Debashree (Shree) Ganguly, SHRM-CP

ad4jav@r.postjobfree.com • 865-***-****

Summary: A versatile and progress-driven professional with over 15 years of demonstrated success in leading multifaceted HR operations for diverse industries including global enterprises. Demonstrated expertise in cultivating cross-functional collaborations within organizations, spanning from startups to Fortune 500 corporations, all geared towards advancing long-term strategic business objectives. Outstanding success in talent acquisition and retention, aligning corporate objectives with individual goals. Elevating employee relations and morale, with a strong commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) initiatives. A trusted advisor and business partner with proven skills in hiring/recruiting, coaching/mentoring, policy design, and process improvement. Recognized as a hands-on contributor to management teams, employees, and the board, consistently exhibiting integrity and a proactive, solution-oriented approach.

Expertise includes Talent Management • DEIB • Employee Relations • Leadership and High Performing Team Development • Talent Acquisition and Employer Branding • Organizational Development • Budget Allocation • Succession Planning • Performance Management • Global Benefits Administration Strategic Planning • HR Analytics • Global Compensation Planning • HRIS Implementation • Regulatory Compliance, SOX • Change Management • Vendor Management • Software Product Development Global Immigration • Project Management

Professional Experience & Achievements

CENTOGENE, Cambridge, MA May2020 to Present

Head of Human Resources and Managing Director

Leading global HR functions for a multinational Biotech firm with 1000+ employees across the USA, EU, Canada, LATAM, MEA, India, and APAC. Responsible for shaping the organization’s future, driving global HR agenda, being a strategic partner to the business, leaders, and employees. Leading business transformation through organizational design to support profitable growth. Adept at aligning human capital strategies with business objectives, fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration, and implementing cutting-edge HR technologies.

• Leading and managing the company’s full cycle global human resources functions including compensation, benefits, recruiting, and retention across 15 regions, including NA, EU, LATAM, Canada, MEA and APAC. Leading global HR teams ensuring alignment with global HR & business strategies.

• Implemented standardized HR policies and procedures to ensure compliance with international labor laws and regulations, mitigating legal risks.

• Developed a talent management strategy that includes onboarding process, performance management, succession planning, and talent development. Integrated DEIB principals into talent management practices

• Spearheaded the formulation and execution of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) strategies, resulting in a 75% participation rate, aligning the process with organizational values, and instilling accountability.

• Collaborated with the Board and Leadership team to ideate talent management programs aimed at bolstering workplace diversity, inclusivity, and a sense of belonging, yielding a 45% improvement.

• Developed and executed worldwide DEIB strategies that broadened the presence of women, individuals with disabilities, the LGBTQIA community, and various other underrepresented groups within the organization.

• Led workforce planning and talent acquisition efforts to support global expansion, resulting in 62% reduction in time-to-fill critical roles and reducing cost to hire by 15%

• Redesigned company compensation plans, reduced benefit costs 35%, and presented to Board.

• Designed and executed global leadership training programs, elevating measurable leadership competencies.

• Created and executed strategies to build high-performance teams, driving employee engagement and professional development.

• Successfully managed international HR projects, such as global workforce expansions, mergers, and acquisitions.

• Provided strategic HR guidance to regional leadership, contributing to regional business growth.

• Improved new hire effectiveness by implementing on-boarding process and learning maps to align and engage talent.

• Advised executive leadership team on key personnel decisions.

• Collaborated with regional HR Business Partners to ensure consistent HR practices and policies across all regions.

• Collaborate with IT, QM and Finance for SOX compliance efforts, as well as contribute to Request for Proposals (RFPs), participate in the assessment and scoring of pertinent systems within cross-functional teams.

• Lead and collaborate with other functional team to create and implement strategies, develop SOP’s and other protocols linked to crucial data and systems.

• Managed global HR vendor relationships, optimizing service quality, and reducing costs.

• Oversaw budgeting and financial planning, optimizing resources to achieve cost savings while maintaining quality. Debashree (Shree) Ganguly ad4jav@r.postjobfree.com • 865-***-****

• As the Managing Director, successfully managing stakeholders, investors, clients, and board members by developing and executing strategic plans to achieve corporate goals.

• Drive sustainable profitability with a focus on fostering collaboration, innovation, and a culture of excellence.

• Collaborate with the executive team to set and achieve financial targets, meeting or exceeding EBITDA and ROI goals.

• Developed and implemented strategic initiatives to influence key decisions and drive change. Beth Israel Lahey Health System- NEBH Boston, MA February 2019 to April 2020 Senior Human Resources Consultant - HR Director and M&A-Integration

• Address organizational needs by leading, implementing strategy and participating into multiple projects involving mergers and acquisition organizational development and people management practices.

