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Robert McNair summarized the Virtus value proposition a decade ago in a Texas Monthly article when he stated –
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What you do is try and determine how you can add value. Ask yourself what you
can do that adds the most value based on your talents. If you offer that and
position yourself in a growing market, you will succeed. Create value, not wealth
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Who wants to be a Billionaire, Texas Monthly, February 2000 - Robert C. McNair
Virtus is a boutique and core HR consultancy based in UAE, started in 2009. Virtus provides HR advisory services in the Middle East, Africa and Indian Sub Continent. The company is owned and led by senior HR leaders across various industries specifically in Gulf, African and Asian markets with over 100 years of joint HR expertise and experience across industries.
Virtus today also has its fully own branch offices operational in Doha, Qatar – Mumbai, Pune & Chennai in India for direct and local delivery of products and services to its clients in GCC and India.
Our Industry Expertise: Government Sectors, Healthcare , Banking and Financial Services (BFSI), Real Estate, Construction, Contracting and Facilities management, Telecom, FMCG & Retail, IT/ITES, Hospitality, Higher Education, Logistics, Oil, Gas & Energy Sectors
Our Mission, Vision and Our Values:
Our Mission:
Is to consistently identify, qualify and deliver value based consultancy services to
all our clients.
The Vision:
Is to become amidst the top 10 referred management consultancies in HR Advisory
Services in the Middle East & India region by 2016
Our Values, Our Credo:
Customer first!
Candor in Communication
Lead & Excel Together
HR Consulting HR Outsourcing •Contract Staffing •HR Functional Outsourcing HR Products •Psychometric Tools •Background Verifications Recruitment & Selection Services HR Research & Development Unit (Special Projects Unit)
Some of our Delivered Project Capabilities and Competence Include:
Organization & HR Strategy Workshops
Business Scorecard Development, Metrics and Analysis
Compensation & Benefits Structuring/Re-Structuring, Benchmarking, Total Rewards
Design (Incentives and Benefits), planning and change management
Recruitment & Talent Management Systems and Projects
Performance Management Systems and Annual Goal Setting Workshops
Psychometric Assessment Centers, Leadership Mentoring, Training & Development
Manpower & HR Process Outsourcing Services
Pre & Post - Merger and Acquisition change management & organizational alignment
Operational Audits, Legal Advisory, Policies & Procedure Development
Virtus offers the following HR services in
: Gulf, Africa, India and Asia Pacific RegionsIndustry Expertise:
Banking and Financial Services (BFSI), Real Estate and Construction, Telecom, FMCG & Retail, IT/ITES, Healthcare, Hospitality, Oil, Gas & Energy, Family owned conglomerates, Logistics and Government Sectors.1. Organization Development & HR Strategy:
Organization Studies:
Organization and Functional Structure Review (Right Sizing) .
Organization Readiness: Growth and Demand Planning .
Basic and advanced Organizational Governance Model Development & Review.
Merger/Acquisition impact analysis in Organization from a HR and change management perspective (Pre and Post Merger/Acquisition organization alignment) .
Change management plans, structures, methodology advisory
HR Strategy Advisory and Consulting:
Conducting strategic workshops at Board level and cascading the business and HR strategy all the way down to the bottom line manager level
Execution of KPI’s and Objectives by Function and department to ensure accuracy of the business targets are being achieved as a team across the company
2.
Compensation & Benefits:
In-depth job evaluation and analysis using Hay, Mercer, Watson Wyatt, PwC’s 6 Hat Monk methodologies
Manpower Planning Strategy and Education to the Business Functions
Industry based grading structure development and renewal projects
Total Rewards & Incentives Strategy
Salary Structuring/Re-Structuring, Benchmarking exercises against any one industry in any country in Middle East, Africa, India and APAC
Benefits alignment and restructuring
Implementation and Training of Benefits tracking tools
Benefits - cost to value analysis
3. Recruitment & Talent Management:
Recruitment Planning Tools and Systems (Recruitment Management System Design and Implementation
advisory services
Recruitment Outsourcing (Retained and Contingency Search Assignments)
Conducting Assessment Centers - E-Assessments – Profiles International
Global Candidate Background Verifications through end to end online tools
Orientation and Induction Outsourcing
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. Performance Management :
Performance management strategy workshops – scorecard development (Balanced Scorecard also
available if requested)
Design, Build and Operate tools based on SMART foundations
PMS System selection and implementation assistance including internal training
Business Scorecard, Metrics and Analysis
5. Leadership Mentoring, Training & Development :
1 to 1 Coaching & Mentoring
Training Needs & Gap Analysis
Internal and External Training Management
Implementation of eLearning solutions per SCORM standards (e.g. SkillSoft, EKP, Saba, etc.)
Certified Psychometric Assessor (CPA Level 1 & 2 + Train the Trainer) Programs from Profiles International
6. Manpower, Employee Relations & HR Process Outsourcing :
Manpower Outsourcing Services
Administration, Finance, Sales, HR, Payroll, Exhibition and Promotions staff
Employee Relations Outsourcing Services
Human Resources Administration Management:
- Immigration Services: Visa, on ground PRO services, typing and all other government services
- Employee Relations Services: Excellent Onsite , On-call and Online Employee Relations services for all staff categories including Onboarding, Grievances Management and Administration, Payroll and Benefits Services (Online salary transfer, banking services, WPS, Benefits Claim Processing, etc.), Employee Documentation for banking and other local services (driving license, loans, Telephone, etc.), travel booking services, leave planning with respect to line manager/project manager, etc.
