Dec 2020 – Oct 2025 · 4 yrs 10 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

Dec 2018 – Dec 2020 · 2 yrs · Pune, Maharashtra, India

• Head of Human Resources, BNY Mellon Technology - India & Corporate Technology Group

Sep 2017 – Nov 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Leading the DevOps portfolio for CA's India Technology Center. This comprises of supporting complete API Lifecycle, rounding out the testing trifecta and leveraging & developing advanced analytics across operations.

Feb 2016 – Aug 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Global Operations and HR head of CA's Product and Technology Group. This position is responsible for providing strategic senior level Operations and Human Resources consultative partnership to the executive management team, managers and employees within the Products and Technology global business unit(s).

Nov 2010 – Jan 2016 · 5 yrs 2 mos

• From October 2014 to January 2016, Sakaar was the Global HR Head of CA's Enterprise Solutions and Technology Group. Supporting an employee base of 3500 in 10 strategic locations across - US, Canada, Czech Republic, Israel, India and China.
• From November 2010 to September 2014, Sakaar was led HR for CA, India including managing and supporting HR programs and initiatives including employee relations, performance management, benefit programs, organizational development, career development, learning and development, and compliance with country and local employment law, regulations and guidelines.
• During his tenure as the Head of HR for CA India, CA clinched top honors in:
• World HRD Congress 2013 for being the Top 10 'Dream Companies to Work For' in India and 'Innovative HR Practices' in Managing Health at Work and Innovation in Career Development.
• Dataquest survey 2012 as the “Best IT Employer” in the less than 2000 employee category.
• NHRD Inspire Awards 2012 for “Employee Engagement and Retention” for CA Technologies, India, Hyderabad center.
• Great Places to Work recognition for top 5 companies in India for ‘Work Place Flexibility and Work-Life Balance’.
• World HRD Congress 2013 awards for Excellence in Training and Development
• Sakaar is also the proud recipient of the “HR Leadership Award” presented by the Employer Branding Institute for Excellence in Innovation in Recruitment, Innovation in Retention strategy and Innovation in Career Development.
• Sakaar is a regular guest speaker at educational institutions like Symbiosis, Pune and Balaji Society, Pune. He has to his credit several talks delivered at prestigious forums like Institute of Human Resource Development (IHRD), National Human Resource Development (NHRD), Zinnov and NASSCOM. He regularly voices his opinion on HR related subjects in leading publications such as Times Ascent, Economic Times, Human Capital and Human Factor.

Apr 2008 – Oct 2010 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• o Centers of Excellence - Providing expertise to CA Product development teams in the domains of Usability, Accessibility, Securability, Business Intelligence and Localization
• o Global Development Optimization - Optimizing the delivery of software product development (placement and delivery) across CA’s global network of locations to increase quality, speed to market and predictability while reducing cost
• o IT Governance Products – Leading a team that manages development and enhancement of IT Governance products for CA internal deployment
• o Business Technology Office – Providing direct partnership to Customer Solution Groups in the space of Project/Program Management, Development Partner Enablement, Engineering Systems and Customer Beta Management

Dec 2001 – Apr 2008 · 6 yrs 4 mos

• Job Responsibilities: Head of multiple functions -
• o SAP Center of Excellence – Set up SAP Support and Project Delivery teams for GE Lighting and Motors manufacturing plants in Europe and Asia. Expanded the teams to cover GE Equipment Services in US
• o IT Finance – Managed a budget of $25MM, delivering $4MM of productivity on center operations year on year in 2006 and 2007
• o Operational Delivery and Quality – Established metrics and review mechanisms to measure and drive productivity and quality of Functional IT teams and Centers of Excellence using Lean, Six Sigma and Project Management techniques
• o Training – Leadership, Behavioral and Technical
• o Vendor Management Office – Managed India to India (i2i) model for IT vendors, established processes to track SLAs and measure the quality of the deliverables. Delivered $1.5MM of savings on a base of $8MM
• Other Positions Held
• o Program Manager (December 2004 to December 2006) – Head of Functional IT team for a post sales services business for GE Appliances, managing a team of 60 people in India
• o Six Sigma Black Belt (March 2003 to December 2004) – Designing IT applications using the ‘Design For Six Sigma’ methodology, delivered a web portal to determine and track Sales Incentive for a sales program worth $300 MM
• o Project Leader (December 2001 to March 2003) – Led projects on Java, PL/SQL and Pro*C with team size ranging from 8 to 12

Jan 2000 – Jan 2001 · 1 yr