Manav Jain

CEO

Gurgaon, Haryana, India21 yrs 6 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • 20+ years of HR and Business management experience.
  • 2X founder of innovative Hiring Tech SaaS platforms.
  • Expertise in organizational restructuring and strategic change management.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned HR leader with extensive experience in SaaS and Fintech industries.

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Personnel ManagementProject ManagementEmployee EngagementPerformance ManagementLeadership DevelopmentBusiness OperationsManufacturingStrategic HROperations ManagementRecruitingStrategyHuman ResourcesMISBusiness PlanningBusiness Strategy

About

๐‹๐ž๐š๐๐ž๐ซ / ๐Ž๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐จ๐ซ with 20+ years of experience managing HR & Business portfolios across SaaS, Fintech, IT & Manufacturing ๐Ÿ๐— ๐…๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ž๐ซ | Built and scaled ๐“๐–๐Ž bootstrapped Hiring Tech SaaS platforms ๐“๐„๐ƒ๐ฑ ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ž๐š๐ค๐ž๐ซ | ๐‡๐ข๐ ๐ก ๐š๐ฅ๐ญ๐ข๐ญ๐ฎ๐๐ž ๐ญ๐ซ๐ž๐ค๐ค๐ž๐ซ | ๐€๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ฎ๐ซ ๐๐ก๐จ๐ญ๐จ๐ ๐ซ๐š๐ฉ๐ก๐ž๐ซ | ๐ƒ๐จ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐Ÿ๐š๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ Started my professional journey in HR functional domain with a large India conglomerate and over the years gained rich and diverse experiences of working across MNC's and with India high growth Digital/Startup ecosystem. Developed sectoral expertise across Manufacturing, Retail, IT, Fintech, E-commerce, and SaaS, where Iโ€™ve honed expertise in Talent Management, Talent acquisition, Organisation Development & Change management, Industrial relations. As a seasoned HR operator, Iโ€™ve guided startups and high growth orgs through complex org restructuring, setting up greenfield ventures, rapid headcount scaleup, M&As, strategic change management projects. Throughout my career journey, i've seamlessly transitioned between HR & Business leadership roles wherein i've led commercial pilots for new business ideas, cost optimisation projects, P&L ownership for a line of business. Turned first generation Tech Entrepreneur with built ๐“๐–๐Ž bootstrapped Hiring Tech SaaS platforms. While had to prematurely exit the entrepreneurial journey (partly Covid, partly some wrong business decisions), those 4 years still remain my most cherished stint with unmatched learnings; biggest ones being Staying Resilient & Staying unfazed in the face of biggest adversity. In my current role as CHRO & Global Head of Operations at Loconav, i've anchored the organisational restructuring to focus on core Telematics portfolio, continually working on optimizing operational costs, driving process efficiencies, enhancing customer experience across all journey touchpoints.

Experience

Ongrid

Chief Business Officer

Apr 2025 โ€“ Present ยท 11 mos ยท Gurugram, Haryana, India ยท On-site

Loconav

CHRO & Global Head of Operations

Jul 2022 โ€“ Mar 2025 ยท 2 yrs 8 mos ยท Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • Lead Human Resources & Business Operations globally (30+ countries) incl customer experience, sales & ground operations, procurement, supply chain

Hyrr

Co-Founder

Apr 2020 โ€“ Jul 2022 ยท 2 yrs 3 mos ยท Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • ๐Œ๐ž๐ž๐ญ ๐๐ž๐จ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž, ๐๐จ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ข๐ซ ๐‚๐•๐ฌ !!
  • ๐‡๐˜๐‘๐‘, short video based Hiring platform | Tiktok + Tinder, albeit for Hiring :-)
  • HYRR is a disruptive solution that allows organisations to significantly improve the quality of Top funnel for volume hiring. CVs are overrated/ suboptimal (especially for volume hiring) and they hardly give insights about the real candidate. However, short videos of candidates responding to structured questions related to the job opportunity allows you to meet the 'real candidate' upfront & are far more powerful to help organizations hire faster, smarter, and with almost 90% less effort.

