Khalid Alhajji

Senior international HR and talent leader with 30+ years of experience spanning talent management, succession planning, leadership development, workforce planning, recruitment, performance, global mobility and HR transformation. More than a decade in senior Corporate HR roles across Europe and the Middle East, partnering with executives and business leaders in a complex, engineering-intensive multinational environment. Known for translating business priorities into enterprise talent processes, strengthening leadership pipelines, integrating talent with learning and workforce planning, and bringing governance, analytical discipline and commercial perspective to people decisions.

Partner / Strategic Investment & Business Oversight at New Hayat Invest / RT Fight Supply B.V. (2024-07 – Present)

• Maintain active involvement in business, investment and governance matters, bringing commercial judgement, stakeholder management and practical operating perspective to current work.

Senior Corporate HR / Talent Management / L&D Advisor at Kuwait Petroleum International / Q8 (2014-04 – 2024-07)

Held a sequence of senior Corporate HR roles spanning Talent Management, Succession Planning, Recruitment, Manpower Planning, Learning & Development, Corporate HR and executive advisory work.

• Partnered with senior leaders to identify critical talent needs, assess succession depth, strengthen internal pipelines and align talent priorities with business requirements.
• Led and supported structured talent reviews using performance, potential, readiness and retention considerations to improve visibility of leadership and critical-role pipelines.
• Designed and implemented succession and talent-management frameworks, helping leaders move from ad hoc replacement planning toward more systematic identification and development of future talent.
• Connected Talent Management with Learning & Development by translating talent-review outcomes and capability gaps into leadership, management and development interventions.
• Supported recruitment and senior/critical-role staffing decisions through workforce analysis, role requirements, internal talent visibility and business-priority discussions.
• Prepared executive-level presentations, talent information, workforce analysis and recommendations for senior management, bringing clarity and governance to complex people decisions.
• Led teams and cross-functional initiatives and coordinated external consultants, learning partners and specialist providers across multicultural operating environments.
• Contributed to HR process improvement, systems adoption and reporting, including SAP HR and Workday environments, and helped formalise and automate global mobility practices.

Team Leader, Risk, Governance, Audit, Insurance & Financial Management at Kuwait Petroleum International / Q8 (2000-01 – 2014-03)

Held progressively responsible leadership roles across finance, enterprise risk, governance, audit coordination and insurance in a global organisation.

• Advised senior executives and governance stakeholders, supervised teams and developed strong capability in analysis, controls, business planning, executive reporting and enterprise transformation.
• Built the commercial and financial literacy later applied to talent strategy, workforce planning and senior HR decision-making.

Supervisor / Senior Analyst, Workforce & Manpower Planning at Kuwait National Petroleum Company (1994-01 – 1999-12)

• Supervised workforce and manpower planning, analysing staffing requirements, organisational structures and future workforce needs for a major operating organisation.
• Supported management decisions through workforce data, resource planning and cross-functional coordination with business stakeholders.

Bachelor of Business Administration (Finance) – University of Portland

Additional studies in Computer Science

Certified Professional Risk Manager (CPRM) - National University of Singapore / ARiMI