Rustem

RUSTEM ALIIEV

London, UK
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Profile

Effective professional with over 22 years of combined experience in Operations, Human Resources Management, consulting, audition, coaching, training, recruiting, project and risk management and corporate and employment laws. Built, and led several winning teams with over 5,000 employees across the country generating more than $450 million in revenue. Skilled in risk and compliance regulations, corporate law, and policy development. Outstanding and personable communicator, influencing and relationship-building skills. Analytical, meticulous. Governance adviser. Organisation design and Strategic workforce planning management for an Organisation with over 220,000 employees. The chairmanship of the board of university examiners. Teacher of economics.

EDUCATION
Kyiv National Economics University, 1995-2000
Master's degree in Business Management and Economics.
Manager-economist, Teacher of Economics

Munich University, 2002
Diploma of Business Leadership program (Munich)

SDA Bocconi business school of Management, 2016
Transformation management (Milan)
WORK HISTORY

December 2022
HEAD OF ORGANISATION DESIGN & STRATEGIC WORKFORCE PLANNING
TESCO, UK
• Managed the structure change stream for major change programs in the business, sharing best practices and expertise.
• Delivered £1.6m savings improving the structure in channels (including Distribution and Customer Fulfilment Centres)
• Advised the business on lean, effective and consistent structure solutions in line with best practices and aligned with business plans and priorities.
• Designed structures which create interesting and stretching roles for colleagues at all work levels, and identified capability gaps
• Developed clear RACIs and job descriptions to support the rollout and sustainability of all change programs
• I conducted an extensive analytical project aimed at identifying potential cost-saving opportunities through structural improvements over a 3-year horizon in collaboration with Ernst & Young company.
• Partnering and working AGILE with the relevant People teams, and key stakeholders to identify people impacts of structural change and agree on the approach
• Creation and delivery of a high-performing and inclusive culture throughout the Organisation
• Developed and refined Organisation Design blueprints such as structure change, Organisation design principles, work levels, headcount and payroll governance, job descriptions, external benchmarking etc.
• Coaching the business on great Organisation Design and building capability
• Challenging and collaborating with the business to establish a cost-conscious approach to headcount and structures
• Building principles based on SWP methodology and implementing new policies by collaborating with the business leadership team, and talent management department of an Organisation
• Developed a future view of the organisation's workforce requirements, translating strategy into supply and demand scenarios that inform the People plans across Group priority areas on a 3–5-year horizon.
• Led the research and analysis of data across the end-to-end process

June 2016 – Feb 2022
FOUNDER & CEO
Human Technologies consulting agency

A full-scale business solutions & support agency with a talented team specializing in People, Business Operations, Operation audits, Strategic Workforce Planning Consulting, Training programs, mentorship & much more.
• Established and performed governance implementation roadmap for 12 companies (incl.
chains of restaurants, hotels and banks)
• Established organisational mission statement through extensive collaboration and review. Structure improvements which delivered over $2.3m in savings.
• I have a proven track record in developing and implementing effective HR business strategies that align with the overall goals and objectives of the client’s organisations
• Optimized operating budgets, HR budgeting, performance improvements and cost reduction targets
• Delivered succession plans to create high-performing teams
• Redesigned structures to make them simpler and more efficient
• Built people consulting capabilities focused on clients undergoing organisational change and development.
• Developed and launched Strategic Workforce Planning for organisations forecasting future staffing needs, aligning talent requirements with business goals, identifying skills gaps, and devising strategies to recruit, retain, and develop the right talent.
• Contributed to business and HR functions by identifying, prioritizing and building organisational capabilities, behaviours, structures and processes.
• Escalated effectiveness of cross-functional relationships to support organisational change.
• Applied process improvement to shape organisational culture, optimize procedures for higher efficiency and help the company evolve and grow.
• Developed tailored training programs

