Vrinda Sood, Head C&B MEA

Vrinda Sood

Head C&B MEA

Ecolab

البلد
الإمارات العربية المتحدة - دبي
التعليم
ماجستير, HR and Finance
الخبرات
15 years, 1 أشهر

مشاركة سيرتي الذاتية

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الخبرة العملية

مجموع سنوات الخبرة :15 years, 1 أشهر

Head C&B MEA في Ecolab
  • الإمارات العربية المتحدة - دبي
  • أشغل هذه الوظيفة منذ سبتمبر 2016

Ecolab (estd 1923) is an American global provider of water, hygiene and energy technologies and services to the food, energy, healthcare, industrial and hospitality markets - is a $14Bn group & has 49K associates.
Report to VP HR META & Global VP Compensation & Benefits
• Head compensation and benefits for Middle East and Africa region for Ecolab which also includes Turkey, Israel and Pakistan - covers more than 2000 associates in 40+ countries.
• Driving all C&B related processes such as merit, bonus, sales incentives, market adjustments and executive compensation etc. for the region.
• Driving stakeholder management for alignments on projects and initiatives
• Ensuring cost consciousness while evaluating compensation decisions, as well as, from external and internal equity standpoint.
• Proactively review market dynamics (Localization of talent, Saudization, BBBEE, Egypt Inflation, Turkey Lira devaluation etc.) to retain & attract best talent.
• Driving harmonization of allowances & benefits project to streamline the compensation structures of associates acquired during acquisitions. Result to have consistent & market aligned structures by country and grade.
• Support M&A activities for the region from entity integration, C&B and grading standpoint. Successfully completed integration of 2 plants in Saudi Arabia with a saving of SAR 1 million. Worked on 4 acquisitions in the last 2.5 years (from due diligence to complete integration & harmonization).
• Redesigned sales incentive plans, country bonus plans for the region to have well defined, consistent and performance linked plans that drive business performance - resulted in better governance and administration of bonus to the tune of $ 5 million.
• Created MEA C&B Playbook and lead project to scale it up globally to support the HR and business leaders globally to better understand and drive C&B processes. Serves as a one stop shop for all C&B related materials, providing more clarity, transparency and better speed of delivery, also empower managers, leaders and HR locally.
• PMO Leader - Organizational design & effectiveness - business growth & optimization
• Corporate Spin off - part of the project team working on the separation of $2.5 billion upstream business
• Driving Policy reviews - car benefits, HR policies, other employee benefits
• Championing change management to drive productivity, agility and effectiveness to the business from C&B standpoint by bringing in robust frameworks, principles, processes, templates and alignment to total rewards view.
• As COE lead, work as an in-house consultant to solution day to day issues in concerned area.
• Partner with finance leaders to develop and grow the finance organization.

Senior Manager Total Rewards في Bharti Airtel Ltd
  • الهند - جورجاون
  • ديسمبر 2014 إلى سبتمبر 2016

Airtel (estd 1995) is India’s biggest telecommunications services company that operates in 20 countries across Asia and Africa - is a $14Bn group with over 26K employees globally.
Reported directly to SVP & Head Global Rewards
Global Mobility:
• Led the expats management team responsible for 200+ expats in 28 countries across Africa, Middle East, USA, UK, Singapore, Hong Kong and chairing cross functional team for mobility automation process - right from identification of vendor to planning, design and implementation
• As Global Mobility lead, designed robust mobility frameworks & Global Mobility policy.
• Well experienced with complete lifecycle management of expats from package creation to ongoing policy interventions, like annual merit increments, COLA and currency revisions, tax, social security and other compliances.
• Led mobility policy & benefit review & benchmarking to ensure market competitiveness & compliance.
• Led the design of a new, competitive and more effective expatriation model for Airtel globally.
• Designed global mobility process with clear responsibilities, DOAs, escalation matrices and SLAs, bringing in standardization, clarity and time efficiencies.
• Established stringent governing & audit framework - resulting in USD 350K as direct savings.

Rewards Partnering:
• Rewards lead for Airtel’s B2B division (2000+ employees)- Enterprise and Government Business, Global Business & Nxtra data centre supporting employees across Africa, India, US, Middle East, Europe, Hong Kong and Singapore.
• Responsible for driving rewards interventions such as job evaluation process, senior hire offers, salary benchmarking (telecom forum), ring-fencing, special interventions, designing sales incentive plans, org effectiveness and pay ranges.
• Led sales incentive plan benchmarking both internally and externally.
• Partnered with business on annual salary review process for Bangladesh, Sri Lanka & B2B division (2500+ employees). Led job evaluation process centrally as a part of the annual performance review.
• Recommended enhancements and built capabilities for end users for online compensation tool (IBM’s Reward+), as internal lead for this system.

