Richard Sandler has over 12 years of experience in human resources. He is currently a recruitment consultant at Sundus Recruitment and Management Consultancy in Abu Dhabi. Previously, he held roles such as Chief HR Officer, HR Manager, and HR Advisor. He has expertise in areas like recruitment, employee relations, training, and employment law.
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Richard Sandler
Recruitment Consultant at Sundus Recruitment and Management Consultancy Abu Dhabi
rsandler.92@gmail.com
Summary
• All round generalist HR experience taking a hands-on approach advising on best practice HR in the areas of
change management, employee relations, recruitment and selection, employee reward, policy and procedures
and learning and development. • An adaptable and committed professional that works well under pressure,
either as part of a team or alone. Enjoys working in a fast-pace environment with a range of internal and
external stakeholders.
Experience
Recruitment Consultant at Sundus Recruitment and Management Consultancy Abu Dhabi
January 2012 - Present (4 years 2 months)
Responsible in managing end-to-end recruitment process within assigned business areas, ensuring that the
right candidates are recruited, at the right time, and within the salary budget. Providing both consultative
and transactional recruitment support to deliver a comprehensive and value added service, covering the
recruitment of all employed worker and cross border hires and transfers, ensuring all recruitment activity is
aligned to and effectively communicating the employer brand.
Chief Human Resources Officer at Added Value
January 2009 - December 2011 (3 years)
Applying my strategic thinking to the development of Added Value's talented team across the world.
Bringing client side and client manangement experience into the HR role and seeking to combine that with
professional HR skills to build an even stronger business.
Human Resources Manager at Millward Brown
January 2007 - December 2008 (2 years)
Responsible for ensuring all day-to-day HR generalist activities are completed to a high standard and all areas
of change management delivered over 2 UK offices. Key responsibilities: • Coordinating strategic plans for
redundancy programmes with the UK HR Business Partner and then full responsibility for delivering initial
communication, consultations, selection criteria, and any complex issues that may arise. Also negotiating
and arranging compromise agreements where necessary, and organising outplacement services. • HR lead in
all employee relations issues up to and including dismissal and any litigation. • Responsible for delivery of
TUPE. • Responsible for providing MI to Senior Leadership Team and European HR Managers, highlighting
key trends and issues and working in conjunction with the business to formulate action plans. • Responsible
for the delivery of local reward initiatives e.g. supporting the Finance Business Partner in the delivery of
Staff Incentive Plans and also the annual salary review. • Ensuring successful completion of performance
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management processes and succession planning through the Company Performance and Development Cycle
with regular calibration. • Responsible for enabling secondments across the global business. • Developed
and now responsible for maintaining the Line Management portal to support new and existing management
in day to day delivery of HR policies and procedures. • Supporting the recruitment team with interviewing of
candidates and advising on the immigration process.
Senior HR Advisor at Millward Brown
January 2006 - December 2006 (1 year)
Responsible for ensuring all operational day-to-day HR generalist activities completed to a high standard.
Key responsibilities: • Manage employee relations issues within the Warwick and London offices to
dismissal stage. • Supporting the two UK HR Business Partners on all employee relation’s aspects of change
including personal delivery of a number of severances with no legal implications and provision of all
redundancy costing information, TUPE, company closures and changes in business location. • Supporting
the HR Business Partner on compensation planning cycle in terms of salary reviews, bonus pools, drafting
of commission plans and implementation of job leveling. • Supplying a wide range of HR reports to the
Senior Leadership Team, Heads of Departments and HR Team e.g. headcount, employee turnover/attrition,
exit surveys. • Leading on immigration. This includes advising the HR team and wider business, tracking
existing employee’s visa status and obtaining visa’s for new recruits and transfers from international offices.
• Maintaining and advising on company policy and procedures in line with current laws including coaching
line managers in policy and procedures. • Lead HR H&S Representative. • Provision of advice on flexible
benefits.
HR Advisor at Millward Brown
January 2004 - December 2005 (2 years)
Key Responsibilities: •Responsible for providing professional HR support to line management on disciplinary
and grievance procedures, recruitment, freelancer management and day-to-day generalist HR advice.
•Responsible for providing professional HR administrative support for the employee lifecycle including
payroll and day-to-day generalist queries.
Education
Brunel University London
Human Resources Management and Services, 2001 - 2004
Grade: Human rescources MSC
Devenport Highschool
Skills & Expertise
Human Resources
Employee Training
Employee Relations
Office Administration
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Hiring Practices
Talent Acquisition
Microsoft Excel
Marketing Strategy
Process Management
Employee Benefits
Employment Law
Languages
English (Native or bilingual proficiency)
French (Full professional proficiency)
Arabic (Limited working proficiency)
Spanish (Limited working proficiency)
