Lerazade Poonawala

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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India6 yrs 3 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Achieved Bronze award for Performance Management Excellence.
Drove 8.9% reduction in annual attrition rates.
Implemented successful Candidate Experience Program.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a strategic HR professional in the Fintech and SaaS industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Performance ManagementTalent ManagementCompensation StrategyHr ManagementRecruitmentStakeholder ManagementEmployee EngagementTalent Acquisition

Other Skills

AI for HRAttrition ForecastingCampus HiringCandidate ExperienceCommunicationCompensation & BenefitsCompensation StrategiesCost-Benefit AnalysisCulture DevelopmentDashboard ImplementationDashboard MetricsData AnalysisData-Driven Decision MakingDesign HiringDiversity and Inclusion Initiatives

About

As an HR Business Partner, my philosophy is simple: You Perform, I Perform! 🚀 Dedicated to empowering top talent across India & South East Asia who value autonomy and flexibility. What I bring to the table: • Building Strong Relationships: I foster genuine employee connections (coffee chats are always a win! ☕). • Championing robust performance management systems, we placed TOP 3 in the ETHR Awards 2025 for our Performance Management System!🏆 • Driving Transparency: Open communication, understanding that 'Perception is Reality.' • Data-Driven Excellence: Leverage insights for strategic HR, and 'data is my second name.' • Numbers and Compensation: Who said People's People can't do numbers • Cultivating Talent Density: Always finding new ways to achieve organizational goals by growing top-notch skills in the current workforce – ensuring investment in people and their career trajectory (growing our very own 'Unicorns' 😉). I'm all about the 'Why's, What If's, and How's.'

Experience

Razorpay

2 roles

Manager, HR Business Partner [India & SEA Regions]

Promoted

Nov 2024 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru · On-site

Driving strategic HR initiatives with a focus on enhancing employee experience and business outcomes across SEA - India, Singapore & Malaysia.
Performance Management Excellence: Spearheaded the nomination for the Economic Times Human Capital Awards, culminating in a Bronze award (Top 3) for Excellence in Performance Management out of 1000+ entries. Successfully managed communications for Annual and MidYear Performance Review Cycles, delivering & facilitating essential employee training sessions for the entire org of 3000+ employees.
Strategic Compensation & AOP Management: Achieved significant cost reductions and ensured flawless AOP management across 17 diverse PODs and 9functions, maintaining meticulous governance with zero errors. Optimized compensation strategy by executing targeted corrections for critical talent, directly contributing to talent retention and motivation.
Impactful Talent Management: Drove a substantial 8.9% year-over-year reduction in annual attrition, achieving the lowest rate in three years. Managed proactive retention of critical talents through targeted interventions and resolution strategies. Also contributed to a 25-point increase in eNPS, demonstrating a positive impact on employee well-being within my spans.

Performance ManagementStrategic HR InitiativesEmployee TrainingCompensation StrategyTalent Management

Associate Manager, HR Business Partner

Oct 2023 – Sep 2024 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Strategically managed HR for 9 PODs and verticals within the Business Engineering function, driving organizational goals and workforce engagement.
Led Center of Excellence (COE) initiatives across the organization, including enhancing policy awareness, optimizing performance management frameworks and feedback delivery, and revitalizing rewards and recognition programs.
Championed data-driven decision-making, leveraging analytics for talent density, growth, and fostering a people-centric culture with a strong bias for action.
Managed comprehensive compensation strategies, including market benchmarking and competitive analysis, to ensure fair and impactful rewards.
Successfully aligned and assessed core competencies, fostering continuous talent development and growth trajectories.
Drove initiatives for talent density creation and conducted in-depth hold analyses to proactively retain critical talent.

HR ManagementData-Driven Decision MakingCompensation StrategiesTalent DevelopmentTalent Management

Meesho

2 roles

HR Business Partner

Jan 2023 – Aug 2023 · 7 mos

Managing Product verticals in terms of Performance management, people connects, organisational efficiency, D&I initiatives and individual development.
Top Performer initiatives like personalised IDP focus and creation of learning paths.
Attrition forecasting and analysis based on current trends along with utilisation of L&D levers to prevent these numbers
Ideation and mitigation of talent reviews and manager evaluation surveys.
Dashboard implementation (lookerstudio & power bi) of survey scores like eNPS, mNPS and more to be able to analyse the top trending themes in each cohort for director and above including the CTO and CPO.

Performance ManagementDiversity and Inclusion InitiativesAttrition ForecastingDashboard ImplementationTalent Management

Talent Partner - Product & Design

Oct 2021 – Feb 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos

Source, Recruit and Hire the finest talent for roles in Product, Design (User Experience UI/UX) and Tech.
Cross Functional Collaboration to ensure effective Stakeholder Management, providing an in-depth understanding of the talent market and trends
Leverage LinkedIn Talent Insights to develop recruiting strategy and share with the Hiring Managers to achieve the Talent agenda.
Data Analysis of key Recruitment Metrics to be able to present measurable figures to Hiring Managers during Bi-weekly reviews.
Engage in the end to end recruiting efforts: Requirement gathering > Market Mapping > Hiring
Plan > Sourcing > Screening > Scheduling > Offer Extension > Engagement > Candidate Experience
Strategised sourcing to attract diverse talent via networking, LinkedIn / IIM Jobs / Naukri searches, and research
Piloted and led the Candidate Experience Program by ensuring Post-Offer engagements in order to increase the candidate experience scores over all departments in the organisation which also resulted in a reduction of possible offer drops. The program has successfully ensured a drastic decline in offer drops and an increased rate of the Offer to Join Ratio.
Led multiple projects such as Candidate experience, Post Offer engagement and Recruiter Handbooks within the team to ensure a seamless hiring process for every candidate with minuscule to zero grey areas.

RecruitmentStakeholder ManagementData AnalysisCandidate Experience

Meero

3 roles

HR & Culture

Mar 2021 – Sep 2021 · 6 mos

Managing the Employee Culture development in house;
Coming up with strategical employee engagement + development plans;
Coordnation and creation of employee engagement

Employee EngagementCulture DevelopmentStrategic Planning

HR & Talent Partner

Jan 2020 – Mar 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos

Handling Talent Acquisition PAN India and Singapore
Experience in end to end recruitment for Global Markets
Individually contributed to setting up a team of around 160 people in the Indian Office, Right from Sourcing to Hiring
Target achievement with regards to recruitment numbers as Meero is a fast growing start up on a high ramp up phase
Attracting high level talent with embedded passion in future candidates
Led the University relations and Campus hiring
Hiring interns and possible future employees from Tier 1 B schools in the country
End to end management of the Meero Campus Challenges (2 versions);
Employee <> Company branding

Talent AcquisitionRecruitment StrategyCampus Hiring