ALI MAHMOUD
Organization Development
Riyadh,01
Summary
With close to 15 years of dedicated experience in HRM in 8 different companies and around 16K employees, I have established a robust foundation in various HR domains, including Strategic HR planning, Talent Management, Training Management, Performance Management, Personnel, HR Operations, Social and medical Insurance, HR Audit, Generative AI practices, and ISO standards in HR systems. I am passionate about contributing strategic value to organizations through innovative HR solutions, ensuring alignment with business objectives. My track record of success and commitment to excellence position me as a valuable asset for companies seeking a seasoned HR professional with a diverse skill set and a proven ability to drive organizational success.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
OD Manager
East Consulting Engineering Company (ECEC)
10.2023 - Current
- Lead the design and execution of ECEC's Organizational Development strategy, ensuring alignment with corporate objectives and IPO readiness roadmap.
- Oversee implementation of performance management, competency frameworks, and succession planning systems to drive workforce capability and accountability.
- Manage the Willis Towers Watson job evaluation and salary benchmarking process, ensuring internal equity and market competitiveness.
- Design and deploy leadership development programs and career path frameworks to build future-ready talent pipelines.
- Conduct organizational diagnostics and engagement surveys, translating insights into targeted action plans.
- Lead culture and change management initiatives to promote engagement, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Develop and maintain OD dashboards and HR analytics through Power BI for executive decision-making.
- Ensure alignment of HR/OD policies with CMA and ISO 30414 standards to support IPO and human capital reporting requirements.
- Initiate employer branding and recognition programs to strengthen engagement and position ECEC as an employer of choice.
- (800 Employees)
- Establish a High-Performance Culture: Implement an integrated performance management system linking individual objectives to corporate strategy.
- Build Organizational Readiness for IPO: Align HR and OD policies, governance structures, and human capital reporting with CMA and ISO 30414 standards.
- Develop Leadership and Talent Pipelines: Launch the Leadership Academy and succession planning framework to ensure strong internal leadership continuity.
- Enhance Employee Engagement and Retention: Design and execute comprehensive engagement and recognition programs to strengthen motivation and loyalty.
- Institutionalize Competency and Career Frameworks: Define and integrate behavioral, technical, and leadership competencies into all people processes.
- Advance Workforce Analytics and Digital OD Systems: Deploy Power BI dashboards and HRIS integrations to enable data-driven workforce planning and decision-making.
- Strengthen Employer Brand and EVP: Position ECEC as an employer of choice for engineers and technical professionals across the region.
- Drive Change Management and Cultural Alignment: Facilitate organization-wide change initiatives that reinforce collaboration, accountability, and innovation.
Deputy OD Manager
Al-Watania Poultry
08.2022 - 10.2025
- Functioning as a strategic partner in the manufacturing sector (Strategic advisor for the sector) and (Representative on behalf of the sector in key projects). This role encompasses a diverse portfolio including 15 Factories and a workforce of 8,200 employees.
- Represent the corporate support sector in front of (NRC, Audit Committee, and Risk Committee).
- (8,200 Employees)
- Conducted a comprehensive analysis of internal processes that helped in building internal process maps for each plant (16 Plants) and department (9 Departments).
- Organizational structure refinement.
- Manpower plans derived from workload analysis (~350 Job titles).
- Succession plan (By defining the critical positions).
- Assessment of Production Capacities per role.
- Formulation of PMS and Manufacturing KPIs cascaded from the strategic objectives.
- Formulated the annual training plan for 2023, 2024, and 2025 by doing training needs analysis based on new business objectives.
- Implemented cost-control measures for labor, involving redesigning the internal processes that supported us in decreasing the required manpower.
- Analyzing the overtime reasons and designing suitable corrective actions.
- Developed a practical proposal for new business units, including quality control for Al-Watania sales points within KSA.
- Successfully finalizing the job analysis project covering more than 350 positions.
HR Manager
National Company for Aluminum Production (TUBE)
07.2020 - 08.2022
- Manage all HR functions across 4 factories (Aluminum - Plastic - Laminate - Printing), and 2 sectors (Commercial and manufacturing), by leading the HR team of 3 professionals.
- (750 Employees)
- Conducted internal audit for HRM activities like hiring, training, PMS, payroll, personnel, and other related activities during 1st 3 months and fulfilled all gaps based on best practices standards and Egyptian laws.
