CURRICULUM VITAE
Rajesh Gupta
Email :abi4e8@r.postjobfree.com
Mobile: 835-***-****
MBA - HR in Top - 10 B'School (Full Time) with 19 yrs of hardcore
experience in Generalist role on 9 verticals. Looking forward for a
challenging position in growth oriented organization to best utilize my
experience with scope for Learning.
Area of experience
Verticals Human Resources
Operations
Manufacturing Change & Talent Management
Administration
Retail Shared Services & HRBP
Legal
IT HR
Implementation from scratch PPC & EDP
B2B Recruitment (International &
Campus) Stores & Purchase
Agro Products Performance Management System
MD Secretariat
Engineering HRIS Implementation & HR Audit
Liasioning
Real Estate Compensation & Benefits
Maintenance
Logistics Learning & Development
Facilities Management
Automobiles Organizational Development
Security
Mergers & Acquisitions
Personnel
Multi-Nation & Pan-India
Role Quality Control
Succession Planning
Industrial Relations
Education Computer Skills
Language Proficiency
MBA-HR Visual Basic, Oracle 8i
Hindi, Marathi
Bsc-Computer JAVA, C++, Data warehousing
Telugu, Kannada
E-Commerce Navision, SAP
Tamil, Malayalam
Surveys on HR
Surveys on Training
Future staff needs evaluation
Event Evaluations
Technical support evaluation
Trainer competencies evaluation
My company as a work place
Training services evaluation
Employee Benefits survey
Post training impact evaluation
Job Stress & Climate
Seminar feedback
Job support and empowerment
Outcome evaluation
Team work effectiveness
Training needs evaluation
Recruitment evaluation survey
Process evaluation
Advancement opportunities
Training feedback
Communications Analysis
Exit Interview surveys
Brain Child
Conceptualized, Designed, Developed and Implemented MD Secretariat and SOS
(Success on Schedule).
Developed products Ashtavinayak, Rudraksha and Few Yantras are my Brain
Child.
Developed filling machines concept is my Brain Child for which I received
Best BLISS Employee Award for the year 2002.
Presently working for Inter Carat group of companies from July 2006 as
Group Head Corporate-HR & Operations for 4 verticals viz. Manufacturing,
Retail, B2B & IT reporting to Managing Director and Director.
Inter carat is a member company of 147 yrs old J.E.Hammer&Sohne,GMBH with
3700+ employees.
Top cost saver for past 3 yrs hence Head-Operations position was created
for me as additional responsibility.
Employee opinion Survey: This is done twice a year to get a feedback from
employees on various aspects such as supervisor, work environment, system &
procedure of the organization etc.
Set up the HR team and all policies & procedures etc from scratch.
Facilitated organizational restructuring designed job profiles and evolved
career paths as a mechanism for role clarity, development and growth.
Established quick recruitment & selection practices.
Competency mapping and linking to all job profiles.
Identification of training needs, designing the Training calendar,
initiated the process of T & D.
Recruitment
Recruited over 640 Employees in Executive and Managerial Level.
Selected candidates thru campus Interview in 8 states in India with
strength of 150 students as well as for our abroad offices in 33 countries.
Deadlines and challenges where met on the right time for right recruitment.
Improved the image of the company at the time of recruitment so that today
lot many voluntary applications are received which enables fast
recruitment.
Established nation wide personal contacts with placement agencies for fast
and right recruitment.
Campus Recruitment
A complete policy has been formulated for campus recruitment process.
After Scrutinizing profiles received from institutions brief presentations
on all 4 verticals to students.
Initial written test on all the verticals to understand their capabilities
is structured for elimination.
Group Discussions rounds are conducted with current topics.
After completing the above process the candidate will be called for a
personal interview in the campus.
Questionnaire is developed to assess the various capabilities in the
candidate.
After completing & comparing results from interviews in various
institutions results are declared.
Every campus interview takes 3 days for completion of the process since the
entire personal interview process consumes more time.
PPT presentation for students amidst of queries.
All our recruited marketing team are MBA's from prestigious institutions
across the country.
Trained my HR team on selection practices for Campus Interview.
Organized job Mela for our group companies alone at Cuttack-Orrisa from 18
reputed colleges.
Operations
Designed and Implemented Various organizational policies - Travel,
Housekeeping, Visitor, Vendor Management, Purchase, Security Management,
Fire management & Facilities Management.
Identifying and Installing Intranet / Internet Access control system across
verticals in all offices.
23 yrs of exp in LAN/WAN architecture with 10 yrs exp in senior level
linking across states.
Finalized IT functions on new initiatives.
Entire responsibility reg IT from system study to implementation.
Hands on exp in analyzing needs of data for each level and established MD
secratariat without extra cost.
Completed System study and designed & implemented entire HR process for
11companies with at most satisfaction of customer.
Received BEST COST SAVER AWARD continuously for Past 3 yrs.
Setting up IT infrastructure-Procurement, Installation, Operations,
Maintenance, Constant updating and System Security.
