Feb 2022 – Sep 2024 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

• The Kalyani Group, established in mid 1960s, is an Indian multi-national with advanced technology, engineering & manufacturing capability across critical sectors such as Engineering Steel, Automotive, Industrial, Renewable Energy, Urban Infrastructure and Specialty Chemicals. With end-to-end capability and manufacturing footprint across India, Germany, Sweden, & China, the Group has an annual turnover of over $3.0 billion and market capitalization of its listed entities approximately $2.5 billion. The group has joint ventures with some of the world leaders such as Meritor (USA), Carpenter Technology Corporation (USA), Maxion Wheels (Brazil), FAW Corporation (China), Alstom (France) and David Brown (UK).
• Kalyani has strong emphasis on market leadership through technology and it's over 10,000 strong engineering global workforce, the group today is a market leader in all its respective business segments.
• Largest Forging Company in the world
• Largest exporter of Forgings from India
• Leading Engineering Steel manufacturer in India
• Leader in Axle Aggregates in India

Jul 2019 – Mar 2022 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Pune Area, India

• As a Global HR Leader, it is my responsibility to provide operational leadership for HARMAN to achieve its goals through a robust people agenda, with focus on human capital management and development of the global workforce; ensuring that all relevant enablers are in place for individuals to make lasting contributions to the firm. Key responsibilities include -
• Leading Compensation and Benefits practice for 13K employee across multiple countries
• Responsible for Global HR Operations
• Driving Global HR Technology Initiatives

Aug 2018 – Jul 2019 · 11 mos · Pune

• As the Head of HR, I am responsible for overseeing all aspects of human resources (HR), its practices, and operations in order to meet the needs of the constantly evolving business. In that, my focus is to build upon the business’s current people programs and service delivery strategies, enhancing organizational decision-making and approaches for securing growth on a business-wide scale.
• I am an active member of the Management Committee as well as a key executive partner and coach who is tasked with facilitating strategic planning and initiatives, change management, and organizational design.
• Key responsibilities include –
• Provide leadership for long-range strategic planning in order to anticipate impending change and then develop innovative initiatives that promote people productivity, organizational efficiency, and cost effectiveness.
• To ensure that the organizational design and rewards structure is reflective of a dynamic & competitive business environment
• Formulate comprehensive strategies that lead to quality and depth within the talent base
• Function as the strategic business advisor to the business executives and departmental heads in regard to key business and management issues
• Playing an analytical role to monitor, analyze, and identify strategic needs, gaps, and risks within the function.
• Drive the D&I and CSR strategy

Sep 2017 – Jun 2018 · 9 mos · Pune Area, India

• Accountable for the HR strategy and operations at Pune; leading the HR Business Partner organization for over 3500 associates across multiple business units.
• Providing human resource advice and counsel to the GBS leadership
• Developing & implementing HR strategies by establishing functional accountabilities
• To comply with union, state, and local legal legislation; enforcing adherence; advising leadership on needed actions.
• Study the prevalent talent trends and analyzing data that helps business make informed people decisions
• Drive the HR Analytics & Technology practice for the Global Business Solutions platform (across India, Romania, Philippines and Brazil)

Aug 2015 – Aug 2017 · 2 yrs · Pune Area, India

Feb 2014 – May 2015 · 1 yr 3 mos · Pune Area, India

• Responsible for developing a human capital strategy, with focus on long term and short term objectives in line with business strategy.
• Accountable for end to end HR service delivery, HR budget, Regulatory Compliances - including talent acquisition, employee engagement, compensation and benefits, capability development, compliance, talent management, employee relations and retention
• Providing human resources advice, counsel, and decisions to the board
• Key achievements
• Introduced Total Rewards philosophy with supporting strategic imperatives, as part of building a strong EVP
• Developed a compensation philosophy and built pay ranges relevant to business needs
• Introduced compensation benchmarking and job evaluation
• Introduced Group Life Insurance
• Revamped the medical insurance policy to make it more relevant
• Established the capability development function with supporting processes
• Revamped the performance management system so as to integrate with all aspects of talent management
• Achieved a trust index score that falls within the range of India’s Best Workplaces as per the 2014 Great Place To Work® Trust Index© Employee Survey.

Mar 2012 – Feb 2014 · 1 yr 11 mos · Pune

• Lead India & Sub Saharan Africa in the enterprise compensation and benefits community of practice; providing input to policy, process and execution review and design
• Leading the design & delivery of compensation programs in alignment with enterprise Total Reward Strategy (TRS) in a complex environment with multiple businesses & salary structures.
• Annual compensation and benefits market assessment for salaried positions, including selection and management of consulting partners.
• Lead design & delivery of benefit programs that strengthen Deere’s EVP.
• Leading the local Global Job Evaluation and Organization Management group.
• Monitoring internal and external environment for emerging changes in compensation and benefits regulations, laws and trends which may impact the firm’s offerings.
• Responsible for Global Mobility Program.

