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Rayan  Al Taei

Rayan Al Taei

Muscat ,Oman

Summary

Initiative taker, energetic and opportunistic. Working with and Through people has always been a driver, aiming to support organizations reach their strategic goals and uplift talents capabilities & maximizing their potential.

Graduated from ETIMAD national leadership program, ICF trained coach, OPITO competence certified assessor, IT Degree, CIPD Holder.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work history

Section Lead, Talent Management

OQ RPI
Muscta , Oman
08.2022 - Current

Leading Talent Management team towards Managing:

  • Capability development strategy of OQ RPI
  • Performance Management system and cycle
  • Identification High potential talents, development & Placement.
  • Succession planning & Talents Day Management
  • Secretary of People Committees, setting terms of reference, guidelines & KPIs of committee.
  • Leadership Development Strategy and implementation
  • Co‑creating Talent Management initiatives and initiating Lean processes.
  • Managing Omanization/ Localization of OQ RPI & Secondment process.
  • Managing assignable employees and finding strategies to place them within organization
  • Building learning culture in organization
  • Rewards & recognition Schemes
  • Leading International learning and knowledge sharing experience visits with other leading oil and gas companies (Aramco, Adnoc, Vale)
  • Towards building Integrated Talent Management strategy

Other Areas:

  • Appointed as Stream lead of Culture in OQ RPI Women committee (LAHA).
  • Appointed in Localization Taskforce Project across OQ Group & its Subsidiaries reporting to OIA, and was rewarded by OQ SOAC for valuable results.

Talent Management Specialist

OQ
Muscat , Oman
07.2020 - 07.2022
  • Managing The performance Management system and cycle of management team & Talents Day
  • Managing overall Succession planning
  • Managing leadership programs & within company, starting from tendering process to designing modules preps and implementations
  • Co‑created framework of Talent Management & led Integrated Talent Management Project
  • Culture Champion

Talent Pool & planning Specialist / OQ Academy

OQ
Muscat , Oman
06.2019 - 07.2020

Talent Pool & Planning Specialist:

  • Anchored 98.3% of Top‑600 leaders into (worldwide) OQ Group Talent Pool that co‑created
  • Headhunted internally through co‑created Talent Pool into capturing talents for certain project for integration stream
  • Delivered Vice Presidents Talent long listing process from created talent pool (Internal recruitment)
  • Engaging and educating talents in Germany in terms of talent pool and importance of CV submission to be part of data pool
  • Deep understanding of talents through high impact CV Analysis(Extracting essentials of a CV) & adding career aspiration dialogue as a future goal to enhance current process and deliver higher value to both talents and business
  • Managed Policy and procedure of Talent Planning at Policy Project

OQ Change Academy Specialist:

  • Developed Individual Performance Management System Framework & Processes
  • Facilitated & Managed 10+ Deep Dive Sessions for co‑creation of iPMS (Individual Performance Management System) Development
  • Delivered System training Sessions to 600+ Employees (change Management)
  • Master of Ceremony in Several Events at OQ (Graduation Ceremony, Leadership Course Graduation for team leads & Managers)
  • Managing Graduating and on Boarding Ceremony

Talent Board and Leadership Officer

OQ RPI (Orpic)
Muscat, Oman
11.2017 - 06.2019
  • Worked closely with Management (Talent Board‑ Managers)
  • Identified critical positions at the company & developed success Profiles for all Managerial roles
  • Ensured development plans developed and implemented for employees at pipeline as successors
  • Managed both people day and Performance Day
  • Issued 24+ announcements of Talent Board

Classroom Assistant & Customer Service

British Council
Muscat , Oman
12.2011 - 06.2015
  • Assisted Teachers in Classrooms & Supported development of students with wide gaps.
  • Delivered Customer Service Support (help Desk), Contributed to IELTS Section & all records of candidates.
  • Solving Issues & coming up with solutions between British Council and Customers.

Education

Bachelor of Science - IT (Internet and e-security)

University of Technology & Applied Science
Oman
01.2011 - 01.2017

Skills

  • Communication & People Management skills: Expert
  • Computer literacy, SAP & HR Systems: Experienced
  • Events Management and Facilitation: Experienced
  • Talent Management & Development: Expert
  • Stakeholder Management: Expert

Affiliations

  • Public Speaking & Panel Moderation
  • Organization Culture & Transformation - Passionate about fostering positive workplace culture and employee engagement.

Accomplishments

    1‑ Represented OQ as a speaker at the HREnergy conference in Dubai (May 2024):

    Represented OQ at the Global HR Excellence Energy Summit, where i delivered a topic on Managing High potentials, highlighting the importance and the various methods that are used in OQ, with the success stories that it got the company to.

    2‑ Enhancement of people/ Talents day:

    Came up with a 2.0 level of talent Mangement and creating mobility opportunities for leaders within the organization an exercise that gave the top management the overview on all head level Talents and took on spot decisions on their career way forward.

    3‑ Initiated Cross‑Posting Project:

    Initiated the national and international cross posting project to uplift the people of OQ through creating opportunities of learning in other organizations Locally or internationally in the same field of our business.

    Integration Achievements:

    1‑ Talent Pool Quick win of USD 600,000:

    Co created & Built a centralized talent pool with world class standards, Analyzed over 160 CVs which lead to the visibility of talents & used the data produced to head hunt internally the right capabilities to the right roles which generated a cost saving of 600,000 $

    2‑ Unified the Performance Management system(iPMS) created a Quick Win of USD 500,000:

    Enhanced the capability of performance management framework and facilitated over 10+ focus groups to co‑create and implement the performance management system and framework which generated a cost save of 500,00$

    3‑ Co‑creating Succession Planning, Omanization (Localization) and Talent/People Committees within OQ

    Revisited the succession planning and facilitated multiple deep dive sessions with top leadership team to co‑create and build the new philosophy of OQ's succession planning, Talent Committees and Omanization (Localization).

    4‑ A Culture Catalyst (Ambassador) to cascade and build the new OQ culture within the organization

    Facilitated & managed culture conversation across the organization to get employees (over 300+) buy‑in to live the new culture we are creating. (Transformation & change journey)

Certification

1- CIPD: Diploma in HR

2- ICF Trained Coach

3- OPITO Competence certified assessor

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Section Lead, Talent Management

OQ RPI
08.2022 - Current

Talent Management Specialist

OQ
07.2020 - 07.2022

Talent Pool & planning Specialist / OQ Academy

OQ
06.2019 - 07.2020

Talent Board and Leadership Officer

OQ RPI (Orpic)
11.2017 - 06.2019

Classroom Assistant & Customer Service

British Council
12.2011 - 06.2015

Bachelor of Science - IT (Internet and e-security)

University of Technology & Applied Science
01.2011 - 01.2017
Rayan Al Taei