Jan 2010 – Mar 2013 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

• Drive Human Resources strategies as a part of the leadership group to expand business in India.
• Collaborated with the operations and legal team to ensure smooth setting up offices and its functions covering 3 start-up factories and 7 area offices.
• Recruited 180 key talent and wage workforce and a contingent workforce of 120 within 9 months.
• Worked with the leadership to expand its footprints in the Indian Agriculture market.
• Set up factory covering end-to-end licensing, legal formalities, team hiring & HR functions set up.
• Liaised to start ground up an electronics solution unit in Pune.
• Implemented HR shared services through ‘Global Human Resource organization’ covering
• compensation and benefits, staffing, learning & development & HR communications.
• Achieved 100% compliance with 0 adverse remarks in the external inspection of government
• officials for all the above units for the applicable labour laws in Maharashtra, Pune & Punjab.

Jun 2007 – Dec 2009 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

• Partnered and managed key business relationships with engineering & manufacturing services, embedded systems, technical authoring, regional supply management center, and support functions totaling 1500+ headcount.
• Closed a large-sized staffing requisition of over 300 positions on a yearly average.
• Achieved a 30% decrease in recruitment spend with innovative sourcing strategies of top-caliber candidates through various methods (i.e., networking, referrals, online searches, internet postings, job/career fairs, local colleges, groups, forums, campus placements, etc.)
• Curtailed the hiring cost by introducing & promoting the Employee Referral scheme & hitting 45% hiring through internal reference and saving overall 50% of the recruitment cost.
• Planned entire branding communication & launched campus connect program & recruiting over 400 GETs/PGETs from premium campuses (IITs & NITs) and gained preferred slots for hiring.
• Enhanced candidate experience & employer branding to achieve a 90% candidate acceptance rate.
• Partnered with business to initiate compensation surveys and created a comparator basket of analysis covering 80% of all positions.
• Ensured smooth rollout and marketing of the total rewards strategy.
• Conducted benefits benchmarking study to drive competitive compensation by implementing 10+ compensation strategies from comparable organizations with periodic benchmarking pay programs.
• Implemented key enterprise HR processes & measured their effectiveness.
• Trained and administered the global performance management systems across levels.
• Achieved 81% engagement score and an increase of 10% in employee satisfaction surveys.
• Revamped job mapping exercise and ensuring standardization of the enterprise processes.
• Formulated, drafted & implemented contractor compliance policies for 50+ business partners.

Dec 1999 – Jun 2007 · 7 yrs 6 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• Earlier experience of 7 years involved extensive work on Labour relations, Safety and environment
• compliances with organizations like Rinder India, Eaton Hydraulics, Suzlon Generators.
• Some important noteworthy achievements during this tenure were as under.
• 1) Signed 3 productivity linked wage settlements out of which 2 were with external union and 1 with
• internal union. Some of the salient features of these wage settlement included introduction of
• performance management for the wage workforce, productivity improvement, implementation of
• continuous improvement culture on the shop floor and Certification of standing orders.
• 2) successfully Lead the initiatives to achieve OHSAS 18001 & ISO 14001 certifications for the
• units and also worked extensively on TBEM and EBE certification for one of the units as per the
• Malcom baldrige business excellence criteria.
• 3) successfully represented my units on settlement of disputes pending before Labour
• courts, Industrial tribunal, ESI & Provident fund organizations. Achieved zero non compliance
• by extensively working on the ssues and resolving it.
• 4) Successfully lead the HR initiatives and implemented significant initiatives like Learning and
• development, skills assessment, Succession planning, HR policies etc.
• 5) Successfully handled 3 green filed projects during this tenure.