Sep 2014 – Sep 2016 · 2 yrs · Gurgaon, India

• Heading Business Human Resources for one of the niche verticals of Financial Advisory PwC India.
• Role included :
• Talent Management, supporting Partners (Leadership) in driving Change, Culture & Engagement across strategic sub business units
• Career Planning, Coaching, Performance Management, Rewards
• Supporting Hiring teams in areas including including Leadership Hiring / OnBoarding
• Driving Human Resources Strategy (Gross Margin, Revenue/Wage Cost Management)
• Enabling COEs in arenas of Performance Management, Compensation Strategy & Delivery Execution
• Performing responsibilities of being North India's Ethics & Diversity Champion, working through sensitive/ confidential matters, enabling COEs to drive Diversity Inclusion, Reporting & Human Resources governance
• Working with Directors & Executive Directors moving towards Partner track in Coaching, Guiding & Mentoring them for outcomes
• Performing functions of Utilization/Productivity calculations for business efficacy, Gross Margin/Wage Cost Management, Strategic Career Progression & Key Talent Management

Apr 2013 – Jun 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos · Noida Area, India

• Change Management : Specialist in Cultural Change, Collaboration, Org Design including for Leadership, Restructuring & Communications arenas around Integration efforts. Managed large global Employee Retrenchment projects end to end including LayOffs Communication Conversations, Severance Management & Coaching through situations of forced Attrition
• Learning : Needs Analysis, Content & Delivery ; Staying close to business, understanding its needs during this changing context, putting together a Learning framework, creating content & delivering for teams across India Subcontinent. For instance, interventions in Change Management, Pearson Transformation journey, Policies, Culture, Collaboration & Silo Busting, Performance Management (Conversations & Skill Building), Celebrating Success
• Leadership Development : Working with Leadership Teams to bring in change - Analog to Digital, Skill & Capability development, Succession Planning, 360 Feedback, Group & One-One Coaching interventions
• Key Talent Identification & Development : Hi Po Development programs, Pearson Values - Competency based learning, Learning Development, Sales Leadership Council, Pearson Academy, Employee Engagement & Employee Branding, People Conclaves - Surveys, IDPs & Charters

Jul 2010 – Apr 2013 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Noida Area, India

• Heading Human Resources for Pearson Education India Subcontinent (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Maldives) was a brilliant opportunity to drive home intelligent culture practices, processes, structure & change.
• Pearson Education aimed at Rebranding itself to be an education learning solutions company from its then current brand of being known as just a publishing house. Role involved working around various People Capital tenets of enabling & supporting this Rebranding agenda across the globe.
• Heading People Strategy portfolio at a policy level in areas including Talent Management, Leadership Development, Learning Development & Strategic Business Human Resources for business efficacies.
• Managing a diverse strong team across geographies to ensure its alignment to organisation's strategy & to support each other to make an ambitious organizational future an achievable reality.
• Business Human Resources functions like Talent Acquisition, HR Operations, Learning, Talent & Rewards reported into this role.

Oct 2008 – Jul 2010 · 1 yr 9 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Erstwhile Thapar group is now the US$ 4.5bn Avantha Group. It is India’s leading business conglomerate, with business interests in diversified industries like power generation and distribution, power transmission, equipment and services, paper and pulp, food processing, farm forestry, chemicals, IT & ITES.
• Renowned Group operates in 10 countries with 20,000 employees. Recently, Avantha acquired Pauwels (Belgium), Ganz (Hungary) Microsol (Ireland). SFI (Malaysia) and Belgium and Hungary based Intergarden. The group plans to grow inorganically with aggressive acquisitions.
• Role involved managing the Group Organization Development Charter from scratch including Strategy, Planning & Execution.
• Driving Culture, Leadership Development, Learning, Retention & Rewards, Organisational Development & Talent Management.
• Working around Human Capital planning, Mentoring, Coaching, Creating & enabling implementation of Psychometrics based Personal Development Plans, Capability Development, Content Research, Creation & Delivery across Competencies.
• Working with external renowned Management Gurus, Academicians, Global business schools to drive intelligent workshops, global conferences, curriculum for Key Talent across the organization.

Nov 2006 – Oct 2008 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Engaged in Employee Development, Organisation Capability Building.
• Involved ideating & implementing Management Development programs, Leadership programs, Learning interventions.
• Working with Business Teams into Organisation Development (OD) interventions, Employee Relations, Coaching/Mentoring & Competency Management.
• Largely focused on driving the India Organization Development mandate including Culture & Change interventions.
• Performing functions of Rewards Management, Work Life Balance Engagement interventions, deploying Psychometric tools, Diversity Management, Cross Cultural dimensions, Assessment & Development Centres execution.

Jun 2005 – Nov 2006 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Role involved various facets of People Development in Resources, most importantly Culture Development, Leadership Development & Talent Management.
• Involved Employee Relations, Coaching, Mentoring, Succession planning, Rewards & Performance Management.
• Managing end to end business Human Resources for South function including Trainings, Work life balance initiatives & Employee Capability Development.
• Dealing & Reporting on sensitive grey areas like Employee Fraud, Harassment, Counselling & Grievance handling.

May 2004 – Jun 2005 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Role was an interesting Generalist role with strong focus on Learning Development in a competitive Advertising industry.
• Managing South Human Resources for Training, Learning Development, Rewards, Compensation & Performance Management, Organisation Development, Employee Relations, Counselling & Mentoring.
• Reporting, understanding, counselling & working on resolving sensitive situations like Harassment, Bullying, Ethics, Code of Conduct breach & Homosexuality issues.