Aug 2024 – Dec 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• HRBP in Global Delivery Center for the Professional Services organisation. Led initiatives for high-performance culture, competency assessments, and leadership development.

Nov 2021 – Aug 2024 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• HRBP for GTM - APAC & MEA Field Sales (New business and Expansion), Customer Success, Pre-Sales and Business Development teams. Responsible for driving people strategy, organization design and review, sustaining high performance culture in partnership with business leaders and global HR team.
• Company HRBP advisor for PEO / EOR engagement in new countries where legal entities are yet to be established. Led project team to develop engagement framework between Freshworks and PEO company, which helped mitigate risk and ensured labour compliance.

Sep 2017 – Nov 2021 · 4 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• HRBP for Sales & Marketing, Services and Engineering teams in APAC (ASEAN, ANZ, Japan); and IT, Finance, Internal Audit and Supply Chain functions in India.
• Partnered with Sales VP and other global leaders at VP, Director levels. Provided counsel on strategic and operational HR matters. Partnered with global COEs and managers for HR strategy formulation, plan development and implementation.
• Lead L&D facilitator and culture coach for APAC. Partnered with L&D leadership and global HR teams for training needs identification, content development, delivery. Target audiences included CXO, VP, Director levels.
• Member of India Management Committee and leadership team. Program manager for annual strategic imperatives plan involving India leadership, project teams. Program owner for India Annual Awards initiative for recognizing significant employee performances and contributions.
• Member of Internal Committee (IC) for redressal of complaints as mandated by Prevention of Sexual Harassment (POSH) Act in India.
• Region SPOC and contributor for Global HR Newsletter. Supported and reviewed communications to employees on important HR or general matters.

Apr 2014 – Sep 2017 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• HR Partner for high growth Software Engineering businesses at site, including Automotive Software.
• Built effective relationships with leaders and managers to assist in implementation of HR plans and programs aligned with company’s overall business goals. Coached, advised managers and employees on HR practices, policy, performance management, talent development, employee integration, rewards & recognition.
• Oversaw HR metrics, analytics for business unit. Consolidated, analysed annual company survey results. Drove communication of findings and execution of action items.
• Facilitated Learning & Development initiatives with particular focus on leadership development and company culture. Partnered with Country Learning & Development Lead for learning strategy formulation, execution.
• Led HR communications from HR sub-functions / COEs to site employees.

May 2010 – Apr 2014 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• HRBP for Corporate Functions from Nov'11 to Apr '14. HR for HR. Interacted on people issues with ABB India leadership team including CFO, CIO, HR Head. Additional role as Country HR for ABB Bangladesh - worked with country management and COEs to start up HR processes and policies. Helped roll out HR global systems remotely and facilitated onsite training for employees.
• HRBP at Factory from May'10 - Oct'11 at ABB India's biggest site. Partnered with BU leader, functional managers and blue collar staff of Distribution Automation business and with factory location management on HR and IR issues.
• Country lead for India for global HR master data project. Responsible to drive change management and education efforts to ensure compliance and integrity. Represented India at ABB US HQ in Cary, North Carolina, USA. Coordinated with project POCs in region (Egypt, South Africa), central project team in Zurich, Switzerland, and HRBPs in India for project execution.
• Talent management, succession planning, identifying potentials/high-impact employees. Implementation of HR policies in line with company requirements. Lead facilitator for onboarding and learning sessions on company culture and behaviours.
• Trained on job grading (Hay methodology) as part of global job grading initiative, prepared job descriptions and held org reviews with managers. Enabled recruitment by consolidating requirements and coordinating with recruitment team and line managers.
• Chief Editor and creator of newsletter for ABB India HR team - led a two-member team for the initiative.

Nov 2005 – Jan 2007 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Trained at Infosys Global Education Center, Mysore. Worked on .NET, C, C++, C Sharp, UNIX. Member of team responsible for software upgrade and maintenance for Nortel Networks.