Oct 2023 – Nov 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Climate Change and Sustainability

Feb 2022 – Sep 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Improve ESG performance and help building sustainable business practices with the following principal accountabilities:
• Regularly apprise the members of the board about the key sustainability/ESG issues and their potential business impact.
• As part of the core team, be the voice of sustainability/ESG to engage with the business functions to educate employees about the sustainability issues and their impact, identify opportunities to demonstrate how sustainability creates competitive advantages and evaluate both positive and negative business decision impact.
• Drive and manage sustainability throughout the organization by collaborating with the business, be partner on innovation, oversee ESG and voluntary compliance and act as a change agent and catalyst to drive employee engagement.
• Responsible for engaging with the external stakeholders including investors and rating agencies and gathering their input to bring the outside view internally and play the role of a connector and translator through developing and executing an effective stakeholder engagement strategy.
• Prepare a strategic roadmap for participation in new industry initiatives and voluntary non-financial disclosures like SASB, TCFD, GRI, CDP, DJSI etc. in next few years.
• Drive CSR initiatives across the organization through strategic partnerships.

Feb 2021 – Jan 2022 · 11 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Designing the ESG function and implement the strategic roadmap focusing on four focus areas:
• Empowering smallholder farmers to improve productivity
• Addressing the impact of climate change
• Effective water resource management
• Promoting fair & safe working condition across the supply chain

Jun 2020 – Jan 2021 · 7 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

• GHCL is a well-diversified established group in chemicals, textiles, and consumer products sectors.
• Sustainability strategy at GHCL is to reshape the way group works to achieve significant and lasting improvements in environmental and social outcomes, in a way that improves the business too. GHCL is using its strengths to work within well-defined operational boundaries, and also help create a more sustainable value chain.
• Role responsibilities include me spearheading projects related to sustainability strategy, stakeholder engagement, materiality assessment, carbon foot-printing, and sustainability management & reporting.
• On CSR front, my role is to incorporate strategic planning, establishing partnerships, and project implementation.

Jun 2019 – Apr 2020 · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Developing environment compliance programs, reviewing company policies, and advising management on possible risks. Leading MIS driven projects to implement environment initiatives.
• Preparation, monitoring and implementation of Environment Policy
• Compliance Management (Statutory requirements fulfillment and Review of consent conditions)
• Developing pollution control/prevention and recycling programmes
• Resource conservation
• Data Analysis

Apr 2018 – Jun 2018 · 2 mos · Pune Area, India

• Tata Motors Limited, a USD 45 billion organisation, is a leading automobile manufacturer with a portfolio that includes a wide range of cars, utility vehicles, trucks, buses and defence vehicles. Tata Motors' marque can be found on and off-road in over 175 countries around the globe.
• The 2-months Summer Internship Program at TATA Motors Ltd. for sustainability management has
• played a key role in my career growth ahead and I proudly feel that this is one of those milestones in my life where professional determination and personal growth are intertwined.
• With respect to compilation of sustainability report of TATA Motors (FY 2017-18), I had worked on
• following pointers:
• 1) Section-Wise Data Compilation.
• 2) External Assurance.
• 3) Stakeholder Engagement and Materiality Assessment.
• 4) Value Chain Sustainability.

Dec 2017 – Dec 2017 · 0 mo · Bhubaneshwar Area, India

• CYSD (Centre for Youth and Social Development) is a non-government and non-profit organization established in 1982, working to improve the quality of lives of tribal, rural and urban poor in Odisha, with a primary focus to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, ensuring social inclusion and justice, good governance and citizen’s right. Helping communities identify and initiate development measures; providing training and other capacity-building support to pro-poor organizations and individuals; and carrying out research and advocacy in favour of the under privileged people especially the tribal.
• Worked as project intern on tribal maternal & child health with CYSD under sustainability discovery programme of Xavier School of Sustainability .

Feb 2017 – May 2017 · 3 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Lead a team of young girls to help grow and develop competency in Safety, Health & Environment field.

Aug 2015 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Build and maintained professional relationships with site leadership teams and provided active SHE support.
• Provided strategic and operational SHE advice to a range of stakeholders throughout the CTO 3 unit.
• Liaised with operational and project SHE personnel to transfer wider unit intents and objectives.
• Supported site SHE functions during various project phases whilst constructing plants including
• development and mobilization activities with the contractor.
• Identified and developed SHE policies, procedures and improvement initiatives for offering to operational organizations and/or projects.

Aug 2014 – Jul 2015 · 11 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Jun 2013 – Nov 2013 · 5 mos · Silvassa, Dadra and Nagar Haveli

• This internship project dealt with the formulation of safety manual for the textile industry. Safety manual is a comprehensive knowledge bank regarding health, safety and environment related to a particular industry. Safety manual gives at a glance the desired information regarding safety system of the factory. Team had worked over a unit of Alok Industries Ltd. in Rakhouli.

Aug 2011 – May 2014 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Indore Area, India

• Lead a squad of 60+ as Deputy Platoon Commander for various fire, rescue & evacuation mock-drills.