Sayantan Basu

CEO

Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, United States19 yrs 9 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over 15 years of HR leadership experience
  • Expertise in aligning HR strategies with business outcomes
  • Proven track record in talent management and employee engagement
Stackforce AI infers this person is a strategic HR leader with extensive experience in talent management and organizational development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Human ResourcesTalent ManagementEmployee EngagementTeam LeadershipBudgetingBenchmarking

Other Skills

Talent AcquisitionPerformance ManagementDeferred CompensationEmployee BenefitsHRISScreeningHR PoliciesVendor ManagementTeam ManagementRecruitmentsPerformance AppraisalBenefits NegotiationTechnical RecruitingPersonnel ManagementStrategic HR

About

At Cyient, as the Global Head of People & Business Enablement, I am responsible for aligning human capital strategies with business outcomes, growth initiatives, and leadership effectiveness on a global scale. With over 15 years of professional experience, I bring expertise in team leadership, budgeting, and benchmarking to deliver impactful results. My work is rooted in empowering organizations to enhance employee experiences and drive strategic business outcomes. With a focus on developing scalable and inclusive HR frameworks, I am committed to fostering an environment of collaboration, innovation, and excellence for both employees and the organization at large.

Experience

19 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
19 yrs 6 mos
Average Tenure
3 mos
Current Experience

Cyient

Global Head of People & Business Enablement

Feb 2026Present · 3 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area · Hybrid

  • Globally responsible to enable business outcomes, growth agendas, and leadership effectiveness
Human ResourcesEmployee EngagementTalent Management

Hcltech

8 roles

Vice President & Global HR Head - GTM

Promoted

Jul 2024Feb 2026 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Looking at the larger strategic objectives of the organization in terms of market coverage, efficiency improvements, productivity and realization for the GTM workforce at large. The role involves a unique blend of holistic talent management practices ranging from incubating a strong campus program in the US and Europe markets to identifying and developing internal hi-pot talent to leadership succession planning. Additionally we have been significantly focussing on project-based transformation programs leveraging emerging technology and data driven models to enhance employee experience across the value chain and driving management objectives to enhance shareholders value. Leading diverse cross-functional teams to be aligned to the greater cause has been an exciting journey.
Talent AcquisitionEmployee EngagementPerformance ManagementTalent Management

Associate Vice President

Promoted

Apr 2023Jul 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Driving programs and talent management practices for TMT, LSH and BFSI businesses for the Americal region. Leading global Sales and Leadership executive hiring agenda for the organization.
BudgetingTeam Leadership

Director HR

Promoted

Jan 2020Apr 2023 · 3 yrs 3 mos

BenchmarkingBudgeting

General Manager

Oct 2018Apr 2023 · 4 yrs 6 mos

Associate General Manager

Promoted

Oct 2013Oct 2018 · 5 yrs

  • o Effectively assess current cultures and competitive landscape and determine how to creatively design and implement talent programs that deliver high impact sales results that are in line with business objectives
  • o Partner with senior business leaders on all things talent management aspects to drive the business through building a strong organizational culture or performance and meritocracy
  • o Program management of large organization restructuring initiates to drive maximum business outcome with least disruption in workforce motivation
  • o In collaboration with the Talent Acquisition team develop and execution recruitment strategies to identify current and pipeline talent needs
  • o Monitor Performance Management Program to help identify competency, knowledge, and talent gaps hence design programs to fill gaps
  • o Strategize with L&D teams to offer relevant ongoing training and development programs; supplement centralized curriculum with localized programs
  • o Provide coaching and counselling to employees in areas such as management development, conflict resolution and career development
  • o Critically analyze current talent programs and, partnering with the HR leadership team to design, develop and implement changes to drive continuous improvement
  • o Manage teams to execute the day-to-day responsibilities of the HR function, including salary, commission/ bonus, benefits administration, reporting and tracking
  • o Drive continuous improvement in all policies, processes and systems

Senior Manager - HR

May 2009Sep 2013 · 4 yrs 4 mos

  • Aligning HR strategies to the overall business plan of the region
  • Compliance with the local labor laws
  • Compliance with the local governance norms of organization
  • Managing people related issues of the employees deployed at different geographic spread of the region
  • Managing transition deals including rebadging of employees
  • Managing ramp up plans for emerging as well as existing accounts
  • Strategizing exciting benefit plans to attract best of the local talent
  • Create and manage employee welfare programs

Manager HR

Promoted

Sep 2007Apr 2009 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Compensation and Benefits-
  • Annual Planning exercise on the company wide increment strategy based on the financial performance of the organization and people strategy for the subsequent year
  • Managing global best compensation practices through regular association with the consultants
  • Senior Management Compensation planning in devising innovative compensation plans to attract best of the industry talents
  • Periodic collation and analysis the salary cost for the organization and providing decision enabling reports and analysis to the senior management.
  • Providing strategic inputs to the senior management to increase resource optimization and reduce overall cost of resources.
  • Global compensation practice-
  • Planning business aligned compensation grids for existing and emerging geographies
  • Collate and analyze the SBU wise Geo salary cost.
  • Maintain the complete Geo salary cost data for the LOB and support in critical decision making process.

Associate Manager

May 2006Aug 2007 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Attrition Management -
  • Collation and analysis the LOB wise attrition data every month and study the exit pattern at and proposing the control mechanism
  • Implementing innovative frameworks like Predictability Quotient in forecasting and controlling attrition.
  • Performance Monitoring -
  • Consolidating and analyzing the month on month HR Goal Matrix Data for the LOB. Preparing periodic reports for the senior management and analyzing the progressive performance monitoring of all SBUs.
  • SPOC for annual appraisal and compensation review of 8500 employee strong vertical of HCL.
  • Responsible for Hewitt employee satisfaction survey report analysis, and post 360 degree performance review report preparation facilitating organizational decisions.
  • Resource Management
  • Conceptualization and process initialization of a resource management group to enable resource optimization.
  • Monitoring and providing monthly reports to the senior management consolidating the unbilled resourced and strategizing in subsequent allocation.

Education

Management Development Institute, Gurgaon

Master of Business Administration - MBA — Human Resources

Jan 2004Jan 2006

West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata

Bachelors of Technology — Computer Science & Engineering

Jan 2000Jan 2004

South Point High School

Junior High School

Jan 1990Jan 1998

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