Alexi Gholam

HR MANAGER/hr services provider

HR MANAGER /HR SERVICES PROVIDER, JUL 2011 – AUG 2012

HOGANAS BJUF

•     Providing consultancies to Hoganas’ clients in the GCC region concerning their need for several HR services (procedures, business processes, organization chart, recruitment, partially salary scale)

•   Establishing and providing clients with Career Planning and Development Process (succession planning), and partially implementing it

•     Establishing quotations for future HR services, which might be implemented at Hoganas’ clients premises

•     Providing Hoganas’ clients with HR know how concerning cement refractories business

•     Implementing the HR services at Hoganas’ clients premises in the GCC region (procedures, business  processes, organization chart, recruitment)

•     Following up at a long term and short term the implementation of HR services at Hoganas’ clients

•     Coordinating with the management at Hoganas headquarter in Sweden concerning future strategies

and their implementation

HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER, JAN 2011-JUN 2011

MEDI RESTO, LEBANON, SIN EL FIL

• Preparing the company’s payroll report
•  Establishing and implementing from scratch the Succession Planning Process, and linking it to the Promotion                  

 Procedure, and to the Recruiting Procedure

• Preparing the company’s NSSF reports
• Managing the conflicts within the company
• Supervising three employees
• Conducting interviews
• Participating in training set up, coordination, and budgeting
• Procedure re-engineering and implementation (recruiting, training, appraisal performance)
• Performing a restructuration for the HR department
• Dealing and preparing for the job fairs
• Being involved with cost control in some areas in the company
• Writing and updating job description
• Putting and implementing a salary scale
• Providing the company with constant job valuations
• Implementing and linking a broadbanding system to the job levels
• Coordinating with the operation, finance, and accounting head of department
• Being involved with setting up and implementing many budgets
• Setting up and implementing a salary cost control system which lead to a high salary cost reduction  

PART TIME TUTOR, SEPT 2010-JAN 2011

ARAB OPEN UNIVERSITY (AOU), LEBANON, TAYOUNEH 

Teaching a course called: System Thinking T205A

HR CONSULTANT, AUG 2010 – DEC 2010

SETRACO INTERNATIONAL HOLDING (SIH), LEBANON, FANAR 

Recruitment Policies, Procedures and Management

• Participating in the communication and coaching, on recruitment policies and procedures, to corporate and subsidiaries related staff and executives
• Assisting in the development of an induction/orientation programs to newly appointed individuals
• Handling recruitment activities, when required, in compliance the policies and procedures developed.
• Designing, Advertising, Source /Receive CVs.
• Shortlisting, Screening and Coordinating with line manager and human resources specialists
• Generating Employment / Requisition Forms / Job Offers/ Contract Agreements to selected candidates.
• Following up with HR-Secretary on matters related to candidates visa application and status
• Following up with selected candidates from job offer till landing.
• Preparing monthly Recruitment Reports.
• Being a member of the candidate acceptance committee

Salary scale, job levels, company organizational chart, and corporate governance

• Setting one salary scale and connecting it to the correspondent benefits with the help of the ERP system
• Applying a broadbanding system to the job levels
• Drafting one organizational chart for the holding and its subsidiaries which eventually should be adopted
• Coordinating with the board of director for the issue relating to corporate governance
• Improving already set job descriptions for the whole group
• Following up with the different subsidiaries concerning the issuance of their monthly manpower reports

Induction, Orientation & training

• Inducting new joinees to Management and co-workers.
• Providing Orientation regarding Company & Country Rules / Policies / Laws.
• Coordinating and following up on induction / orientation process feedback implemented in overseas in   overseas companies.
• Setting up and coordinating with the group HR manager for the leadership training program

HR - Management Information System and Record Keeping

• Using a HR – MIS, ERP system, to maintain Employee Records as:
• (Personal details, Qualification, Appraisals, Disciplinary, Actions, Medical etc).

HR SERVICES CONSULTANT, OCT 2009 – JUL 2010

HOGANAS BJUF, CYPRUS, NICOSIA, OLD TOWN 

• Providing consultancies to Hoganas’ clients in the GCC and LEVANT region concerning their need for several HR services (procedures, business processes, organization chart, recruitment, partially salary scale)
• Establishing and providing clients with Career Planning and Development Process (succession planning), and partially implementing it
• Establishing quotations for future HR services which might be implemented at Hoganas’ clients premises
• Providing Hoganas’ clients with HR know how concerning cement refractories business
• Implementing the HR services at Hoganas’ clients premises in the GCC and LEVANT region ( procedures, business processes, organization chart, recruitment)
• Following up at a long term and short term the implementation of HR services at Hoganas’ clients
• Coordinating with the management at Hoganas headquarter in Sweden concerning future strategies and their implementation

