Haskar Hamza

Human Resources Manager (2010–Present)—HR generalist—recruitment, staffing, training, compensation, benefits, employee relations—with 350 hospitality employees. Worked in partnership with Global HR Director to create, implement, and manage improved HR strategies, services, and programs to support the workforce during a downward trend and large-scale turnaround effort; well versed with UAE Labour Law. Talent Acquisition / Recruitment: ▪ Over 10 years of experience in the field of administration, talent acquisition in recruiting, screening, qualifying and placing of Hotelier professionals in full-time, contract temporary and permanent positions. HR Organization Leadership: ▪ Senior HR executive in the organization, directing a team of HR professionals in staffing, recruitment, benefits, executive compensation, training, leadership development, succession planning, HRIS, and regulatory compliance. Was assigned to be part of Task Force during the pre-opening of Park Regis Hotel, Goa, India. HR Operations: ▪ Realigned compensation programs and salary administration to control accelerating costs. Facilitated HR Administration responsibilities – recruitment, staffing, onboarding, and training– for hires including expatriates from 50+ nationalities and managed leaving formalities. Implementation of the new policies and procedures on Performance Management Review System ensuring all colleagues does quarterly feedback session and carries out the performance review twice a year with their respective manager/director. Reduced paperwork and Implemented an online process for several HR activities which contributed to the green and cost-saving initiatives of the company Organization Transformation: ▪ Initiated successful workforce planning, job realignment, employee involvement, and team-building projects. Enabled operational change essential to a significant reduction in HR costs. Helped to facilitate redesign of core business operations. Pre-opening Due Diligence: ▪ Contributed to Pre-opening decisions, supporting initial analysis through due diligence and subsequent integration. Enabled business growth by assessing HR cultural compatibility and talent impacts.

Transformed HR into a true strategic business partner in the aftermath of an end-to-end HR restructuring. Championed HR vision while forging sustainable HR infrastructure, systems, processes, and practices. ▪ Employee Relations: Introduced proactive employee relations and communications programs to resolve previous labor and management issues and restore the credibility and employee-centric focus of the HR organization. ▪ HRIS Technology: actively participated from outdated HR systems into a fully integrated HRIS platform from Oracle. Instantly improved analysis, reporting, and planning capabilities while streamlining daily HR functions. ▪ Career Coaching: Rolled out the company’s first HR shared services center for delivery of internal coaching services. ▪ Workforce Expansion: Was instrumental in ramping up engineering and support group of 50 new employees in very limited timeframe. ▪ Visa Coordination and other law compliance: Created and implemented policies, procedures, systems, and technologies to support company’s long-term growth and expansion in compliance with local rules & regulations.

Supported company administration, change management, repositioning, guiding recruitment of technical, professional, and management staff for properties, ▪ Workforce Integration: Integrated 10+ staff in the aftermath of 2 acquisitions, steering flawless workforce assimilation into core business operations. ▪ HR Operations: Consolidated HR functions previously managed by several different departments into a single consolidated organization to manage all generalist affairs. Trained and supervised Admin. Assistants