Tariq A. Zidane

Head of Talent

Dubai, United Arab Emirates7 yrs 11 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Senior People Manager with extensive HR expertise
  • Led talent acquisition for top retail brands
  • Recognized in LinkedIn's Best Talent Acquisition team
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Retail HR Specialist with strong talent acquisition and people management skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

Human Resources (hr)People Management

Other Skills

Internal CommunicationsRecruitingTechnical RecruitingCommunicationGlobal Talent AcquisitionInternal & External CommunicationsPerformance AppraisalPersonnel ManagementE-CommerceTeamworkProject ManagementSocial MediaResearchMarket ResearchRetail

About

A specialist with a demonstrated history of working in the retail industry. Skilled in Teamwork, and Project Management. Strong professional graduated from Canadian University Dubai.

Experience

7 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 7 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 11 mos
Current Experience

Noon

5 roles

Senior Manager, People & Talent - noon.com Commercial

Promoted

Jan 2026Present · 4 mos

Internal CommunicationsRecruitingTechnical RecruitingCommunicationGlobal Talent AcquisitionInternal & External Communications+5

Manager, People & Talent - noon.com

Mar 2025Feb 2026 · 11 mos

Assistant Manager, People & Talent - noon.com & noon ads

Jan 2024Apr 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos

People Business Partner - Noon.com, Noon Ads & Private Label

Promoted

Jul 2022Jan 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Partner with senior leadership across the commercial categories in noon to develop and implement effective HR policies and practices that will support the strategic growth of a business.
  • Provide HR expertise in the areas of feedback, employee relations, compensation, and organizational development.
  • Analyzing trends and metrics with the HR department
  • Work closely with management and employees to improve work relationships, build morale and increase productivity and retention
  • Working together with management and personnel to solve conflicts and help facilitate positive employee relations, maintain a good working environment, build morale, and decrease unwanted turnover
  • Implement the HR plans ensuring alignment with business strategies and priorities and the guidelines established at corporate HR.
  • Implement the organizational development initiatives across noon commercial BU's, in line with corporate objectives and requirements.
  • Act as a representative of the HR function within the BU, providing day-to-day HR support to employees and management, communicating key Group and BU HR policies and changes and also relaying employee and management comments to BU and Group HR management for action.
  • Ensure that appraisals of all employees within the noon commercial BU are conducted in line with the performance expectations of each role.
  • Act as a representative of the HR function within the BU, providing day-to-day HR support to employees and management, communicating key Group and BU HR policies and changes and also relaying employee and management comments to BU and Group HR management for action.
  • Identify and develop organizational change proposals and submit to the Business Unit HR within the BU for review.

Junior Talent Partner

Jun 2021Jul 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Responsible for the full recruitment cycle and assist in maintaining a continuous pipeline of qualified candidates for noon's retail department.
  • Manages and takes pride in the candidate and stakeholder journey.
  • Designs and implements progressive sourcing strategies, including networking, social media, professional associations, and organizations to provide top-tier applicants access.
  • Continuously develop networks and partnerships to actively build a strong pipeline of candidates.
  • Communicate with managers and employees regularly to promote referral programs and internal mobility opportunities.
  • Educate line managers on the recruitment process and build positive, credible relationships with them.
  • Create weekly/monthly reports on key talent acquisition metrics and share them with the management team.

Nike

2 roles

Talent Partner

Sep 2020Jun 2021 · 9 mos

  • Managing the entire sports line recruitment (Nike, Sun& Sand Sports, Timberland, Columbia, Northface, Dropkick, Basketbolista, Converse, Vans, NAPA, NU Athlete).
  • Successful store openings across GCC.
  • Consult with hiring managers and human resources team on position descriptions,
  • requisition creation, compensation and sourcing strategies.
  • Research and recommend new sources for active and passive candidate recruiting.
  • Continuously develop networks/partnerships to actively build database/pipeline of
  • candidates.
  • Recruit and perform talent acquisition activities such as resume & phone screens, candidate
  • interviews, recommend final selection of applicants and close qualified candidates.
  • Place and update all job postings in various Medias including internet/intranet sites.
  • Conduct regular follow-up with managers to determine the effectiveness of recruiting
  • efforts.

Resourcing Officer

Oct 2019Sep 2020 · 11 mos

  • Managing sports retail recruitment for Sun & Sand Sports and Nike.
  • Consult with hiring managers and human resources team on position descriptions,
  • requisition creation, compensation and sourcing strategies.
  • Research and recommend new sources for active and passive candidate recruiting.
  • Continuously develop networks/partnerships to actively build database/pipeline of
  • candidates.
  • Recruit and perform talent acquisition activities such as resume & phone screens, candidate
  • interviews, recommend final selection of applicants and close qualified candidates.
  • Place and update all job postings in various Medias including internet/intranet sites.
  • Conduct regular follow-up with managers to determine the effectiveness of recruiting
  • efforts.

Dubai islamic bank

EBS Representative

May 2018Sep 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Attended an extensive training in the following departments :-
  • Small and Medium Enterprises financing department (SME’S).
  • Liabilities and Cash Management.
  • Alternatives and Operation Management (Call back
  • verification, Call Center, Quality Assurance, MIS, EBanking, Remediation Data Clean-up).
  • Risk Management and Mitigation.

Hall & partners

Qualitative Project Management

Oct 2017Mar 2018 · 5 mos · Dubai Media City, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

  • Project set up and management
  • support researchers in methodology, bidding, suitability of locations, facilities and sampling logistics in both the Domestic and international markets.
  • Field supervision to ensure the best outcome of the project .

Education

Canadian University Dubai

Bachelor's degree — E-Business

Jan 2013Jan 2017

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