Andries Pieter Zeeman

Known as: Andy

Location: South Africa
Telephone: +27 72 735 1658
Email: andy.zeeman2000@gmail.com
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andyzeeman/

Professional profile
I am the consummate HR Generalist Specialist. I have over 18 years of full-on, hard earned experience in all
areas of HR Management, acquired in diverse industries and in multi-cultural and multi-national
environments.

Career summary
Dec 2017 - present Self employed
Since I left ABB Kuwait, I have started consulting on HR matters, founded two blogs and I began writing and
marketing e-books.

Mar 2015 - Nov 2017 Country HR Manager ABB, Engineering Technologies, Kuwait
Outline
Full responsibility for all HR related activities in the country. Special assignment: Analyse and redesign the
country’s HR processes to enable integration into the ABB Global Structure, as well as ensure a culture
turnaround in the company together with the new executive team. Ad interim appointment March to May.

Key responsibilities
 Stabilizing the HR Function: Providing critical leadership and assertive decision making as well as
continuous employee support to improve morale.
 Policies & Procedures: Analyse & evaluate local policies. Redesign policies to ensure they support
country strategic initiatives while being in line with Oversight Country and legal guidelines.
 Compensation & Benefits: Analyse & evaluate compensation practices. Formulate and implement a
strategy for the implementation of fair and equitable practices in line with ABB Global policies.
Implement and embed the ABB Global Job Grading System in such a way that it is viewed as a
positive by employees.
 Compliance Investigations: Done thoroughly and with complete integrity and confidentiality.
 Coaching and mentoring: Both managers and employees, improving morale and management
practice.
 Workforce planning: Together with line management, ensure proper annual workforce plans are
completed and executed on time for smooth business continuity.
 Organisational Change: As part of the executive, take co-responsibility for changing the
organisation into an effective and profitable unit.
 Team management: Manage and develop a team of 5 people into a cohesive and effective team.
 HRIS: Employee data and reporting structure clean-up to ensure correct and complete employee
data is available for Self Service applications as well as financial reporting.
 Payroll: Transform payroll from purely manual, local process to complete online process
administered from the Oversight Country.

Key achievements/projects
 50% reduction of manual payroll paperwork in 6 months.
 Reducing manual reporting by 80% in the first year.
 Successfully planned, launched and completed the implementation of the ABB Global Grading
System for jobs, including communication strategies and mop-up in a positive way.
 Redesigned and implemented the local benefit structure in line with ABB’s global guidelines for fair
and equitable compensation.

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Nov 2012 - May 2015 Cluster HR Centre Manager ABB Industries, Dubai, UAE
Outline
In this role I was responsible for ensuring the planning and execution of all standard ABB Group employee
processes for the UAE, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait and Pakistan

Key responsibilities
 Compensation & Benefits: Ensuring the alignment of local compensation practices & policies in all
countries in the sub-region so as to ensure as much standardisation as possible.
 Talent Management – Shared responsibility for overseeing Talent Management and Learning &
Development in the sub-region. Individual development plans for team members, annual training
calendar. Overseeing annual Manpower Plan reporting.
 Talent Acquisition: Overseeing the Talent Acquisition team and ensuring KPI’s are met and enhance
team motivation.
 Team management: Manage and develop a team of 16 members, most of them specialists in
various fields.
 Global Mobility: Overseeing the process to ensure the success of Short Term Employee
Assignments & Long Term Employee Assignments as well as VIP movements in the Southern Gulf
sub-region.
 Compliance: Both Statutory Compliance (in cooperation with local HR for the sub-region countries)
as well as Group and Regional Compliance for transparency and integrity.
 Lead and/oversee local and Regional annual improvement projects to ensure continued increases
in efficiency of delivery.
 Policies & Procedures: Streamlining policies across the sub-region to ensure maximum
standardisation of practices.
 Payroll: Ensuring a smooth process for all transactions, including allowance and bonus payments.

