Sarah Aijaz

Cell: 0336-2502015 / 971547460542

Dubai, UAE
Email: sarahaijaz.89@hotmail.com

OBJECTIVE:

To create a niche in Human Resource for myself in organization through my hard work and work experience, with
blend of my positive attitude, skills and seeking a challenging position that provides opportunity for growth and
stretches my potential to maximum.

EXPERIENCE:
Organization: Ghulam Farooq Group (Cherat Cement Company Limited)
Designation: Deputy Manager (HR Business Partner)
Tenure: From April 2021 to date
Talent & HR Operations:
 Talent Acquisition of all new and replacement positions with complete life cycle management to develop
talent pipeline on active and critical roles for smooth continuity of business .
 Responsible for all Human Resources functions related activities such as; Talent Acquisition, Organizational
Development, Performance Management,
 Monitor, review and improve Internal HR systems and processes
 Supervising team on Employee Confirmations, Extensions, Retirement cases.
 Responsible for proposing, developing, managing and delivering on the annual manpower budget.
 Facilitate all departments to resolve issues and implementing best HR practices in the organization .
 Evaluating offers by reviewing the comparative analysis of on board staff to ensure internal pay equity

Talent Management:
 Facilitated the Performance Management cycle across the organization i.e. Annual Review for the designated
company
 Design and modify SOPs, Procedures, Organ gram and Hierarchies as per needs of the organization.
 Responsible for handling grievances and implementing the disciplinary procedures.
 Support line manager in digitalization of HR Department.
 Designing and implementing talent programs (performance appraisal, goal setting & workforce planning)
 Accountable for performance management through SAP from objective setting, mid-year review, appraisal,
performance improvement plan closure with appropriate actions
 Talent Mapping of all Manager and above employees based on their performance and potential for succession
planning.
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Ongoing Projects:
 Competency Framework of entire company
 Designing of Onboarding program
 Developing of Employee Handbook
 Updating the JDs
 Monitoring and collecting Goal Setting activity
Organization: Habib University
Designation: Deputy Manager – Talent & OD
Tenure: From August 2019 to April 2021
Talent
 Head Talent Acquisition for good one year as an Acting Manager with team of 2 senior Officers
 Managed the end to end employee life cycle management focusing efforts on talent acquisition, talent
management & development and employee engagement.
 Developing and driving recruitment agenda, implement recruiting strategies, structure and processes,
 Managing Recruitment Dashboards
 Vacant position analysis

Organization Development:
 Responsible to run effective Onboarding
 Developing training proposals and liaising for the same
 Facilitate in development of training material and keeping everyone well-informed regarding the
training programs
 Plan and organize engagement activities
 Conducted Culture Health Survey
 Facilitating in HR Manual
 Conducting Employer Branding activities on various platforms
 Conducting employee moral survey, analyzing the findings and then proposing an action plan
 Launched Management Trainee Program and parallel working on Internship Program.
Initiatives:
 Drafting Policy and Procedures
 Engagement survey
 Job evaluations and identifying critical talent
 Critical Position analysis
 Remote and Non-Remote positions
 Maintaining and enforcing Covid guidelines

Designation: Assistant Manager – Talent Acquisition

Tenure: From November 2018 to July 31, 2019
Talent
Maintaining hiring tracker and recruitment tracker as well.
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Developing and driving recruitment agenda, develop and implement recruiting strategies, structure and
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processes, support expansion into new market.
 Managing the sourcing process in the identification and assessment of external talent using creative,
proactive, cutting edge recruitment methods.
 Developed the onboarding and orientation program
 Revamped all the HR Forms
 Working on HR Manual and Policies
Performance Management:
 Developing and conducting training's and workshops to ensure that all performance management
systems are accurately understood and exercised
 Conduct performance appraisal exercises and workshops for middle to senior level management
 Support and identify learning interventions along with business needs on regular basis based upon gap
analysis in addition to planned TNA interventions.
Organization: TCS Express and Logistics:
Designation: Assistant Manager – HR
Tenure: From April 2016 to November 2018
HR Operations:
 Managing sourcing of Couriers and permanent staff.
 Looking after all the medical claims, hospitalizations and Disability cases.
 Performing Hiring actions of couriers and their terminations in HCM (HR Systems)
 Processing Full and Final Settlements of Region South.
 Follow up, facilitate and provide trainings to regional HR team for Employee profiling, SCM & ECM
where & when required.
 Ensuring HR Policies and SOPs
 Employee Engagement
 Facilitated in planning and executing employee engagement activities across the board.
 Prepare and execute study tour & job fairs for attracting talent.
 Plan & execute internship programs.
 Supported in planning and executing gender diversity initiatives and women empowerment initiatives.
Recruitment

