Global Services Pvt. Ltd
09.2005 - 04.2008
Process Owner for first round of elimination interview, HR rounds and offer closing
Have trained and calibrated every new recruit in HR team for the above three rounds and have been accountable for all these rounds in-house as well as out-location
Supervised the Selection team and was responsible for overseeing the entire in-house selection by ensuring that all processes are adhered to within the set SLA
Performed various functions like scheduling the team in staggering shifts, quality checks for all in-house rounds, coordinating with various operations to ensure timely availability of personnel from respective departments, tracking the in-house selects database so as to arrive at the most cost effective source of hiring as well as the funnel that provides maximum joiners
Conducting Induction/Orientation for new joiners
Planning and scheduling the monthly induction communication with relevant department heads
Handled the Employee Referral scheme and conducted various contests to increase joiners through employee referrals.