Manika Awasthi

CEO

Gurgaon, Haryana, India24 yrs 11 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over 20 years of HR leadership experience.
  • Awarded Women's Leadership Achievement Award 2016.
  • Expert in talent management and employee engagement.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned HR leader with expertise in talent management and organizational development.

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Skills

Other Skills

Employee EngagementPerformance AppraisalTeam ManagementEmployee RelationsOnboardingProgram ManagementChange ManagementStrategic HRCompetency Framework DesignEmployer BrandingHR PoliciesTalent AcquisitionOrganizational DevelopmentStrategy

About

I have more than 2 decades of experience across different industries and several domains in Human Resources in a global and local context. I have led HR for various businesses, have lead HR for a large blue collared enterprise, Proficient in recruitment strategies, sourcing approaches and retention best practices. I have set up and run HR Shared Service Centers’ (for employee life cycle processes, policies and compliance), Talent Management (Performance Management, Succession Planning Career Mentoring, Competency Framework, Leadership Development, Capability Development) and Corporate level HR . I am experienced in Leading Women Leadership Networks for a geography with the agenda of driving gender diversity and for ensuring organizations continue to grow and invest in their women workforce. I am also passionate about leading the Mental Wellbeing agenda for an organization Recipient of the Women's Leadership Achievement Award 2016 by the World Women's Leadership Congress. Recipient of the Leadership award for HR at the HR intellect conference organized by CE worldwide My other interests include reading, discovering new cities with history and practicing Buddhism with the mission to help people change their life state.

Experience

Compass group india

Chief People Officer (Head of Human Resources)

Apr 2023Present · 3 yrs · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Indigo (interglobe aviation ltd)

2 roles

Vice President Human Resources

Apr 2017Mar 2023 · 5 yrs 11 mos

  • HR lead for Airport Operations and Customer Services, CarGo, Engineering
  • Talent Management Lead. HR Lead for Agile Services Limited.

Director Human Resources

Jul 2015Apr 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Responsible for Leading HR for the Corporate teams
  • Talent Management and Engagement Centre’s of Excellence Lead for all of IndiGo
  • Member of the Complaints Committee

Sapient

9 roles

Director People Strategy

Promoted

Apr 2012Jun 2015 · 3 yrs 2 mos

  • Till date: India People Strategy Lead for 1 of our 4 business Units (Size of over 800 people)

Sr Manager

Nov 2010Apr 2012 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • o Responsible for global implementation of all large scale people interventions for the business unit
  • o Role involves key elements of , People Advisor , Change Management, Operational Excellence and Strategic Business Partnership with the leadership of the Business Unit
  • o Responsible for key initiatives like leadership development, Coaching framework, Succession Planning, Competency Framework design and Capability Development

Sr Manager People Success

Promoted

Jan 2009Mar 2012 · 3 yrs 2 mos

  • Shared Services India Lead – Policies, Employee Life Cycle Processes and Business Intelligence
  • o Accountable for the performance of the India team of the people centre that executes all the employee life cycle processes and policies. This team covers policy design and implementation for Sapient India (4500 people)
  • o Lead for the business intelligence team that is responsible for global reporting and analytics (attrition, business dashboards etc)
  • o Member of the Shared Services leadership team for Sapient in India which has the mandate to maximize operational excellence and business impact across internal teams in Sapient’s largest country of operation

Sr Manager People Success

Jan 2008Jan 2009 · 1 yr

  • Special Initiatives
  • o Mandate was to redesign a global process which would help automate 2 of Sapient’s large scale people processes –exits and new hire integration
  • o Ran global workshops in India, Europe and North America to gather requirements from each geography
  • o Designed a process that would help the organization scale, improve user experience and reduce costs

Manager People Success

Jan 2007Jan 2008 · 1 yr

  • Shared Services India Lead – Policies and Employee Life Cycle Processes
  • o Mandate was to help set up and lead all employee life cycle processes and policies through a centralized people centre (Shared Services) to achieve scale, efficiency and accuracy
  • o Started up and led a dynamic team of 8 people to achieve Key Result Areas in the areas of policy design / administration and responsiveness for all India level HR policies and processes
  • o Developed and set up Key result Areas/Service Level Agreements, internal controls/Audit processes, legal compliance requirements and the basic working model for shared service policy administration
  • o I have led the design of key programs like New Hire Integration, Recognitions, Campus Programs, knowledge management.

Shared Services Global Lead

Jan 2006Jan 2007 · 1 yr

  • Shared Services Global Lead - Policies and Employee life cycle processes-
  • o Part of the Design team to conceptualize the creation of a shared service centre for HR,
  • o Led a team of 12 members including Managers, responsible for transition of all Global HR policies and processes to be implemented through India.
  • o Led the review, streamlining and documentation of various global policies/processes, including participating in workshops across India and Europe to enable effective transition of key processes from the US and Europe to India.
  • o Responsible for designing key global policies and associated processes to be newly introduced in the shared service centre

People Strategy Lead for a Business Unit in India

Promoted

May 2004Jan 2006 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • o Responsible for Business Unit level people strategy for one of the BUs in India, in close coordination with the Global BU Team
  • o Leading the team in the BU, responsible for roll out of key people processes (on-boarding, performance management, compensation and bonus people management, growth, morale, community and policy implementation)
  • o Working closely with the Management team in the BU to drive retention, employee morale and employee relations

India People Strategy Team member – Leading “performance management and growth” programs

May 2003May 2004 · 1 yr

  • Overseeing design and implementation of performance management, growth and promotions in India and representing India design requirements globally along with other general people strategy responsibilities

India People Strategy Team member

May 2002May 2003 · 1 yr

  • Responsible for career management, morale and community building –
  • o Responsible for introducing the career management program in India and educating people around it.
  • o Responsible for developing programs and initiatives to measure, track and improve morale of people, as well as build initiatives to improve connection and community within the office

Ge capital international services

Working in the HR Division as an Intern

Apr 2000Jun 2001 · 1 yr 2 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • Was part of the analysis team for the Quality and growth Survey conducted at GECIS.
  • o Undertook a Rewards and Recognition initiative, responsible for motivational inputs for 2000 employees, administered and recommended improvements in the process of Contribution Identification, Nomination, Short listing and Rewards
  • Part of the Recruitment and Assessment team
  • o Undertook assessment of 150 applicants for the open positions of Process Associates. Conducted 1st Round interviews and shortlisted candidates for Senior management approval.

Education

Delhi University

MA Psychology — Industrial Psychology

Jan 1999Jan 2001

Jesus and Mary College

BA — Psychology (specialized in Organization Behaviour)

Jan 1996Jan 1999

La Martinere Calcutta

Jan 1984Jan 1996

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