Ahmed Tarek

• Specializing in the recruitment of C-suite executives, Vice Presidents, Board Members, Directors, and senior
functional leaders across the MENA region.
• Managing full-cycle executive recruitment engagements—from client briefing and strategic market mapping to
candidate sourcing, competency-based assessment, stakeholder management, and successful onboarding.
• Partnering closely with internal hiring committees and boards to deliver insight-driven advisory on leadership
capability, organizational fit, and succession planning.
• Collaborate with hiring teams to provide strategic consultation and coaching throughout the recruitment
process.
• Providing executive coaching to hiring managers on recruitment strategies, interview calibration, and selection
best practices to ensure leadership hires are aligned with corporate vision and culture.
• Driving business development initiatives by identifying, engaging, and converting prospective clients, building
and nurturing long-term client partnerships through consultative selling, tailored talent solutions, and
continuous value delivery aligned with organizational objectives

• Partnering with global stakeholders to design and execute strategic hiring plans across professional to executive
level roles. Leveraging advanced sourcing techniques and deep expertise in applicant tracking systems, I lead full
cycle recruitment across Engineering, Supply Chain, Finance, Marketing, Food, Renewable energy, and technical
sectors.
• Manage end-to-end recruitment processes, leveraging applicant tracking systems and innovative sourcing
techniques.
• Manage project tightly end to end, ensuring quality assurance on day-to-day recruitment activities and
attainment of project deliverables in line with KPIs and Service Level Agreements.
• Provide high-touch relationship management, ensuring responsiveness in client and candidate interactions.
• Work with the Project Director in developing value-added reporting to clients and ensure all reporting, internal
and external, is accurate and complete and delivered against pre-established deadlines.
• Deliver value-added reporting and maintain data integrity within recruitment systems.

• Oversaw global recruitment activities across Europe, and the Middle East, focusing on niche, hard-to-fill,
strategic, and high-profile roles.
• Acted as an IBM brand ambassador, translating hiring forecasts into actionable recruitment plans.
• Collaborated with sourcing teams to ensure successful sourcing campaigns and candidate shortlists.
• Analyzed platform data to optimize delivery performance and shared best practices across account teams.
• Consults with the Hiring Manager on the role requirements and sector/market talent supply considerations
which may impact delivery
• Effectively leverage social media tools in alignment with IBMs social media and Branding Strategy
• Execute diversity recruiting strategies to attract a diverse workforce to IBM by hiring talented people

• Managing, developing and setting the KPIs of the talent acquisition & BP teams of 12 employees.
• Developing talent acquisition strategies and hiring plans for 4 different accounts: Mondelez, Reckitt Benckiser, Bell, & shell.
• responsible for full cycle recruiting to source, select and hires top talent nationwide locations. Establishing and maintaining effective recruitment metrics, processes, systems and tools; delivering a five-star candidate experience.
• Manage the recruitment process and life-cycle, including initial assessments, interviews, and offers.
• Supervise recruiting personnel.
• Use metrics to create reports and identify areas of improvement.
• Provide HR business partner support to senior management across the organization.
• Ensure ongoing assessment, enhancement, and alignment of all HR processes, policies, and practices.
• Identify and prioritize areas for tactical improvement in HR processes and technologies and work hands-on with team to ensure consistent implementation.
Build strong relationships with hiring managers to understand and meet the hiring needs of their respective branches and educate them in the recruitment process.
• Collaborate with hiring managers to develop job profiles.
• Setting the budget for recruitment costs.
• Identify future talent needs and proactively recruiting and sourcing; develop talent pool or social engagements.
• Manage all exit interviews & assist in employee retention and development.
• Work independently and partner with others in the People team on ad-hoc HR projects as needed

• Managing all recruitment activities across different levels for a new dam in Tanzania which is considered one of the biggest projects in the energy field across the middle east.
• Develop HR Strategies and manpower solutions to meet business requirements.
• Ensure compliance with ministry of Human Resources and social Development.
• Analyze and identify challenges, resources capabilities to align HR initiatives with business direction.
• Support in HRIS transformation.
• Develop Saudization and localization strategies.
• Support project managers in workforce planning.
• HR Analytics & publishing talent reports to the leadership.
• Developed job descriptions for all new roles, job evaluation, and analysis exercises in coordination with relevant stakeholders.
• Collaborated with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs)s to refine and update training resources. Assist with performance management procedures.

• Managed a regional recruitment team, setting KPIs and overseeing talent acquisition across multiple countries.
• Participated in implementing SAP SuccessFactors and application tracking system (ATS) for recruitment.
• Led hiring plans for launching new companies under the Al Mansour Automotive Group.
• Develop recruitment strategy. This may include job posting optimization, recruiting marketing channel
development, job board procurement, digital and non-digital employment marketing, comprehensive
recruitment campaign planning, talent planning, etc....
• Designed and implemented graduate and internship programs.
• Responsible for deals and cost optimization with all vendors & suppliers related to the talent acquisition
activities.

• Managed full life-cycle recruiting for various departments across multiple regions.
• Developed recruitment strategies, including job posting optimization and recruitment marketing.
• Built effective relationships with business partners and managed recruitment processes.

• Achieved headcount resourcing plans, managing recruitment processes for various departments, including retail,
call center, tech, and commercial.
• Conducted competency-based interviews and managed selection steps, for internal and external hiring.
• Maintained recruitment databases and provided regular reporting.
• Recruitment process & Sourcing planning

• Handled HR queries, advised managers on HR issues, and ensured timely responses.
• Coordinated with HR sections to keep intranet updated and analyzed HR data for improvements.