Abhik Bhattacharyya, Head HR Operations – AirtelSBU

Abhik Bhattacharyya

Head HR Operations – AirtelSBU

Bharti Airtel Limited

Location
India
Education
Diploma, Human Resource Management
Experience
22 years, 5 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :22 years, 5 Months

Head HR Operations – AirtelSBU at Bharti Airtel Limited
  • India - Bengaluru
  • My current job since July 2015

Accelerating Careers and enabling Development

Engaging & retaining best in class talent

Cost efficiency

Org Design & Productivity

Regional HR Head at Bharti Airtel Limited
  • India - Bengaluru
  • May 2013 to June 2015

 Partner with business leaders and ensure the delivery of the human resources for the Hub to achieve the short and long term business objectives
 Work with business leadership to understand the emergent business needs and redefine the HR priorities accordingly
 Responsible for designing and implementing effective HR strategy, policies and procedures by supporting business needs in a complex and evolving environment
 Conducts structured diagnostics to generate data and insights about the current level of organizational effectiveness
 Set & implement productivity norms, benchmarks and continuously monitors and benchmarks
 Subscribes to the overall organization’s agenda and takes ownership for driving change within one’s sphere of influence
 Understand business requirement to build talent pipeline and accordingly plan talent strategies in coordination with the TA team
 Leading performance management cycle (PMS) at Hubs from KRA setting, performance and leadership competency review, normalization and increment and promotion cycle
 Ensure succession planning for key leadership roles through an optimum blend of internal and external talent.
 Execute the capability development agenda for all the employees, both functional and competency based
 Design & implement Hub/ circle level engagement initiatives within allocated budgets and leverage all people processes to connect with the employees & Build a culture of Reward and Recognition in the Hub
 Build a culture of driving cost efficiencies and manage HR Opex as per Annual Operating Plan (AOP)
 Ensure all relevant legal & statutory compliance related to employment.
 Creating positive external relationships with a view to further benefits to the organization

Shared Service Ops Head India at Bharti Airtel limited
  • India - Gurgaon
  • December 2011 to April 2013

• Have exposure in shared services set up and operations for large workforce of 16K with 18 member team
• Coordination with Business HR to map business expectation and lead HR Shared Service delivery
• Provide useful and actionable insight on workforce analytics to drive HR / business strategy
• Partner with Business HR for policy design
• HRIS design and new org structure implementation in ERP
• Manages HRIS correctness and completeness
• Lead HR process compliance & manage HR governance and KPIs
• Employee payouts - CTC, NCTC, F&F, and other statutory payments
• Benefit management like, car hire, Gratuity, insurance and other fringe benefit payments
• Managing pan India compliance both payroll and non-payroll
• Oracle transition from 9i to R12
• Lead eHR/mHR strategy for HRSS and Improve utilization of key digitization tools
• New initiative / impact - eCube (enfa/ airtel ambassador/ my PF portal / sms based query / USSD, Emmoov, Project redemption, Social intranet, My money, Other apps emboss / irescue (hits) / kudos / TRS online / Process excellence
• Responsible for Pan India HR AOP preparation and tracking
• Ensure consistency in execution across circle through analysis and release of various Dashboard
• Lead various HR and cross functional projects at national level, HR Analytics, E Cube, Social Intranet,
• Process Management - SIPOC, L1-L4, Swim lane, Lean Project

HR Business Partner at Bharti Airtel Limited
  • India - Delhi
  • February 2008 to December 2011

 Creates a high performance culture and an enabling environment through alignment of business requirements and individual goals
 Identifying and sharing both internal and external best practices in order to benchmark HR activities.
 Creates systems and processes that encourage a meaningful performance and development dialogue between the reporting manager and the employee
 Manage talent segmentation and top talent identification process
 Identify critical positions and ensure movement from identified talent pool
 Evaluates and understands organization needs to determine future skill requirements & develops overall Recruitment plan
 Develop effective sourcing channels and maintains relationships with key recruiting sources.
 Identification of capability building requirement and deploy capability development programme as per development action planning
 Communication champion from HR for organisation wide changes
 Understands various change processes currently being driven as a part of the organization’s agenda - the business reasons and the results expected
 Anticipates concern/resistance factors and takes proactive measures to address the same to gain employee-buy in
 Design and Initiates activities to create collaborative and engaged workplace.

HR Generalist at Reliance Communication
  • India - Kolkata
  • May 2007 to February 2008
HR Business Partner at Tata Teleservices Limited
  • India - Kolkata
  • April 2006 to May 2007

Employee engagement & HR
Ops

Executive HR Operations at The Calcutta Medical Research Institute
  • India - Kolkata
  • October 2002 to January 2005
Trainee Welfare Officer at Hindustan Motors Limited
  • India - Kolkata
  • October 2000 to September 2002

Education

Diploma, Human Resource Management
  • at IGNOU
  • January 2003

Diploma, Human Resource Management
  • at Indian Institute of Social Welfare & Business Management
  • April 2000

Bachelor's degree, Zoology, Botany & Chemistry
  • at University of Calcutta
  • June 1996

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High school or equivalent, Biology, Physics, Chemistry
  • at University of Calcutta
  • March 1993

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Specialties & Skills

HR Strategy
Employee Engagement
Talent Management
Employment Law
APPROACH
BENEFITS ADMINISTRATION
BUSINESS PLANS
BUSINESS STRATEGY
CHANGE MANAGEMENT
EMPLOYEE RELATIONS
FUNCTIONAL
HUMAN RESOURCES

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Intermediate
Bengali
Native Speaker

Memberships

National Institute of Personnel Management
  • Corporate Member
  • April 2004

Hobbies

  • Theatre
    I was an active member of parallel theatre, have worked in several productions as an actor and also as production designer. Presently attached with Delhi theatre
  • Photography
    An ardent learner of Monochrome Portraits