10 Industries
Integrated Strategic & Operational Leadership
Tracing strategic leadership and operational transformation across ten distinct sectors,
Each milestone is anchored as a distinctive waypoint of operational excellence, operational depth, and transformative organizational leadership.
Telecommunications & Support Services
Manufacturing
Retail & Distribution
Started my career inside international telecom and customer-support operations.
That frontline view now shapes how I hire, train, and measure performance for high-volume, service-driven teams.
Handled core HR for an industrial manufacturer: payroll, social insurance, benefits, technical training, and white- and blue-collar hiring.
Filled hard-to-fill technical vacancies by opening new sourcing pools.
Grew over 4+ years from Senior HR Generalist to HR Supervisor across a retail and distribution network.
Hired retail and distribution teams.
Streamlined contract renewal procedures, helped reshape the grading system and appraisal cycle, and managed commission-based payroll and benefits at scale.
Facility Management
E-Commerce
Risk & Insurance
Higher Education
Took over HR for a total facility management company: implemented ERP+ payroll and a full HRIS from scratch, built the first employee database and benefits plan, introduced manpower planning, and renegotiated the blue-collar outsourcing vendor contract.
Led regional payroll operations across Egypt, KSA, UAE, Bahrain, Jordan, and Kuwait at Amazon. Automated payroll controls and tightened social insurance follow-up.
Restored compliance and stability:
Corrected payroll tax calculations, introduced a payroll calendar, cleared historical social insurance issues, reactivated training, and hired 30+ people in one month, including two critical managerial roles.
Led enterprise digital transformation.
Built up the HR department.
Implemented a performance Management system.
Revamped the payroll components and calculations.
Widened the employees' benefits program.
Agriculture
Tech: Enterprise SaaS
Executive Business Education
Led the enterprise digital transformation of HR on an Oracle-based HRIS covering payroll, personnel, benefits, recruitment, and OD. Implemented a performance management system, widened the employee benefits program, and resolved 730+ non-compliant social insurance cases.
Built the HR department from the ground up at a fast-growing tech company. Hired 60 professionals in under 5 months, created the first salary structure and grading system, launched a 90-day onboarding program, and co-designed the HR system.
Sit on the company strategy committee.
Unified a fragmented HR team into one aligned function and reconnected it with employees and managers. Introduced a performance management system, one-to-ones, weekly planning and reporting, a structured onboarding program, and standardized interviews.
About me
I’m Waleed Khaled
A strategic HR leader with 18+ years of experience across technology, retail & distribution, insurance, agriculture, facility management, industrial, e-commerce & cloud services, and telecommunications, in local, regional, and multinational organizations.
Proven record of building HR functions from the ground up, leading HRIS and organizational change, redesigning structures and authority matrices, and building learning and culture programs that connect people strategy to business results.
Sits with the board and serves as a C-suite partner on the company strategy committee.
My Background
How it Works
My process is practical, structured, and built around business results.
Whether we’re building an HR function, redesigning an organization, developing your people, or hiring leaders, we start from your priorities, design what fits your context, and measure what changes.
My goal is to make HR work as a strategic partner to the business, with clear processes and lasting impact.
My Approach