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Manish Wadhwa

CEO

Gurgaon, Haryana, India20 yrs 2 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led HR for multiple industries with diverse teams.
  • Successfully scaled businesses in competitive markets.
  • Expert in talent management and employee engagement.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a strategic HR leader with expertise in Consumer Tech and Banking sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent ManagementHuman ResourcesBusiness StrategyTeam Leadership

Other Skills

Change ManagementEmployee EngagementEmployee RelationsEmployer BrandingHR ConsultingHR PoliciesHR TransformationHRISMISManagement Information Systems (MIS)MarketingNegotiationOnboardingOperationsPerformance Appraisal

About

I have had a career seeing through different industries (telecom, banking, consumer tech) , managing different functions (sales ,marketing, technology, operations), stages of business (start up, evolved, hyper competitive...) & different cultures (new age, traditional). Excelled in stints by bringing in blend of business understanding , human capital management, stakeholder/ relationship management along with leading large teams

Experience

20 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 4 mos
Average Tenure
6 yrs 6 mos
Current Experience

Cardekho group

2 roles

CHRO - CarDekho Group (India & SE Asia) and Business Head New Initiatives, SE Asia

Apr 2023Present · 3 yrs 2 mos

  • Extended role beyond heading the HR charter and drive new businesses in SE Asia Market. Scaled business to ARR of 2Mn Dollars with 80 member team encompassing Sales, Operations, Marketing, Product and Tech Organisation.
Employee EngagementTalent AcquisitionPersonnel ManagementHuman ResourcesOnboardingHR Policies+20

Group HR Head- India & South East Asia

Dec 2019Jul 2024 · 4 yrs 7 mos

  • Leading the HR agenda for the group businesses spread across New Car, Used Car, Insurance (InsuranceDekho) & Financial Services (rupyy)
  • AutoTech properties include Cardekho, Zigwheels, Pricedekho , Bikedekho, Powerdrift & Gaadi
  • Fintech businesses spread across Insurance & Financial Services
  • Outsourcing & SaaS

Rivigo

Head HR Business Partner

Jul 2018Dec 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • I was heading HR partnering function for the captive business (Express/Relay/3PL) along with Technology function (Engineering, Product & DS) leading a direct team of 7 and overall team size of 24 managing employee base of 3500.

Flipkart

Director - HR

Mar 2016Jul 2018 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • I led the HR agenda nationally (end to end employee life cycle management) for largest people unit in Flipkart covering over 3000 employees and over 20000 FOS with a overall team of 60 colleagues spread across HR functions & geography . I largely worked to the following facets
  • Organization Design – both business and HR
  • Talent Management & Engagement – program design to set up frameworks around these key HR practices
  • #Succession Planning – identification of critical roles basis framework definition
  • #Capability Development – keeping current and future outlook in place.

Airtel

4 roles

Head HR - Consumer Business

Sep 2015Mar 2016 · 6 mos

  • Leading HR for 12 business verticals/functions nationally covering 1300 employees.With help of 3 seasoned HR business partners, we delivered strategic HR solutions around
  • Organization Design - create impactful jobs with effective organization structure. Constantly relook at “as is” to optimize/improvise and also work on new basis need, market, industry and business strategy.
  • Succession Planning – identification of critical roles and possible contenders and gaps in skills/competencies to stitch
  • Capability Building framework – keeping current and future outlook in place.
  • Industry Benchmarking – it is critical to gather industry insights to benchmark key practices, structures, WOW and acc take decisions

Circle HR Head - UPU

Promoted

Apr 2014Sep 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Leading the entire gamut of HR initiatives for INR 5000 Cr. Business (USD 1000 Mn) with headcount of approx. 1000 Employees. Leading a team size of 8 people & managing opex of 100 Cr (USD 20 Mn).
  • As a part of the leadership team, working with business stakeholders on programs to increase employee capability, provide change leadership and build a high performance culture.
  • Work with business leaders to create and implement innovative solutions for a variety of employee engagement initiatives which enable a high energy positive work environment.
  • Design & drive talent management practices & succession planning to ensure fitment of right talent in critical jobs as well as groom internal talent to take on key leadership positions.
  • Provide ongoing support to the leadership team on human resources related matters, policies & procedures, compensation related matters

Head TA and TA CoE

Apr 2013Apr 2014 · 1 yr

  • Led TA COE for Airtel after successfully leading this project. Manage a spread-out team to deliver on TA needs across 4 businesses pan India. Role also envisages Leadership Hiring along with designing and executing process improvements, building control and effective monitoring framework, automation agenda, continuous re-engineering basis bench marking thereby building an evolved practice.

Lead - Employer Branding & Leadership Hiring

Mar 2012Apr 2013 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Part of the role required leading the middle management hiring centrally for Sr. Mgr/DGM/GM levels along with setting up alternate channels of staffing primarily social media and use different levers/properties to establish Airtel as employer of choice.

Barclays bank plc & btci (cibwim)

3 roles

Human Resource Business Partner - Infratructure Function/ Enabling Function

Jan 2011Feb 2012 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • I started to partner with Chief operating officer of the Bank while managing this role. It was 14 business functions covering almost 70% of the Bank employee base. During my stint, I did work on a project with BTCI (IT captive of Barclays) institutionalizing key HR processes as the organization started to pick up scale due to change in Business strategy.

HRBP - Risk Function

Promoted

Jul 2009Dec 2010 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Was given additional responsibility to nationally lead the partnering charter for Risk function along with managing the regional responsibility. Within this period, I also proactively built Engagement COE to drive connect and momentum. I started to manage a team of 2 while managing this portfolio.

Regional HRBP - North & East

Mar 2008Jun 2009 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • I led regional HR portfolio for North and East region managing both Consumer (assets, liabilities & wealth) & Commercial Banking business (business banking, SME & Large Corporates) – both front end functions & enabling functions. We grew the size of the book and the headcount by almost double in 9 months.

Ge money

Assistant Manager

Apr 2004Jun 2006 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Gurgaon

Education

The Wharton School

Wharton Leadership Program — Business Strategy & Leadership

Jun 2022Jun 2023

Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad

MBA — Finance & Human Resources

Jan 2006Jan 2008

Sri Venkateshwara College, Delhi University

B.Com(Hons) — Business

Jan 2000Jan 2003

D.P.S Mathura Road

Business & Mathematics

Jan 1986Jan 2000

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