Rania Roufael named among Hozpitality's Best 30 Most Popular HR Leaders in the Middle East for 2023
With over 20 years of experience, Rania Roufael is currently the Chief People Officer at Sunset Hospitality Group
Having been with the group since 2018, Rania Roufael joined as an HR Director and has significantly improved the group's strategic organizational programmes, consumer audit results, and employee engagement metrics. She is now the group's Chief People Officer.
A Lebanese national, she has a master's degree in International Business from the Superior International School of Management, Lebanese Canadian University. In addition to creating an innovative recruitment and retention strategy, Rania has also slashed the Group's turnover rate practically in half, going from 32 percent to 17 percent in the span of three years. A people person by nature, Rania has built effective relationships with directors to drive cultural change, business transformation, and performance enhancement.
With the responsibility of spearheading the HR department at Sunset Hospitality Group, she has formulated and implemented global HR strategies, ERP software HR modules, improved employee training, development, and performance management across the group's twenty-six lifestyle and hospitality brands as well as implemented tools to strengthen organizational health and efficiency. Under her leadership, Sunset Hospitality Group received the Great Place to Work® certification, the global authority on high-trust, high-performance workplace cultures, for 2021 and 2022.
Meela Seenarain
Dubai, United Arab Emirates UAE