Apr 2020 – Apr 2023 · 3 yrs · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · Hybrid

• Led the HR charter at MX Player, driving end-to-end people strategy across Talent Acquisition, Learning & Development, Total Rewards, HR Operations, Employer Branding, Diversity & Inclusion, and Employee Engagement. Played a key role in scaling teams and establishing MX Player as a top employer in the media-tech space.
• Key Achievements:
• Scaled a newly formed business from 0 to 100+ employees in just 3 months, aligning business needs with a strategic talent roadmap
• Led MX Player to win Great Place to Work (GPTW) recognition three years in a row, along with "Best Place for Women" and "Top Media Employer" accolades
• Digitized the HR function by implementing Darwinbox as HRMS and Leena AI as an engagement bot, enhancing employee experience
• Launched MX on Campus, securing Day 0 slots in top B-schools and achieving a 95%+ student application ratio
• Designed a role skill-mapping framework, strengthening talent management and career growth initiatives
• This journey at MX Player was all about rapid scaling, HR transformation, and creating a culture that blends agility with excellence.

Feb 2018 – Mar 2020 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

• As National Manager – Services HR at Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages, I was at the forefront of building and optimizing HR structures for new business units, ensuring long-term sustainability and operational excellence. My focus was on organization design, talent strategy, and capability building, aligning HR with business growth.
• Key milestones:
• Successfully led the organizational restructuring & rebadging of the RPSI unit, aligning with Coca-Cola’s global framework
• Reduced attrition to 8.5% (below the 10% target) while boosting engagement scores by 5%—more than double the company’s goal
• Drove the Inclusion charter, achieving the highest gender diversity increase across HCCB (6.6% vs. 2% target)
• Designed a capability development roadmap focused on digital, analytics, and next-gen skills, ensuring future-ready talent
• Built a cost-effective and high-quality talent pipeline, balancing in-house capability building with strategic hiring
• This role was all about transforming HR into a business enabler, driving talent sustainability, and embedding a culture of continuous growth

Jan 2016 – Feb 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

• As a Business HR & Special Projects Lead at Wipro, I partnered with senior leadership and niche business units to drive people strategy, workforce planning, and talent transformation. My role was a mix of HR business partnering, change management, and strategic initiatives, ensuring the right talent, structure, and culture for long-term success.
• Key milestones:
• Reduced attrition from 24% to 10% in just three quarters, stabilizing key talent pool
• Led the 2017 salary increment process for 25,000+ employees, ensuring differentiated rewards for critical talent
• Launched a leadership mentoring program for VP & Director levels, embedding a culture of coaching and knowledge-sharing
• Drove Wipro’s BAS Diversity hiring strategy, running focused recruitathons to onboard women returning from career breaks
• Designed and implemented a Talent Rotation Program for mid-senior leaders, strengthening succession planning
• This role was about enabling business success through strategic HR interventions, talent optimization, and future-proofing leadership pipelines.

Jul 2013 – Jan 2016 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

• Campus Hiring and engagement & Branding
• Manage & execute the Premier business school strategic hiring and internship program to create a strong leadership pipeline for across the entire Wipro Limited and Wipro Infrastructure engineering
• Engage with the business to identify, rationalize and finalize requirements for MBA campus hiring & internships
• Anchor, strategize, and execute the Engagement with Top B-schools in India for all lines of Wipro business – IT, Energy, Analytics, Consulting & Infrastructure
• Design & roll out the induction program for the recruits to ensure smoother onboarding (pre joining/ post joining)
• Launched the pre joining connects (social media, city meets) with Wipro hires and interns to ensure better connect with the organization
• Redesigned and rolled out smoother rejoining and re-fitment process for the Wipro Sabbatical employees ensuring a higher return rate
• Initiated and managed the Executive MBA hiring program, consolidating focus for the high work experience professionals
• Talent Management
• Analyse & benchmark the compensation/incentive/benefits for the B school hires
• Design and plan the development programs for the B school hires batch (Learning & Development interventions, Role rotations etc.)
• Oversee and guide the teams to build optimal metrics & scorecards for performance assessment and ensure timely progressions
• Conduct employee engagement activities for the B school recruits in the first year of their joining for better assimilation in Wipro and ensure minimal attrition & a higher satisfaction & retention of the B school recruits
• Design policies applicable to the B school recruits and ensure adequate governance of the same
• Achievements:
• Won ‘Feather in my Cap’ award for single handedly ensuring the automation of the entire hiring process up till offer generation, introduced for the 1st time for the MBA campus hiring program
• Nominated for ‘HR excellence awards’ for the year 2014

May 2012 – Jul 2013 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

• Delivery and Client Experience-
• Provide advisory services to WCS clientele on Performance & Capability Building, People, Processes & HR Operations and Technology, Organizational Maturity and Organizational Change Management
• Enable the client to adopt organizational change through activities including Stakeholder Engagement, Impact Assessment, Communication Planning, Change effectiveness measurement
• As a project team member, support the delivery of major client projects and their change initiatives
• Practice Development
• Develop frameworks, methodologies and tools to support the HCM & Business Change practice (Organizational Assessment Framework, HR Maturity Assessment model, Incentive & Benefit Design framework & methodology, Job analysis and design approach )
• Engage with the marketing team to provide – Point of Views & Corporate Research related to Organizational Transformation & Redesign
• Business Development & Presales
• Develop and design the marketing and sales collaterals for sales enablement of the Human Capital & Change Management Practice
• Identify business opportunities for practice growth by providing support through new business proposals and presentations
• Brand building
• Create a brand within the organization by partnering with the leaders in the organization to pitch as a common brand
• Conceptualized ‘Nitrospark’, Wipro’s Inter B school Case study competition to establish and spread the WCS brand among the premier B schools
• Launched the event at the participating B schools (Details - http://www.wipro-campusarena.com/nitrospark/ )
• Managed beginning-to-end affairs (strategic, operational, coordination) & acted as a liaison among the various stakeholders to ensure smooth functioning and successful conclusion

Apr 2011 – Jun 2011 · 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Sales and CRM strategy for Wipro Consulting Services

Jan 2007 – Jan 2010 · 3 yrs · Pune Area, India

• Engaged in the design of a live e-commerce platform (worth a budget of $1mn) with time critical deadlines as a part of the offshore team
• Supported the creation and development of the e-commerce application from the scratch till its deployment
• Acted as the interface between the client & the offshore team for validation, verification up till the Go-Live phase, and subsequently Support phase
• Involved in adhoc day-to-day activities to ensure smooth functioning of the project & the daily deliverables