Nov 2017 – Present · 8 yrs 6 mos · Bangalore

• Responsible for advising various businesses within Accenture in India on critical talent decisions and build targeted hiring strategy to engage and acquire top talent from premier business and specialized schools pan India
• 1. Talent Advisory to businesses: Partner with businesses to shape their talent needs and build customized plans to engage and acquire talent. Have hired resources from premier business schools in India (like ISB, IIMA/B/C, IITs etc.) year on year, leading the biggest and most complex mandate for hiring from such specialized schools in India
• 2. Building Accenture Brand on campus: Conceptualized and implemented B-School Challenge, National level B-School Competition Accenture Business Innovation Challenge driving engagement to a student base of 15000 students, Ace IT Up (first ever technology consulting case study competition) for premium Business Schools, HR Live Project Championship and HR Analytics workshops to target, engage and ring-fence the right talent for respective businesses.
• 3. Academic partnerships with universities: Conceptualized and drove collaborations between Accenture and IIBA to run among others, a BA certification program called Accenture Business Analyst Career Program on key campuses. The ecosystem created benefited 5 colleges, 200+ students and Accenture to build and hire and analysts/consultants for the technology business.
• 4. Diversity Champion: Built separate advocacy and hiring programs for Persons with Disabilities, LGBTQ community, Ex-servicemen (Braveheart Program) and returning mothers, targeting the student pool in campuses to increase consideration for Accenture and enabling their transition to the corporate life while ensuring a delightful candidate experience
• 5. Implementation of candidate assessments: Bring in new ways of assessment that will be technology enabled, bias free and give insights to hiring manager to take effective decisions.

Aug 2015 – Oct 2017 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Responsible for bringing about transformation across the business that would help set up an offshore centre in India, which is currently integrated and critical to the success of the global business
• In current role, responsible in shaping and driving the People Strategy with a clear Employment Value Proposition (EVP) for Arrows Group Global.
• Enabled the business through his expertise in learning and development and strategic HR, leading some very effective programmes such as Arrows Global Champions League, Training Academy, Performance coaching, Agile implementation and Trailblazers
• Work closely with the international leadership team in coordinating and refining Learning and Development, Career Management, Performance Coaching, Onboarding, Leadership Development, Rewards and Recognition and Performance Management.
• Trailblazers Program: Conceptualized and implemented an innovative experiential onboarding program for graduates that helped the organization. The program used a human centered design approach combined with gamification and performance coaching to get the graduates to become productive for business faster. Awarded “Innovation champion of the Year” for contribution to the business.
• 2. Agile Implementation: Implemented Agile Transformation within Arrows Group Global.
• 3. Arrows Global Champions League: Created and drove a gamified learning environment, which aimed at influencing behaviors by making selected KPIs transparent to all consultants and gamifying the recruitment workflow to make it engaging and fun. Fostered a culture change amounting to accountability, teamwork, compliance to targets and responsibility
• 4. Finance and CareCon Transformation: Managed transitions of Finance and CareCon (after sales services for contractors hired for Arrows clients, which served as a revenue stream) from Europe to India.

Aug 2015 – Apr 2016 · 8 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Training Academy: Implemented a 6 month intensive training program for sales consultants, which gave them an edge to compete in competitive European market. This included classroom, web based and on-the-job training on candidate management, selling, lead generation, business development and after care support.
• Leadership Coaching: Planned and facilitated coaching for leadership team
• Performance Management Design and rollout: Designed a performance management system in sync with company’s values and adhering to strategic priorities, which was linked to career, rewards and learning

Dec 2014 – Jul 2015 · 7 mos

• Worked directly with the Chief Human Resources Officer and led a team of 5 to conceptualize, design and implement programs to change the business facing model of HR globally:
• Employee Experience as a Service: Designed a mobile based app that could predict employee attrition(based on an inbuilt predictive analytics tool), send trigger to activate HR best practices based on customized EVP for an employee, deliver a proactive retention measure and collect crowdsourced feedback on employee experience
• Social HR: Conceptualized an initiative that enabled employees from across the organization to use crowdsourcing as a tool for strategic decision making and helped in democratizing the workplace
• Gamification of learning ecosystem: Conceptualized and implemented a metrics based gamification platform that drove strategy aligned behavior in learning, performance and goal setting for employees of HR and high potential talent from Business schools.
• EVP: Drove HCL’s Employment Value Proposition(EVP), internally and externally, in partnership with marketing, strengthening understanding and adoption of HR initiatives in employees and media, respectively. Responsible for HCL being awarded the “Strong Commitment to HR Excellence” in 2015, publishing of best practices in CEB among others
• Driving internal communications for HR: Theme based release of communications, rationalizing number of communications from 254 to 12, led to effective understanding of organization wide strategy for all employees and built commitment for initiatives
• Experience HR: Created and implemented a competency based deployment cum learning program for HR employees, which led to deployment of 68 management trainees through an assessment center and in basket exercises. Also included Mobile App Based Induction Program(costed $2 per person, had twitter and facebook linkage, hosted content and gave platform for social collaboration) for HR Management joiners

