Lucky Kulkarni

EXECUTIVE PROFILE
• Business-focused Group CHRO and HR Transformation Leader with 27+ years of experience
across manufacturing, logistics, retail, ITES, warehousing, projects, and corporate HR. Trusted
partner to Promoters, CEOs, and Boards in complex, regulated, and unionized environments.
Proven in enterprise transformation, restructuring, leadership, IR stabilization, leadership
hiring, and people governance, combining commercial rigor with legal and cultural depth.
• Modernizing people strategy as business infrastructure for founder-led, legacy, without
disrupting culture, compliance, or continuity.
• Led organization-wide HR transformation & restructuring in partnership with Alvarez & Marsal
and First Act Global, supporting turnaround, operating model reset, and leadership
realignment.
• Delivered ₹1 Cr+ annualized cost savings through strategic HR, manpower rationalization,
productivity improvement, incentive redesign, and budgeting discipline.
• Stabilized high-risk IR environments: union negotiations, litigation closures, and legacy
PF/statutory clean-up, materially reducing operational and reputational risk.
• Built workforce strategy on a scale, including 400+ critical hires (CXOs, leadership, and niche
roles) across multi-location operations.
• Led people integration during acquisitions and ownership transitions, ensuring business
continuity, leadership retention, and statutory compliance.
• Anchored COVID-era workforce continuity, balancing employee safety, regulatory compliance,
and business uptime across plants and distributed operations.
• Strengthened employer brand and external credibility, contributing to awards, industry
recognition, and thought leadership visibility.
• Enabled data-led HR decision-making via manpower analytics, productivity dashboards, and
performance-linked reward frameworks.
• Prepared organizations for wage code and labor law transitions, significantly lowering
compliance exposure.
• Member of Core Management Committee, shaping enterprise growth, organization design,
and culture.
• Direct advisor to Owners, CEO, and Leadership Teams.
• Board exposure, including past role as Independent Director on the Board of a listed FMCG
company.
• Led Corporate HR and Plant HR across multiple Indian geographies.
• Accountable for employee branding, leadership capability building, and succession planning.
• HR strategy & governance | Change & OD | IR & labor law | Workforce productivity |
Compensation & incentives | Leadership hiring & succession | M&A people integration |
Compliance & risk management | Performance management | HR analytics & digitization

Few recent Achievements
Few recent Achievements
1. Supported Company’s Restructuring
exercise for HR function in collaboration
with Alvarez & Marshal
2. Completed HR restructuring covering
Job Evaluation, Total Reward &
Recognition program, Grade & Band
Structure, Salary Benchmarking etc in
collaboration with the consulting
Company “First Act Global Pvt Ltd”.
3. Handled smooth acquisition of
Ahmadabad Based firm with 60+
employees
4. Introduced AI in HR. Automated HR
department completely
5.Strategic HR which brought cost saving
running into few lakhs per month in current
company & 1 cr plus in previous co.
6.Arrested Attrition to a great extend
7. Attracted Best Talent in the industry
8. Got Recognition & reward for the
Company in prestigious forum for the best
HR practices
9. Set Policies & Procedures that changed
company perception Benchmarking Global
HR practice
10. .Resolved all Employee litigation pending
for last few years
11. .Sorted and put to rest the Company Past
PF accumulation matter with PF office
pending since 2009
12. Handled 4 settlements with Union in
current company.
13. Successfully completed 6 appraisal cycle
14. Selection & Recruitment of 400+
employees including CXO level people
15. Drafted the Standing Orders & got it
Certified in previous employment in a span
of 7-8 months
16. Implemented Wage Code