MANOJ KUMAR

: */***, ******* *****, **********, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh – 226010

: 990-***-****

: ac8jr5@r.postjobfree.com

Seeking Senior Position in Human Resource Operations

SUMMARY An experience spanning over more than 15 years across HR Operations and OD functions of large multinational Organizations including more than 11 years in Oil and Gas industry at Corporate as well as at Plant level, with proven track record of being associated with the design and implementation of HR processes and system & OD initiatives aligned with the Strategic and Business goals, successfully managing change management through HR processes and Interventions whilst fostering high performance culture through robust Performance Management Systems. Conversant with driving Developmental initiatives including across Leadership levels as well as Middle Level Managers and fresh graduates, spanning across Needs identification through Assessments and designing Learning paths in line with Talent Management and development strategies. Successfully managed and nurtured a team of HR professionals, ensuring enhancement of their skills in Talent Management and Development and Competency Management for Oil and Gas industry workforce.

EXPERIENCE

October 2016 – Till date Green Gas Limited, (A joint Venture of Indian Oil & GAIL) Head Office, Lucknow

As Head – HR/Admin/Legal/CSR leading complete HR operations along with Legal and CSR with major achievement of drafting HR policies and implementation of policies, processes and procedures across the organization.

August 2005 – September 2016 Essar Oil Ltd., E&P Division, CBM Project, West Bengal

As Head – HR & Admin, lead a team of HR professionals, across HR & OD functions, overseeing complete HR Operations across E&P Division. In stint with Essar, also has experience of setting new business divisions HR processes and systems, driving OD Interventions across various verticals of Essar Energy besides upstream i.e. Exploration and Production, including Mid-stream i.e. Marketing and Retail Operations and Downstream i.e. Refining while also managing HR for the International Oil Supply Planning and Trading Division:

Talent Planning

Talent Acquisition

Talent Management & Development

Performance Management

Compensation & Benefits

Reward & Recognition

Employee Engagement

Global Mobility

Industrial Relations

Key Achievements:

Talent Planning & Acquisition

With a focused approach on mapping internal capabilities during various instances of business restructuring and planning, lead the project of carrying out talent mapping of employees across various divisions of Essar Oil and doing placement fitment to optimize the internal skills sets and then sourcing from the external markets to compliment the inherent capabilities. Responsible for at least 3 of these restructuring and change management processes over the last few years, which included effectively managing the transition of knowledge through processes (MoC model) and personnel.

Lead the manpower planning of the Refinery & Refinery Expansion from 10.5 to 20 MMTPA.

Manpower Planning for E&P, CBM Raniganj for 370 wells.

Business optimization through organization restructuring resulting in manpower reduction at E&P, CBM Raniganj. Total 100 employees exited in senior, middle and junior management cadre.

Preparation and signing off new organization structure by Line Managers at Refinery.

Prepared the concept note on the Essar Real Estate Business with mapping of the organization structure of the all the major Real Estate companies in India.

Prepared the “External Talent Map” for the new business initiatives which was highly appreciated by Vice Chairman of the Essar group.

Recruited senior management professionals for the existing businesses like Steel, Shipping, Oil, Construction and upcoming businesses like Telecom, Realty and Petrochemicals etc.

Recruited the senior management staff for Essar Oil Ltd., Refinery and Corporate office positions before the start of the Jamnagar Refinery in 2005 without a single payout to Consultants.

Recruited the manpower for Refinery Expansion, Petrochemicals and Marketing division, reducing the overall turnaround time by 50%.

Worked out a unique commercially savvy deal with jobsites for all Essar businesses, along with an aggressive branding strategy in the sites.

Talent Management

Defining Career Paths for GET/DET in Refinery through Career Ladders.

Competency Mapping: Technical and Behavior competencies identification for each positions and the individual role wise assessments – SAKSHAM (Competency assessment)

Identification of the key critical positions and succession planning. This also included designing system for effective talent mapping and monitoring including Role rotations and developmental initiatives for Senior Leadership

Leading 3x3 Matrix evaluations based on Performance and Potential of Middle and Senior Management at Refinery & E&P. Mapping of Hiper Hipos and designing developmental programs for emerging talent and high performers

Carrying our periodic Coaching sessions for the emerging talents and designing and monitoring systems in place for effective mentoring of high potential talent

Implemented Thomas Profiling including HJA & PPA – Psychometric profiling of Person fitment to a job

Lead various Team building Interventions across functions to enhance cohesive working at Plant level

Implemented the initiative of carrying out Career planning discussions (Career Desk) with select group of employees as a Pilot project. This project was facilitated by an external consulting agency and guided by an accomplished faculty from IIM-A. Participated in the design of the process, sat in on the discussions as a panel member, and drafted the workbook comprising of comprehensive developmental interventions for the incumbents’ aspirations.

