Hessa Al Moammar

Vice President - Global Head of People & Culture at ACWA Power

Speaker

Hessah is a trusted leader with significant Human Resources and Corporate Culture experience in optimising project scopes, leading leadership proposals, creating innovative frameworks, and identifying key target segments to empower initiatives that attract, develop, and retain top talent. She has over 13 years of progressive experience in guiding and navigating complex human resources, organisational development, and people strategies.

As a strategic Vice President, she drives transformational HR strategies with the executive leadership teams to build sustainable plans. Establishing structures, policies, business models, and projects to harmonise with the KSA 2030 initiative.

Hessah has led multiple high-level executive HR projects to strengthen structures. She has led key decision-making approaches in her roles as an Employee Relations Committee, Vice President, and Head of People & Culture to empower and strengthen organisations. She has successfully established herself as a formidable leader.

She is known for being an innovative and collaborative professional with a keen insight into advising and contributing to committees and board meetings, leading the People & Culture strategy, spearheading and implementing projects to unify company culture and promoting work-life balance, identifying opportunities to enhance HR services, and providing strategic guidance. Furthermore, she drives workforce strategies and promotes an agile mindset while optimising systems. While leading internal hiring campaigns and conducting appraisals to align initiatives with strategy, oversee compliance, and facilitate partnerships.

She is an influential leader known for her ability to act with integrity, discretion, and tact while driving strategic and results driven human resources initiatives. As a Vice President specialising in HR Management and Consultancy, she excels in building corporate culture, championing diversity and inclusion, planning succession, and enhancing employee relations and stakeholder engagement.

Hessah plays a crucial role in representing her organisation. She highlights the company's commitment to addressing concerns, attracts high-level attention to issues, and facilitates more effective resolution of employee concerns.

By starting her career in the banking sector, Hessah established foundational best practices for operational excellence. She played a pivotal role in the merger between Saudi Hollande Bank and Saudi British Bank, driving organisational alignment and integration. She has received multiple noteworthy promotions throughout her tenure and transformed organisations that have set businesses up for success.

She holds a Master of Science Degree in HR Management and Employment Relations from Brunel University and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Languages and Translation from King Saud University