Akshith Rai, HR Head

Akshith Rai

HR Head

Practo Technologies

Location
Qatar - Doha
Education
Master's degree, M.B.A
Experience
12 years, 9 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :12 years, 9 Months

HR Head at Practo Technologies
  • India - Bengaluru
  • April 2013 to February 2015

Responsibilities:
**Talent Management & Development:
 Lead the Human Resource & Recruiting function with the focus on attracting and retaining talent.
 Define the HR business strategy and ensure successful execution of the same through a consulting approach.
 Work includes organization development, performance & talent management, learning & development, retention strategies implementation, formulate and implementation of employee engagement initiatives.
**Performance Management& Compensation Benefits:
 Designed implemented and managed the Performance Management System
 Implementing annual Compensation & Recognition Programs in line with business goals.
 Design Salary structures for all the roles and align them to the market standards.
**Talent Acquisition & Global mobility:
 Managing sourcing attraction, identification & implementation to attract top talent.
 Executing an improved competency based recruitment process reducing cycle time by 30%.
 Managing global mobility program across South East Asia.
**Organization Design & Implementation
 Design the org structure to support the business & maximize growth
 Defining and mapping HR processes and services.
 Implementing of Talent & HR processes.
 Reviewing and designing the HR systems landscape.

***Accomplishments:
• Designed and implemented the objective oriented PA system helping reduce attrition by 12% in 2013
• Grew the organization 230%+ year on year by recruiting 500+ members in a span of 2 years
• Developed competitive compensation plans keeping in view of market positioning and internal parity. 6% reduction in attrition since 2014 with no significant increase in Annual Salary Budget.
• Rolled out Reward and Recognition programs ‘DO GREAT SQUAD’ for honoring distinguished employees.
• Designed and implemented On boarding and training programs

Sr.HR Partner / Country HR Head at Cerner Corporation
  • India - Bengaluru
  • May 2004 to March 2013

Responsibilities:
**Talent Management, Engagement & Retention:
Lead the human capital function for India & Middle east
Managing design development & delivery of talent management strategies for the business.
Assessing insights, trends through data analysis for talent management of top talent.
Conducting talent planning discussions and provide inputs on future key talent needs
Managing employee survey and post HR interventions aligned to business priorities
Coaching Senior Managers and employees on “Career Progression Framework”
Creating forums for effective top down and bottom up communication for proper decision making.
Driving employee communication programs & satisfaction surveys for better employee engagement
**Performance Management & Compensation Benefits:
Manage online appraisal system(Goals Setting, Objectives Orientation Sessions)
Managing HR database reporting incl. HRIS for attrition &trend analysis
Benchmarking and strategizing the compensation medians based on the market analysis for positions & functions across the organization.
Implementing annual Compensation & Recognition Programs in line with business goals.
**Employee Relations & HR Advisory :
Design & deploy the grievance redressal process for Cerner South East Asia
Advise and coach line managers on handling employee issues & Managing sickness & absence process,
Investigating into disciplinary & grievance cases, exit interviews
Coaching managers on new policy changes and HR processes.
**Organization Development Culture Change & HR Transformation:
Design & develop Org Value Proposition on actionable insights & diagnostics.
Design structures and process to support the org value ensuring improved quality & performance
Monitoring HR effectiveness programs, key talent metrics & root causes analysis in people issues.
**Talent Acquisition (Campus & Experienced Hires):
Lead Talent Acquisition efforts by formulating & implementing recruiting pilots / practices by benchmarking and designing standardized recruitment processes across South East Asia
Designing& implemented a rotational FAST TRACK Program for MBA recruits (top universities).
Leading & rolling out recruitment process change initiative with reduction in TAT by 20 days.
Analysing& strengthening attraction channels with campaigns & employer branding initiatives.
Design job rotation opportunities cross functionally to facilitate internal movements.
**Training, On-boarding & Capability Development:
Conceptualizing & effectuating training and development initiatives for improving employee productivity.
Design, develop and execute Leadership development programs across Middle East & India.
Design, develop and execute Succession programs across Middle East & India.
Manage the on boarding programme for all the new hires
Train Managers & executives on Coaching & people development through DDI workshops .
Coaching managers on up skilling &development planners by “Train the Trainer’s Workshops”.
Identifying new and emerging talent capabilities through “Talent Talk” with Business Heads.


***Accomplishments:
•My team was awarded with the “Target Oriented Performance” award in the year 2011. This is the 1st and the only functional team to win this award.
•Grew the operations from an 20 member team to an 1900+ member organization
•Designed & implemented talent management/ engagement initiatives like Org Design, Succession Planning, Leadership Development, Reward and Recognition programs and Commitment Building workshops like ‘Know the Policy’ campaign, which directly resulted in reducing attrition by 10% in 2008.
•Designed and implemented strategies for Campus recruitment globally(India/UK/US)
•Designed & executed recruitment strategies for Middle East, India, Singapore & Indonesia.

HR at Code Soft Intl. Inc.
  • India
  • September 2003 to June 2004

 Managing routine HR functions HR Policies & Procedures Formulation
 Compensation Benefits/Management, Leave and Payroll Management
 Defining & developing appropriate conceptual and competence-based inputs for Training and addressing Training sessions.
 Heading end to end Recruitment and Selection of Software professionals

Personal Consultant at Mafoi / Yank
  • India
  • June 2002 to August 2003

 Converting client's requirement into Revenues.
 Responsible for recruiting IT professionals & Non IT professionals - Understanding the client's requirement, & processing the requirement within a stipulated time frame.
 Competency profiling and mapping - Using cost-effective & efficient tools like Web-recruitment, Walk-in-interview, and open advertisement etc.

Education

Master's degree, M.B.A
  • at Mangalore University
  • April 2002

Specialties & Skills

Organization Development
Planning
Payroll
Performance Management
Peoplesoft
MS Office
Brainbench Certified - HR Concepts (US)
Crucial Conversations Certified
Brainbench Certified - HR Concepts UK
Brainbench Certified - HR Concepts UK
DDI Certified Tagrgeted Selection Trainer
DDI Certified Instructor
Brainbench Certified - HR Concepts UK
Brainbench Certified - Managing People (UK)

Languages

Hindi
Intermediate
English
Expert
Malayalam
Beginner