Amal Algargosh, MSA, CIPD

Strategic and operational HR leader partnering with business leadership to deliver practical, high-impact people solutions aligned with global HR strategy and local business needs. Trusted advisor driving performance, talent, change, and culture while ensuring compliant, efficient, and high-quality HR service delivery across KSA & Bahrain. Key Responsibilities & Impact - Anticipate and analyze business needs, risks, and opportunities to deliver effective HR solutions. - Translate global HR strategy into locally aligned, executable plans for operations. - Partner with leaders as a trusted advisor, coach, and thought partner. - Lead end-to-end HR processes: performance, talent, succession, resourcing, compensation, ER, DE&I, HR systems, L&D, and change management - Support organizational and leadership changes from design through execution - Drive the annual HR people cycle, including performance, rewards, onboarding, and talent reviews - Develop and implement succession and development plans in line with global guidelines - Ensure compliance with local labor laws, regulations, and company policies while minimizing risk - Partner with shared services to ensure timely and efficient HR transactions - Lead, develop, and engage HR teams, building capability and future-ready talent pipelines - Align people strategies, budgets, and workforce plans with business and financial objectives - Champion culture, change, and continuous improvement to enhance engagement and retention - Build strong stakeholder relationships across a global, matrixed organization

As a People Development and HR Projects Manager, I lead efforts to enhance employee skills, performance, and engagement, and drive strategic HR initiatives. Responsibilities include designing and implementing tailored development programs, overseeing performance management, talent development, learning initiatives, and career planning. I also coordinate with universities for talent management and external training providers to ensure employees have access to relevant learning opportunities. Manage compensation and benefits strategies, ensuring they align with organizational goals and attract top talent. Lead HR projects, ensure alignment with business priorities, provide data analysis, compliance adherence, and team leadership. Integrating HRBP responsibilities, fostering strong partnerships with business leaders, anticipate HR needs, and deliver impactful solutions for organizational success. My four areas of focus include: • Lead HR-related projects and initiatives, ensuring effective change management practices are in place. • Responsible of talent development: Design and implement programs to enhance the skills, knowledge, and capabilities of employees. • Implement initiatives to foster a positive and engaging work environment including conduct employee surveys, analyzing feedback, and developing strategies to enhance employee satisfaction and morale. • Workforce plaining, analyze job requirements and prepare job descriptions and person specifications for recruitment, job evaluation and other purposes. • Responsible for Succession planning to Work with leadership to identify key positions and develop plans for the development and advancement of employees to fill those roles in the future. Identify high-potential employees and create development opportunities to groom them for leadership positions. • Assist in develop, review, and update HR policies and procedures to ensure compliance with relevant laws and regulations.

As the HRBP Country Lead, I was responsible for overseeing a team of HR professionals, collaborating with business leaders to align HR strategies with organizational goals, and ensuring compliance with local labor laws and regulations. This includes managing talent acquisition, employee relations, and talent management processes, while also supporting organizational change initiatives and driving strategic HR planning. Oversee HR operations, including payroll, benefits administration, and HRIS management, while building and maintaining effective relationships with stakeholders to drive business success and foster a positive workplace culture. My four areas of focus include: • Leading and managing a team of five HRBPs in the Middle East, setting clear goals, providing guidance, fostering collaboration, and ensuring alignment with organizational objectives. • Play a crucial role in developing and implementing HR strategic plans that align with company goals, including identifying priorities, assessing HR needs, and developing effective strategies. • Build professional relationships with employees, project leads, and business leadership across the region, offering strategic advice to senior leadership, coaching managers on best practices, and providing resources to build abilities to support growth strategies. • Identify opportunities to improve HR processes and systems to enhance performance and efficiencies and deliver a high-level employee experience. • Prioritize employee engagement and retention initiatives through close data analysis to identify trends. • Assess the company’s talent management strategy, identify gaps, and implement career trajectory solutions to open opportunities for employees to reach career goals, retain key talent, and support business objective.

WSP is the world's leading professional services company serving transportation/infrastructure, energy, environment, property/buildings sectors. Brought on board as a trusted partner to executive leadership to lead HRBP team and lead the HR strategic planning and help align the organization’s people strategy with the business strategy across 10 key projects and affecting 1K+ employees. Spearhead the implementation of a forward-looking HR platform designed to support corporate growth, identify and mitigate risks, deliver on corporate goals, and drive the brand’s culture enterprise-wide in collaboration with the People & Workplace department head. My four areas of focus include: • Build professional relationships with employees, project leads, and business leaders across the region, offering strategic advice to senior leadership, coaching managers on best practices, and providing resources to build abilities to support growth strategies. • Identify opportunities to improve HR processes and systems to enhance performance and efficiencies and deliver a high-level employee experience. • Prioritize employee engagement and retention initiatives through close data analysis to identify trends. • Assess the company’s talent management strategy, identify gaps, and implement career trajectory solutions to open opportunities for employees to reach career goals, retain key talent, and support the business objective.

Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. is an international corporation and a global leader whose principal business is selling gases and chemicals for industrial uses. My primary responsibility is to work closely with the business leaders, the HR function, and front-line leadership to drive the development of a cohesive talent plan that delivers on the company's business objectives, ensuring consistently high performance across the company workforce, and a healthy talent pipeline that meets the current and future needs of the business. My three areas of focus include: • HR EPC Project Experience which requires coordinating with various departments to provide the basic HR services for recruiting, training, benefits management, safety enforcement, and other incentives. • HR M&A Experience with responsibility for leading and managing due diligence, integration planning and implementation for companies being acquired, or recently acquired. • HR Project Management Experience involving the planning, managing, and monitoring of projects from initiation through implementation, including scope, changes, risk and quality. I also act as primary project contact to establish key stakeholder requirements and project objectives.

Gates Corporation is a manufacturer of power transmission belts and fluid power products, which are used in diverse industrial and automotive applications. I was managing the KSA and Bahrain HR team and responsible for a broad range of HR responsibilities, I managed the transformation and implementation of policies and procedures across the entire MENA region to ensure compliance with varying local labor laws. Among my accomplishments were an initiative to achieve government-mandated localization rates, increasing Saudi staff by 10X through targeted recruitment efforts, and employment brand building. Additionally, I created and executed a university recruitment plan, delivering presentations at local universities to drive in new, young talent and establish the company as an employer of choice among new graduates

Chalhoub Group has been a leading partner for luxury across the Middle East for over 60 years. By blending their Middle East expertise, deep understanding of the local customer, and intimate knowledge of luxury, they have become a leading provider of luxury items in the region. I was managing the HR team and responsible for aligning our HR goals and initiatives to employee relations strategies, policies, and processes through cross-functional collaboration and design of ER strategies. As the company’s first female employee, I was charted to drive efforts to recruit women across various roles and within four years women made up the majority of the company’s staff. I was also able to decrease turnover from 90% to 50% with the establishment of a stronger employee-centric working culture