Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Trusted advisor to senior stakeholders across the our Middle East offices, driving the Firm’s People & Talent Strategy while enabling growth and operational excellence across the Middle East. • Partner with leadership on workforce planning, financial forecasting, and structural change, aligning people strategy to commercial objectives. • Deliver strategic HR projects globally, including inclusion, wellbeing, and employee engagement initiatives. • Supported the regional HR Head on the operational set-up of the Riyadh joint venture, leading on recruitment strategy and retention planning in a highly competitive market • Streamlined talent acquisition by transitioning the ME function into a global hub, reducing time-to-hire by 80% and boosting profitability through faster fee-earner deployment. • Drive data-led insights from surveys, attrition analysis, and focus groups to inform decision-making on inclusion, wellbeing, and retention. • Introduced automation and AI-enabled processes for onboarding and HR operations, adopted globally to improve efficiency. • Support leadership through compensation, appraisal, and development frameworks, ensuring future-ready talent pipelines.
Oversaw recruitment and mobility across Clifford Chance’s three Middle East offices (Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh), driving talent acquisition strategies, graduate programmes, and employee experience initiatives to support regional and global growth. • Managed the end-to-end recruitment process for lawyers and business professionals, advising Partners and senior stakeholders on market trends and best practice hiring strategies. • Developed and executed targeted recruitment drives, including Saudi Arabia market-entry and Emiratisation initiatives, strengthening brand positioning in competitive markets. • Partnered with London on graduate recruitment strategy, leading assessment centres, events, and vacation schemes while maintaining a strong regional social media presence. • Designed and delivered comprehensive induction and onboarding frameworks for all new hires, ensuring seamless integration and positive employee experience. • Coordinated international mobility including client and internal secondments, visa processing, and relocations, enhancing the Firm’s cross-border talent flow. • Supported wellbeing, inclusion, and D&I initiatives, embedding these into recruitment, onboarding, and retention practices.
Specialised in legal recruitment across the Middle East, covering private practice (Paralegal through Partner) and in-house roles (Junior Counsel through General Counsel) for multinational organisations across diverse sectors. • Partnered with regional and international law firms to design strategic hiring solutions, aligning talent acquisition with market expansion goals. • Built and managed senior legal talent pipelines across the GCC, strengthening clients’ ability to scale in competitive markets. • Negotiated terms of business and managed recruitment projects end-to-end, from market mapping and candidate assessment through to offer negotiation and onboarding. • Provided market intelligence and advisory insights to both clients and candidates on legal sector trends, mobility, and compensation. • Established and nurtured long-term relationships with senior stakeholders, resulting in repeat mandates and sustained client partnerships
As an additional responsibility to my Researcher role on the Quantity Surveying and Commercial desk, I'm responsible for looking after the Marketing at Menasa and Partners. Working closely with Senior Management to devise a strategy to increase our brands reach across different social media channels. Growing the Menasa and Partners LinkedIn Pages as well as keeping the company website up to date, I also work with individual consultants to advise on how they can increase their personal brands reach in relevance to their desk sector.
Supported senior consultants on executive search and contingency recruitment across the Middle East, Europe, North Africa, and Asia, specialising in construction, infrastructure, commercial, and rail sectors. • Conducted strategic market mapping and talent pipeline development for executive and mid-to-senior level roles, strengthening clients’ ability to secure scarce specialist talent. • Researched upcoming projects and market activity, generating leads that converted into new business opportunities. • Sourced, assessed, and shortlisted candidates through multiple channels (ATS, LinkedIn, referrals), ensuring alignment with both technical and cultural requirements. • Managed the candidate pipeline and desk operations for the Commercial & Quantity Surveying practice, improving efficiency and visibility for senior consultants. • Built long-term candidate relationships, some of which converted into repeat client partnerships. • Took ownership of digital brand growth, managing Menasa’s LinkedIn page (100k+ followers) and expanding reach to new talent pools internationally.
Dubai Creek Harbour is at the heart of a bold new vision for Dubai. A fusion of creativity and innovation that will define the future of living and further enrich this great city. With spectacular cultural offerings, world class residences, shopping, amenities, offices and more, Dubai Creek Harbour represents the next frontier in contemporary life, work and play. An iconic waterfront development situated on the banks of the historic Dubai Creek and only a 10-minute drive from downtown Dubai. Dubai Creek Harbour will be a pioneer of integrated living, inspiring the world with the perfect combination of dynamic experiences, innovation and iconic design. Responsibilities • Attending design review meetings • Adjusting technical drawings as part of the masterplan • Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team to ensure all members of the team input on changes • Create strong graphic presentations to update senior level staff on project status • Conduct precedent research and draft initial concepts for bus terminal
Graduate of Architecture & Urban Planning - BA Hons RIBA part I and RTPI Accredited Dual Honours degree in Architecture and Urban Planning Modules completed • Design Studio 1-4 - Making up the majority of the course, design studio had a particular skew towards urban planning and thoughtful design that works within it's context. • Technical Studio 1-4 - Covering ancient and new building techniques, covering the principles of making our designs functional • History of Architecture • Theories of Architecture • Planning modules 1-4 - Over the four year degree going through the British Planning Permission Process to eventually create a Plannin application for Design Studio 4's design in line with the relevant councils guidelines • Dissertation - "What are the arguments for Conservative Repair as opposed to Stylistic Restoration or Rennovation of Medieval Castles in the UK?"
Working in co-ordination with DPR and Samsung on the Dubai parks project as an intern architect. The role includs working alongside Interior architects, collaborating samples, refining choices and working out costings. Attending client meetings to discuss issue with design and concept and creating action plans to meet cost and time restrictions. It also entails working with the digital artists for the Visulation of the project using software such as Sketchup, 3Ds Max an Photoshop.
Working at Hill's head office in Dubai alongside Structural, Mechanical and Environmental engineers drawings up the developed strategies for different projects on Cad. Learning the companies processes and attending client meetings on projects such as Hotels and towers.