Jul 2010 – Mar 2012 · 1 yr 8 mos · Pune

• Developing India recruitment strategy to attract the best talent. Led the core team that designed India EVP.
• Providing thought leadership to achieve staffing goals through recruiting excellence.
• Partnering with the Global Staffing organization to design and deploy staffing tools, full recruitment cycle innovations and best practices to leverage technology - reduce cost and cycle time while improving the quality of hires.
• Focused leadership on improving recruiting productivity through people capabilities, budgets, resources, processes, systems and strategies that ensure hiring of the best talent to support business needs.
• Measure and analyze key recruiting metrics for the purpose of recruiting effectiveness and quality.
• Drive cost control measures and undertake regular reviews of delivery.
• Provide efficient service delivery in a fast growing global environment.

Jan 2010 – Jun 2010 · 5 mos · Bangalore

• Responsible for hiring executives at the senior management level across Accenture, India covering Technology and Outsourcing businesses.
• Manage a team of 23 members with an average target of 400 executives on boards per quarter and an average target of 2250 on boards per quarter in the Infrastructure Outsourcing business.
• Responsible for on time fulfillment, stakeholder satisfaction, cost per hire, sourcing cost, recruiter productivity

Sep 2006 – Jul 2009 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Bangalore

• Lead – Recruitment Sourcing - (Oct 08 – Jul 2009)
• Responsible for planning and implementing Accenture’s talent acquisition strategy for Financial Year 2009.
• Led talent acquisition of 3000 laterals with focus on technology capabilities like SAP, Siebel, Business Intelligence, Business Analysts, and Integration Platform.
• Developing a healthy channel mix across recruitment vendors, employee referral and internet channels. Attained 65% low cost channel contribution (YTD).
• Developed & managed a sourcing budget of USD 5 million – with a cost reduction target of 10%
• Recruitment span included hiring for 6 locations across 30 technology platforms – covering approximately 2000 unique hiring combinations.
• Ensured that Accenture recruitment processes were complaint with the high maturity levels
• Modified the sourcing strategy to eliminate the hiring of candidates with questionable backgrounds at the first point of contact. Lead – India Campus Recruiting – (September 06 – September 08)
• Lead – India Campus Recruiting – (Sept 06 – Sept 08)
• Responsible for garnering mindshare among all the stakeholders of the campus hiring function – students, placement staff, faculty, alumni & media.
• Driving the campus recruitment strategy through the Visiting Schools Program for Indian & Foreign campuses for technology as well as management graduates.
• Managed a budget of USD 5 million with a team of 14 resources.
• Scaling the function up the value chain by building expertise in hiring varied profiles and developing alternate channels to maintain round the year availability of talent.
• Developed & institutionalized the Campus Engagement Program which led to Accenture being recognized among the top 3 preferred employers (AC Nielsen Campus Track Survey 2007)
• Identified strategic investment areas which were aligned with the larger organizational initiatives for identifying alternate candidate source pool.
• Hired 6500 & 9000 entry level resources for 2007 & 2008.

Sep 2005 – Sep 2006 · 1 yr · Hyderabad

• HR Business Partner - Responsible for the Financials Line of Business at the India Delivery Centre of Oracle.
• End to end management of employee life cycle activities spanning induction, integration, employee issues, aspiration staffing, career management and development and separation management
• Developed a plan to increase engagement by 5% as compared to the previous fiscal year.
• Program managed the performance management process for the product family, managing the three aspects of education, execution and compliance.
• Managed the leadership connect for the product family leadership, spanning three layers. Focused effort to connect with Managers and above levels.
• Managed deployment of the rewards and recognition program across the product family. Designed specific recognition program for different delivery groups.
• Ensured unmanaged attrition did not exceed 8% in the product family. Manage resignation reversal for 10% of the cases. Analyze reasons of attrition and work with the business to develop mitigation and prevention plans.
• Part of the Core Committee driving key initiatives across Oracle India:
• Creativity and Innovation – Presented a concept note on Creativity Council and Innovation Pub (Incubation Centre). Created the content for the Creativity workshop for all Team Leads.
• Alignment of Policies – India Delivery Center with APAC & HQ
• Leadership Development – Identifying the top talent pool and building a competency based leadership framework for Team Leads and Managers.

Oct 2002 – Sep 2005 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Mumbai

• Corporate Employee Development
• Responsible for driving the annual performance management process.
• Led corporate initiatives (Critical Incident Diary and PATNI Alumni Network)
• Responsible for service delivery on HR metrics
• HR Process Compliance Auditor
• Driving organization-wide surveys – Great Place To Work & Hewitt’s Best Employer Survey, HR Satisfaction Surveys.
• Transition of the H1 petition filing process – Boston, MA
• HR Business Partner - Insurance Business Unit
• Responsible for implementation of all HR processes/ policies within the SBU.
• Handled most aspects of the employee life-cycle including induction, performance management, development, employee relations and exits.

Jan 2001 – Aug 2002 · 1 yr 7 mos · Pune & Chennai

• Independently managed the Recruitment function for the Chennai Development Center. Managed end-to-end recruitment operations – sourcing through onboarding.
• Liaison with the Business Heads for strategic workforce planning
• Technology mapping across organisations for market intelligence.