Key achievements/projects
 Integration of Pakistan ABB into the Sub-Region by aligning policies and practices and integrating
functional processes into the HR Centre.
 Planning and executing the implementation of Global Grading Phase IV in the Southern Gulf and
later Pakistan.
 2014 – Talent Acquisition team makes an average of 3 offers to candidates every 2 working days.
 12.67% saving on the HR Centre budget 2014 year end.
 Initiating and successful implementation of changes to the Annual Compensation Review system as
well as Allowance Payments process, for full legal compliance.
 Initiated and ensured finalisation and implementation of a redrafted employment contract in the
UAE for full legal compliance.
 Created a new form of temporary employment contract in the UAE for periodic hosting of
professional employees from other ABB countries.
 Successful roll-out of the formal Pre-Employment Screening process in the Sub-Region.

Feb 2009 – Oct 2012 HR Business Partner ABB ZA, Johannesburg, South Africa
Outline
HRBP (Southern Africa) for two divisions.

Key responsibilities
 Workforce planning to ensure smooth business continuity.
 Performance Management with the aim of building up employee morale.
 Reward & Retain, ensuring fairness and equity in all practices.
 Redeployment & Terminations to minimise lay-offs and apply sensitivity to the process.
 Coaching & Mentoring of managers and employees for improved morale and management
practice.

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Key achievements/projects
 Lead disciplinary officer, ensuring fairness in all proceedings.
 Initiated, designed and facilitated local training interventions for new people processes.
 Created a step by step manual for a new electronic recruitment process – the manual was used in a
number of countries across the globe.
 Lead training facilitator in Labour Law, Talent Management and Talent Acquisition modules in the
ABB Management Development Program.

Mar 2008 – Jan 2009 Business Unit HR Manager The Smollan Group
Outline
HR Manager for the Tiger Brands Field Services Business Unit, with 4500 employees. I managed a team of
12 people.

Key responsibilities
Remuneration & Benefits, Team Development, Project Management, Organisational Climate, Employee
Relations, Budgeting, Training Facilitation.

Jan 2006 – Feb 2008 HR Manager Radiant Group (Pty) Ltd.

Outline
HR Manager, tasked with a full culture turnaround strategy (ultimately successful).

Key responsibilities
Organisational change & development, Staff motivation, Employee Relations, Skills Development, Policy
creation, Compensation & Benefits, Budgeting, Recruitment, Legal Compliance.

Aug 2001 – Dec 2006 HR Generalist Leader Tread SA (Pty) Ltd.

Outline
HR Manager for parent company and 3 subsidiaries.

Key responsibilities
Organisational Development, Compensation & Benefits, Organisational Change & Development, Staff
motivation, Employee Relations, Skills Development, Legal Compliance, Budgeting, Policies & Procedures,
Wage Negotiations, Coaching & Mentoring.

Oct 1998 – Jul 2001 HR Manager Van Heerden Pharmacies

Outline
I was the first HR Manager for the retail Group. Designed and implemented the full HR function from
nothing.

Key responsibilities:
Organisational Development, Employee Relations, Talent Management, Policy & Process Development,
Recruitment, Training, Performance Management, Conflict Resolution.

Qualifications & training

 Bachelors of Commerce (Specialising in Human Resources) – University of Pretoria
 Honours Bachelor of Commerce (Specialising in Human Resources) – University of Pretoria
 Master’s Degree of Commerce (Specialising in Personnel Management) – University of Pretoria
 Other courses: Registered Industrial Psychologist (2007 to 2013), TASK job grading (2004), Power
Negotiations (2004), Advanced Training Facilitation (2008), Paterson Grading (2010), Understanding
Financial Ratios (2011), ABB Talent Development Assessor (2012 & 2014), ABB Leadership
Competency Assessor (2013 & 2014), ABB Management Development Program (2014), ABB Finance
for Business (2017), Defensive driving (2017), Introduction to Financial Accounting (2017)

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