Talent Development:

Preparation of E&P and Refinery training calendar for the whole year with focus on Technical, behavioral and HSEF trainings for Leadership development as well as Middle Level Managers and Plant Engineers

Facilitated execution of Technical Trainings identified by different departments.

Developed the policy on Vocational Training at Essar Oil Ltd., Refinery.

Facilitated & executed onsite technical training program for other refining companies like MRPL & BPCL with revenue generation of more than Rs 1 crore for the company.

Performance Management

Certified on eCompass – comprehensive performance management tool along with other cloud based Human Capital Management Solutions (HCM) which is offered by Success Factors as part of its Business Execution Software solutions using the Software as a service (SaaS) model.

Coordinated, at Refinery, the smooth transition of Performance Management system from paper to online system. This comprised of the first stage of transition of PMS being automated in 2008 followed by the institutionalizing of e-compass in 2010, a customized PMS suite by Success Factors (now acquired by SAP)

Trained Managers and employees on the new PMS suite across Refinery

Managed Performance Reviews which included Quarterly Reviews, Half Yearly Developmental discussions and the final Annual Performance Reviews including Goal setting and KPI monitoring

Coordinated first time implementation of Balance Score Card Methodology while hand-holding Managers and functional heads on designing Scorecards for their functions and their teams.

Managed the Appraisal review metrics while carrying out analysis on Vitality Curve (Bell curve or Stack Ranking)

Lead the Leadership Performance reviews through a customized model of 360 appraisals

Contributed towards the designing and monitoring of APR rewards and incentive scheme (PLI – Performance Linked Incentives)

Lead the MDG assessments (customized version of Assessment Centers) especially designed for identifying Promotion processes across Senior, Middle and Junior Management (Technical /Support) including coordinating SHL assessments (psychometric assessments)

Managing the Team of HR professionals driving the PMS at Exploration division including reviews, assessments and Performance Improvement Plans

Compensation & Benefits:

Lead the Project of CTC rationalization, designation and grade of International Supply & Trading division employees, who were internally selected, with the introduction of IST Allowance at par with industry standards.

Lead the compensation rationalization of Petrochemicals division employees.

Site Coordinator for the Group Health Insurance Policy implementation and query resolution for all the Essar Group Companies.

Set up the Insurance Third Party Administrators (TPA) at site

Finalization of overall HR budgets including salary budget for Refinery.

Reward & Recognition:

Drafted and introduced the Reward & Recognition schemes at Essar Oil Ltd.

GEM (Going Extra Mile) - Individual & Team recognition through GEM portal with redemption of rewards online.

Best of Best – Team award for Operational Excellence

Innovation – My Idea & Out of the Box scheme – A saving of more than 100 crores through these schemes was achieved in 2011-12 & 2012-13.

HR Sparsh - Employees along with families were invited for dinner with Refinery Leadership team.

Mel Milap - To provide opportunity of direct personal interaction of employees of a particular department with Head of Refinery in a small gathering.

Family Get Together - Department Head informal interaction with his department employees and their families.

Mega Turnaround Incentive – Formulated the Incentive plan and handled the payout for 1100 regular employees and contract employees for Essar Oil Ltd, and other Group Companies in December 2011

Refinery Expansion Commissioning Incentive – Prepared the Incentive plan and handled the payout for more than 1400 regular employees and contract employees for Essar Oil Ltd. and other Group Companies in May 2012. Awarded GEM Award for the contribution.

Conferred Innovation Quest 2013 Award by MD & CEO, EOL & Group President – HR for providing the wining idea on making workplace better

Employee Engagement

Lead the Employee and Family Engagement Programs at EOL.

Created programs to drive Employee and Family Engagement.

Lead the Essar Oil, Refinery division Hewitt Employee Engagement Survey 2012 process for more than 1300 employees. The overall engagement score for Essar Oil was 81% placing them in High Performing range with 96% employee’s participation.

Family Connect - Designed an internet based platform www.familyconnect.in to reach out to the employees and their families with a dual benefit basket of networking and information

Global Mobility

Change Management: Designed & implemented the Kenya Petroleum Refineries Ltd. & Essar Oil Ltd. Employee Exchange Program in January 2010.

OD Intervention – Benchmarking on Personnel Index and introducing Action research initiatives: Selected by Refinery Leadership Team to represent Essar Oil Ltd. in the Solomon Benchmarking Study Conference in Singapore in December 2010. Participated in the benchmarking study on Personnel Index where Essar was ranked No. 1 in Personnel Cost Index in Asia Pacific Peer Group.

