Abhay Ambekar

Director of Engineering

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India8 yrs 8 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led Total Rewards strategy for 1,200+ employees.
  • Implemented HR analytics to enhance decision-making.
  • Achieved sustained attrition below 15%.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a strategic HR leader with expertise in compensation and benefits management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Compensation ManagementTotal Rewards Strategies

Other Skills

Process OrientationPeople AnalyticsAutomationScheme DesignCreative Problem SolvingMarket AnalysisFundamentalsCompensation StructuresBusiness RequirementsHR AnalyticsVBA ExcelCompensation & BenefitsEmployee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)Employee BenefitsMicrosoft Excel

About

With a Master of Arts in Human Resources Management and Labour Relations from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, I currently serve as Senior Manager of Compensation & Benefits at Dream11. My role focuses on overseeing the Total Rewards team, ensuring competitive compensation benchmarking, conducting compensation reviews, and implementing HR analytics. At Dream11, I contribute to process improvements and leverage automation and technology to optimize HR operations. My expertise spans employee benefits, compensation structures, and LTIP & compensation planning, driven by a commitment to fostering efficient and effective organizational practices.

Experience

8 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 9 mos
Average Tenure
3 mos
Current Experience

Snabbit

Director - Total Rewrds, PMS & HR Analytics

Feb 2026Present · 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Dream11

2 roles

Senior Manager - Compensation & Benefits

Promoted

Jul 2023Feb 2026 · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • Leading Compensation & Benefits for 1,200+ employees across 5 business units in a high-growth, high-performance environment.
  • Key highlights:
  • Own end-to-end Total Rewards strategy including benchmarking, salary reviews, STIs, LTIs, ESOPs, and sales incentives
  • Manage bi-annual market benchmarking for 150+ roles using Mercer, WTW, and Aon to ensure top-quartile competitiveness
  • Drive annual appraisal and compensation cycles for 100% eligible employees, supporting sustained attrition below 15%
  • Lead compensation AOP planning, succession readiness, and leadership pipeline strategy
  • Partner closely with CHRO and leadership team on board-level rewards discussions and complex people decisions
  • Use HR analytics, AI tools, and automation to improve pay decisioning, governance, and operational efficiency
Process OrientationPeople AnalyticsAutomationScheme DesignCreative Problem SolvingMarket Analysis+10

Manager - Compensation & Benefits

Jan 2022Jun 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Leading Compensation & Benefits function for DreamSports
  • Compensation Benchmarking
  • Compensation Review
  • HR Analytics
  • Process Improvement
  • Automation & Technology
Process OrientationMicrosoft ExcelPayroll ManagementPeople AnalyticsIncentive ProgramsCreative Problem Solving+17

Fractal

2 roles

Manager - People Growth

Sep 2020Dec 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos

Process OrientationPayroll ManagementCreative Problem SolvingAnalytical SkillsFundamentalsBusiness Requirements+1

Manager - Human Capital

Aug 2020Dec 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • HRBP for AIML, Big Data, Capability, and Corporate teams
  • Involved in strategic projects:
  • Identify key people trends and insights using analytics to recommend people solutions to the business and take proactive measures to mitigate any risk scenarios from a people perspective
  • Employee Engagement & Talent Management
  • Providing data-driven people and organizational insights for decision-making, accessing and analyzing workforce data to support people insights and recommendations
  • Developing and implementing a workforce strategy by collective intelligence – scan and understand the business environment and accordingly share insights with other HR teams
  • Facilitating skip-level meetings to identify areas of improvement in various teams and propose appropriate engagement intervention
  • Staying connected with employees, doing regular 1-1 with critical people, and escalating risks
  • Performance management
  • Driving the goal-setting process across the team and advise managers on the process
  • Acting as a consultant to managers on managing poor performers as well as high performers
  • Facilitating promotion review meeting with the business
  • Employee grievance handling
  • Responsible to solve employee queries / manage employee relations issues
  • Coaching managers on how to provide leadership to their teams and consult them as per specific requirements and needs
Creative Problem SolvingFundamentalsBusiness Requirements

