HR Leader

PALLAVI BALEGAR

Dubai, UAE
$12000 / month
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Strategic and result driven HR Leader with proven success across Automotive, Manufacturing, Tourism, Real Estate, Hospitality, and
Financial Services, Logistics supply chain sectors. Committed in building high performance teams, driving organizational effectiveness with stakeholder management and expanding quality of life at work through integrated HR strategies. Recognized for delivering measurable impact through leadership hiring, capability development, process optimization and retention strategies.

Education

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Master of Business Administration: HR & Finance 2008
Pune University, India

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Bachelor of Business Administration 2002
Mumbai University, India

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Experiences

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Human Resources Manager 2024-02-01 - 2025-05-01
Thrifty & Dollar Mobility Solutions - ARENCO GROUP - UAE & OMAN (Headcount-1700)

• Reporting - Managing Director Dollar & Thrifty, leading an 8-member team with a monthly payroll of 8 million for 1700 employees. • Purpose - Hired for fostering cultural inclusiveness and creating high performance. • Talent Acquisition & Onboarding: Expanded circle of influence by leading manpower planning & budgeting for 2025. Created internal and external talent pipeline, employer branding, employee value proposition, impactful candidate experience through onboarding experience, spearheaded 7 key leadership roles along with 430 hiring in 2024 and 100+ hiring in Q1-2025 for the entire Car Rental Group, achieving 97.5% quality of hire through aligned onboarding and induction process. • Employee Engagement: Broadened the impact on culture by fostering employee belongingness through 30–90-day onboarding meetings, expectation-setting exercises, pulse meetings, quarterly engagement initiatives, and cross-brand collaboration bridging cultural gaps. • HR Process Automations / Improvements: Optimized processes by creating an HR Health dashboard to report key metrics like hiring, induction review, onboarding experience, workforce planning, retentions, internal job postings, job rotations, grievances, deployments, payroll, and influencing strategic HR decisions. • Training & Development: Facilitated strategic training calendar, delivering 15+ hours of training for 90% frontline teams. Influenced organizational growth by curating a 2-day workshop on smart sales strategies, aiding access to negotiation breakthroughs, and closing deals resulting in a commitment of a 30% increase in revenue target for 2025. • Performance Management & Rewards: Implemented structured probation confirmation process with 90-day and 150-day review. Implemented appraisal system and structured increment disbursement. Led compensation equity reviews, reward programs, curated performance improvement plan and, Hipo talent structure for the critical workforce. • Talent Management & Organization Development: Achieved 92%+ retention rate with deep-dive exercise on exit interviews, employee need assessments; designed a Talent and Pay structure for 250+ CSEs (Customer Service Executives) across UAE, progressing towards grading, succession planning; standardized job descriptions. • Incentive Scheme / KPI Structure: Defined KPI-based incentive structure based on defined roles and responsibilities. • Governance: Instituted a formal grievance redressal framework with timely escalations, manager accountability & monthly reviews. • Managed Emiratization Targets as per Tawteen reports across 6 Business Units.

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Human Resources Manager 2022-12-01 - 2024-01-01
Ras Al Khaimah Tourism Development Authority (Headcount-74)

(Reporting to Sr. HR Director) • Recruitment & Onboarding: Managed full recruitment lifecycle and managed key recruitments, including critical leadership, created new waves of employee preboarding & onboarding with schooling and rental support. • Performance & Compensation: Played a pivotal role in the facilitation of SMART goals objective setting for 2023. Computed Bonus and incentive distribution with the Comp & Ben Committee for 2022. And implemented promotions and increments. • Diversity and Emiratization: Cultivated community partnerships that led to a 5% increase in diversity and a 2% rise in Emiratization. Focused efforts on Emiratization within the broader hospitality ecosystem in RAK. • Engagement & Governance: Implemented engagement strategies, pulse meetings, automation, and developed policies. Played a key role in launching an emirate-level onboarding and employee engagement initiative through the WorkFam SaaS platform, fostering a cohesive and well-being focused eco-system for the employees across the hospitality sector in RAK. • Great Place to Work 2023-24: Instrumental certification of "Great Place to Work" in the UAE, with exceptional workplace standards. • UNICEF Recognition: UNICEF acknowledgment for our CSR initiative towards Turkey Earthquake Relief through the fitness initiative.