- Legalized all HRM activities according to labor law, social insurance law, income tax legislation, child and women's law & disability persons.
- Solved all issues with the labor office, social insurance office, and tax authority.
- Computerized all HRM activities like the attendance system, vacation system, payroll system, and overtime system.
- Implemented HRIS (MENA PAY & MENAME) during 1st 6 months.
- Re-activated some important accounts with service providers like IMC, GIZ & Engineering Export Council.
- Design an annual increase in salaries that positively affects the satisfaction of employees and top management.
- Covered all employees with suitable medical and life insurance based on available budget and actual needs.
- Designed process maps for HRM functions and shared them with stakeholders.
- Prepare and pass the audit of GMP Certification & ISO 9001, 14001, & 45001 in (2020 & 2021- HRM Standards).
- Design and implement various activities that support the CSR, like making a deal with (Caritas Egypt - Disability people's training and hiring).
- Develop a Performance Appraisal system and lead the implementation process in 4 plants.
- Increase manpower by 40% (~150 employees) to support new expansions in the different sectors.
HR Business Partner
Almadina Steel
11.2019 - 07.2020
- (1,500 Employees)
- Manage all HR functions across 2 factories (Billet - DEMCO), by leading an HR team that consists of 9 professionals.
- Update an integrated & interactive organization chart for the whole corporate (manufacturing & commercial sector).
- Design and implement an incentive policy that led to increased productivity, quality, and employee satisfaction.
- Computerize all HRM activities like the attendance system, leaves system, payroll system, and overtime system.
- Fulfill all open vacancies for both (Blue & White-collars) across commercial and manufacturing sectors.
HR Generalist
Ideal Standard International
12.2016 - 11.2019
- Talent Management (Recruitment & succession planning programs).
- Training and development (TNA, training plan & training evaluation).
- Performance management (Performance appraisal & PA analysis).
- OD projects implementation and evaluation.
- ISO systems (9001, 14001, 18001 & 50001 - HR).
- HR Audit (for internal & external purposes).
- Employee relations (Internal investigations and engagement programs).
- (5,000 Employees)
- Updated an integrated and interactive organization chart for the corporate (6 Plants and the Commercial Sector).
- Designed process maps for HRM functions.
- Developed HRM activities report for the years 2016, 2017 & 2018 in 6 plants.
- Prepared and passed the audit of ISO 9001 & 50001 in (2016,2017 & 2018- HRM Standards).
- Designed and implemented transportation, meals, and casual management systems from scratch.
- Developed a Performance Appraisal system and led the implementation process in 6 plants.
- Updated 185 Job descriptions for both (Blue & White-collars) in 4 different plants.
- Developed a succession plan for the supervisory level.
- Developed an internal training program for enhancing supervisors' leadership skills (Positive Impact).
- Filled all vacancies for both (Blue & White-collars).
- Led the execution of successful training programs across the whole corporate.
Sr. Recruitment & Training Specialist
Arabia Group for Import and Export
12.2015 - 12.2016
- (400 Employees)
Senior HR Specialist
Newpressdan for printing
08.2013 - 12.2015
- Responsible for setting and executing the annual manpower plan.
- Responsible for screening and archiving all received CVs and organizing interview programs.
- Introduced credible competency-based candidate assessment tools in conjunction with the divisional HR team to ensure the right fit between the candidate, the position, and the organization.
- Planned and conducted new employee orientation to foster a positive attitude toward organizational objectives.
- Responsible for white & blue-collar recruitment resources.
- (500 Employees)
- Designed and implemented a productivity measurement system that stands on KPIs methodology.
- Ensured that the performance appraisals for the staff were done by direct managers at the time specified & according to the company's standards.
- Analyzed performance appraisal results to define the gap between required and actual performance.
- Analyzed training needs to design employee developmental, technical, and health and safety programs.
- Executed suitable training programs incorporated with IMC.
- Measured training ROI by using a customized performance management tool.
- Performed job analyses, including interviews, evaluation, internal comparison, and external survey.
- Created job descriptions for all employment levels (White & Blue-collar) - (75 job titles).
