Venkateswaran Sankaranarayanan

Contact Address: M27F, Sri Subha Colony, Munnuswami Salai, K K Nagar, Chennai 600018 Mobile +918*********

Email: adb300@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary

IIMC Alumni and General Manager - People Function with 25+ years’ experience in HCM, Recruitment (Campus and Lateral, including leadership positions), Process streamlining and development, Payroll automation, Policy development, PMS, Compensation and Benefits, Interviewing, Training and Public Speaking. Highly accountable, organized and self-motivated. Skills

• Policy Drafting

• Data Management and Data Analysis

• Innovative ideas in HR practices

o Recruitment Process

o Employee Engagement

o Benefit Administration

o Training and Development

o Performance Management System

• Establishing the HR function from scratch

• Audit preparation and reporting

• L&D

Professional Footprint

General Manager - People Function (HRBP), 01/2016 to Current 8K Miles Software Services Limited - Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

• Taking care of HR function across business units in India and Europe for an employee strength of over 250 employees.

• Innovations brought in

o Introduced self- training and certification

o Employee Engagement

o Benefit Administration

o Developing HR Leaders across SBU’s

• Managing the recruitment function – Campus and Lateral for all positions including leadership roles

• Part of the leadership team providing direction to business units for restructures, workforce planning and succession planning.

• Part of the core team for ISO Security audit.

• Head of Policy drafting team for HR and HR related security areas.

• Automating the Attendance and payroll process

Human Resource Head, 08/2013 to 12/2015

Ambassador Education LLC – Dubai, UAE

• Managed the organization size of over 500 people spread across India, UAE, and other GCC countries.

• Developing and creating Policy frame work and establishing the HR function

• Introduced Zero Cost Recruitment

• Handled Immigration

• Achieve 100% staff retention from a level of over 50% attrition in a span of 1 year

• Directly reporting to CEO.

• Managing the payroll

General Manager - HR and Recruitment, 01/2012 to 7/2013 Pro Avenues– Pune, Maharashtra, India

• Consulting for SMEs in providing solutions to standardize the recruitment process, creation of assessment tools, content development for assessments.

• Achieved revenue objective by developing New markets.

• Designed and implementation of Pro-Hire a tool connecting SME's and Colleges across India for fresher hiring. Senior Manager - HR, 11/2010 to 12/2011

Syntel Ltd– Pune, Maharashtra, India

• Planning and implementing hiring solutions to meet the campus and bulk hiring requirements of the organization.

• Spear headed the most state-of-the-art and truly online campus recruitment process covering 3000 E- Schools with over 6 lakhs students taking part.

• Credited with changing the way the campus hiring happened in IT sector across India Senior Manager - HR, 08/2006 to 11/2010

Caritor India P Ltd an NTT DATA Global Delivery Services Limited company – Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

• HR location head and HRBP for Chennai

• Employee strength of over 4000 across 3 major locations in Chennai

• Developed company HR policies, standard operating procedures and employee handbooks.

• Handled the manpower requirement at Chennai during the establishment of the KPO by delivering the resources in record time of 2 weeks

• Promoted to Sr. Manager HR in a span of 9 months

• Handled payroll process through SAP

Training and Development Manager, 10/2002 to 08/2006 Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology– Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

• Developed the training programs by identifying the training needs of the students based on industrial requirements.

• Initiated partnerships with Corporate for transfer of Knowledge and visit the campus for placement activities. Assistant Manager - Human Resources, 08/1999 to 10/2002 Nebula Technologies Pvt Ltd– Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

• Handling the HR function for an employee strength of 100

• Functional consultant for developing inhouse payroll software. Senior Executive - Marketing and Talent Transformation, 06/1995 to 08/1999 Escorts Finance Ltd – C0imbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

• Sales.

• Handled product training for the zone and implemented marketing strategies which resulted in 2-fold growth of customer base.

Executive - Sales, 06/1991 to 06/1995

Pest Control (India) Ltd – C0imbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

• Built solid client relationships and provided high value-adding services, resulting in a 15% company market share increase. Accomplishments

• 8K Miles Software Services Ltd: 100% Staff retention in 2 out of 4 major SBU’s for the year 2017-18. Successfully implemented the changes to hiring process to include fresh Graduates thereby brining down the overall salary cost of the SBU’s.

Improved the diversity ratio by being an equal opportunity employer (Women employees increased from 8% to 30%) in a span of 2 years.

Instrumental in developing the HR Policies.

• Ambassador Education LLC: Developed zero cost hiring model 100 % staff retention.

Manage diverse group of employees from various nations including but not limited to India, Pakistan, Philippines, SriLanka, UAE.

Established the HR Function

• Syntel: Won Syntel Value Award

Reduced the lead time from Hire to on boarding to Deployment Hired 12K freshers in 1 month which was a record in the History of campus hiring

• NTT DATA Global Delivery Services Limited: Won Out-standing Contribution Award in Q2- 2009 and Q2- 2010 for contribution to the department in the role of HR BP and successfully managing the talent acquisition team. Rewarded with a promotion within the first nine months with additional roles Educational Qualifications

EPHRM: Human Resources

Indian Institute of Management Calcutta – Kolkata, WB, India GPA: 6.00

PGDIRPM: Human Resources

Bhavna’s Collage – Coimbatore, TN, India

GPA: 5.8

Bachelor’s Degree: Corporate Secretary-ship

PSG College of Arts and Science-Coimbatore, TN, India Certifications:

SAP HCM: Jun 2013

Global Infotech-Pune, MH, India

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