
Walid Salah Madkour
Country HR Manager
Alexandria, EgyptWork Experience
Country HR ManagerFull Time
Kout Food Group (KFG - AlHomaizi)
Oct 2013 - May 2014 -7 months
Kuwait
- Job Details:• Planning, developing and coordinating the provision of human resource services, policies and programs while ensuring adherence to company rules and legal regulations. • Identifying and evaluating learning and development needs for the HRBP team, thereby resolving human relations, work performance and employee morale relating issues. • Interacting with departments’ heads to devise resourcing strategy, establishing requirements for personnel, designing recruitment guidelines and remuneration patterns. • Assessing the recruitment & selection process, identify opportunities, and recommend corrective actions to enhance employer branding, ensure suitable candidates are sourced and consistent flow of talent. • Fostering the development of strong, cooperative relationships within the company, thus implementing performance appraisal and career planning systems to create team synergy and improve cross-departmental processes. • Providing guidance and leadership in organizational development to support the building of effective teams operating in a large matrix organizational structure. • Assessing the HR service centers; Governmental-Formalities, L&D, Employee Services, to recommend actions that prompt better flow and enhance the HR service level. • Streamlining internal communication channels to enhance employee awareness, motivation and fostering employees’ engagement.
Director of HR & DevelopmentFull Time
Kuwaiti American Foodstuff Co. (KAFCO)
Sep 2011 - Oct 2013 -2 yrs, 1 month
Kuwait
- Job Details:Highlights: • Played a pivotal role in planning organization bonus scheme with the BSC concept to energize teamwork spirit, raise productivity and retention. 2012 • Successfully designed and implemented organization salary scale and benefits scheme to provide positive work environment, which reduced turnover by 4% saving KD5200 of replacement cost, in addition to enforcing fair-pay culture without affecting the company bottom line. 2012 • Successfully designed and implemented a solid framework (SLA) for overseas recruitment to set partnership standards and KPIs with certified recruitment agencies. 2011 • Certified new recruitment agencies to have 2 agencies in each of the existing 3 markets, in addition of 2 new markets (India – Nepal) to have better talent flow and higher diversity. 2012 • Efficiently contributed in the formulation and implementation of organization internal policies and regulations to raise productivity by imposing discipline, reduced cost by regulating inspection /control and saved KD12000 annually by regulating the phone benefit. 2011 • Successfully established HR department in the company to direct the HR activities. 2011 • Effectively restructured administration and governmental relations department to raise its effectiveness and resolved several governmental conflicts with less manpower thus saved KD13800 annually. 2011
HR ManagerFull Time
Impulse Marketing Inc.
Dec 2009 - Sep 2011 -1 yr, 9 months
Canada , Montreal
- Job Details:Highlights: • Spearheaded a province recruitment campaign for a client “Spirit Halloween Stores” that added $150000 to the company profit. 2011 • Played a pivotal role in formulating/implementing project policies to raise the effectiveness and productivity of operations. 2011 • Played a fundamental role in implementing new HRIS system to provide accurate information that saved about $18000. 2010
Education
Vocational in Human Resource Practice
The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)Jan 2012 - Jan 2013 - 1 Year
BSc in Agricultural Economics
The Higher Institute Of Agricultural ScienceJan 1993 - Jan 1997 - 4 yr
Achievements
Kuwait Food Co. (Americana) Highlights: • Lead manpower planning & recruitment for Iraq branch opening using local and overseas hiring. 2004. • Contributed in the launch of a new environment development system (Voice of Team). 2003 • Gold Standard Performance Award in 2002 & 2003; for coaching Kuwait KFC team who won the gold level at MENA & Pakistan KFC CHAMPS Challenge competition. • Customer Mania Champion Award in 2002; Adapted KFC management training program, designed by Yum Restaurants International Co., to comply with Kuwait operational & financial systems. • Designed & developed a crew member training system for Chicken Tikka Concept, which was adapted later for Americana in other 8 countries. 2001
Skills
- Employee Relations
- Learning & Development
- Talent Resourcing & Selection
- Strategic HR
- Performance Management
- Microsoft Office
- All office common devices
- Organizational Development
- SAP-HCM/Oracle-HRMS /ERP
- Policy Formulation & Administration
Languages
Arabic
FluentEnglish
Fluent
Training & Certifications
Steak n' Shake Executive Training
Biglari Holdings Inc., USA·2011Spirit Halloween Retail Operations
H&M Global Inc., Canada·2011IELTS
British Council·2005Effective Communication & Human Relations
Dale Carnegie·2004