HR OFFICER, SEP 2008 – SEP 2009

DAR AL HANDASAH (SHAIR AND PARTNERS), LEBANON, VERDUN 

• Coordinating with international and local recruiting agencies around the world
• Working partially on the succession planning procedure
• Preparing a budget for recruiting internationally and locally. Allocating the fees to pay to the web sites, to the recruiting agencies each according to where it is located, and to the local newspapers and the ones abroad. All that in coordination with accounting department and the advertising company we deal with
• Preparing an employee monthly report for thousands of employees all around the world to enable the group to know the status of each of them
• Coordinating with the HR manager and the HR department in Beirut to set up and update the recruiting strategy
• Recruiting for entry levels, for mid career levels (Supervisors and Managers), and for senior levels (Director of department).
• Full coordination with the HR department in India
• Full coordination with the HR department in Egypt
• Following up the status of the transferred employees from Dar Al Handasah Beirut to all the locations of the group around the world
• Handling the promotion procedure of all of the employees at the group
• Handling the hiring terms and contracts of the employees and Dar Al Handasah Beirut
• Coordinating and following up the evaluation procedure for the employees of Dar Al Handasah Beirut and Cairo
• Coordinating with the directors of the departments and the heads of sections to fulfill their needs of candidates in order to secure a reliable manpower. In additions, coordinating with them concerning the promotions they want to apply upon their employees
• Being involved in employees training coordination, set up, and budgeting, in addition to coordinating the summer trainees internship
• Screening and filtering hundreds of CV’s each day  

HUMAN RESOURCES SPECIALIST, DEC 2007 – AUG 31 2008

EL DHOW for ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECTS (JIBLAH SUBSIDIARY),AL SAYER GROUP, KUWAIT 

• Project manager (recycling of construction material)
• Coordinating in the implementation of ISO 17025, 14001, 17799, and 9001.
• Preparing a budget for implementing ISO 17025, 14001, 17799, and 9001.
• Establishing the company structure( vision, mission, values, goals, services)
• Recruiting for entry levels and for mid career levels (Supervisors and Managers)
• Following up the percentages of work flow among the teams of employees and allocating the respective prices concerning the projects taken (cost control)

HUMAN RESOURCES SPECIALIST, JAN 2007 – NOV 2007

FOCUS (JIBLAH SUBSIDIARY), A CONSULTANCY FIRM, KUWAIT, AL SAYER GROUP, SHARQ 

• Coordinating with an external ISO consultant for an ISO implementation in all of the mother company Subsidiaries
• Establishing the structure of the company (mission, vision, values, objectives,…)
• Creating, re-engineering, and implementing: Organizational charts, job descriptions, internal regulations, policies and manuals, financial forms, human resources forms
• Ensuring inter-departmental communication procedures for clients

HUMAN RESOURCES COORDINATOR, MAY 2004 – JAN 2007

SAFE ROUTE, A CAR RENTING COMPANY, LEBANON, BRUMANA 

• Writing manuals and procedures
• Implementing coherent HR strategies
• Writing and implementing evaluation systems
• Recruiting (outsourcing, interviewing, making contracts, filtering CV)
• Coordinating tasks and meetings
• Improving internal processes and procedures within a demanding environment
• Follow up decisions taken at the meetings, in addition to presenting management reports to board level
• Assessing the company's future staffing and their requirements over the short, medium and long-term
• Arrange and participate in HR interviews Initiate and implement HR policies and develop feedback mechanism for employees

AUG 2003 – MAY 2004

• Prime Pictures - Lebanon, Baabda- Accountant
• Century Motor Company- Hyundai- Lebanon, Beirut- Accountant (late afternoon job)

ASSISTANT MANAGER, OCT 2002 – JAN 2003

CREDIT LIBANAIS, BANK, LEBANON, BEIRUT 

INTRODUCING INNOVATION IN THE CUSTOMER SERVICING CHAIN

November 25^th, 26^th, 2011

PHR/SPHR CERTIFICATE AT MORGAN INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE

January 2009-June 2009

One month training, SEP 2008

Advanced issues concerning NSSF with free lancer NSSF delegate

 Afternoon Training, FEB 2006 – MAY 2006

LINFRA, A TELECOMUNICATION COMPANY, LEBANON, BEIRUT

• Engineering many procedures as required from ISO through the VISIO software
• Implementing a performance appraisal system along with its guideline
• Scheduling the human resource employees tasks on the MS project
• Support program management by identifying and measuring key performance indicators
• Organizing internal training sessions for all new employees

Two month training, JUN 2001 – AUG 2001

HSBC, BANK, LEBANON, BEIRUT

Master in Human Resources management (MHR), 2007 – Saint Joseph University, Lebanon (Thesis: Comparing between E learning and the classical training at Prime Pictures)

Bachelor of Business Administration (BA), 2002 – Notre Dame University, Lebanon 

Speaking, reading, and writing fluently Arabic, English, and French.

Speaking, reading, and writing weakly German

• Human Resources software: ACCPAC,CHIP
• Accounting software: UNIX (accounting application), Orange, COBOL (under windows),  Everest, and QuickBooks
• Microsoft Word/ Microsoft Excel/ Microsoft Power Point/ Microsoft access
• VISIO/SPSS (Software Program for Statistical Studies )
• AutoCAD 2d
• Internet

Skiing, Swimming, Basket ball, Hiking, and Camping