Feb 2021 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Building Plum. Hiring for Engineering, Sales & BD, Operations team. Creating people success stories. Building HR Community Benefits team. Open for conversation with those who would like to be a part of our journey.

Aug 2018 – Feb 2021 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Bangalore

• Consulting small to medium sized organisations on their strategic HR functions. Evaluate, develop and implement human resource policies and practices to support the corporate culture as well as respond to business needs.
• Org. Design, Function Set-up & Process Design [HR Business Partner, Policies, Comp & Ben, Salary Benchmarking, Manpower Budgeting, Recruitment & Sourcing, Employee Exit & Separation, Payroll, Workforce Management and Performance Management], HR Tech & Automation [ Design & Implementation], Leadership Hiring and Succession Planning.

Jan 2015 – Sep 2017 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Responsible for Compensation and Benefit Strategy for the Commercial and Operations organizations in AZPIL. The role also involved leading projects on review and development of new policies, benefits and other compensation related initiatives for AZPIL India. Lead critical talent acquisition programs and key restructuring initiatives. Partnered with business for employee engagement and initiatives activities. Provide proactive HR consultancy to Business Heads and other key stakeholders in execution of business strategy. As an effective Business Partner worked closely with Business heads and management teams to understand anticipate and provide solutions on people matters related to employee compensation and retention. Responsible for Executive compensation management of head of organization. Annual salary appraisal cycle, external benchmarking, merit increase budgeting and proposals to management based on market data, facilitating internal and external HR audit, Responsible for managing and maintaining HRIS data on Workday and HR metrics managing and reporting to stakeholders. Team size reporting of 3 members.

Jun 2011 – Jan 2015 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Bangalore

• Dual responsibility of Lead Compensation and Benefit for Novozymes India as COE. And Strategic HR Business Partner for major business unit – Business Operations, Shared Service – Finance, HR & IT and Corporate Functions.
• As a lead Comp & Ben COE, was responsible for managing and implementing compensation and benefit strategy in India in line with corporate COE philosophy. Salary Budgeting, Annual salary appraisal and merit increase cycle management, guiding HRBP’s on compensation for new hires, ensure legal compliances on statutory and labor laws related to compensation and benefits, payroll management with third party vendor. Owner of all HR policies and guidelines. Changes in HR policies and new policy implementation as and when needed. Communication and training to HR team members and employees on policy and other organizational changes on need basis. HR Metrics, dashboard and reporting to management.
• The Strategic HRBP role involved working proactively with businesses in people development, performance management, retention and succession planning and employee satisfaction to ensure success of business initiatives. Playing an important role in attracting the right Talent both internally and externally for the businesses.

Jul 2007 – Jun 2011 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• As Manager HR, role was to manage the Compensation and Benefit practice for approx. 400 employees. Also responsible to manage Talent Acquisition, end to end HR operations including payroll, HRIS, Onboarding, Exits and HR Governance.
• Key Achievements:
• During my tenure ramped up manpower from 250 to 400 employees
• Initiated structured benefit management for the employees. Negotiated and brought in value added services for the employees in medical insurance scheme without additional costs.
• Designed and implemented new Rewards and Recognition program

Feb 2006 – Jul 2007 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bangalore

• Acted as a SPOC for 4 Business Units for their manpower requisition. Was responsible for end to end recruitment activities for the business. I was involved in making offer fitment as per the company benchmarking and onboarding and induction of the new joinees.

May 2005 – Feb 2006 · 9 mos · Bangalore

• This role involved client management and servicing manpower requirement for clients. Hiring according to client specifications and deputing the personnel to client site. Managing the hire joining formalities, employee details and personal files. Exit interviewing and analysis.

Jan 2005 – Apr 2005 · 3 mos · Bangalore

• Worked as Trainee for 4 months with the IT Client sourcing Team. Got exposure and understanding of recruitment and IT technologies. Successfully closed 15 positions during this tenure.