Harvard business review

Member, HBR Ascend Select

Jun 2020Present · 5 yrs 11 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Ola (ani technologies pvt. ltd)

HR Fieldwork

Dec 2019Jan 2020 · 1 mo · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • 1. Benchmarked Cost to Company (CTC) & incentives plan of Field Executives (FEs)
  • 2. Defined the compensation philosophy of the organization
  • 3. Revamped & restructured CTC and incentives plan of FEs

Accenture

HR Live Project Championship

Sep 2019Dec 2019 · 3 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Worked on reengineering New Joiner Orientation(NJO) program for Accenture APTP.

Cms info systems

HR Fieldwork

Sep 2019Oct 2019 · 1 mo · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Integrated employee benefits & policies of CMS & Securitrans India Pvt. Ltd. (SIPL) post-Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)
  • Worked on Job Evaluation for field staff using Point Factor Method
  • Designed Fast Track Career Path Programs for Field Staff
  • Designed & Developed CTC recommendation tool for Business HR(HRBP)
  • Designed & Implemented work shifts for field staff at Mumbai, Chennai & Bangalore branch offices

Pidilite industries limited

Summer Intern

Apr 2019May 2019 · 1 mo · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Worked on the project on Employer Branding
  • Studied the existing value proposition amongst the employees of Pidilite using In-Depth Interviews & Focused Group Discussions (FGD)
  • Designed Employee Value Proposition (EVP) for the potential employees of the organization
  • Charted out an implementation plan for revamping Pidilite Social Media Handles as a part of Employer Branding Initiative
  • Recommended an action plan for effective campus engagement activities

Systematic group of companies

HR Fieldwork Intern

Nov 2018Mar 2019 · 4 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Designed & deployed query handling chatbot for internal stakeholders using IBM Watson Assistant
  • Worked on HR processes automation & HR Analytics modules
  • o Designed & developed HR Analytics Dashboards using Tableau & implemented Attrition Prediction Model using R Programming Language
  • o Restructured & automated attendance, leave, overtime duty forms, payroll, Management Information System (MIS) for 1000+ blue collar & white-collar employees
  • o Designed Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for payroll department
  • Recommended & designed a new Performance Management System(PMS) Framework for Blue Collar Employees
  • Worked on employee onboarding digitization processes
  • o Automated pre-induction processes workflows for management, HR, IT and accounts department & designed an induction kit for the new hires

Tata motors

HR Fieldwork Intern

Jul 2018Sep 2018 · 2 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Worked on HR Analytics Project
  • Configured and tested workforce analytics module using SAP SuccessFactors
  • Updated employee policy manual & transfer document for workforce analytics module

Tata institute of social sciences

Member, Aspirant Relations Committee, TISS Mumbai HRM&LR

Jun 2018May 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Member of the Aspirants Relations Committee: the Official PR, Branding and Admissions Committee of TISS HRM and LR.

Eaton

2 roles

Associate Analyst, IT

Jul 2017May 2018 · 10 mos

  • Provided technical support to projects using Systems, Applications & Products (SAP ABAP)
  • Designed balanced scorecard in order to monitor SAP ABAP support team productivity and efficiency
  • Automated SAP ABAP support team calendar for employee engagement
  • Led a team of 15 volunteers for Alochana, an NGO, as a part of the company’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Initiative
  • Recipient, Community Champion, Eaton Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Pune

SAP ABAP Intern

Jan 2017Jun 2017 · 5 mos

  • Provided technical support to projects using Systems, Applications & Products (SAP ABAP)
  • Led a team of 15 volunteers for Alochana, an NGO, as a part of the company’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Initiative
  • Recipient, Community Champion, Eaton Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Pune

Education

Services Preparatory Institute - India

Jan 2008Jan 2010

Fergusson College

Master of Computer Applications - MCA — MCA

Fergusson College

Bachelor of Science - BSc — Mathematics

Tata Institute of Social Sciences

Master of Arts - MA — Human Resources Management And Labour Relations

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