 Creating a pool of potential candidates and evaluating candidate profiles to ensure job requirements are
met.
 Work closely with businesses to understand their manpower needs and bridge the gap
 Developed a formal orientation process, designed the orientation checklist and presentation to be
delivered to the new inductees.
 Posting job ads and organizing resumes and job applications
 Run assessment centers as per requirement of Position.
 Recruitment through external sources, or by posting it internally at TCS portal or by head hunters.
 Processing of Transfer requests.
Training and development

 Manage L&D projects and successfully deliver projects of varying size and complexity
 Identifying training and development needs through regular consultation with business managers
 Design training and development programs for couriers based on the needs of the organization and the
individual.

Organization: Byco Oil Pakistan Limited

Designation: Recruitment Officer – Recruitment & Selection
Tenure: From August 2015 to April 2016

Talent Acquisition & Resourcing:

 Maintaining recruitment database by performing initial screening for short listing of potential
candidates.
 Managing sourcing & recruitment activities for Petroleum Marketing Business and all non-technical
hiring’s
 Preparing remuneration package, salary analysis and negotiation with candidates.
 Preparing offer letters and appointment letters and medical letters.
 Ensuring effective employee on boarding through orientation program.
Achievements
 Prepare SOPs for all recruitment tasks
 Initiating E-Recruitment system

Organization: BankAlfalah Limited

Designation: Recruitment Officer– HR & Learning
Tenure: From October 2013 to July 2015

Talent Acquisition & Resourcing:

 Develop appropriate talent acquisition strategies and manage the end-to-end resourcing process to
deliver agreed targets for roles within assigned business areas, ensuring that the right candidates are
recruited, at the right time and at the right price.
 Maintain and update the talent database to manage the network of contacts to easily recognize and
source potential talent.
 Conduct employment test and preliminary interviews of junior & senior level positions and responsible
to complete the initial screening process.
 Preparing salary comparisons and evaluation of package being offered.
Achievements
 Played a major role in implementing Recruitment Management Information System Assess
 implementing Organizational Change Strategy

Organization: BankIslami Pakistan Limited

Designation: Officer –Employee Services
Tenure: From August 2012 to October 2013

 New Joiners Announcements & auditing their files as per rules

 Handling of pre and post hiring documentations of new joiners and file audit.
 Managing Verification of Antecedent & reply to Verification of Antecedent.
 Perform Employee Service Confirmations, Contract to Permanent, and Contract Extension &
Conclusions.
 Issuance of Power of Attorneys
 Processing of staff finance facilities (House, Car, Scooter, Qardh facility finances)
 Processing loan Take Over of recommended new joiners
Other Assignments:
 Active participation in “Annual Performance Appraisal Exercise”.
 Leave management and record keeping.
 Involved in BIOAMS (Attendance System at branch level)
 Involved in Development of Online Leave System
 Attending queries of employees through HR Help desk, answering phone calls, dealing with inquiries
and provide general information to job applicants regarding HR procedures

ACADEMICS:

 MPHIL in Organizational Psychology: Institute of Business Management (in Process)

 Master of Business Administration: Bahria University Karachi Campus (2012)
Major: Human Resources
 Bachelors of Business Administration: Bahria University Karachi Campus (2011)
Majors: Human Resources
 Intermediate (Pre-Engineering): St. Lawrence Govt. Degree Girls College (2007)
 Matriculation (Science): Little Folk’s School (2005)

*Available on Microsoft Teams or Skype

Will be in UAE from February 5th 2023 to March 4th 2023