Overall Administration and Coordination with employees in offices.
Setting up offices by coordinating with Builder / Architect / Brokers /
Vendors.
Inventory management System - Implementing control of office supplies /
stationery.
Project Management - Developed project plans / budgets / Websites.
Procurement of insurance policies (Fire/ Burglary / Earthquake / Commercial
liability etc )
Interaction with various agencies - government and private to ensure
compliance.
Admin dept's Maintenance, Security, Purchase, Liasioning, Legal, IT for
factory & Offices in PAN-INDIA level are reporting to my position.
Compensation & Benefits for B2B team is decided by my position on PAN-INDIA
Level. Hence jewelry retail market scenario is periodically updated.
Hired external QC in order to make understand the employees on the problems
faced by customers.
Exporters & Customers QC had huge impact on improvement of Quality.
Trained on QC from group companies provided me to scope of improvement on
the manufacturing process.
Involvement in PPC provided me to gain ideas and be visionary for the
planning.
Responsibilities on MD Secretariat gave access to Info on Accounts dept Viz
cash on hand, gold Stock, work-in-progress, diamond stock in Factory and
diamond Office etc.
Jewelry manufacturing efficiency was improvised avoiding wastage of time
due to various reasons viz calculating workers efficiency, Reducing while
away time in completion of jobs, Rewards scheme, planning for next day
start of work on time etc.
Compensation & Benefits
Designed and Implemented C&B policy for all the 4 Verticals.
Presently designed a new C&B policy for RSM & Manager-Retail top in each
states on Profit-Sharing basis.
Providing expertise and guidance to all the level in hierarchy.
Updating with the present C&B policy of the entire competitor's nationwide
once in 3 months and on track for improvements in our policy.
Implemented the C&B policy in comparsion with similar grades of
competitor's.
Conducting salary survey's periodically thru trainees for all the states of
our operation w.r.t retail and marketing vertical.
C&B is linked with our performance software to keep EE's on track.
Assigning project work for student's pursuing MBA -HR & Marketing for
market survey &salary &incentives analysis enables us to be competitive &
updated.
Independently handling C&B and I am the final decision maker.
MD SECRATARIAT
Conceptualized, Designed, Developed and Implemented the whole system.
Integrated data for perfect presentability.
Data Shared by all our international offices in 33 countries.
Trained 12 EE's in whole from each department to send daily reports to Top
Mgmt.
Understanding on various data from each dept in angle of top management and
hence perfect presentation to their at most satisfaction was achieved.
Selected and Trained EE's internally to avoid excess cost.
Avoided conflicts in data presented by each dept (Key Reason for MD
Secretariat)
Perfect decisions can be made by Top management with the data provided.
Developed easy formats to avoid tedious search for data.
Achievement
Facilitating senior managers in developing KRA's linked to the business
objectives.
Talent engagement conducting assessment centers for career progression.
Revamped the recruitment process.
Introduced and implemented a training policy / process in the company.
Designed and implemented an integrated HR framework across the
Organization.
Developed and introduced Performance Linked Incentives for the entire sales
Force.
Introduced and implemented a training policy/process in the company.
Designed & implemented a 360-degree PMS Feedback system
Restructured the workforce through right sizing while retaining core
talent.
Formation of MD Secratariat is my Brain Child
Managed effectively many high pressure situations like prevention of strike
and other agitation at declaration of increment & renewal of agreement.
Designed and developed Training manual for Management Trainees.
Morale building, Brand building & Controlled Attrition.
Feb' 2000 - Jun'2006 Stanpacks India Ltd, Bliss Group of companies, Chennai
Handled 7 verticals Viz Manufacturing, Logistics, Real Estate, Agro
products, Marketing, Engineering & IT.
Group General Manager - Human Resources & Operations reporting to Chairman,
MD, JMD, Directors & CEO.
BLISS Group has 16 member Companies with 2 listed companies in its Flagship
operating in 5 States with 5000+ Employees.
This Chennai based Group is a pioneer in the field of packaging having
served the packaging industry for more than 45 years. Recognizing the
enormous potential for packing requirements in India, the group along with
me opted for specialization in Waterproof Packing Materials manufacturing.
Achievements:
Developed filling machines concept is my brain child for which I received
Best BLISS Employee Award for the year 2002.
The plant has been now setup in Bangalore and the machine is launched. This
is the one of my major contribution to the company. A major contribution of
liasioning work such as negotiating with the banks, Govt. etc was done by
me. The product is developed through Stan packs (I) Ltd a Listed company of
Bliss Group.
A good system of performance appraisal, which was developed, reduced the
attrition rate to 6%.
Developed payment systems for meritorious work
Executive compensation plans were planned and executed.
Pay structures are graphically represented as information tools.
Developed Increment systems based on performance.
Compensation plan made based on the emerging trends.
Instrumental in procuring loan for 5 Crore from bank in crisis situation a
major contribution by me to the company.
Organizational Development:
Successfully incepted HR function in to businesses from scratch into a
profitable Companies.
