Bishnu Charan Panda, HR Head

Bishnu Charan Panda

HR Head

Engineering (MNC)

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Doctorate, Organization Development and Threshold of Growth
Experience
27 years, 3 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :27 years, 3 Months

HR Head at Engineering (MNC)
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since November 2013

HR Business Partnership | Leadership Talent Acquisition | Organization Development & Leadership Capability Building| Compensation & Rewards | Policies & Practices I Industrial Relations | Administration I PRO I

• Prepare HR strategies / SWOT Analysis and monitor and
manage HR Program Execution.
• Spearhead companywide Talent Acquisition, Talent
Management and Talent Development.
• Strengthen HR Operation and Employee Life Cycle
Management (Hiring Requisition to Exit)
• Create a culture of performance and stake-holders
engagement including JV Partners.
• Monitor and manage HR cost and ensure returns on
investment by optimization & redesign.
• In-house capability building, career development, mentoring
and succession planning
• Employee relation, engagement and communication.
• Responsible policies, practices and culture and brand
building.

Business HR Head (Retail, IT & ITeS, Telecom) at Reliance Communication (India’s 2nd largest broadband and telecommunications company)
  • India - Mumbai
  • March 2007 to October 2013

Accountability: Accountable to Corporate HR for complete customer centric HR operation at the given Business / Entity / Geography by fulfilling / surpassing following mandates as per occasions and frequencies:

• Talent Acquisition & Induction
• Employee Life Cycle Management
• HR processes, systems, policies and e-people solutions portal.
• Value & Vision cascade, PMS, R&R, SMP, HRAoP, TNI & Competency Identification, Sales Incentive Plans and Employee Communication
• Employee Engagement
• Hewitt Speak Up Survey / Compensation Benchmarking Survey
• HR Branding by ensuring HR team accomplishes key objectives
• Organization redesign & manpower optimization
• Legal & statutory compliances
• HR database accuracy, integrity and availability


Accomplishments:

• Able to consistently deliver superior results against all critical Talent Acquisition KPIs. Deployed with great rigor (1000+ Software professionals, 400+ Telecom Professionals & 4000 hires all inclusive Retail and Customer Service.
• Design and launch of Business Process Management Systems for Retail Stores, which resulted in tangible productivity improvements and ensuring spin off impact on payroll cost
• Actively established performance planning and counselling practices with focus on stretched objectives for optimizing manpower productivity.
• Effectively and efficiently handled HR Budget, Cost & OPEX (Operational Expenses), Contract & Vendors including RHRS
• Smoothly handled Reliance World transition to RCOM, Sizable reduction in payroll cost of RTS and implemented Wireless restructuring without any escalations.
• Met surpassed all targets of HR operations within SLAs and given quality parameters.
• Achieved all targets / SLAs with 60% team size (High Productivity).

HR Head - FMCG Business at IFFCO (International FoodStuffs Company) : Brand - Tiffany, London Diary, Nestle & Hershey's etc.
  • United Arab Emirates - Sharjah
  • March 2003 to February 2007

IFFCO a UAE based FMCG conglomerate employs more than 7500 manufactures and markets a well integrated range of mass-market consumer products in Food and Beverage, Personal Care and Cleaning, Packaging and Industrial Products and Logistics. IFFCO’s impressive brand includes and not limited to London Dairy, Quanta, Igloo, (Ice-cream sector) Noor, Ambar Al Hayat, (Flour, sauces, and edible oil sector) Tiffany, Bugles, Digestive(Biscuits, snacks, wafers, chocolate and confectionery sector), Ivy, Eva, Ria, Royal Leather (Skin care sector), Al-Ain Beverages and Refreshments (Juice, milk, mayonnaise sector).

Job Scope & Individual Contribution:

Was HR Head (FMCG) and part of the Senior Management Team pursuing:

• HR Business Support
• Talent Acquisition & Induction
• Employee Life Cycle Management
• IFFCO HR processes, systems and policies.
• Performance Management, Goal Setting, Review, Discussions and Rewards
• Employee Engagement & Emiratization
• Job Analysis / Pay Structure & Banding / Pay Strategies
• Career & Succession Planning
• Staff Training and Capability Building
• ILO strategies on Ethical Trade Initiatives / Audit & Compliances
• HR database accuracy, integrity and availability
• Ensure HR team accomplishes key objectives
• TESCO Sign-off

HR Business Partner at Birla Copper, Hindalco Industries Limited (Aditya Birla Group)
  • India - Mumbai
  • February 1997 to February 2003

HR Business Partner:

* Staffing Strategies & Position profiling
* Recruitment & Induction
* Training Needs Identification, Training Module design and
delivery
* Ram Krishna Bajaj Quality Award
* Selection of faculties and Evaluating Trainer’s Performance
* Training Data Base Management
* Projecting and managing the training budget.
* Auditee from HR- Training
* As an Internal Auditor Qs- 9000 audits
* Resource person for Quality circles
* Resource person for PMS, Compensation Banding and Salary
Fixation
* Guidance for workers and facilitators for organizing Quality
Circles
* Vocational/Summer training (design, implement & monitor)
* Apprentices training (design, implement & monitor)
* GET Program (design, implement & monitor)
* Creating a continuous learning environment by creating learning
events like, Quizzes, screening of Management movies,
seminars, presentations, new books/ journals for the Knowledge
Centre.
* Job Rotation & Multi Skilling

Education

Doctorate, Organization Development and Threshold of Growth
  • at M.L. Sukhadia University-Leading Indian University
  • May 2001

OD Interventions determine organizational long term growth and sustainability. Case studies of successful organizations reveal the impetus of OD interventions in their culture, values and productivity.

Diploma, Diploma in Training and Development
  • at Indian Society of Training & Development (A branch of ASTD)
  • August 1998

* Manpower Planning * Human Resources Development * Organization Development * Training Need Assessment * Training Methodologies and Management Development * Internship Project Report

Master's degree, Personnel Management and Industrial Relations (HRM)
  • at Visva Bharati, Santinikatan
  • December 1996

* Industrial Psychology * Personnel Management * Industrial Relations * Human Resources Development and Manpower Planning * Training and Management Development *Labour Laws

Specialties & Skills

HR Strategy
Leadership Capabilities
Executive Search
Employee Engagement
Reward Strategy
Job Analysis (JD Writings & Validation, Job Evaluation and Preparation of Salary Scale
Institutionalize Performance Management System leads to Pay for Performance
Competent in establishing staffing strategies (Recruitment & Selection)
Conduct diagnostic survey (Organization Health Study/Organization Climate Study etc.
Employee competency assessment and evolved, implemented desired training programs.
Manage employee relations and resolve shopfloor issues by responding to most complex problems
Can formulate and write policies and articles using original or innovative techniques or style
Can make persuasive speeches and presentations regarding human resources policies and practices
Ability to carry out assigned projects to their completion
Strong technical and analytical skills to ensure the best HR recordkeeping, reporting and control
Proven ability to work in a pressured environment whilst exercising initiative and judgment
Proficient with Windows, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and HRIS systems
Apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to solve the problem in support of org. goals
Effective in consultation style and gain cooperation through discussion and persuasion

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert

Memberships

National HRD Network
  • Life Member
  • January 1998
Indian Society for Training & Development
  • Life
  • January 1999