Director - HR

Lakshmi Priya Professional Profile

Summary

Senior HR leader with over 25 years of rich experience and proven results in leading world-class HR programs and operations, domestically and internationally, to complement corporate strategy. Experience spans engineering, IT, ITeS and Telecom domains, and includes high calibre expertise in the following areas:

Strategic Partnership with C-Level Executives

Change Management

Organizational Development & Talent Management

M&A Initiatives & Integration

International HR & Strategic Leadership

Global Operations Synergy

Culture & Team Development

Currently working with Barry Wehmiller International (a group company of Barry Wehmiller, doing business as Design Group India) as Director – Human Resources; only Indian member on the Board of Directors for the division.

Winner of World HRD Congress 2017 – 100 Top HR Tech Minds Experience

Director, Culture and People Development

Barry Wehmiller International (dba Design Group India) May 2012 onwards

Spearheads strategic and tactical human capital initiatives for a $40 million division with an international work force across India, US and Europe. Accountable for budget of $3.5 million.

Leader of the Human Resource function and serving on the Board of Directors

Strategically, functionally and administratively responsible for Talent Acquisition, Compensation/Benefits, HR Operations, Performance Management, HR Policies and processes, Facilities administration, Travel and Immigration, Training, Organization Development and Employee Engagement

Handles additional responsibility as Director, Design Group University, responsible for the learning and development of a global workforce in India and US

Significant Achievements

Transformed the HR function into a strategic business partner from a purely administrative function

Designed and implemented the B-WI Career Map, a tool that provides a path for professional progress, ensuring accountability and clarity in all ‘people’ areas, specifically Compensation, Performance Management and Role based competencies. This tool was showcased to win the World HRD Congress 2017 – 100 Top HR Tech Minds award.

Key Leader on the M&A committee for acquisition and integration of two US based firms

Instituted the Organization Development function to build organization capability for transformation from Sustaining engineering to Value Engineering based services

Created an in-house immigration function to ensure compliance, resulting in complete control over process, timelines and cost; cost brought down to 10% of historical average spend

Designed and deployed new Employee Policy and procedure Manuals for India and USA based on a transformative culture – ‘Everybody matters’, pioneered by the company Chairman.

Implemented change management in 2014 for transition to new management and new corporate strategy, resulting in revamp of leadership team and transformation in work culture Deputy General Manager, Human Resources

Uninor, Tamil Nadu and Kerala Circles

Oct 2009 – April 2012

Strategically, functionally and administratively responsible for the Business Partnering, HR Operations, Learning and Development, Office Administration and Real Estate divisions Lakshmi Priya Professional Profile

Part of the Circle management team responsible for developing quarterly/annual business forecasts and deciding on business focus and strategies

Organisation Structure – Strategic design for all functions including Sales and Marketing, Finance, Network and IT and Support functions

Responsible for complete design, content preparation and training execution for all business verticals including Sales and Distribution, Retail sales and Customer Service Delivery, Finance, IT and Network.

Succession planning through leadership pipeline building

Identification and development/retention planning of high performance employees Significant Achievements

Designed and executed pre-launch training for over 1300 personnel across 28 locations in Tamil Nadu and Kerala within a time frame of 22 days

Reduced attrition for on-roll employees from 24% in December 2010 to 9% in September 2011. For Off- roll employees attrition reduced from 62% to 21% during the same period (annualized rate)

Designed and implemented entire performance management process from scratch, based on best practices in Telenor

Heading two special task forces: One for improving Customer Experience at Call Centre, and the second for Sales and Distribution gap correction: collecting feedback from market, recording gaps in expected performance, analysing it, designing solutions and implementing them

Designed pan-India process notes for all off-roll management processes.

Designed the pan-India Rewards and Recognition program for on-roll and off-roll employees

Part of Corporate HR team for designing Workforce management system Senior Manager, HR

AIG Systems Solutions, Chennai

November 2007 – October2009

Responsible for HR Operations including Compensation and Benefits, Policies, Performance Management, Employee Relations, Training and Development, Corporate Communications Significant Achievements:

Responsible for leading HR integration during and post-acquisition of AIGSS by MphasiS..

Created and institutionalized the Personality Assessment Centre at AIGSS

Created and implemented an internal Learning Management System for automation of training processes

Created a virtual Training Team of Technical and Functional subject matter experts to reduce vendor managed training to less than 10% of total training

Created a Career Progression Framework for Employee Development planning

Designed and implemented AIG-mandated Global programs – AIG Vision and Values, Fraud Awareness and Safety/Security Awareness

Designed and implemented Titans – Management Forum and Shakthi – Women’s Affinity Group

Designed and implemented OD Flagship programs – ‘Impact’ for high potential employees and Mentoring programs across the organization

June 2005 – November 2007

Hexaware Technologies Limited, Chenna

Manager – Training and Development

Head of training operations at Hexaware Technologies, Chennai

Significant achievements include:

1. Training process design:

Independently designed CMMI level 5 compliant training process and its complete documentation 2. Role Based Training:

Design of competency based training across organization

Design of competency models for all roles across all hierarchical levels

Design of role based curriculum

Design of Role based Training workflow

Design of functional requirements for Learning Management System to handle training administration and tracking, and Learning Content Management system for training content creation and administration

Lakshmi Priya Professional Profile

May 2000 – March 2005

Vinergys, Bangalore

Centre Manager

Independently in charge of training centre, including the following functions:

Business development and liaison with customers

Requirement gathering with customers and clients of customers

Training program design and development

Course and content design and development

Personnel recruitment, staffing and maintenance

Training program logistics, costing and scheduling

Clients developed and handled: Accenture India, 24x7, Client Logic, Msource, MN Computers, Sparkle Technologies, iSeva, Sonata

Jan 1993 – Mar 2000

MICO Bosch, Bangalore

Senior Engineer – Research and Development

Led a team of 12 engineers, over 70 skilled staff and over 25 semi-skilled workers

Independently responsible for handling major accounts for end-to-end delivery of element designs and major projects for Indian as well as overseas customers

Designed Special Purpose Machines for both in-house use and outside customers like Grindwell Norton, NDRI, Mahindra and Ashok Leyland

Responsible for handling QS9000 audit for entire Element Design department

Responsible for conducting training sessions for new departmental recruits, skill-enhancement sessions for engineers and senior engineers of R&D, Production and Design departments October 1991- Dec 1992

Movers India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore

Trainee Engineer – Machine Design

Designed components for Cement mills, Belt and bucket conveyors and Air filters Other Achievements:

Published in Woman’s Era, a leading women’s magazine in India

Writing and Editing content for Queen Bee, a local women’s weekly newspaper

Winner of World HRD Congress 2017 – 100 Top HR Tech Minds

Guest speaker on HR panel for IIM Rohtak and Veltech Group of Institutions Education

B.E. (Mechanical) from Bangalore Institute of Technology, Bangalore

Currently doing MBA at ICFAI

16PF certified Administrator from IPAT (Institute of Personality and Ability Testing, USA) and OPP (Oxford Psychologists Press, UK)

Contact details

44/46, Murthy’s Manor, Giri Road, T.Nagar, Chennai - 600017 Mobile : 950**-*****

E-mail : ***********@*****.***

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