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Primary specialism: Compensation, Benefits

Markets with deep expertise: United Kingdom, India, United States. Philippines, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore

Languages : English, Hindi

Salary expectations: Minimum base £120,000 plus package

Workforce types directly supported: Executive, Senior Managers, Engineering and Technical professionals and Staff in large Engineering, Construction & Infrastructure, Oil & Gas, Energy, Pipelines and Mining Businesses.

Current home country: United Kingdom with mobility to work across Europe, Middle East, Asia

Team management: Most recent 2, highest ever 12 and also happy to work as a sole contributor.

Current/recent employer: Japanese Yen 350+ Billion, nearly 6000 employees; and previous employer US$ 26 Billion, 30,000 employees

Remits of particular interest: A global remit on total rewards, HR Policies and Process. Of particular interest are 'greenfield' or 'blank paper' roles which envisage building the entire Global Reward value chain, including other functional HR processes. A role which has an ambiguous agenda and expectations – where something has to be done, but no one seems to be sure of what they want. Partnering with the CEO for establishing a business vision for HR and follow through with setting up everything from a scratch - where either no standard policies or processes exist, or exist in a disjointed manner.

Unique expertise: A solid cross cultural sensitivity and understanding. Insights into the cultural nuances of managing global responsibilities.

Commerciality: Researched and delivered a new reward system which enabled the organization to save costs substantially in hiring employees and assigning them projects overseas. From a non-existent system, developed and sold a new policy to Executive Management, and developed the entire process, system and structure including financial templates. Convinced Management of the need to change and developed consensus with the executive group. Published and sold the new corporate policy to local country management. Trained local country Reward Managers and centralized hiring hubs to use the new system. Lead time to identify, select and hire candidates reduced from an average of 20 days to just 5 days. Reduction in international assignment costs by nearly 30% due to standardization of policies and processes. This also allowed accurate and instant ‘real time’ Project manpower cost estimation

Strengths: Empathy, patience, persuasiveness. Strong analytical and financial modelling skills. Business case development in consonance with local laws and statutes. First hand global HR experience.

Need to know: An intuitive understanding of the complex cultural realities of a global workplace.

For more details on this professional and how they might help with your business challenges, please make direct contact with us today and reference P020094