Rashmi Hegde

Professional Summary

Experienced HR Business Partner with a successful record of performance in global settings and highly matrixed organizations, with strong project management skills. Strategic partner for Line executives and Senior Leadership to proactively address business issues related to work force planning and development, employee engagement and productivity. Skills:

Learning and Development Performance Management Compensation Succession Planning Workforce Planning Talent Acquisition Project Management Nestlé Nutrition North America (Gerber) March 2017 – Nov 2017 Achievements

Role &

Responsibilities

HR Consultant (on contract) Location, Florham Park, NJ Successfully reviewed, upgraded and executed talent development and training programs that addressed organizational needs and resources, including communication master plan and strategy. Successfully executed Project Management responsibilities of a major reorganization event under tight deadlines and internal compliance guidelines.

• Assisted in the creation of internal control documents to record project execution, monitoring project development and modifying as project requirements evolved, keeping all stakeholders communication needs under consideration.

• Led the upgrade of the design and roll out of the corporate mentoring program for Infant Nutrition employees; developed processes and templates to improve the cycle roll out and future sustainability.

• Assisted in creation of training related materials, such as training calendar, course catalog and other related documents. Played a key role in the successful launch of the internal training page of the company

• Managed, planned, and executed workshops to educate employees on usage of the newly launched internal performance tool (to record and document information)

• Led special projects by clarifying project objective; setting timelines and schedules; developing and organizing information; fulfilling transactions as required; identifying and resolving basic issues with escalation to Associate Director HR / VP HR, as needed.

• Conducted new hire interviews and termination process (exit interviews) gathering insights and sharing them with the HR Business Partner in charge of the function. Tata International Ltd Feb 2014 – April 2016

Achievements

Role &

Responsibilities

Senior Manager – Talent Management Location, Mumbai, India Successfully co-lead Executive level Talent Acquisition and provided support to global teams across business verticals (India, South Africa, Southeast Asia, Europe, Canada and Americas) in a heavily matrixed environment.

• Reorganized and deployed a recruiting system which was more efficient that the existing one and helped close positions within TAT’s

• Created and implemented a Campus hiring plan as part of the overall Talent Strategy

• Created a Talent assessment framework and conducted a pilot to evaluate feasibility of the framework

• Designed the framework & implemented Reward & Recognition program in one of the business verticals based on productivity measures

• Developed Talent Strategy for the Organization based on Organizational strategy, HR Vision & Goals and overall HR strategy

• Revised and effected strategies, procedure and policies to manage talent acquisition across levels, specifically at Executive level to support the organizational strategy

• Responsible for Talent acquisition at senior levels, hiring for Leadership /Critical roles with extensive focus on the Africa market

• Developed & implemented Campus strategy for intake of new talent & built relationships with identified campuses.

• Designed, established & implemented a talent assessment process to cater for future organizational requirements.

• Rolled out Employee Engagement survey & executed developed an action plan based on insights to increase engagement levels in the organization

• Planned and implemented Learning and Development initiatives/interventions/knowledge sharing sessions

• Facilitated coaching assignments at Executive levels to improve leadership effectiveness & managerial performance.

Kotak Securities Ltd August 2007 – January 2014

Achievements

Senior Manager – Human Resources Location, Mumbai, India

Provided at a Regional level, HR direction, strategy and counsel for over 1,000 employees in the Financial Sales, Trade Advisory and Research business divisions. Developed and grew relationships with senior Sales management to act as advisor; demonstrated extensive understanding of the Sales area.

• Effectively handling the western region (India) comprising of 900 – 1000 employees leading all HR initiatives in the region like productivity management, employee engagement, learning initiatives

• Planned & executed manpower sourcing & on-boarding to successfully ramp up head count by 273 within four months in the financial year 09-10 given a business requirement.

• Designed & Implemented the Employee Referral Program leading to the achievement of recruitment targets and cost reduction.

• Effectively increased recruitment though internal channels by 18%.

• Created 400+ job descriptions which formed the basis of KRA’s to measure KPI’s for non-sales Role &

Responsibilities

functions.

• Worked on health-related benefits provided to employees in the organization to further streamline the process.

• Successfully launched a web based medium as an informal platform for recognition of employees within 3 weeks in-house in conjunction with IT team.

• Talent Acquisition & On-Boarding: Managed end-to-end Talent Acquisition Process across levels & various business functions which involved Manpower Planning and Forecasting, Evolving Job descriptions, Sourcing, Screening, Planning and execution of logistics, Conducting Interviews, Background Checks, Compensation Negotiation and Timely Closure of Manpower requisition

• Performance Management System: Worked closely with the business leaders & business teams in decisions relating to work force budgeting & allocation & team productivity.

• Formulated & implemented targets, incentive policy and reward & recognition program for the business verticals in conjunction with Business Heads;

• Measurement of performances of individuals on a regular basis through performance enhancement program for increased productivity of employees

• Pre-Launch, Launch & Implementation of Annual PMS for the managed businesses

• Talent Management & OD: Successfully lead an initiative for talent development for branch managers & cluster managers

• Collaborated with business leaders to drive the talent development agenda to build leadership capabilities and internal talent pipelines through interventions such as defining career roadmaps and having talent conversations, facilitating talent movements, implementing Development Centre, coaching and developing managers to become effective leaders.

• Implemented Employee satisfaction surveys & creation of action plan based on survey results for the managed businesses

• Compensation & Benefits: Designed salary matrix based on prevalent compensation standards in the industry & compensation surveys

• Responsible for compensation & benefit analysis with Hewitt & reviewing the existing compensation strategy keeping in line with industry standards

• Others HR initiatives: Employee Initiatives & Engagement, Employee Services, Database Management & HR-MIS, Training, Confirmations & Transfers Harvest Strategies June 2004 – July 2007

Achievements

Role &

Responsibilities

Senior Associate – Recruitment Location, Mumbai, India Responsible for 5 client accounts, tasked with supporting the business operations, strategy, including coordinating performance and revenue monitoring. Orchestrate all aspects of staffing and recruitment, ensuring the talent and skills necessary within the team.

• Independently handling client mandates managing all key client accounts

• Efficient handling of cross functional duties across clients in absence of a regular team Inducting and mentoring new recruits about organizational culture and provide general on-boarding

• Headhunted & Sourced pertinent resumes from job portals and aggressive networking

• Headhunted candidates for client requirements from companies across industries like, BPO-ITES, IT, Financial services, Engineering Services, Event management, etc.

• Briefed candidates about relevant information related to job profile, responsibilities and remuneration break up

• Evaluated prospective candidates with reference to the assigned job mandates by assessing and interviewing them, thereby short listing suitable candidates

• Co-ordination with clients and candidates through regular follow-ups, scheduling interviews, maintaining candidate interest levels until the date of joining, salary negotiations, etc.

• Maintained MIS’s & databanks of applications along with short listed candidates

• Conducted Reference checks

Educational Qualification

Degree Institution

Executive Post Graduate Diploma in Human Resource

Management

Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India

Post Graduate Diploma in Pharmaceutical Management SIES College of Management Studies, Mumbai, India Bachelor of Science, Life Sciences Ramnarain Ruia College, Mumbai, India Hand Phone: (M) +1-551-***-**** Email: ac4306@r.postjobfree.com Address: 126, Clifton Place, Apt P-1605, Jersey City, New Jersey 07304

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