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Organization Effectiveness Manager (MENA) 2020-09-01 - 2022-12-01
JULPHAR Gulf Pharmaceutical Industries PJSC (Headcount-2800)

(Reporting to CHRO) • Project Management Office – Represented strategic HR initiatives in collaboration with CHRO to present key projects to the Board, including Job Grading & Titles, Compensation & Benefits restructuring, Insurance policy enhancements, N-1 recruitments. • Organization Development: Implemented successful change management initiatives including the Grading exercise, Compensation & Benefits restructuring, sales incentive structure, and region-wide salary revisions (Egypt, Kuwait, KSA, UAE). • Sales Incentive Scheme: Executed sales incentive scheme boosting performance & quality of productivity for 13 countries. • Policy & Procedures: Initiated, revised, and implemented impactful policies across the organization, spanning Grievance, Nepotism, Salary Advance, Housing, Promotion, and Rewards & Recognition policies, ensuring alignment with companies’ overall objectives. • Digital transformation/Automation: Introduced HR operations efficient processes to enhance overall productivity with requirement gathering. Served as Project coordinator for implementation of SuccessFactors, leveraging technology for enhanced HR effectiveness. • Employee Engagement: Pioneered departmental engagement and communication initiatives with HR Branding, Onboarding programs, Buddy Program, and Suggestion Scheme, fostering stronger connections and boosting employee engagement. • Played a pivotal role in talent acquisition for strategic positions, contributing significantly to sourcing the right talent for critical roles including Head of Internal Audit, Company Secretary, Head of Finance-KSA, and Director-Financial Controlling. • Employee Value Proposition: Created Impactful employee benefit initiatives such as subsidized housing rentals, preferential banking facilities, and privileged schooling benefits, enriching the overall employee value proposition experience at Julphar. Created a well-being segment by launching a couple of initiatives and introducing Corporate Fitness Center tie-ups for employees. • Launched bespoke Reward & Recognition program for Technical Operations & Research & Development.

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Human Resources Manager - Assistant Manager – Human Resource 2018-09-01 - 2020-09-01
Al Hamra Group LLC (Headcount 650)

• Organization Design & Development: Orchestrated HR budget forecasting, Rewards & Recognition strategies, Organization Transformation via Talent Q Administration and assessment. Implemented a standardized Grading structure to optimize employee entitlement. Attrition reduction by 8% for hospitality segment - policies, employee engagement, and succession planning strategies. • Operations & Process Improvements: Analytics through SAP & SuccessFactors and optimization of payroll processes initiatives. Managed accommodation savings of AED60k (US$6.4k) during contract renewals. Negotiated catering contracts yielding annual savings of AED57k (US$15.5k) in 2019. Cost savings of AED 15K (US$4k) through transportation synergies in Golf & Marina. • Talent Acquisition & Management: Enhanced recruitment & selection process as Korn Ferry Talent-Q assessment administrator across Al Hamra Group & Electronic Government of Ras al Khaimah. Onboarded 30+ senior management positions. Organized Job Fairs and Campus Recruitments, building a robust talent pool. Instituted an in-house recruitment & referral program resulting in substantial savings of AED155k (US$42.4k) till Q2-2018 and AED277k (US$75.4k) in 2017. • Appreciation letter for handling challenging recruitment projects from RAK Government HR Consultant. • Awarded Leader of the Quarter 2019-Q1 for exemplary leadership and contributions.

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Senior Analyst 2013-08-01 - 2014-05-01
HRBP - Eclerx Service Pvt. Ltd

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Associate Relationship Manager 2012-09-01 - 2013-07-01
Kotak Securities Lts

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HR Business Partner 2011-02-01 - 2012-09-01
Arshiya International Ltd

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Associate – Treasury & Securities 2005-06-01 - 2007-09-01
JP Morgan Chase

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Skills

Compensation & Benefits
90%
Performance Management
92%
Emiratization
94%
Employee engagement
96%

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