• Provide guidance, coaching and training to executive leaders, managers and staff on multiple facets of Human Resources including employee relations, performance management, compensation analysis, benefits and organizational design and development initiatives.

• Reporting to the President and CHRO. Lead and mentor a team of six human resources professionals in centers of excellence including Employee Relations, Total Rewards, Talent Acquisition, Onboarding compliance and Organizational Development

• Partner with executive leaders, managers and employees to provide advice and coach both parties on employee relations issues.

• Provide partnership on performance management, corrective action processes, risk management, investigations, conflict management, employee engagement and organizational policy development. Govern company’s immigration process and policy.

• Supports 3500 employees and business functions comprising Technology, Marketing, Finance, Clinical Operations, Research and Philanthropy.

• Implementing data visualization methods to find insights for strategizing, developing and implementing multiple training programs for the entire leadership team, front line leaders and employees.

• Developed and implemented the entire organizations 3 years Diversity and Inclusion, and Employee Engagement strategy and plans.

• Provide support and leadership on HRIS projects and provide direction on HR related programs and practices in compensation, benefits and performance management.

• Manage merger and acquisition integration with collaborative innovation, transformational approach to achieve business results.

• Developed and lead organization wide Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging strategies, training and implementation. Achieving above the organization’s Diversity and Inclusion goals, enhanced the succession planning, retention strategies and performance management, achieving 85% participation while connecting process to organizational values and driving accountability.

Tufts Medical Center Boston, MA June 2018 to December 2018 Senior Human Resources Consultant- HR Manager

• Lead escalated investigation and resolution of employee issues, and provides guidance to line managers on performance management and corrective action procedures.

• Provide consultation to managers and counsel employees/managers on people issues

• Provide consultation to leaders and employees related to complex performance management issues

• Drive workforce analysis, career path, training and development frameworks

• Educate managers and supervisors in performance management, training, and interpreting company policies and procedures

• Advice and guidance to Managers and Members on Employee Relations matters such as grievances, new performance improvement strategies, appeals complaints and handling all related cases

• Coordinate high-level, cross functional HR tasks such as TMS trend analysis for client group, calibration session coordination, organization design, obtaining HR benchmarking information, tracking employee disposition in the event of a reduction in force, job description coordination in partnership with HRBP and Compensation and compensation analysis for job rotation Delta Dental - DentaQuest Boston, MA February 2014 to March 2018 Manager, Human Resources

Collaborate with senior and executive leadership team of $2B oral health organization to create enterprise growth and sustainability, emphasizing human capital management. Preside over all employee relations, succession planning, recruiting strategies and processes. Coached executives, business partners and employees on cutting edge Talent Management strategies, policies and process, performance and relationship management and process adherence. In addition to overseeing talent acquisition responsibilities, fulfill cross-functional duties (only HR team member to do so) in employee relations, benefits administration, compensation, enterprise-wide training/development, performance, and crisis management. Track new hire performance via 360-degree feedback. Govern company’s immigration process and policy. Strategies full cycle recruiting campaigns for staff in various disciplines and on all levels. Debashree (Shree) Ganguly ad4jav@r.postjobfree.com • 865-***-****

• Managed a nationwide team of seven direct reports in centers of excellence including Employee Relations, Talent Acquisition and Employee Engagement. Reporting to the VP of HR on Talent Management job function and CHRO on Employee Relations.

• Collaborate with internal leadership, to design company policies and procedures as well as remediate issues with compliance and internal audit partners. Supports nationwide team of 3000 employees and business functions comprising Technology, Sales, Marketing, Finance, Business Analytics, Operations, and Foundation.

• Drive employee engagement strategies to maximize discretionary effort and productivity as well as drive a culture of appreciation, transparency and development. Increase retention by 11% annually while improving engagement scores.

• Empower enterprise-wide business leaders to align talent with business objectives. Devised innovative Employer Branding strategy, marrying external job posting, recruitment marketing, social media resources, university and professional organization partnerships and application tracking systems (ATS). Strategy has created reliable pipeline of talent to meet immediate hiring needs and support succession planning.

• Managing Talent acquisition, with 400+ direct hires via industry leading time to fill, improved diversity hiring 45% and reducing cost per hire by 10%. Enhanced talent acquisition and performance management strategies, leadership development, developing and driving employee engagement initiatives.

• Introduced Predictive Talent and Work Force Analytics and Management to the company by utilizing BI data visualization tools to achieve better trend analysis to make strategic business decisions, optimizing budget across multiple programs and focus on attracting and retaining talent.