- Orientation & Training: Client Company Orientation and HSE Training provided(if needed by the client) + any additional Communication or De-Briefing (as requested and material provided by the client)
Outsourced HR Services -
Why Virtus?
One of the few company’s with True HR foundations and Core HR Competence with
Award Winning Senior Management in Human Resources for excellence in HR operations
and systems.
Industry expertise includes: Government Sectors, Healthcare , Banking and Financial
Services (BFSI), Real Estate, Engineering & Contracting, Facilities Management, Telecom,
FMCG & Retail, IT/ITES, Hospitality, Oil, Gas & Energy, Logistics
Started Outsourcing Business with 2 members end of 2010 and already Outsources over
82 contract staff in Qatar & UAE and growing rapidly. Expected to cross 200 outsourced
staff by end of 2012 and to 500 + by 2013.
Process driven and automated Payroll systems, leave and grievances management
executed by HR professionals with over 100 years of joint diverse HR operational
experience. streamlined daily HR employee relations and immigration support.
Tier One Sheikh Sponsor in Qatar with ability to get all necessary staffing approvals from
Govt. for Qatar. No limits on Visa Quota and majority of nationalities.
Labor Camp Facilities and Existing Artisans and laborers available (Subject to availability at
the time of contract) for direct sourcing onsite under contract in Qatar
One of only 4 vendors for outsourced contract staffing for the UAE Govt. across all
emirates.
Ability to Handle Outsourced and Contract staffing across Qatar, UAE and India (all states)
from our registered and fully owned and operated offices in Qatar, UAE, India (Chennai
and Mumbai).
Farid is a seasoned senior HR Leader and Consultant, with over 17 years of sound achievements in strategic HR Management. Also conferred with the ‘Global HR leadership Award’ by the world HRD Congress Council in 2009 and “Strategic Leadership Award” by APAC HRD Congress in 2011. He is a keynote speaker on strategic HR and several other HR subjects in several MEA & APAC conferences, forums and magazines.
Has a rich career history which spans across several industries including semi-government & the big 4 consulting and fortune companies worldwide including:
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN), United Arab Shipping Company (UASC), Emaar Properties, Xpert Learning, IBFI, Proctor & Gamble (P&G) and Compaq.
His indirect work experience during his consulting includes clients such as: Manazel Real Estate, Saudi Investment Company (Banaja), Environment Agency Abu Dhabi (EAD), Abn-Amro Bank, National Bank of Dubai, Siemens, Ducab, Zadco, Visa, Nestle, Alstom, Emirates Airlines, Qatar Petroleum, NPCC, Adco, Gargash Insurance, MMI, UPS, Nissan, Caltex, United Nations-G77, Motorola and Dubai Duty Free.
He is experienced in implementing corporate-wide Change Management strategies and initiatives for fortune 500 companies across the globe, alongside implementing performance management systems based on competency frameworks, and mapping/executing talent management solutions across the board and linking it to total rewards. A seasoned HR information systems expert who has worked through complete life cycles of several HRMS system implementations such as PeopleSoft, SAP and Oracle. He has also seen through organizational change management and development over 3 major mergers & acquisitions of companies in the EMEA region, with complete transformation experience. Farid has a bachelor’s degree in management information systems from USA and a master’s degree in organizational psychology from India. He has recently also completed his executive management studies in HR Strategy from the ILR School in Cornell University and is also a certified occupational Psychologists registered by the European Federation of Psychologists Association (EFPA) & British Psychological Society (BPS)
Specialties
Recruitment and Selection - Talent management, Job evaluations & Analysis, Performance, HR information systems, Total Rewards, Learning and Development, Career and Succession Planning, Change Management, HR Outsourcing and Organizational Development
Some of the brands that Farid has worked directly with or consulted for include:
Key Note Speaker In the following
Conferences World Over since 2006 to date:
Middle East & Africa: (Egypt, KSA, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Kenya, )
- Middle East HR Summit
- EMEA Compensation & Benefits Forum
- Middle East Talent Management Forum
- Middle East Compensation & Benefits Forum
Organizers: IIRME, Marcus Evans, aberdeen Group
Europe:
- Global HR Summit - Worldwide ERC (London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt) - Orgnizers: Worldwide ERC
APAC:
- Asia Pacific HR Congress (Singapore, Kuala Lumpur) - Organizers: Marcus Evans
Thank you!
Contact Information:
Virtus Consultancy Services Fze. Company License No.448 HQ - DSO Office
# 1003, Le Solarium Building Dubai Silicon Oasis,
P.O. Box No. 476418 Dubai, UAE
PH: 04-3423066 Email: info@virtus.ae Deira Office:
# 206, Al Khubaisi Building, Deira Dubai – Next to Hyundai Showroom, P.O. Box: 13334 Dubai UAE
India Office:
Virtus Consultancy Services Mumbai – Andheri East
Chennai – Radha krishnasalai Road Email: info@virtus-india.com