Industrial Relations

Enforced that all statutory compliances are adhered.

Set up the system of periodic compliances audit of contractors with focus on 100% compliances enforcing timely payment of wages and coverage of workers under Workmen Compensation Policy.

Developed an online portal on Contractor Management System to capture all the data on labour compliances at once place.

Maintained cordial relations with Statutory authorities.

Career movement within Essar:

Essar Oil Ltd., E&P Division, CBM Project Durgapur

Head – HR & Administration (December 2013 to September 2016)

Essar Oil Ltd., Refinery Division, Jamnagar

Manager – HR (January 2008 to March 2009)

Senior Manager – HR (April 2009 to March 2012)

Deputy General Manager - HR (April 2012 to November 2013)

Essar Oil Ltd., Refinery Expansion Division, Mumbai

Manager – HR (October 2007 to January 2008)

Essar Oil Ltd., International Supply & Trading Division and Petrochemicals Division, Mumbai

Manager – HR, (September 2006 to November 2006, On Deputation)

Essar Oil Ltd., Marketing Division, East Zone, Kolkata

Zonal Manager – HR (April 2006 to October 2007)

Essar Group, Corporate Human Resources, Mumbai

Deputy Manager – HR (August 2005 to April 2006)

June 2005 – July 2005 Delphi Automotive Systems Ltd., Gurgaon

Recruitment Analyst

In this short stint: Closed critical Operation positions in Greater Noida plant which had higher attrition among all the three plants i.e. Gurgaon, Greater Noida and Manesar. Prepared the job descriptions of the Operation, Production Engineering, Purchase & Vendor development positions

Feb 2004 – May 2005 Adecco Peopleone India Ltd., New Delhi

Recruitment Consultant – EMPI Vertical

Handled Engineering, Manufacturing, and Process and Infrastructure recruitments:

Revenue target achievement

Resource management

Closing position mandates

Key Achievements:

Handled successfully the middle and senior level recruitments for the companies like Jubilant Organosys Ltd., Hero Motors, New Holland Tractors India Pvt. Ltd., Asahi Glass India, SRF Limited, Metso Minerals, BILT, JCB India Ltd., Maruti Udyog Ltd., Alstom Power Projects, Sterlite Group, Schneider Electric, Tecumseh Products India Ltd., and Class India

Closed Technical positions for International Clients like GRACO & Al Fozan.

Lead the GET recruitment drive of Sterlite Group for their expansion Projects at BALCO & Hindustan Zinc in Delhi, Jaipur & Raipur. Conducted Written Test, Group Discussion, and preliminary interview of the candidate and coordinated for final interview with Sterlite officials.

Part of Achievers club (internal recognition club) Q2 FY’04-05.

June 2003 - Feb 2004 Sukhvarsha Management Services, Bangalore & Pune

Recruitment Consultant

Handling Technical Recruitments

Revenue target achievement

Resource management

Closing position mandates

Key Achievements

Handled successfully the lower, middle and senior level recruitments for the Engineering, Projects, Services and Pharma companies like American Power Conversion Ltd., ABB, Schneider Electric, Tata Advance Materials Ltd., Tata Honeywell Ltd., Siemens Ltd, ITC India Ltd, Polyflex India, Molex India, Makino Asia Ltd., Kodak India Ltd., Eureka Forbes, Exide Batteries, Wipro Fluid Power, CB Richard Ellis, Tyco Electronics, Suzlon Energy, Jones Lang Lasalle, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories, AstraZeneca, Microlabs etc.

Created a strong candidates profile databank of technical positions through headhunting.

Set up the new branch at Pune with the recruitment of office staff and development of new clients.

TRAINING Attended

Performance Management – Par Excellence

Coaching & Mentoring

Talent Management and Succession Planning

SAP (OM&PA)

Hewitt Employee Engagement

CERTIFICATIONS

Certified Compensation & Benefits Manager – MIDDLEEARTHHR & CAMI

e-Compass (Talent & Performance Management Suite of Applications from Success Factors)

Balanced Scorecard – KPMG

Job Analysis & Evaluation– HAYS

Thomas Profiling HJA /PPA– Thomas International

TRAINING conducted

Communication Skills workshop / Presentation Skills / E-Learning portal end-user / Business Etiquettes workshop / Performance Management workshops / Balanced Scorecard methodology workshop / Job Evaluation orientation sessions

DATE OF BIRTH - 25th May, 1979

EDUCATION

2002Masters in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations from Utkal University

2002Qualified UGC – NET, in Labour Welfare/Personnel Management /HRM

1999 Bachelor of Commerce from Sambalpur University

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