Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Regional HR Professional and Compensation & Benefits Expert currently leading Environment, Health and Safety function for a multi country region. Experienced in HRIS integration, data analytics, process automation, and change management. Successfully led and supported Environment, Health & Safety (EHS) initiatives across multiple countries through cross-functional collaboration. Skilled in working within multinational, matrix organizations and engaging with stakeholders across various levels. Strong facilitation abilities and a proven track record in delivering strategic HR projects. Key Achievements: -Successfully lead to EHS team, executed the EHS agenda across Southern Europe, the Middle East, and the CIS region, earned top rankings regarding internal KPIs. -Backed up maternity leave for a Global EHS Manager, supporting the EHS team and partnering with local stakeholders worldwide for 8 months period. -Established and led a decentralized HR Shared Services function in Turkey, including budget, SLA, and team management. -Localized global EHS practices and transitioned them to country teams. -Led HR transformation projects including HRIS implementations and global process rollouts. -Partnered with senior leadership in managing HR for a Sales Cluster (Belgium, Netherlands, Turkey, Spain, Portugal). -Oversaw Compensation & Benefits activities across several countries (Mongolia, Belarus, Turkey, Spain, Portugal), covering job evaluation, benefits, pay reviews, and market benchmarking.
Environment, Health and Safety lead supporting the execution of the EHS roadmap within Spain, Turkey, Italy, Serbia, France, UAE, and Kazakhstan. Coordinating EHS-related activities through a team of six experts. Prepared and delivered training for local Management and EHS Core Teams. Organized an EHS Community for the Sales Area to support environmental and sustainability initiatives. Acted as an expert in EHS management applications, including planning and executing yearly EHS Plan, Safety Campaigns, and Measurement Tools. Provided operational EHS systems support and participated in Sales Area level discussions. Prepared and communicated EHS information, set EHS targets, and summarized monthly performance. Engaged in product safety and sustainability dialogues and served as a liaison between the Sales Area and Global EHS function.
A secondment supporting the follow-up of the Division’s planned EHS activities, including maintaining communication with local teams and coordinating relevant actions to sustain EHS performance. Coordinated the planning of EHS initiatives for 2025 for logistics hubs located in different countries.
Running business HR initiatives and the global HR roadmap within Sandvik Coromant’s Sales Cluster - BTI (Belgium, Netherlands, Turkey, Iberica), aligned with the business plan. Coordinated various HR activities within the defined sales organization, in collaboration with Centers of Expertise and local HR resources in these countries. Member of the Cluster Management Team, reporting to the Sales Area HR Director. As Regional C&B (Dual-role): Managed the global C&B agenda in a defined region (Turkey, Spain, and Portugal). Drove the yearly merit and bonus process, executed market benchmark studies, participated in yearly and spot salary surveys, processed data, created reports, and provided ad-hoc analysis to the business as required. Coordinated with HR-IT, HR Services, and HRBPs to ensure C&B practices were operational.
▪Managed key HR areas & subjects at country level. This includes coordinating country common interaction with different Business/Product areas of Sandvik group and also managing agreed common country policies and agreed HR services through SLA. -Responsible for directing and maintaining Country HR roadmap, driving HR operations with different stakeholders, coordinating agreed country HR policies and practicies -Supporting Legal & Compliance areas where necessary. Consulting management group about legal risks and regulatory actions. -Driving improvements on HR systems, implementing global / local HR projects to the country organisation -Acting as an objective point of consultation for complex Employee Relations or Human Resources matters -Managing various HR tasks within the country dimension (Compensation, IR, ER) according to agreement with Country Council -Managing administrative affairs such as Facility Management including EHS, Indirect Purchasing, Budget Control -Acting as a Regional C&B Professional in a defined region as a member of global expert community.
▪Lead to the Global HR Services implementation in Turkey that includes business process implementation, transition to PeopleSoft HRMS, localization of global HR policy and practices. As HR Advisor, main responsibilities were : ▪Providing support to Sandvik employees across all Business Areas within the country & region ▪Performing activities across more than one including PeopleSoft HR Management System, recruitment, learning, performance management, compensation and benefits administration, payroll, health & safety. ▪Being the first point of contact for the above HR related queries from Sandvik employees and managers in a professional and technically accurate way ▪Contribute to achieving the KPIs and targets set for HR Services Europe ▪Conducting EHS activities according to the local & global time frame ▪Prepare and monitor local & global reports ▪Maintain relevant IT systems & HR Intranet Portal ▪Support and resolve administrative activities where required
-Data maintenance for Finance, IT and HR -Developed transaction path and a converter tool via MS Access -Supported BA-BS Mutual agreement application tool development with IT -Prepared board presentations / macro-economic figures and financial trends -Supporting internal communications of local organisation, developed the local intranet page