Unihyr

CoFounder

Sep 2018 โ€“ Jul 2022 ยท 3 yrs 10 mos ยท Gurgaon, India

  • ๐”๐ง๐ข๐‡๐ฒ๐ซ, SaaS enabled Hiring Marketplace, enabling companies to discover & engage with specialised recruitment agencies and eliminate the cost of business development for recruitment firms
  • UniHyr solves several fundamental problems for founders and Growth stage organisation as they go about hiring and scaling up their teams.
  • ๐ƒ๐ข๐ฌ๐œ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ | data driven algorithms to identify specialised recruitment consultants for the role
  • ๐„๐ง๐ ๐š๐ ๐ž๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ | Zero phone calls & Zero emails. Single point of contracting
  • ๐’๐ฉ๐ž๐ž๐ | 3X faster sourcing turnaround
  • ๐๐ฎ๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ | Screening algos enable 70% CV shortlisting ratios

Paytm

Assistant Vice President - Human Resources

May 2016 โ€“ Jul 2018 ยท 2 yrs 2 mos ยท Delhi/NCR

  • Lead Business HR & Talent agenda for all Paytm entities viz Payments, eCommerce, Payments Bank and Telco/VAS business. Responsible for setting up HR Business partner org and central COEโ€™s for L&D, Compensation and Internal Communications and accountable for Performance & Talent roadmap

Microsoft

Program Manager - Performance & Talent (Microsoft Services Global Delivery)

Mar 2014 โ€“ May 2016 ยท 2 yrs 2 mos ยท Hyderabad Area, India

  • Global program manager for Performance management rhythms for Microsoft Services Delivery | Delivery centres in India, China, LATAM, Western & Eastern Europe, Middle East & South Africa
  • HR partner for Services Global Delivery business groups in India & LATAM
  • Microsoft lead for โ€˜Reach Outโ€™, a collaborative cross-industry D&I forum

Coromandel international limited

6 roles

Dy General Manager & Head HR (Crop Protection SBU)

Promoted

Apr 2012 โ€“ Mar 2014 ยท 1 yr 11 mos

  • Heading HR for Crop Protection SBU comprising of manufacturing units in Ankleshwar, Vapi, Jammu & Ranipet; Business teams for Domestic (B2C & B2B) & International sales. Accountable for HR business plan.
  • Lead HR PMO for integration of Sabero Organics into Murugappa Group fold

Asst General Manager - Lifestyle Category & New Businesses

Oct 2010 โ€“ Mar 2012 ยท 1 yr 5 mos

  • Category Head, Retail (Lifestyle categories, โ€˜Mitraโ€™ brand stores) | P&L accountability for Non agri categories; 105 outlets
  • Lead Business Pilot for Farm Mechanisation (Rice transplantation) & design business processes & operating manuals

Asst General Manager & Head HR (Retail SBU)

Apr 2008 โ€“ Sep 2010 ยท 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Core Project team for setting Indiaโ€™s largest Rural retailing business | 1000+ โ€˜Mana Gromorโ€™ stores across South India. Anchored Talent acquisition at scale (5000+ employees in 3 years)
  • HR Head for Retail SBU. Accountable for HR Business plan for Retail SBU

Regional Head HR

Promoted

Feb 2006 โ€“ Apr 2008 ยท 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Factory HR Head for the Crop protection manufacturing unit in Ankleshwar, Gujarat | Acquisition done by Coromandel in 2006
  • Sales HRBP for West, North & Central India for Fertiliser, Nutrients & Crop Protection SBUs

HR Manager (Corporate)

Apr 2005 โ€“ Feb 2006 ยท 10 mos

Management Trainee

May 2004 โ€“ Apr 2005 ยท 11 mos

Education

Asian Institute of Management

Management Development Program โ€” General Management

Jan 2010 โ€“ Jan 2010

XLRI Jamshedpur

PGD PMIR โ€” Human Resources

Jan 2002 โ€“ Jan 2004

Panjab University

B.E โ€” Chemical Engineering

Jan 1998 โ€“ Jan 2002

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