Managing HR of Central Zone

Responsible for all HR Functions across Central Region.

Heading HR at regional level & responsible for entire employment journey of an employee along-with taking new initiatives, strategic transition & workforce rationalization.

Responsibilities:
1. Aligning HR Strategy with Organizational & Business Strategy.
2. Designing & implementing Talent Acquisition Frameworks.
3. Employer branding by practicing modern techniques i.e. campus drives, participating in job fairs, conducting awareness sessions for fresh graduates.
4. Coordination with head hunters in order to maintain a pool of high profile professionals.
5. Revamping of system by designing modern templates of documents such as Offer Letter, Evaluation Tools, job portal, etc.
6. Head Count Planning & Forecasting based on business growth, employee turnover & business expansion.
7. Reducing the employee turnover & attrition rate through employee engagement techniques.
8. Attracting a high quality workforce in order to bridge the gap of future leaders through succession planning.
9. To ensure employee centric workplace by educating the staff about workplace ethics & code of conduct.
10. Conducting training sessions for new joiners as well as existing employees.
11. Policy revamping & implementation.
12. Strategy implementation, control & compliance.

Achievements:
1. Developed & deployed Planning tool of Branch Categorization; based on ABC study which resulted in systematic approach towards manpower planning.
2. Transformed conventional business to data driven business by providing strategic support to all functions.
3. Developed HR Strategy for next 05 years in line with business functions.
4. Developed objective KPI’s for business staff in order to reduce biased rating in performance appraisal.
5. Reduced waste by designing efficient recruitment process.
6. Deployment of Recruitment Portal.
7. Developed a Recruitment Strategy of the Bank which helped in execution of smooth process.
8. Formulated policy documents & career paths for different positions in the bank.
9. Revamped Regional & Branch Structure of the entire Bank.
10. Reduced attrition rate from 27% to 12%.
11. Increased joining ratio from 42% to 95%.

Scope and Responsibilities:

Determining Human Resource needs for entire Bank in order to keep the Bank’s mission on track.
Formulation of Policy & Procedures of Recruitment & Selection.
Successful Human Resource Planning as per Business expansion plan & resignations across the bank.
Strategic formulation for smooth hiring & joining in order to attain quality resource.
Supporting line managers in preparing job descriptions and person specifications.
Preparation of Job Advertisements for Newspapers & Web Portal.
Hiring of MTO Batch along with criteria formulation for their hiring & placement.
Short listing of potential candidates.
Prepare and conduct written tests.
Conducting Initial Interviews & Scheduling final Interviews.
Prepare annual Budgeting of the Bank with liaison of other departments / divisions.
Review of Recruitment & Selection Policy.
Present Office Notes & Salary Break-up’s to CEO / President for approval.
Maintains and updates the recruitment filing system which is of a confidential nature.
Handling bulk Data Bases & Recruitment MIS.
Handling promotions of entire bank by criteria formulation & execution.
Leading a team of 03 employees & 02 internees.

Achievements:

Launched & executed the idea of outsourced hiring, which curtailed the hiring budget up to PKR 9.0 million/year.
Reduced the average TAT of recruitment process from 60 days to just 14 days with in 01 month.
Uplifted the joining ratio from meager 31% to 93% in just 04 months ever highest in BOP’s history.
Designed & Developed Recruitment MIS of the Bank which helped in quantifying the performance of my team.
Designed & Developed Web Portal of the Bank for receiving online applications / CV’s.
Developed SOP’s for recruitment & selection.
Revamped Agriculture Credit segment of the bank
Due to excellent performance & extra miles, management awarded me around 133% salary rise with in a span of almost 3 years along with absorption into a regular cadre & promotion.