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Dubai, United Arab Emirates

o Oversee HR operations, including payroll, benefits, policy compliance and team engagement.o Work closely with the leadership team to ensure smooth onboarding, offboarding, and policy alignment. o Main point of contact for HR matters ensuring efficient operations, team building, and employee engagement. o Coordinate with external vendors for services like health insurance and events management. o Handle onboarding, employee handbooks, visa processing, and compliance with labor regulations. o Strong communication skills and the ability to handle issues and changes proactively given the multicultural environment in the UAEo Successful set up and operations in the Middle East office ensuring all requirements are adhered to in the day to day.

United Arab Emirates

Asset and office Supplies management – Manage the lease, trade license and government documentation procedures while liaising with the facilities Directoro Travel coordination, logistics and procurement by ensuring that policies and procedures are adhered too Managed an end-to-end office move from Dafza free zone to DIFC; which entailed visa transfers, office fit out, legal processes, purchasing and handovero Expenses management with local archiving (expenses, reports)o Manage petty cash and send reports monthly o Manage local government procedures; as well as getting local management signatures from the authorized personnelo Manage on boarding processes for new starters, process their requirements to ensure a smooth transitiono Support sales meetings, customer visits and manage client events by coordinating any requirements on the groundo Support marketing events at the registration desk and assist our attendees for various requests.o Executive Assistant to VP, Software & Solutions - MESA & Emerging Marketso Book, amend and manage flights for the Vice Presidento Expenses handling and submissiono Book team dinner sand organize quarterly team events at the VP’s requesto Assist two other directors occasionally on their travel requirements, bookings and meeting management.

Delta Partners Group

o Coordinating and short-listing venues, negotiate with suppliers on most cost-effective options that add value to the overall outcome after agreeing with best venue.o Worked with event agencies for a suitable team building activity, organize teams and work on logistics.o Deal with crowd control during the event, have a checklist for everyone’s necessary documents for travel, transport coordination to and from Dubai, team building exercises, gala dinner and partyArrange conferencing facilities with hotels including a party venue every 2 months on a smaller budget of USD 5000Organize the end of year party with the partner group and corporate services team, the end of year party budget being USD 100,000o Source sponsors for CSR activities from Emirates Airline, Swiss Air, The Ritz, Armani Hotel, Etihad Airways, The Rosewood group o Managing about 500 travel arrangements for 120 people with a travel budget of 2 million Dirham a month and directly report to the CFO and CEOo Bridge between travel agencies and travellers while constantly communicating with VIPs by Managing the in-house travel provider, tracking company travel trends and providing recommendations o Actively seek travel providers with value added services to the company o Contract negotiations for preferential rates all over the world (Chain Hotels and airlines)o Monitor expenditure, ensure cost optimization of all travel by maintaining, reviewing and negotiating corporate agreements with preferred hotels and airlineso Report on Budget per person, project and region and report to CFO o Ensure provision of additional travel services e.g., transportation, hotel bookings and web bookings o Ownership of the end-to-end invoicing process, review and reconciling invoices with LPOs

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

o First point of contact thus ensuring consistent quality service to our customerso Advocating flawless discussions between the team, clients and other departments to ensure clients’ needs are understood and managed efficientlyo Managed and mentored a team of 16 people while reporting directly to the Reservations Managero Co-ordinate with the Manager on the effective distribution of emails and fax; 10 correspondences at a time, ensuring all assigned tasks delegated to the team are completed and spot checks made

Executive Bachelors Business Administration, Ba, Management And Operations

A comprehensive view of modern business, ability to demonstrate specialist knowledge of a wide range of business areas.

Advanced Diploma, Public Relations, Advertising, And Applied Communication

Activities and Societies: Public Relations Institute of Australia Public Relations, Events management, business strategy and applied.

Diploma, Mass Communication/Media Studies

Activities and Societies: Kenya News Agency Mass communication, journalism, broadcasting, public relations, communication research, radio.