Ajay Gopalakrishnan

Head of Talent

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India13 yrs 8 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Over 11 years of HR experience with top MNCs.
  • Expert in talent acquisition and employee engagement.
  • Passionate about building inclusive workplace cultures.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned HR leader with expertise in talent management and organizational development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Hr TransformationProject ManagementTalent AcquisitionEmployee EngagementChange ManagementDiversity & InclusionTalent Management

Other Skills

HRISHR OperationsSourcingDeferred CompensationOnboardingRecruitingPersonnel ManagementScreeningPerformance ManagementEmployee RelationsHuman ResourcesInterviewsHiringPayrollHR Consulting

About

Ajay is currently heading the HR function at Plum where he is involved in driving HR strategies and interventions In his previous stint, he was a Country Project Manager at L'Oréal, the world's leading beauty company, where he provided HR consulting, project and change management services. He has over 11 years of experience in human resources, with a PGDM/MBA in Human Resources Management and a partial certification in Change Management. He specializes in talent acquisition, talent management, business partnering, culture building, leadership development, and workforce planning. He has a proven track record of creating and implementing effective HR solutions that align with the business goals and enhance the employee experience. He is passionate about building positive and inclusive workplace cultures that foster engagement, innovation, and performance. He has also worked with some of the top D2C brands, conglomerates and established MNCs in India, such as Plum, JSW Paints, Shell, where he led the people function and developed the leadership team.

Experience

13 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 4 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 6 mos
Current Experience

Plum

Head - Human Resources

Dec 2024Present · 1 yr 6 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Foxtale

2 roles

Chief Human Resources Officer

Promoted

May 2024Nov 2024 · 6 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Head of Human Resources

Feb 2024May 2024 · 3 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Building Foxtale’s People Function and driving their HR Portfolios across all verticals

L'oréal

Country Project Manager ( India) - Consulting

Apr 2023Feb 2024 · 10 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Skills Acquired : HR Transformation | Change Management | HRIS | Project Management |
HR TransformationChange ManagementHRISProject Management

Plum goodness

2 roles

Consultant / Advisor

Oct 2022Apr 2023 · 6 mos

Head / Lead - HR

Aug 2020Oct 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Leading HR, Admin, IT and People Strategy including Engagement, Succession, Resourcing, Retention, Learning & Development initiatives
  • Grew the headcount by 2x in the first year across all levels including building of entire Leadership team
  • Partnered with Cost effective Learning partners to build a learning culture virtually
  • Led the GTPW certification for Pureplay and got the organization certified as Great Place to Work in Mid-Size category
  • Led the entire initiative of building a better office infrastructure

Tvs industrial & logistics parks pvt. ltd.

AGM - Human Resources

Dec 2019Jul 2020 · 7 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • Part of the Leadership team in leading the Investor funding rounds
  • Designed HR Policies and Process SOPs in line with IFC standards

Jsw

HRBP and Talent Acquisition Lead

Nov 2017Aug 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Led the hiring strategy for field sales force end to end, on boarded fresh engineering graduates 120
  • in no’s within a period of 2 months
  • Designed a 45day Orientation & Culture Setting Program for front sales force, lead to a positive
  • customer acceptance in the market
  • Rolled out “The Pulse” employee engagement program, leading to increase in engagement score to
  • 75% from 40% earlier
  • Led and rolled out People Dashboard Analytics Report on a monthly, quarterly and yearly basis, led
  • to effective strategizing and planning

Clariant

Manager

Jul 2017Nov 2017 · 4 mos · Mumbai

Shell

HR Advisor / HR Business Partner

Feb 2015Jul 2017 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Chennai Area, India

  • Led end to end Change Management project (Planning / Resourcing / Counselling / Deploying) of
  • two business units, successfully deployed 95% of the impacted resources in other roles
  • Part of the D&I Forum at Shell, co-founded D&I network ‘enABLE Network” for people with different
  • abilities, launched programs, engagement workshops and rolled out D&I policies. leading to increase
  • in engagement score stood at 85% from 65%
  • Conducted the Organization Health Check of a specific business unit, helped in mapping 65% of the
  • roles as per the right skill sets
  • Lead the Internal Resourcing of 500 roles coming in India as part of the Reporting & Analytics unit
  • end to end, deployed all internal staff to the 500 roles within 2 months

Niit limited

People Engagement Manager-Regional HR

Jul 2014Feb 2015 · 7 mos · Mumbai Area, India

Colt technology services

HR Business Partner / Specialist

Jun 2011Jun 2014 · 3 yrs · Bengaluru, India

  • Rolled out Early Warning Sign process for critical and high potential employees, identified 500 critical
  • employees and conducted developmental sessions for them, further helped in retaining 60% of the
  • High Potential employees
  • Part of the HR Leadership team in drafting the draft Standing Orders and getting it certified under the
  • Karnataka Industrial (Standing Orders) Act
  • Instrumental in refurbishing the Attendance Management System and streamlining the reports,
  • leading to zero errors in Attendance Report as against the earlier reports

Hsbc

Intern

May 2010Jul 2010 · 2 mos · Mumbai

  • "Benchmarking Diversity & Inclusion Practices"
  • Internship project on Benchmarking D & I practices in HSBC.
  • Understood the diversity practices followed by the banking and non-banking companies, benchmarked them with the practices followed in HSBC and made recommendations for any process wise improvements or any additional Diversity & Inclusion practices that HSBC should implement to become the Best Diversity Employer.

Education

FLAME University

PGDM/MBA — Human Resources Management

Jan 2009Jan 2011

V.G.Vaze Kelkar College of Arts, Science & Commerce

Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) — Accounting and Finance

Jan 2005Jan 2008

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