• Created and executed talent and performance management, succession planning, employee engagement and onboarding new hire orientation programs. Completed SWOT analysis and guided leaders in launching new talent management strategic planning process

• Managed several nationwide Merger and Acquisition and HRIS development projects.

• Instituted vendor management analysis procedures and cut external vendor cost to 98.3%.

• Developed highly successful employee referral program that brings in ~60% of new hires.

• Introduced university recruiting campaign and companywide summer internship and “returnship” program.

• Developed Diversity and Inclusion strategy and achieved 110% of yearly diversity goal. Launched enterprise wide “We Hire Heros” Veteran’s program. Worked with corporate Affirmative Action Plan vendor to generate the annual plan, ensured data integrity and responded to DOL & internal audit requests.

• Authored and governed marketable job description questionnaires to help business partners standardize roles based on business needs.

• Manage and defend budget over $3M and technology solutions. Rosetta Stone- Lexia Learning, Concord, MA August 2013 to January 2014 HR Generalist

Filled multifaceted HR role, functioning as an advisor, business partner, mentor, and coach to all levels of management for one of the most highly respected reading technology companies in the world. Orchestrated talent acquisition efforts including direct, social media, and university programs. Assessed applicants, checked references, presented candidates, and guided senior staff and hiring personnel throughout hiring process. Determined and monitored talent acquisition and employee performance metrics. Implemented comprehensive benefits package to maintain market competitiveness, compliance and cost containment. Trained leadership on employee relations tactics, retention policy and resolved staff issues. HRIS (Workday) implementation and maintained all personnel files in HRIS and generated ongoing HR reports. Managed company’s immigration policy.

• In 2 months, hired 30+ executives and managers in IT, Data Analytics, Finance, Sales, Marketing, and R&D. Implemented hiring and onboarding policies. Reviewed and completely rewrote job descriptions for accuracy and adherence to HR best practices. Darden Restaurants, Inc., Burlington, MA May 2013 to July 2013 HR Consultant

Provided HR expertise on short-term basis to leadership of dining company with 1.5K+ restaurants and 150K+ employees. Directed full- cycle, high-volume recruiting. Introduced and facilitated “Ask Right to Hire Right,” organizational strategy, and new hire orientation training for management. Reviewed FLSA statuses, job descriptions, and AA new hire reports. Trained the business leaders on new HR policies. First Horizon National Corporation, Knoxville, TN January 2004 to December 2010 Assistant Manager

Managed seven financial management services staff, maintained investment book of client portfolios, and provided direct customer advice strategies regarding all business investment and personal wealth management products. Organized bank events and promotions to boost revenue. Devised sales strategies in collaboration with executives, business partners, trainers, and vendors. Created, allocated and Debashree (Shree) Ganguly ad4jav@r.postjobfree.com • 865-***-**** defended annual budgets of 5 million for entire market operation. Conducted performance evaluations and addressed/resolved employee issues.

• Earned President’s Award 5 consecutive years and Golden Circle Award (bank’s highest recognition for individual performance) 4 consecutive years.

• In partnership with HR management, recruited top talent, negotiated compensation, set performance standards, executed engagement and retention initiatives, and guided staff in achieving corporate goals; designed/implemented effective employee training programs.

• Realized 206% of sales goal (company record) and delivered $3.34M in individual investment sales, ranking as top employee nationwide.

• Took assigned branch to Platinum status with a goal 30 million (one of 2 in the country). Additional Experience: Personal Banker, Bank of America, Tampa, FL; Airport Operations & Training Specialist, British Airways, Boston, MA; Public Relations & Web Designer Lead, MIT, Cambridge, MA; HR Manager, NRD InfoTech, Kolkata, India Education

SHRM-Certified Professional

Human Resources Management Certification, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA MBA, Travel, Tourism & Business Management, Institute of Modern Management, Calcutta, India BA, Educational Psychology, Geography & Political Science, Calcutta University, Calcutta, India Additional Training: HR Analytics, Compensation Analysis Certification, Advanced Diploma, Certificates, and Graduate-Level Coursework in IT from UMass, Lowell, Software Technology Group International Private Limited, SQL Star, and Oracle Corporation Training Center Professional Memberships

Executive Management Board Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) • Northeast Human Resources Association (NEHRA) WorldatWork • Human Capital Institute (HCI) • Human Resources Leadership Forum (HRLF) Technical Skills

SilkRoad HRMS • Wingspan Performance Management• GreenLight Learning Management • Workday • Oracle HCM •Lumesse • SmashFly

• ADP Kronos •Jobvite • TriNet • Glint • HR Soft •MS Office Suite• Tableau

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