Jan 2025 – Dec 2025 · 11 mos · Remote

• How I Add Value Through Strategic HR Consulting
• Over the past year, I have partnered with startups and mid-sized organizations to align HR practices with business objectives and drive measurable impact:
• Talent Management & Leadership Development: Identified gaps in recruitment, engagement, and leadership capabilities; designed programs to attract, retain, and grow top talent.
• Strategic HR Advisory: Acted as an unbiased advisor on performance, culture, and organizational challenges; recommended practical, results-driven solutions.
• HR Strategy & Scale-Up Support: Developed HR strategies aligned with growth plans, including workforce planning and Succession.
• Operational Excellence & Compliance: Audited HR processes, implemented efficiency improvements and automation, and ensured compliance with labour laws.
• Data-Driven Insights: Leveraged HR analytics to guide decisions on performance, engagement, and retention.
• Through these initiatives, I have helped organizations strengthen HR functions, enhance employee experience, and enable sustainable growth.

Apr 2024 – Sep 2024 · 5 mos

Apr 2023 – Sep 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos

• 1)Custodian of the HR Operations for India,UK and US
• 2)Created a high performance HR team through Coaching,Mentoring and orienting them to industry best practices.
• 3)Accountable for the HR Budget
• 4)OD intervention
• 5)Employee Advocacy
• 6)Build a diverse,equitable and inclusive organisation
• 7)Created a HR orientation in business and operations managers through sensitisation,guidance and training
• 8)Institutionalising culture in the organization through workshops and other initiatives

Jun 2022 – Jun 2023 · 1 yr

• 1)Facilitate the Recruitment team and ensuring the requirements for the Creative Production team is met
• 2)Guide Operations/Business teams on policy and people process
• 3)Worked with the BU's to increase productivity and improve retention Strategies
• 4)Participated in Career coaching/counselling/Career development and disciplinary actions
• 5)Identify training needs of the Creative Production unit
• 6)Engaged on appraisal and PIP meetings to guide operations from the HR aspects
• 7)Driven employee engagement activities Organisation wide
• 8)Driven the culture/Principles Organisation wide
• 9)Engage with internal stakeholders at all levels to assess employee satisfaction
• 10)Employee Advocacy
• 11)Provided Guidance to the team on the HR operations
• 12)Ensure 100% error-free inputs and 100% delivery by the team on closure of payroll or related tickets.
• 13)Formulised initiatives Buddy connect Organisation wide
• 14)Ensure initiatives like Buddy connect, CFR Session and Principles Training is delivered.
• 15)Ensure exit process is seamless and done within TAT
• 16)Administer the NPS survey, plan interventions to improve the score

Jun 2020 – May 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Articulate, Drive & Manage all HR lifecycle Processes within the SLA
• Identifying organization’s needs and working to create and implement an efficient talent acquisition strategy to improve recruitment and business performance
• Developing, managing, and maintaining a highly-skilled team to assist with talent development
• Partnering with business leaders for all employee-related initiatives
• Ensuring excellence in service delivery for HR processes like performance appraisal and R&R programs.
• Employee advocacy and grievance handling.
• Design and implement talent management and retention activities
• Strategize different methods to increase talent retention rate
• Proactively lead Employee Engagement activities
• Drive external and global HR best practices

Sep 2019 – Apr 2020 · 7 mos · Chennai Area, India

• HR-Business Partner for the R&D Division handling Talent Acquisition,Talent Management,Talent Engagement and Talent Retention.

May 2011 – Aug 2019 · 8 yrs 3 mos · Chennai Area, India

• Key Responsibilities :
• A Strategic HR Partner managing the entire recruitment process from strategic partnerships with the senior management to determine staffing needs.
• Understand, analyze the requirements and decide on the sourcing model.
• Ensure the requirements are completed within specified turn-around time.
• Candidate Management, manage candidate assessment, screening and maintaining a pipeline and recall of top talent for various searches, handle offer negotiations till on-boarding.
• Responsible for Inducting new joiners to ensure a smooth learning curve.
• Participated in Job fairs invited by Tamil Nadu Skill development council, CII, Campus Placements, etc. in order to achieve manpower hiring goals of the major stakeholders in the company.
• Responsible for internal employees’ career move based on their career aspirations and mapping/placing them against open positions considering their technical skills and other competencies required for the role through the I Grow policy.
• Played a Pivotal Role in designing campus recruitment demand template and college details for campus hiring and placements.
• Spearheaded and managed Organisation Wide Initiatives such as ‘Formation Day’
• Represented the team in E&Y, Mckinsey, and IMC Ramakrishna Bajaj's audit initiatives. Conducted internal audits across teams to identify process gaps and close the same.
• Played a key role in formulating and developing the Employee Handbook.
• Grievance handling within the team and ensuring the issues are settled.
• Responsible for Team Building, Team Retention & Motivation. Coaching and guiding team members to do their best
• Playing the HR Business partnering role for the Gender Diversity program and played the HRBP role for an onsite program.
• Achievements:
•  Recipient of the company’s prestigious CEO Award for the year 2016-17 for HR Business partnering role of the Onsite Project.
•  Recipient of many R&R from cross-functional teams.

Mar 2007 – Mar 2010 · 3 yrs

• Responsibilities:
• Played an HR Business Partnering Role-Implemented Compensation plans, Reward & Recognition through incentive schemes/Spot card initiatives. Improved Employee Engagement activities by conducting HR Surveys to encourage fun @ work concepts, ensure employee's work life balance is acknowledged and maintained healthy work environment across all levels.
• Revised HR policies to improve compliance and employee welfare.
• Achievements:
•  Successfully got the ISO 9000:2001 certification for all G.E.T Group of Companies
•  Implanted the Performance Appraisal Method for G.E.T Group of Companies

Jun 2006 – Mar 2007 · 9 mos

• Responsibilities:
• Resource Mapping: Initial screening and short-listing of profiles. Preliminary interviewing to assess the candidate's suitability in terms of professional experience, academic and professional qualifications and attitude before putting up with Hiring Manager.
• Coordinating with the Hiring manager & Stakeholders for interview scheduling.
• Handled Onboarding and Induction.
• Present MIS Reports-Attrition Analysis and Hiring progress.
• Conducted employee engagement activities like monthly birthday celebrations, festival celebrations and editorial for in-house magazine - "Quest"

Nov 2003 – Mar 2006 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• Responsibilities :
• End to end Recruitment across levels including interview schedules, salary negotiations, Offer and appointment release and Orientation.
• Conducted soft skill training for Assistant Managers and above to enhance their leadership skills.
• Budgeting & organizing customized training programs based on the training need analysis to increase performance efficiency.
• Monitored Attrition calendar and proactively plan manpower hiring.