Vaishali Kamath, People Engagement Partner

Vaishali Kamath

People Engagement Partner

Careem

Lieu
Émirats Arabes Unis
Éducation
Master, Human Resources
Expérience
10 years, 5 Mois

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Expériences professionnelles

Total des années d'expérience :10 years, 5 Mois

People Engagement Partner à Careem
  • Émirats Arabes Unis - Dubaï
  • juillet 2017 à février 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 à Noon.com
  • Émirats Arabes Unis - Dubaï
  • avril 2016 à juin 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 à Innovic International LLC
  • Émirats Arabes Unis - Dubaï
  • juillet 2014 à mars 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 à Maxell International
  • Émirats Arabes Unis - Dubaï
  • octobre 2012 à mai 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 à Align HR
  • Émirats Arabes Unis - Dubaï
  • juin 2011 à septembre 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 à Novartis India Limited
  • Inde - Mumbai
  • janvier 2010 à décembre 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 à Dubai Men's College
  • Émirats Arabes Unis - Dubaï
  • septembre 2007 à mai 2008

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

Éducation

Master, Human Resources
  • à University of Wollongong
  • novembre 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

Langues

Anglais
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Marathi
Moyen

Formation et Diplômes

LinkedIn Certified Professional (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
December 2018
Valide jusqu'à:
December 2020

Loisirs

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