Sept 2017 – April 2019
HEAD OF PEOPLE
Group of restaurants “RSL”
• Led the people, recruitment, learning and development teams including the management and administration of the team
• Successfully directed team projects and initiatives that are executed throughout the business (19 restaurants with 1,350 colleagues)
• Launched the Strategic Planning approach for the company workforce, which helped to optimize people's budget and reinvest for the development programs.
• Initiated changes, and facilitated restructuring and termination processes which made it possible to increase the efficiency of the people team outcomes by 25%
• Highly effective business relationships with recruiting agencies to attract unique top managers positions.
• Organised and conducted international workshops, and led cross-functional projects which allowed for building an Agile approach and increased effectiveness in delivering operation results of up to 30%
• Developed and successfully carried out a personnel assessment policy

March 2008 – May 2016
HEAD OF HR (regional)
Food retail chain company – SILPO

Silpo is a leading Ukrainian retail corporation that operates a chain of grocery stores. Today Silpo is a leading supermarket chain in a sales structure of Fozzy Group in Ukraine with annual revenue of $1,5 billion
• Devised recruitment policy for 5,000 plus employee company.
• Improved training processes by creating a new learning and development department
• Exercised an efficient decentralised team of recruiters which increased recruitment efficiency by 35%
• Prepared and opened 21 full-staff effective units with 2,520 employees
• Created and executed a new employee adaptation and onboarding system alongside evaluating both individual and team performance to boost motivation.
• Took on the challenge of changing the structure of the human resources department, which allowed to downsize the department but helped to increase the effective distribution of resources and personnel throughout the organisation to meet staffing needs.
• Heightened the effectiveness of cooperation and compliance teams to review paperwork, obtain feedback and procure available information for new training processes.
• Generated and implemented performance improvement strategies and compensation and benefits program improvement.
• Advancement and deployment of an effective system of remuneration tied to employee performance based on KPIs
• Led Strategic Workforce Planning activities using the system approach for the workforce, building the talent pool that contributed the savings in hiring, retaining and attracting employees
• Applied advanced people performance review program

Sept 2014 - Feb 2022
THE CHAIR OF THE BOARD OF EXAMINERS
Odesa National University of Technology, Economic faculty
• Scientific supervision of graduate projects
• Appointing University Examiners, Assistant Examiners and Assessors and providing their names on request to the Registry or relevant quality committee
• Chairing Board of Examiners meetings and therefore approving the Minutes of the Board of Examiners
• Acting as Chairman at the meeting of the Examination Board to consider the results

June 2000 – March 2008
RESTAURANT GENERAL MANAGER
McDonald`s Inc.
• Prepared restaurant business plan by reviewing demands, analyzing competitors and developing projections for sales and finances.
• Led and directed team members on effective methods, operations and procedures.
• Managed, trained and motivated personnel to continuously improve knowledge and abilities in the hospitality service field.
• Led in recruiting, hiring and training team members.

ACHIEVEMENTS

• Trained and developed over 350 successful managers.
• Prepared and opened 21 full-staff effective units with 2,520 employees
• Enforced a decentralized HR office system, which amplified the efficiency of recruitment by 40%
• Cut annual employee turnover from 110% to 65% for the 6 months which made it likely to save $2,400,000 and invest them to other projects.
• Achieved 98% of internal opinion surveys from the second year of leading which made it possible to reduce the turnover by 45%
• Prepared, opened and supervised a new Learning and Developing department, which helped to cover additional 40% employees through training programs
• Achieved 1st place (from 61 stores) in the Mystery Shopper program
• Achieved 1d place by average annual sales from 64 stores

STRENGTHS
• Strategic planning
• Agile management
• Leadership responsibilities
• Company governance
• Risk management
• Effective stakeholder relations
• Business-focused
• Talent management
• Operations management
• Project management
• Business planning
• Analytical thinking

SKILLS

• Talent management
• Organisational development
• OrgVue
• Analytical thinking
• Business development
• Employee recruitment & retention
• Training and development
• Excellent influencing and communication skills
• Team leading
• Agile management
• Employee relation management
• Corporate governance
• Strategic workforce planning management
• Organisation design expert
LANGUAGES
• English fluent
• Ukrainian native
• Crimean/Turkish native