Sameen Khan

• Leading, planning, facilitating and execution of all HR Operations and HR Business Partnering for 20+ Grey studios and Regional HQ in Asia Pacific (incl. Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, China, Thailand, South Korea, Japan, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Dubai, Qatar, Turkey and South Africa.
• Manpower Planning - working closely with all AMEA studios and Regional HQ and managing headcount and movements on weekly, quarterly and annual basis.
• Payroll Management - Managing monthly payroll reports for all AMEA studios and APAC Regional HQ, ensuring salary costs and headcounts of both FTEs and FTCs are aligned as per budgeted forecasts and help resolve issues, when there is a variance.
• HR Compliance and Trainings - Primary point of contact and overseeing all HR compliance matters and relevant trainings for AMEA studios and Regional HQ.
• HR Audits - Assisting AMEA studios on all HR audit matters (external and internal).
• HR Policies & Guidelines - Working with all AMEA studios and Regional HQ to update and enhance HR policies and processes in line with best practices and local legislative requirements.
• Grey Global and WPP APAC - Representing APAC Regional HQ and a primary point of contact for all Global HR matters and requests for AMEA.
• HR Business Partnering for AMEA studios and Regional HQ.

Partnered with the co-founders, c-suites, key business leaders, line managers and the people towards aligning people and culture priorities with those of the businesses and the company.

• Among the top 20% of the performers and pioneer member

• Supported the $200m+ business spanning across Asia Pacific, Australia, Middle East and other regions

• Worked on a full spectrum of HR from Manpower Planning & Budgeting to People Engagement &

Operations, Organisational Development, HR Transformation & Change Management, HR Business

Partnering, Total Rewards and end to end Employee Life Cycle

• Managed the multi-million dollar manpower & non-manpower global HR budgets and P&L

• Also turning around and recovering from 20% budget deficits in 6 months, streamlining the expenses and

the end to end process together with Finance and other leading stakeholders

• lead the HR business partnering for multi-million dollar global businesses i.e. B2C (Growth, Marketing, Product Management, Customer Service & Operations), Corporate (Founder's Office, COO Office, Finance

& Legal and HR) and other tech functions and growing workforce

• Supported the business leaders in the org design, span of control and also leadership, core and functional

competencies. Both for current and future states of the org with changing priorities .and leadership evolvement at different stages of the company e.g. scaling up from a small country setup from launch in 2016 to global multinational operations in 2023

• Lead the global HR transformation and change management project linked to company's mission of building a great place to work and grow and employee engagement during 2021-22

• Managed the global Employee Engagement Programme, from pulse check feedback to action planning and closing the loops together with various stakeholders. Improved eNPS from -30 to +20 overall

• Championed the global Rewards, Recognition, Development & Retention Programmes esp. for the top 5%-20% and built a high performing culture

• Supported the Managers & Leadership Development, Goal Setting and Performance & Development Reviews

• Developed the key HR metrics and presented insights during monthly business reviews with the leadership

• Managed the start-up, did business development and brought world-class Augmented Reality (AR) and other Saas based technologies and capabilities into Singapore.

• Worked as a marketeer and an editorial content creator for SAP Media WorldWide Ltd., Singapore - Asian Photography Magazine.

• Developed and presented annual product plans, strategies and activity network of over-the-counter products.

• Did marketing for the mutual funds (Income and Growth).

• Completed successful internships in the Marketing, Product Development and Information Technology departments.