Varun Tandon

CEO

Gurgaon, Haryana, India13 yrs 10 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Top young HR leader recognition in India
  • Expertise in HR analytics and automation
  • Proven track record in employee engagement initiatives
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned HR leader with expertise in Talent Management and HR Analytics across diverse industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent ManagementHr AnalyticsPerformance ManagementTalent AcquisitionCompensation & BenefitsHr Business PartneringHr AutomationEmployee ExperienceHrbpStrategic Human Resource PlanningMergers & Acquisitions

Other Skills

HR PoliciesNew LeadsOnboardingUniversity LecturingLeadershipOrganizational Development

About

An HR Leader passionate to bring a product-thinking mindset to the HR domain. I'm on the quest to integrate data, iteration, and simple user-centric thinking to everything we do in HR. With 14 years in this field, I have tried to build indepth understanding in Employee Engagement, HR analytics & HR Automation, Talent Management, HR Business Partnering and Total Rewards. With experience across diverse environments from consulting to working with growth-phase startups (like Dunzo, MakeMyTrip) and large scale orgs (like DXC Tech, Deutsche Telekom), I have had the chance to build and scale HR teams. Recognized amongst the top young HR leaders in India (People Matters, Jombay, BW Businessworld), I also actively try to contribute to our HR community by mentoring, supporting startups, sharing my learnings across forums.

Experience

13 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 9 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 8 mos
Current Experience

Deutsche telekom digital labs

2 roles

Director and Head of People & Culture

Sep 2025Present · 9 mos

  • Leading the People and Culture Team

Head of HR COEs

Oct 2023Sep 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Leading a team of 14 and Driving Talent Management, Total Rewards, HR Analytics, Org. Effectiveness, Talent Acquisition, Employer Branding and Employee Experience charter.
  • Also Leading HR Business Partnering for Data, AI and Engagement Engineering Teams.
  • Achievements:
  • Improved performance management process efficiency from 60% to 95%+.
  • Improved hiring velocity by 20% per recruiter and improved quality of hire to a score of 80+.
  • Improved organization gender diversity by 12% in a period of 6 months.
  • Designed a new LTI program for leaders with strong linkage to company goals.
  • Worked on change management for a organization restructuring.
  • Working on reigniting the purpose and company mindsets to build a stronger linkage of employee actions and processes to the same.
  • Created a framework for succession management and lead the learning journey for CEO - 1 employees.
  • Revameped the HR technology and analytics stack for improving employee experience and process governance. Improved eNPS and cNPS by 10% and 12% respectively.
Talent ManagementHR AnalyticsHR automationCompensation & Benefits

Dunzo

2 roles

Director & Head of HR

Apr 2023Oct 2023 · 6 mos

  • Managed a team of 10 team members leading the following for a team of 1800 team members:
  • Lead the Performance Management, Rewards, and Benefits charter.
  • Managed People Cost with the Head of Planning and CEO.
  • Worked closely with Function Heads and Leading HRBP strategy and initiatives for all functions.
  • Lead HR Ops, HR automation, and employee experience initiatives across Dunzo.
Strategic Human Resource PlanningHR AnalyticsEmployee ExperienceCompensation & BenefitsHRBP

Director - Performance, Compensation & HRBP Lead - PEDA, Enabling and Category

Oct 2021May 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Managed a team of 8 team members to drive Performance, Rewards, and HRBP initiatives
  • Led all Performance and Rewards related activities for Dunzo (HC - 1500)
  • Managed People Cost with the Head of Planning and CEO
  • Led HRBP initiatives for Product, Engineering, Design, Analytics, Category, and all enabling functions. (HC Managed - ~750)
  • Worked on initiatives to measure and improve employee experience - eNPS, Quality of Hire Index, Manager NPS, Competency Design, Career progress frameworks, Recognition program, benefits program, etc.
  • Achievements:
  • Achieved 4.3+ candidate engagement score and 4.5+ onboarding engagement score.
  • Helped Increase the Employee Net Promoter Score (eNPS) from 20 in early 2022 to 34 in early 2023.
  • In line with the business needs, lead Initiatives to bring down People cost by ~30% in a period of 5 months in 2023.
  • In FY22, with the help of specific HR initiatives in the areas of engagement, compensation, and connects, brought down the attrition from 35% to 25%.
Strategic Human Resource PlanningPerformance ManagementEmployee ExperienceCompensation & BenefitsHRBP

Makemytrip

3 roles

Senior Manager - Human Resources (Performance, Rewards, Automation & Analytics Lead)