Apr 2014 – Jul 2015 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Responsible for career mapping, talent development, deployment, performance management and strategic alignment of 1300 HR employees and 1500 B-School hires across HCL Technologies globally
• Designed a project on creating a truly diverse global team of cross cultural interns from (Brazil, Mexico, Japan, Poland, US and UK) and deploying them on rotation basis after training and evaluating the competencies of each for a period of one year
• Created competency frameworks for entire organization with competency maps for each function which would cater to special needs of the function, leading to training and deployment being based on the same
• Experience HR: Created and implemented a competency based deployment cum rotation program for HR employees, which led to deployment of 38 management trainees through a structured program based on an algorithm of competencies and preferences
• Successful in driving adoption and usage of knowledge management portals and learning attitude through various initiatives, leading to creating a benchmark globally
• Created "The Hunger Game", an experiential gamified module which assesses and leads to learning of all HR functions for new joiners in HR
• Conceptualized and executed the Recruitment Professional Certification Program, a role based training for recruiters. Enabled structural change within Talent Acquisition by certifying 148 sourcers, 90 processors, 48 lead managers and 30 Recruitment Leads through Recruitment Professional Certification program. Managed the entire certification for recruiters to ensure interventions make an impact as required by recruitment strategy; felicitated and motivated in house facilitators; Interfaced with Hirevue for digital certification of recruiters
• In the role of facilitator, created content and delivered sessions on "Sourcing Strategy" and "Understanding MIS, Reporting and Analytics" to recruiters in Noida, Bangalore and Chennai maintaining average score of 4.6 out of 5

Jun 2012 – Mar 2014 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Drove Strategic Initiatives to transform the Talent Acquisition process which led to implementation of an enterprise wide Recruitment Management System; Set up reporting and analytics for recruitment at HCL Technologies
• PEP-C: Re-engineered TAG processes across 12 sub projects, created L4 process maps for each sub project which became framework for RMS implementation; Set up process for partner management(empanelment, evaluation); Reduced Cost impact with proper Source Mix strategy (Skill categorization, Prioritization) and set up new ways of working for the entire department
• Built a brand for TAG externally through taking the lead in applying for and winning awards such as People Matters' TALL Awards, RASBIC, ERE, HR Excellence, AIMA, SHRM and ABA.
• Responsible for budgeting, Conceptualized 3 incentive plans and implemented 2 with the objective of driving the performance of the recruitment team; Led to improvement in performance by 1000 basis points
• Created case study "A $150 million value creation by HCL talent acquisition group" with collaboration from IIM Indore for TAG which was published by Harvard. Also created case study for Harvard Business Review in collaboration with Singapore University
• Revamped the HCL Technologies Career Page: Managed the segregation of content into Global, Student-specific and lateral hire-specific sections; Consolidated content across departments and geographies for myriad topics of interest from a potential hire’ s perspective
• Operational Workforce Planning: Developed a tool to forecast demand and hiring numbers, internally and externally, according to skill, location and level which helped TAG decrease TAT, improve fulfillment and proactively create a strategy for recruitment;
• Implementation of RMS: Part of the team that created tracking logic and end to end workstream design based on L4 maps; configured talent gateways for Kenexa according to TAG needs;solved SSDs for Smart Recruit cutting TAT by half

Aug 2011 – Dec 2011 · 4 mos · Kharagpur Area, India

• Led AIESEC at IIT Kharagpur with the responsibility for maintaining external relations with various stakeholders
• Executive Body Coordinator of Loophole, an Ethical Hacking workshop conducted at IIT Kharagpur by Kyrion Digital Securities

May 2011 – Jul 2011 · 2 mos

• Worked on the project titled “To benchmark effective change management practices across organizations, study the role of Human Resource managers in facilitating change and devise an evaluation tool for measuring the implications of change management”

Aug 2010 – Jun 2011 · 10 mos

• Heading a development project in Jamshedpur involving international interns, NGOs and corporates. Responsibilities include managing a team of motivated individuals who want to create an impact on society, bringing quality students from all over the world to work at various NGOs working in various aspects of development like AIDS awareness, Disabilities, Environment to name a few and organizing events which aim at maximizing the impact of the project by touching lives.

Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 · 1 yr

• In the capacity of an International Climate Champion 2010-11 selected by British Council in association with The Energy Resources Institute(TERI), I had the responsibility of building a team and implementing my project. My project “Change in attitude rather than change in climate” taught me how to plan, manage and execute a project with a team of green volunteers for whom the only compensation was social and environmental change, as opposed to financial gains.