Effective Project Management.
Day-to-day monitoring of Industrial Relations of the Plant.
Signed long term settlements with the Union.
Building a strong organizational culture.
Developed overall HR climate conducive to fostering growth for individuals
and organization.
Reviewing existing systems & processes. Design, recommend, communicate &
implement HR systems / policies / procedures across the group for most
effective and efficient operations.
Training & development
Identifying the training needs across the organization at various levels.
Imparting appropriate in house training to the team so as to attain service
excellence & teamwork.
Manpower management and budgeting.
Follow up the manpower performance and implement the target monitoring.
Successfully initiating and managing improvement in work methods, systems
and procedures.
Effectively appraising, developing and motivating team members to achieve
agreed targets
Conceptualized and implemented Hire a Friend scheme.
Recruited over 500 employees in managerial/non-managerial positions in the
technical/non technical streams through large-scale Open Selection, Walk-in-
Interviews, Campus placements, Tests & Interviews at multiple venues across
Northern and Southern India.
Responsible for coordinating with project management functions for resource
planning and allocation.
Organized Functional & behavioral training.
Monitoring the training feedback system.
Achieved Sizable reduction in absenteeism by way of counseling.
JayKay Industries Ltd Bangalore Assistant Manager-HR & Administration; from
March 1995 to Jan 2000.
Achievement/Projects:
Marketing facilities was analyzed and setup was framed accordingly and
successfully launched the implementation of marketing process.
Training the users for handling the products in the industry. Liaised with
Government officials of Ministries, Secretariat, State Electricity
Department, State Industrial & Development Corporation of Karnataka Ltd.
District level authorities, Labour Departments, Pollution Control Board &
various other Non-Government Organizations.
Key result areas are including achieving the accelerated growth in the
volume.
Coordinate closely in preparation of the competitive bids and convert the
bids into contracts.
Manpower planning in accordance with business objective, anticipated
business requirement and attrition analysis.
Lead, plan, manage and direct the overall recruiting process including
leading a team of recruiters.
Introduced various dashboards on recruitment, employee care as well on
monthly/quarterly and yearly basis.
Identification and documentation of process maps for all functions to
analyze and enhance response to employees and organizational needs.
Empanelled hospitals for treatment and health check-up benefits.
Organized health awareness programs by inviting eminent doctors to interact
with employees interactive sessions.
Creating work culture and relationship of mutual faith, rust and harmony,
commitment, satisfaction and motivation.
Handling Competency Mapping across the organization.
Identifying and fulfilling Training needs.
Designing Performance and potential Management systems.
Motivation and Organization Development Interventions.
Conceptualizing, planning and implementing HRD strategies.
Compensation and Benefit Administration.
Designed& Implemented induction programs for new EE"s
July' 1994 to Feb 1995 date at Coir-on as Executive-HR
I was selected in campus interview. It is a subsidiary concern of COIR-ON
Ltd.
Conducting training programs for the staff. Managing the back office
.Addressing client queries/ concerns.
Administering smooth conduct of meetings/ seminars across units. Liaison
with local administrative bodies.
Co-ordinating maintenance of attendance & leave records for calculation of
salaries & wages. Supervising all administration related activities
including Housekeeping, Infrastructure management, facilities planning,
security, transport, canteen and atmost utilization of resources.
COMPUTER SKILLS
FORTRAN, COBOL, Pascal, C, C++, Java,VB, SAP
C++ and Java trained from Aptech Ltd. Chennai.
E-Commerce from Radiant Software Chennai.
SQL Server 7.0, Oracle 8i, Developer 2000, Data Based Administration, Data
Warehousing.
Web Connectivity Tools, ODBC, ADO, VB Scripts, Active X, E-Forms, Web
Marketing
Experience on Microsoft Office Products.
Implemented HRIS system on ERP SAP & Navision
23 yrs of exp in LAN/WAN architecture
MBA-HR PSG Institute of Management Affiliated to 1992-1994
Bharathiar University Coimbatore
BSc-Computer CBM College Affiliated to Bharathiar 1989-1992
University Coimbatore
SRIMBHSS Coimbatore 1987-1989
HSC
SSC SRIMBHSS Coimbatore 1987
Distinctive Academic Achievement
Developed & Implemented Financial Accounting System in FoxPro for Lakshmi
Textile Exporters Ltd Coimbatore and secured 1st place in Bharathiyar
University with 93%.
Distinctive Professional Achievements:
Designed and implemented HR policies concerning employees, multi-skilling
at all levels and productivity linked incentive for employees.
Proven strength in co-ordination, Perseverance and Decision-making.
Highly adaptable & result oriented; thrive on challenges and excel in new
environments.
Highly achievement oriented with an ability to develop effective strategies
excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills.
Ability to achieve results against all odds.
Ken and quick learner constantly working towards increasing knowledge base.
Efficient in working with multi-cultural/ International environment.
Enjoy being a change agent.
An out-of-the-box thinker with the distinction of having introduced and
streamlined HR policies/practices successfully.