Guest faculty في Master School of Mgmt
  • الهند - دلهي
  • يناير 2016 إلى يونيو 2016
Manager Global Rewards في Ranbaxy Laboratories
  • الهند - جورجاون
  • يونيو 2011 إلى ديسمبر 2014

Ranbaxy (now Sun Pharma - estd 1961) HQ in India is global organization & is the world’s fifth largest specialty generic pharmaceutical company - had over 15K employees across 45+ countries.
Reported directly to Global Head of Rewards

Rewards Partnering/ Rewards Policy:
• Drove annual salary review processes, market corrections, increments, bonuses & promotions, compensation benchmarking across emerging markets APAC, Middle East, Africa and LATAM.
• Worked on executive compensation benchmarking for India.
• Drafted key policies on rewards - principles for increments/ bonus etc.
Global Mobility:
• Led the expats management process globally across 40+ countries for over 120+ expats.
• Designed expat compensation packages factoring in cost of living, hardship, currency exchange rates fluctuations, tax and social security differentials, along with driving end to end operations.
Global Job Leveling & Job Evaluations/ Org Effectiveness:
• Internal subject matter expert on job evaluations using Hay methodology (certified).
• Evaluated over 3000+ roles globally, ensuring global equivalences.
• Led global implementation of the online job evaluation tool (JEM).
• Drove organization-wide process of identification & creation of job families, unique jobs & job dictionary.
• Extensively worked on reviewing grading structure.
Change Management and M&A:
• Worked extensively on policy & process mapping during Ranbaxy - Sun Pharmaceutical merger, as a part of the integration team representing HR SME functions (Rewards, Performance & Talent Management).
Performance Management:
• Led performance management process globally for over 6, 000 employees.
• Drove activities ranging from target/ KRA setting, to mid-year review to normalization.
• Conceptualized the design for the online performance management system to include appraisal on KRAs, behaviors competencies, 360 feedback, KRA cascade and developmental interventions.
• Subsequently, led transition & implementation of new tool ahead of timeline, ensuring end user communication, capability building & training.
Global Talent Management:
• Designed effective talent management process and creation of ‘Talent books’ globally upto CXO level.
• Identified and planned developmental interventions of hi-potential talent globally. Facilitated creation of talent pipeline/ succession plans for critical roles.
Recognition, HR Business Partnering:
• Project manager for the company’s biggest & global recognition program (Ranbaxy WAY Awards).
• Responsible for providing HR support (performance management, grievance handling, PIPs etc.) to HR and admin employees (40+).

Associate, Programming Analyst في Convergys Information Management
  • الهند - حيدر اباد
  • يونيو 2007 إلى يونيو 2009

• Worked on AT&T telecom billing system - application development and maintenance.
• Project manager for AT&T’s server (client) migration. Platform: AS/400, Mainframes, Unix and PL/SQL

الخلفية التعليمية

ماجستير, HR and Finance
  • في Nirma University
  • أبريل 2011

بكالوريوس, Electronics & Communication Engineering
  • في PTU
  • أبريل 2007

courses: IET Bhaddal, Punjab (Aug ’03 – Jun ’07)

Specialties & Skills

Performance Management
Change Management
Stakeholder Management
Total Rewards
Compensation Strategy
ACQUISITIONS
BENCHMARKING
BENEFITS ADMINISTRATION
CHANGE MANAGEMENT
HUMAN RESOURCES
TAX PLANNING
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Expatriate Management
Project Management
Talent Management
Job Evaluations
Performance Management
Mergers & acquisitions
Integrations
HR Strategy
Global Mobility
Organization Effectiveness
Organization Design
HR Policies
Digitization
HR Automation
HR Analytics
Harmonization
stakeholder management
Compensation & benefits
HR Business Partnering
Benchmarking : Mercer - Willis Tower Watson - Hay – Aon Hewitt

التدريب و الشهادات

Korn Ferry Assessment of Leadership Potential (KFLAP): Certification (الشهادة)
تاريخ الدورة:
April 2019
Hay Group (Korn Ferry) Job Evaluation (الشهادة)
تاريخ الدورة:
June 2013
AON Hewitt CRP (Certified Rewards Professional) (الشهادة)
تاريخ الدورة:
June 2016

الهوايات

  • Hiking/backpacking