Global Head Of People, Culture & Operations
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- First People hire, responsible for building the People Roadmap and managing the full lifecycle, as well as company-wide tools, project management workflows and best practice. Designed and created the Talent Acquisition, People + Culture and Operations functions and teams- Contributed to the creation of a people-centric culture. Defined and integrated values into every part of the employee experience. Created the first structured employee onboarding, performance management, role progression process, benefits offering and L&D programme. Coached managers through full implementation. Achieved eNPS score of 84/100 after roll out of initiatives - Built a global talent strategy and onboarded tools fit for the transformation into a remote-friendly global business, which enabled the expansion across 18 countries. Company headcount growth of 3.5 times within 3 years- Onboarded mental health resources and created policies for scale and to navigate remote work, flexibility in the workplace and parental leave- Coached and Mentored team members who were new to the business and managing existing teams, first time managers, people looking for career growth, people navigating difficult conversations, structuring feedback, building business cases and creating business verticals and teams for scratch - Set up WoW best practice guidelines for all company-wide tools (project management, time keeping, internal comms, Google suite) as well as a company library (intranet) which hosted all business and team documents