Ahmad Zeeshan

Deputy Manager - Human Resources at Olam International Limited

• India - Delhi
• My current job since August 2014

Working as Deputy Manager - Human Resources, currently based at Gurgaon (India), I am actively involved in managing complete employee life cycle of employees across India, APAC, Middle East & Africa. I am Proactively involved in implementation of hiring, developing and retaining strategies, working in close coordination with regional HR heads & Business heads in managing human resources related issues.

Stakeholders Management & Business Partnering
 Working in close coordination with multiple stake holders & Business unit heads based across Multiple geographies.
 Comprehensive expertise in global client’s management and cross border people management.

Onboarding & Induction
 Process Lead for Onboarding and Induction (Cultivate Manager Onboarding) for all the employees hired at leadership. Program continues for first 180 days.
 Managing Olam’s Management Trainee (FLP) Onboarding program.
 Updating corporate joining announcements & Organizational Charts.

Talent Acquisition & Employee Life Cycle
 Working with Talent Acquisition team & facilitating the recruitment across premier institutes in India.
 Ensuring Employee Documentation (Offer/Joining Kit/Payroll etc.) is completed on time & assist team in yearly audits.
 HR Policy formulations & timely updation. Rolled out new & amended various policies like - Global Mobility, Expat Travel Policy, Women empowerment & Employee Exit. Creating & updating process Maps/ SOP’s. Working with leaders/BU heads & leadership teams.
 Conducted Compensation Benchmarking and salary surveys across FMCG Industries (Agro Industry)
 Ensuring Exit analysis, ensuring one on one is done with all the Exit cases.
 Managing End to End Global Mobility & Expatriation of employees, ensuring visa’s, work permits, and deputation is complete on time.

Organization Learning/Development & Performance Management
 Working on Succession planning & career planning to enhance workforce strength with an objective to retain top resources.
 Assisting & Guiding managers in successful completion of PMS process & handling post evaluation feedback.




Talent Management & Employee Relations
 Point of contact for Global employees, handling the queries and grievances arising within the workplace.
 Actively involved in Human Resource Competency mapping through Behavioral & Personality assessment. Basis results individual growth plans are prepared.
 Psychometric analysis of new and existing hires, this assists in identifying development areas.
 Employee Opinion Surveys (E-SAT), Skips, and Pulses etc., handling one on one session with key resources.
 Facilitating get together monthly (Month end celebration) to ensure employees are facilitated on their Birthdays, Achievements, R&R and Service Completion.
 Developing an engaged employee work force through various engagement activities.

Attrition & Retention
 Conducting Attrition Analysis Region wise/Product Wise & computing Quarterly trend in attrition.
 Partner with the business to drive Retention Management and ensuring that attrition is controlled.

HR Analytics/ Reporting Metrices
 Actively working on Analytics and key people metrices, sharing reports on attrition, Recruitment metrices, employee Surveys (Settling in Survey) & Managers Surveys (Quality of Hire) with the leadership team.
 Ensuring weekly dashboards are in place and can be shared with the BU heads when needed.
 Developing & updating HRIS, ensuring Data sanity.

HR Projects
 Employee Surveys: Quarterly survey to new joiners (Settling in Survey) to check feasibility of onboarding program, half yearly survey to hiring managers (Quality of Hire Survey) to check the capability and efficiency of new hire.
 Glassdoor & Linked In Branding: Working on a key project of Branding for Olam.
 HR Invoicing & Vendor Management: Evaluation o Vendor strength, New Contract and handing invoicing.
 Global Mobility/Talent Mobility: Actively managing the Global Mobility (Internal Transfers) program

HR Business Partner at CMC Limited

• India
• September 2011 to August 2014

Business partner at Vertex

• India - Gurgaon
• February 2011 to August 2011

Worked as HR Business Partner

HR Executive at Raun Associates

• July 2009 to February 2011

Managed End to End HR activities, involved in set up of HR Process & Policies.
•Handling the recruitment and selection of workers on permanent and contractual basis.
•Looking after the basic Administration, Maintaining MIS, and Client interaction. Assisting the Accounts department in Payroll processing.
•Working on formulation of new policies & improvement in existing rules/policies.