Oct 2024 – Apr 2025 · 6 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

Apr 2023 – Sep 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

• Strategic HR Planning: Develop and execute strategic HR plans aligned with overall goals and objectives. This includes organisational development, succession planning, and identifying critical skills gaps.
• Talent Management: Implementing effective talent management strategies, including onboarding, performance management, career development, and employee retention initiatives.
• Employee Relations: Oversee employee relations activities, including handling employee grievances, disciplinary actions, and conflict resolution.
• Change Management: Lead and support organizational change initiatives. Develop change management plans, provide guidance to managers, and help employees navigate and adapt to changes.
• Performance Management: Develop and implement performance management systems and processes, including goal setting, performance evaluation, feedback mechanisms, and development plans. Foster a performance-meritocratic-driven culture and support managers in enhancing employee performance.
• HR Analytics and Dashboards: Utilizing HR data and analytics to generate insights and make data-driven decisions. Develop HR reports and dashboards to track key HR metrics, including retention, cost, employee engagement, diversity, and other relevant workforce analytics.
• Stakeholder Management: Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders, including senior management, and business leaders. Understand their needs and collaborate on HR initiatives that align with business objectives. Assess stakeholder satisfaction with HR services and support through surveys or feedback mechanisms.

Dec 2017 – Apr 2023 · 5 yrs 4 mos

Dec 2017 – Nov 2022 · 4 yrs 11 mos

• Stanza Living is India's largest shared living company offering dedicated solutions for students and working professionals across 30+ cities in India.
• HR Business Partnering:
• Second employee of the company. Scaled the HR function across talent acquisition & business partners to enable business growth.
• Built the core team initially and HRBP for F&B Vertical, Legal & corporate affairs, Real estate, Portfolio
• Management, Excellence ops, Inside Sales & Customer Experience. Overall span of 200+ employees.
• Responsible for Workforce Planning, Rewards & Recognition, Employee Engagement, Talent Management and Organisational changes.
• Working closely with management to increase the organizational health of the business.
• Developing and cultivating strong stakeholder relationships. Working with leadership as a single point of contact and managing the hiring requirements of the assigned verticals.
• Providing leadership advise in the implementation and execution of related policies and guidelines; organizational design; company culture and employee development.
• Influence and partner with other groups around the company (legal, finance, recruiting, etc.) to advocate for business needs.
• Consult with employees and managers to address employee grievances and issues with a systematic approach.
• Participate in company-wide initiatives and programs while meeting the needs of their businesses.
• Central project across Stanza (Driving Enps) as a part of the COE team
• Rated 5 star in the year 2020 [COVID ERA]
• Talent Management :
• Assisted in envisioning innovative employee engagement programs to maximize employee morale
• Employee Surveys and Analysis
• Conducting Townhalls, Leadership meetings & designing the first draft of People initiatives
• Founder’s Office :
• Calendar management: Maintaining daily, and monthly calendars, and appointments and organizing day-to-day work of the Founders’
• Co-ordinating all the programs of the Founders’, meetings, external visits, clients, etc

Nov 2017 – Dec 2017 · 1 mo · Gurgaon, India

• Managing the entire recruiting life cycle including writing job descriptions, talent acquisition, sourcing and screening candidates and setting up interviews.
• Extensively recruiting for profiles like Business Development, Inside/Product Sales, Operations, Product Manager, Digital Marketing etc.
• Scheduling interviews, briefing and debriefing candidates before and after interviews.
• Posting job descriptions on job boards, and tracking posting status and results.

Apr 2016 – Aug 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos · Gurgaon, India

• InnerChef is one of the fastest-growing food experience companies in the country. It offers ready-to-eat meals, gourmets do-it-yourself recipe kits (InnerChef DIY gourmet), detox cleanses, and healthy eats (InnerChef+) as well as decadent desserts. InnerChef is currently delighting foodies in Delhi-NCR, Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Mumbai.
• HR Manager (Individual Contributor): "The First HR of the company"
• Talent Acquisition:
• o Analyzing the business requirements, with Founders’ & business leaders
• o Sourcing, interviewing, screening/evaluating candidates, reference checks, and salary negotiation.
• o Closed all the positions single-handedly with zero recruitment expenses.
• HR Operations:
• o Single Point of Contact for a team of 350 people regarding all the HR operations:
• o Prepared a ready reckoner for New Hires – Exit Management: Streamlining Exit Formalities and F&F. Other key deliverables were setting up the Leave Management process, Grievance Redressal, set up the Onboarding process: Developed SOPs/checklist to reduce TAT.
• o Payroll Administration: Addressing and resolving payroll-related grievances. Ensuring compliance with statutory requirements
• o HR Analytics: Prepare Dashboards, MIS, and trackers to effectively track data and identify trends.
• o Employee Engagement: Conducted employee engagement activities to build motivation, positive attitude, employee delight & team spirit.

Nov 2014 – Apr 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• AdPushup is an online ad revenue optimization platform. It is a one-stop solution for enterprise ad ops teams as well as large independent publishers. Its key specialities are Ad Revenue Optimization, Ad Network Optimization, Advanced A/B Testing, and Enterprise Ad Analytics. It has raised Series A funding and at present it values more than 100 crores.
• HR & Finance Manager :
• Joined as the Fifth employee of the company
• Directly reporting to the Founder's
• Successfully set up the HR & Finance function from scratch
• Started with hiring an awesome team of both tech and non-tech and grew it to 20 from 6.
• Responsible for Finance and admin deliverables
• Organised employee engagement activities for employees and ensured happiness and satisfaction at work always

Jul 2014 – Oct 2014 · 3 mos · New Delhi Area, India