Apr 2021Oct 2021 · 6 mos

  • Driving all Performance and Rewards realted activities for Go-MMT.
  • Working with leadership team on Workforce Planning, Manpower Budgeting and People Cost Management.
  • Managing People Analytics and Automation charter (DarwinBox implementation & adoption).
  • Achievements:
  • Managed people cost during the COVID period and worked on initiatives around salary cuts, variable payout redesign, etc. Created a framework to continuously track people cost as a % of revenue to take effective cost decisions.
  • Worked on the rewards and retention philosophy during the Covid period. Was able to retain 90%+ critical and high performers.
  • Created employee personas for online teams (product, engineering, and perf. Marketing) to increase the quality of hire and the speed of the hiring process.
Performance ManagementHR AnalyticsHR automationCompensation & Benefits

Manager - Human Resources (Performance & Rewards Lead)

Promoted

Oct 2019Apr 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Managing all Compensation realted activities. (Annual Compensation Reviews, Market Bench marking, Variable Pay policy design and implementation, Analytics, Compensation partner for HRBPs / Recruiters and C&B Governance)
  • Working with CHRO, CFO and CEO on managing people cost across entities. (Worked on various cost optimization projects during COVID period)
  • End to End ownership of Performance Management for MakeMyTrip, GoIbibo and RedBus. (OKR framework; Driving Continuous Feedback; Implementation for 3000+ employees)
  • Additional projects like Building Employee Personas (Tech and Product Functions), etc.
Performance ManagementCompensation & Benefits

Deputy Manager - Human Resources (Product & Tech HRBP)

Jan 2018Sep 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Performance, Rewards & HR Partner for Technology and Product function.
  • End to End ownership of Performance Management for MakeMyTrip and Ibibo Group.
  • Lead online product management hiring for MakeMyTrip.
  • Supported in various organizational projects like Candidate Experience, Employer Branding, etc.
  • Managed People Analytics for MakeMyTrip. (Created a Talent Index to measure the overall health of the organization in the areas of Capacity, Capability, Connection, Cost and Compliance)
Performance ManagementTalent AcquisitionHRBP

Salto dee fe

Compensation & Talent Management Consultant

Nov 2014Jan 2018 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Worked with clients, leading assignments and independently delivering work-streams for various consulting projects. (30+ assignments with organizations in ITeS, Healthcare, Services, E-Commerce, Real Estate, and BFSI Sector)
  • Product Head for mobile and web-based Performance Management platform called “Karma Notes”. (Managed 10+ implementation)
  • Wrote reports, case studies, articles, infographics, and blogs to improve market visibility and generate new leads.
  • Key Assignments:
  • Defined vision and values and key talent management processes for a group company of a large Indian conglomerate.
  • Worked towards improving sales force productivity for a leading Indian bank.
  • Transformation journey of a real estate organization that was implementing a BFSI agency model.
  • Conducted employee engagement survey for a niche media company and a group company of a conglomerate.
  • Worked on various projects around compensation creating LTIP and STIP programs, Recognition Programs, Variable Pay design, Salary structure design, Job evaluation, etc.
  • Lead the Compensation benchmarking Practice for the Healthcare sector which had participation from 8 leading hospitals in India.
  • Provided HR business partnering support for 3 organizations having an employee base of ~500 employees.
  • Worked on content design for various L&D interventions – HRBP Leadership program, Leadership Alignment, etc.
Talent ManagementHR AnalyticsCompensation & Benefits

Dxc technology

Associate Professional - Human Resources

Jul 2012Nov 2014 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Noida Area, India

  • (Erstwhile CSC India)
  • Project managing HR due diligence, integration management and assessment for divestiture, transitioning employees to/from potential new clients, mergers and acquisitions. (10+ transitions and 2 integrations)
  • Budgeting, designing and implementing reward and recognition program.
  • Review, development, and implementation of HR policies, processes, and delegation of authority matrix. (Restructured benefits for an employee base of 20000+ leading to cost saving of ~INR 1 Cr.)
  • Preparing train the trainer modules, guidance toolkits, and employee communications, etc. to create awareness on policies and processes.
HR PoliciesMergers & Acquisitions

Bookmytrip india pvt. ltd.

Human Resources Trainee

Mar 2012Jun 2012 · 3 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Worked with the Chief Operating Officer in setting up of the Human Resources Department.
  • Work on vendor alliances for payroll, HRIS, and various retirement benefits.
  • Designed policies and benefits consistent with industry practice
  • Handled the recruitment process including sourcing, social media recruitment & initial screening.

Powergrid

Human Resources Trainee

May 2011Jun 2011 · 1 mo · Gurgaon, India

  • Conducted a study to find out key drivers of a successful Training Needs Identification Process using Factor Analysis. Also measured the effectiveness of existing process and provided recommendations for process improvement.

Education

IILM

PGDM (Silver Medal Holder) — Management (CAT-Allied)

Jan 2010Jan 2012

Panjab University

B.Com — Comerce

Jan 2006Jan 2009

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