Vasudha Agarwal

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Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland11 yrs 10 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Rated as a high performer for 7 consecutive years.
  • Led M&A transformation between GE Water & Suez.
  • Developed leadership programs across 200+ project sites.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Human Resources and Talent Management expert with a focus on organizational development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent ManagementTalent Acquisition

Other Skills

Social InsuranceSwiss Labour lawPayroll ProcessingLeadership DevelopmentAssessment CenterCompetency AnalysisTraining Needs AnalysisOrganisational LeadershipSuccession PlanningTalent AnalyticsMicrosoft WordManagementTeam ManagementHuman ResourcesPerformance Management

About

HR & Marketing professional with over 13 plus years of experience in Business Partnering, Change and Talent Management experience in driving business-focused results. I am creative and a strategic problem-solver with the ability to tackle complex issues with a diverse set of HR skills - business partnering, ER issues, change and performance management, negotiation, recruitment, employment laws, HR Systems, and operational efficiency combined with Marketing - 360 degree Campaign Management, Brand building & Market research. I am perceived as a trusted adviser, skilled in building consensus and alignment among internal and external stakeholders. Self-motivated and enthusiastic team player with the ability to harness individual skills and develop high performing teams. I am a Yoga & Meditation trainer for the last 15 years & I am really proud about my practices that keeps me agile, calm & focussed in my profession. Systems Utilization: Microsoft (Excel, PowerPoint, and Word), SuccessFactors, SAP – HR, Oracle HR, Workday Key Achievements: - Rated as a high performer for 7 consecutive years across 4 different organisations. - Led M&A transformation and integration between 2 different cultures - GE Water & Suez in India - Built a strong culture of Managerial coaching and development across 200+ remote project sites - Developed various systems and processes including performance management and leadership development programs - Secured the Master’s degree with Summa Cum Laude (University Chairman’s Gold Medal) for the batch of 2013

Experience

11 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 11 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 1 mo
Current Experience

Talent sutra

Founder

Apr 2024Present · 2 yrs 1 mo · Switzerland

  • We build people! People build companies!
  • Partnering with businesses and organisation to help find right talent, reduce the lead time & improve quality of resumes.
  • Helping address Mental Health via dedicated Health and Wellness offerings.
  • Passionate about developing potential, I offer customised workshops on people development at all levels in the organisation.
Talent ManagementTalent Acquisition

La prairie switzerland

HR Lead (Switzerland,Austria & Eastern Europe)

Sep 2021Apr 2024 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Zurich, Switzerland

  • Enabling key business objectives of turnover, cost and client centricity through design and execution of HR strategy with the help of a global CEO Team
  • Support Business (CH, AT & HU) & Distributors market (Poland, Romania etc.) with people strategy & decisions
  • Lead end to end people process from hiring to offboarding (incl. CH, AT, HU employment laws)
  • Responsible for Leadership Coaching, Org design, Talent Development, Engagement across all levels
  • Hands-on experience with various Employee Relations, separation management and communications
Talent Management

Universal-job ag

Talent Acquisition Consultant

Sep 2020Sep 2021 · 1 yr · Switzerland

  • I manage recruitment for cross-functional roles in the Pharma Industry, this includes:
  • Understanding and advising the clients on Talent needs and sources
  • Establish RPO structure and strategy for the organisation
  • Sourcing, Identifying, shortlisting of Talents
  • Manage full hiring, onboarding, payrolling & exit lifecycle
  • Manage visa & cantonal legistations
Talent Acquisition

Suez - water technologies & solutions

2 roles

HR lead (InSource)

Oct 2018Jul 2019 · 9 mos

  • Lead HR to setup the entire HR process for the new Suez Engineering Center in India including hiring, transfers, global mobility, policies, performance metrics, benefits and operations.
  • Hired 300+ employees for the new division and streamlined sourcing to onboarding process
  • Involved in developing governance document, policies, KPIs for the new setup
  • Designed expat compensation and global mobility process in line with local compliance
  • Led diversity initiatives (6% points improvement in diversity)
  • Conducted New Manager Assimilation & feedback conversation with the managers.

M&A Integration & Transformation Leader

Aug 2017Oct 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Lead the M&A integration of GE Water & Suez in India. Transformed and integrated the entire Employee Lifecyle HR processes
  • a. Talent Strategy & Talent Acquisition:
  • Designed & implementing new people review, perf. management and comp. planning processes.
  • Streamlined the end to end Talent Acquisition process from sourcing to onboarding
  • Reduced hiring Lead time from 108 days to 58 days
  • Hired 100+ new joiners post integration. Fulfilled senior level key hirings
  • Lead the flagship talent strategy ` Shaping Talent for Resource Revolution’ – Campus hiring initiative for Engineers and Field Service Representatives.
  • b. Learning, Engagement and Employee Experience:
  • Created Learning Calendar based on Business priorities Focus Group discussion
  • Implemented multiple learning programs
  • Created framework for Employee Engagement around Innovation, Digital, Health & Wellness and Employee Volunteering and Celebrations.
  • Lead the employee engagement team of 16 employees
  • c. Benefits, Policies & Diversity
  • Managing various benefits schemes for employees including Medical Insurance etc
  • Rolled out the Employee Handbook and policy guidelines post transition for SWTS
  • Implemented diversity initiatives around recruitment and development. Diversity ratio went up from 11% to 13.6% in the last 2 quarter) with yea rend target to be 15%

Titan company limited

Manager Talent Management

Apr 2016Aug 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • a) Performance Management: Implemented end to end performance management process (goal setting, goal audit, mid-year, benchmarking, calibration) for 2700 non-retail and 3000 retail employees.
  • b) Retail recruitment: Designed and executed end to end recruitment process through scientifically validated competency tools.
  • c) Leadership Identification: Designed and executed assessment centres single handedly for Young
  • Leaders Program. This was the 2nd Assessment Centre successfully designed and implemented.
  • d) Employer Branding: Revamped the campus branding initiatives: Titan elevate for B-schools, and through social media presence in iimjobs, LinkedIn and careers page resulting in online likes moving up from 3000 to 10000.
  • e) Retail Potential Identification: Created processes around succession for the store staffs. Covered 1800 retail staffs across India, this was replicated in other divisions as well.

Bharat petroleum corporation limited

Talent Management Specialist

May 2013Apr 2016 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Mumbai

  • (a) Potential Assessments – Designed, developed and implemented processes for identifying high potentials across levels, facilitated Talent Review conversations, rolled out 360 surveys.
  • (b) Developing High Potentials – Developed module based on 70-20-10 criterion aligned to competencies and business need and developing an IT enabled platform for IDP creation.
  • (c) Line Manager capability building workshop- Designed end-to-end workshops for line managers to enable career conversation and feedback discussion, built the capability of training role holders & Business HR in delivering these workshops.
  • (d) Rewarding High potentials - Nominated, designed process and programs for developing executives for the High performers (E.g. - Stanford, Harvard, S.P Jain, etc.)

General electric

Summer Intern

Apr 2012Jun 2012 · 2 mos · Pune Area, India

  • Developing orientation Training manual for the production associates.
  • Designing Recruitment tool
  • Compliances and Statutory Audit in Plant
  • Creating Employee Handbook
  • Facilitating Standing Orders

Education

NBW Betriebswirtschaftliche Weiterbildung

HRSE

Oct 2025Apr 2026

Xavier Institute of Social Service

Masters in Human Resource Management

Jan 2011Jan 2013

BIT Mesra Student-Industry Relations Cell

Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) — Marketing

Apr 2008Apr 2011

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