Associate Director HR
CMS INFO SYSTEMS
Total years of experience :17 years, 10 Months
Manage HR operations for South and East India
Over 14 yrs of experience with entire gamut of HR. Handling multiple business units across India, HR technology specialist, working with the management to make the organization go exponential. Six Sigma Green Belt certified with keen interest on HR analytics and take strategic decisions based on data. Mentor and a part Start Up events. Address young students of HR fraternity at various B schools. Spearhead on strategies for HR to be a strong business partner for the organization.
Handle the entire HR functions and responsible for aligning the company's vision and drive organizational goals.
Butterfly India (Gandhimathi Appliances Ltd.) www.butterflyindia.com
Manager - Human Resource June 2010 - Aug 2012
The Butterfly Group, Pioneers in Stainless Steel Appliances started operations four decades ago. The company was the first in India, to introduce Stainless Steel Pressure Cookers and Vacuum Flasks, and acquire the ISO 9002 certification, in the LPG and Mixie divisions. Over the years, under the enterprising leadership of Mr. V Murugesa Chettiar and his sons, Butterfly has grown to be a household name among millions in India.
Handling the entire gamut of HR and IR for three different group companies with a team of 8 members.
End To End Recruitment Activities: • Recruitment and Selection
• Joining formalities
• Background Verification
• Data Updation
• Induction and Orientation
• Confirmation and Transfer
Employee Relations
• Creating and Implementing Policies, Procedures and Systems
• Implementation of modern HR concepts in terms of employee relations
• Attrition Management
• Statutory Compliances (PF, ESI, Gratuity)
• Responsible for implementation of performance appraisal
• Implementation of Exit Interviews, Open Houses and HR Touch Times
Administration
• Facility management of entire factory of about 25 acres
• Handling the fleet of staff buses, cars, industrial vehicles and cargo vehicles
• Managing the canteen facility for 2000 employees
• Ensuring proper security for the entire factory and new trends of security adherence
• Issuing of uniforms and ID cards
• Accommodation for all outstation staffs and hotel arrangements for clients
Paramount Airways Pvt Ltd www.paramountairways.com
Designation: HR Executive July 2009 - June 2010
Paramount Airways is a private airlines operating from India, flying passengers within India. Paramount Airways is based at Chennai and has regional corporate office at Chennai. Paramount Airways is the first Airline in India to launch the New Generation Embraer 170/190 Family Series Aircrafts.
End To End Recruitment Activities: • Recruitment of employees including expat pilots, Indian Pilots, Engineers, Crew, GRE, Ground staff and other support function staffs.
• Joining formalities including opening of bank account
• Background Verification
• Data Updation
• Induction and Orientation
• Confirmation and Transfer
• Co-ordinating in the formulation and implementation of increment, incentive and other remuneration policies
• Adept at people management, maintaining healthy employee relations, handling employee grievances thus creating an amicable & transparent environment
Administration
• Co-ordinating with external agencies for negotiating and executing AMCs for maintenance of office infrastructure.
• Handling contractual agencies. Finalizing terms of new contracts with various agencies and renewing old contracts, establishing good liaison with them to ensure that fulfills their legal requirements.
• Arranging conferences and seminars of the company. Facilitating meetings with business associates. Organizing out station tours for the company's executives and guests includes hotel reservations.
• Managing a fleet of vehicles owned by the company, their upkeep & maintenance and fulfilling legal obligations in regard.
• Managing internal and external communication. Running routine establishment functions like housekeeping. Organizing tours, hotel reservation, transportation, canteen & security for the employees.
• Ensuring maintenance of sufficient supplies of stationery in the office and office equipment. House keeping items, stationery items, electrical items, furniture & computers, UPS, Generators, and Diesel Storage & Air conditioner.
• Enlisting vendors, taking the Performa invoice & after evaluating them placing the order.
• Educating employees on Safety procedures conduct & discipline rules, Management policy communication and maintaining basic welfare amenities
• Have been successful in identifying resources till COO level well within the time frame
• Was solely responsible for all recruitment activities across 16 locations
• Hired 8 Expats P1- captains at zero cost, which saved about 20000 USD in a time span of 45 days.
• Drastically reduced the recruitment costs for the organization.
• Organizing Help Desk and employee grievance meetings at all locations and also introduced the concept of fun @ work
• Responsible for Office Maintenance, House Keeping, Securities, Transportation on daily basis, Pilots Accommodation, Hotel Accommodation, Guest Houses. Telephones, Project works, Negotiation with Vendors, Airport Maintenance, AMC's etc.
e4e Business Solutions India Pvt Ltd, www.e4e.com
Designation: Executive - HR May 2007 - June 2009
e4e business solution India Pvt Ltd is headquartered at Santa Clara. It is mainly into IT Infrastructure and Technical Support provider to its business partners and clients across the globe. It is a 100% subsidiary of e4e Labs and is located in Phoenix, Santa Clara and Hunt Valley in the USA, Glasgow in Scotland and Bangalore, India.
Talent Acquisition (Recruitment)
• Lead, plan and manage the overall recruiting processes (from initiation till candidate on board)
• Single point of Contact for all the recruitment activities of the organization
• Drive Recruitments through: ❖ Consultant Drives.
❖ Campus Hires
❖ Job Fairs.
❖ Internal Job Postings
❖ Referrals.
❖ Head Hunting
• Reporting to the Sr. Director of HR and EVP of the organization.
• Conducting Initial Technical screening & administering Language test
• Preparing offer letters for the new joinees
• Fixing up the salary for all levels of hiring till TL
• Induction to the candidates on the date of joining.
Achievements
• Recruited the best Right Talents within a short span of time.
• Drastically reduced the recruitment costs for the organization.
• Ramped up 650 resources in 6 months time.
• Cash award from the Management for "Outstanding Performance"
SUTHERLAND GLOBAL SERVICES www.suth.com
Designation: Associate- HR July 2006 -May 2007
Role
• Taking care of walk-in interviews and preparing reports by end of the day.
• Conducting both Initial screening and coordinating with the panel members and the candidates.
• Taking care of the requirements of a particular program by Head Hunt and through Sourcing.
• Has been a part of consultancy drive, Job Fairs and out station recruitment.
• Has recruited for an Enterprise Support program alone which is a tough task