Vaishali Kamath, People Engagement Partner

Vaishali Kamath

People Engagement Partner

Careem

Location
United Arab Emirates
Education
Master's degree, Human Resources
Experience
10 years, 5 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :10 years, 5 Months

People Engagement Partner at Careem
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • July 2017 to February 2020

Provided strategic thought leadership to SVP s of various business units to help drive business results that optimized
talent, structure, process and culture.
• Identified key initiatives and executed these to facilitate a healthy colleague NPS for various Business Units.
• Created and executed a talent strategy to ensure that net hea dcount movement is stable and key talent churn is low .
• Worked with people leaders to closely monitor people costs and w orkforce distribution. Successfully managed
workforce planning and hiring within budgets allocated for m y Business Units.
• Facilitated succession planning by identifying critical roles, successors (including readiness) and successor pool
development.
• Worked with HQ Talent Acquisition teams to facilitate Internal Talent Mobility for 30% vacancies within my Business
Units, enabling colleagues with opportunities to learn, grow, help reduce productivity loss and strengthen knowledge
transfer within the business.
• Managed talent reviews for teams in HQ with business leaders to develop managerial capability for people managers
as talent developers to identify/retain/develop and engage t alent.
• Strengthened monthly 1:1 practice embedded - had the highest completion rate of 80% in 2019 (YTD).
• Drove the inclusion and diversity agenda for my Business Unit s. Women in leadership roles rose from 14% to 20%
(overall) in 2019.

Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist at Noon.com
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • April 2016 to June 2017

• Colleague #30 on the launch team responsible for leading all hiring initiatives for Product Management.
• Optimized existing process for clarity and speed. R educed Recruitment turnaround time by 80%.
• Successfully scaled the Product team by 6.6x within 6 months of joining the team.
• Ensured that the team was fully staffed to roll out initiativ es for launch.
• Provided visibility through daily dashboards to key stakeholders .
• Helped execute our systems strategy by facilitating the roll out of Greenhouse by training people leaders on using the system.
Co-Founder

Co-Founder & COO at Innovic International LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • July 2014 to March 2016

•Created a business plan including product portfolio, price po ints, sales forecasts, special features, all existing and new channels of distribution, sales promotions and advertising t hat will be used to market the lead generation product-line.
• Drove HR, Operations, Strategy and complete P&L responsibility.
• Recruited, coached and led a team of 5.
• Designed and implemented sales strategies, ensuring business growth target of 70% and increased customer base by 12%.
• Identified and developed key accounts across the MENA region t o achieve business profitability.

Human Resources Manager at Maxell International
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • October 2012 to May 2014

•Hired to set up the company's first in-house HR function.
• Designed all policies, processes in line with labour laws and industry norms.
• Ensured that all colleagues were legally compliant; facilitat ed employee relations (internal & external) and day -to-day
operational, on the ground, support.
• Created and rolled out several employer branding, engagement and CSR initiatives.
• Project managed strategic hiring mandates at leadership level.

Recruitment Consultant at Align HR
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • June 2011 to September 2012

• Consistently met targets set on a monthly & quarterly basis.
• Generated a pipeline of AED 0.5 Million for the billing year .
• Encashed AED 250, 000 within the first quarter of joining .

HR Executive at Novartis India Limited
  • India - Mumbai
  • January 2010 to December 2010

• Designed and developed campus recruitment drive which was imp lemented for the first time in Novartis, this resulted in
successfully recruiting 20 Sales Management Trainees PAN India.
• Re-designed the new employee orientation and onboarding program fo r 30-60-90-day program.
• Successfully reduced agency spend by 30% through direct sourc ing for various roles.
• Created and rolled out several engagement activities and init iatives for a business unit of 300 colleagues.
• Maintained a 95% accuracy of all employee records, as per com pliance scores within the business.
• Facilitated employee relations (internal & external) and day -to-day operational, on the ground, support.

Administrative Assistant at Dubai Men's College
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • September 2007 to May 2008

Hired in contractual capacity to help support in administrati ve duties to the Student services Department at DMC.

Education

Master's degree, Human Resources
  • at University of Wollongong
  • November 2008

Graduated in Masters of strategic human resources with distinction

Specialties & Skills

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Reference Checking
Database Management
Headhunting
Business Partnering
Thought Leadership
HR Operations, Recruitment
Worforce Planning
Employee Management
Employee Engagement

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Marathi
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

LinkedIn Certified Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2018
Valid Until:
December 2020

Hobbies

  • Gardening, Reading, Fitness, Music, Travel