HR Specialist
Sally Cookware
09.2012 - 08.2013
- (300 Employees)
HR Coordinator
Microsystem for Business Solutions
09.2010 - 08.2012
- (20 Employees)
Education
Professional HR Partner (HRBP) - undefined
American University in Cairo AUC
12.2018
Diploma in Social Law - undefined
Faculty of Law, Cairo University
12.2017
Licentiate of Law - undefined
Faculty of Law, Zagazig University
12.2009
Skills
- Talent Management
- Organization Design
- Manpower Planning
- Cost Reduction Programs
- Compensation & Benefits
- HR Budgeting & ROI
- OKR
- MBO
- BSC
- HR Policies
- Learning & Development
- ISO 9001-2014 (HRM)
- Performance Management
- DE&I
- HR Audit
- Generative AI in HRM
- Employee Engagement
- HR Operations
- Job Analysis
- Job Evaluation
- Productivity Measurement
- Succession Planning
- Employees Retention
- HRM Metrics
- Employees Relation
- Key Performance Indicators
- HRIS (ERP)
- Labor Law
- Social Insurance Law
- Organization Development
- HRM Metrics & Analytics
- Employer Branding
- Total Reward System
- Personnel Management
Websites
Certification
- Certified OKR Professional, KPI Mega Library, 2025-08-01
- Certified KPI Professional, KPI Mega Library, 2024-09-01
- Certified Balanced Scorecard Management System Professional, The KPI Institute, 2024-06-01
- Certified OKR Foundation, OKR Institute, 2023-12-01
- Generative AI x HR Strategies, HRSE Dubai, 2023-10-01
- Finance for HR, BEACON FINTRAIN, 2022-05-01
- Strategic Human Resources, SHRM, 2021-12-01
- Strategic Workforce Planning, HRCI, 2020-09-01
Languages
Arabic
English
Activities
- Represent Al Watania poultry KSA in the Employee Happiness Award July 2025 and won 2 awards.
- Publishing an online course (How to design KPIs in crisis times) on Udemy and Skillshare.
- Attending 'HRSE - Dubai, UAE' organized by Informa Connect, 5 days- Oct. 2023.
- Attending 'Labor market access program - Design Thinking' organized by GIZ, 5 days- Oct. 2021.
- Attending 'The relationship between current labor law and new social insurance law' organized by Horus Training Center, 15 hours' discussion- June 2021.
- Teach HR fundamental certificates to over 100 trainees incorporated with (HCC-Egypt) during 2020.
- Attending FMCGs, Manufacturing & Automotive Employment Fair as an employer (organized by Engineers' Careers & Wuzzuf) - April 2019.
- Attending Shaghlna Employment Fair (organized by U.S. Embassy & Job Nile) - February 2019.
- Attending TRIA Employment Fair as an employer (in the 10th of Ramadan city) - December 2018.
- Attending AUC event 'Corporate Governance: The white blood cells of the organization' - November 2018.
- Attending ORACLE event 'Digital HCM Innovation & Employee Experience' - March 2018.
- Attending Don Bosco's Employment Fair as an employer - October 2017.
- Attending APTIS Conference 'English Assessment Tool' by British Council - September 2017.
- Attending EAHRD event 'The Impact of Economic Challenges on HR' - April 2017.
- Attending the Employer's Employment Fair as an employer - February 2013.
Last Update
2025-10-01
Thank You Note
Thank you for considering my application. I am eager to bring my expertise to a new challenge and contribute to the success of your organization.
Mobile
+20 102 668 8746, +966 55 873 5686
Locations
- Egypt
- KSA
Personal Information
Availability: EGYPT | KSA
Timeline
OD Manager
East Consulting Engineering Company (ECEC)
10.2023 - Current
Deputy OD Manager
Al-Watania Poultry
08.2022 - 10.2025
HR Manager
National Company for Aluminum Production (TUBE)
07.2020 - 08.2022
HR Business Partner
Almadina Steel
11.2019 - 07.2020
HR Generalist
Ideal Standard International
12.2016 - 11.2019
Sr. Recruitment & Training Specialist
Arabia Group for Import and Export
12.2015 - 12.2016
Senior HR Specialist
Newpressdan for printing
08.2013 - 12.2015
HR Specialist
Sally Cookware
09.2012 - 08.2013
HR Coordinator
Microsystem for Business Solutions
09.2010 - 08.2012
Professional HR Partner (HRBP) - undefined
American University in Cairo AUC
Diploma in Social Law - undefined
Faculty of Law, Cairo University
Licentiate of Law - undefined
Faculty of Law, Zagazig University