Ghadah Al Nujaydi

Reward Team Leader

Reward Specialist

To support the business functions and leaders by understanding their human resources requirements and ensuring that they receive the needed human resources support in a timely manner.

Perform a variety of learning and development activities Building internal behavioral and technical capabilities Develop the talent pool Establishes/identities career paths for regular and high potential employee Prepares and designs training programs

• support the business functions and leaders by understanding their human resources requirements and ensuring that they receive the needed human resources support in a timely manner. • Identifies HR requirements for the respective function. • Provides business voice and context to HR functions to support delivery of tailored solutions • Reviews organizational structure, job responsibilities and manpower requirements, in coordination with the Organizational Development function. • Identifies talent in the respective function and coordinates with Talent Management function in order to ensure that the right programs are in place to effectively develop and nurture talent to excel within the function • Contributes to the identification of opportunities for continuous improvement of HR systems, processes and practices taking into account ‘international best practice’, improvement of business processes, cost reduction and productivity improvement.

• Develops and maintains professional relations with local, regional and international recruitment agencies to ensure that right caliber professionals are selected and attracted and to guarantee that the agencies have the required knowledge about the Bank’s needs • Develops and manages regular graduate recruiting cycles that will involve events on campus, participate in employment conferences and job fairs in order to effectively represent Riyad Bank’s brand and attract high quality candidates from target audiences • Assists in developing an annual recruitment plan to outline the most appropriate strategies and approaches for identifying and selecting high caliber talent into required roles in a timely manner • Coordinates with divisions on recruitment needs and identifies whether there are suitable internal available resources to fill vacant positions to facilitate a culture of internal transfers/ promotions • Implements selection and recruitment strategies, tools, techniques and methodologies, and provides support to internal stakeholders on the assessment of potential candidates in order to acquire talent into the organization.

• Perform a variety of reward related activities such as job evaluation, assigning of grades, promotions, salaries, etc. and implement a ‘pay for performance’ system in order to remunerate the right behaviors for the business and enhance the labor market competitiveness of the Bank • Analyzes the compensation and benefits across all levels and in all divisions within the Bank to ensure consistency and fairness amongst all employees • Analyzes the various options of remuneration across retail and wholesale in particular to optimize performance of the revenue generating divisions through the right incentive plans • Reviews the proposed salary and benefits of new hires so as to identify compliance with the reward strategy and the grade of the role • Develops and implements non-remuneration reward practices so as to achieve high level of employee satisfaction and recognition with minimum cost

• Perform a variety of learning and development activities like identifying the needs and building internal behavioral and technical capabilities and developing high-potential employees • Develops the Bank’s talent pool in collaboration with the Reward and Performance department, and oversees its maintenance and updating • Establishes/identifies career paths for regular and high potential employees with inputs from the Head of Talent Management in order to establish clear career progressions as a mean of motivation and retention • Participates in the Development of training plans based on career paths and conducts training needs assessment exercise using all the available resources, e.g. performance appraisals, career paths, business plans, etc. • Handles the relationship with external vendors and participates in negotiations and development of agreements, so as to secure the provision of high quality and cost efficient training according to needs • Prepares and designs training programs (for class room and E-Learning), in collaboration with subject matter experts, and submit it to the Learning and Development In Charge for review, to achieve alignment with employee’s career paths and training needs • Monitors the market for the identification and evaluation of training courses that cover the requirements of the Bank and enhance the quality of the provided training • Assisting department manager in managing teams

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