Employee Relations Manager

Maneka Perikkathara

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Start-ups Acquisitions Turnarounds

A seasoned professional with 16yrs experience in the field, currently as Senior Manager Human Resources. Strategic and innovative HR who translates business vision into HR initiatives that improve performance, profitability, growth, and employee engagement. Empowering leader who supports companies and top executives with a unique perspective and appreciation that human capital is every organization’s greatest asset. Genuine influencer who thrives on tough challenges and translates visions and strategies into actionable, value- added goals

Organizational Development Change Management

Employee Performance Improvement Workforce Planning & Development Leadership Development HR Policy, Process

Manpower Budgeting Rewards & Recognition

Disciplined and flexible problem-solving approach that balances business goals with employee needs PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Apr’18 – Till Date Senior Manager - Human Resources of Aster Hospital Mankhool, Day Surgery Center & Aster Cedars Hospital Jabel Ali, Dubai - UAE

Partner with stakeholders and senior executives to develop new initiatives, foster employee engagement, and mobilize talent

HR Organization Leadership: Directing HR professionals in staffing, recruitment, benefits, executive compensation, training, leadership development, succession planning, HRMS, audits and certifications (JCI & Canadian Accreditation) and regulatory compliance

HR regularization: Created dashboard – recruitment, staffing, onboarding and training. Manpower cost reduced from 42% to 40% in the current FY

Organization Transformation: Enabled operational change essential reduction in HR costs. Helped to facilitate in business operations by promoting Internal Job postings. Designed manpower budgeting of 300 bed hospital and did hiring of projected staffs of approx. 270 in Phase 1 for initial functioning of 150 beds. Hired super specialist doctors and critical staffs for commissioning of Cathlab & CTVS expansion

Post-Acquisition HR Integration: Streamlined manpower acquisition of Cedars Jabel Ali hospital. Ensured strategic alignment of HR with new business objectives and minimized business interruptions through execution of workforce integration plans.

Due Diligence: Contributed to senior-level, supporting initial analysis through due diligence and subsequent integration. Enabled business growth by assessing HR cultural compatibility and talent impacts. HR Best Practices

Employee Relations & Diversity

Talent Acquisition

Staff Coaching & Mentoring

Employee Relations: Introduced proactive employee relations and communications programs and restore the credibility and employee-centric focus of the HR organization. Increased employee connectivity by Town halls, Service anniversary, engagement, rewards & recognition activities. Conducting employee engagement programs for approx. 750 employees across 2 hospitals and 1 Day Surgery Centre

Driving sourcing, Talent Acquisition and Retention initiatives for doctors, nurses, paramedics and non- medical staffs. Managed end-to-end recruitment by partnering with respective Stake holders

People Operations – Employee life cycle administrations including compensation review and revision, KPIs and JDs, performance management, exit and attrition analysis, career development, capture training as per departmental needs and audit compliance as per statutory laws Oct’16- Mar’18: Manager - Talent Acquisition, Aster DM Healthcare UAE, Bahrain & Global Centre – Kerala, India

Workforce Integration: Integrated approx. 400 + staffs including Doctors, Nurses, Paramedics & Support staffs, steering flawless workforce assimilation into core business operations. Contributed to profitable turnaround by providing desired manpower for 35 Aster clinics projects in UAE & Bahrain

HR Operations: Consolidated HR functions previously managed by several different departments into a single consolidated to manage all generalist affairs. Trained and supervised 9 HR members. Restructured end- to-end recruitment, on-boarding and departmental orientations Apr’12- Sept’16: Manager - Talent Acquisition, Aster DM Healthcare UAE

Managed the complete recruitment life-cycle for sourcing the best talent from different sources after identification of manpower requirements of permanent staff and project based requirements.

Hired to manage recruitment and staffing for start-up venture. Helped to build company from an empty suite of offices into a full-scale operation for 25 Aster clinics across UAE as per project budgeted manpower plan. Created and implemented hiring policies, procedures, systems and technologies to support company’s long-term growth and expansion

May ’09 – Mar ‘12: Assistant Manager – HR Generalist Aster DM Healthcare Head Quarters, Dubai

Employees data management and responsible for attendance management of staff for Payroll Management. Monitor the annual leave plan, updating employees records

Conceptualizing & implementing HR in-house software portal, Personnel files management and records. Conducted Rewards & Recognition programs, responsible for internal HR communications

Preparing report based on the outcome of the recruitment to submit to the management.

Conducting joining induction and on-boarding process

Responsible for insurance empanelment for new and existing employees, visa cancellations and renewals, license activation for medical professionals Nov ‘06 –Apr ‘09: HR Consultant - Eurohealth Systems FZ LLC, DHCC, Dubai

Assigned the responsibility of handling Manpower requirements for reputed Hospitals and Clinics in the field of Healthcare. Created staffing models and recruiting strategies to meet each client’s unique requirements.

Sourcing & Assessment - Effectively using different channels of recruitments for sourcing: Headhunting, Internal Database, Referral, Job Portals, etc.

Account Management

Achievements:

Established a huge data base of potential candidates according to their profession, expertise and location from zero level.

Organized a systematic documentation of recruitments

“Recruitment Process” which is being implemented and exercised successfully

Have placed 20 healthcare professionals in Multi-specialty hospitals in UAE in less than 1 year Aug ‘03 – Oct ’06: Assist. Admin Supervisor DM Healthcare LLC, Dubai Nov ’01 – Mar ’03: Administration Guest Relations in Malabar Institute of Medical Sciences LTD (MIMS), DM Healthcare, India

Dec ’97 – Oct ’01: Technology Consultant in Aptech Ltd., India ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS

. Ph.D. Scholar 2019

. MBA in Human

Resources Management

2018

. Bachelors of Commerce -

2003

Higher Diploma in Software

Engineering – NCC UK

Certified 1997

TRAINING CERTIFICATIONS & PUBLICATIONS

Certified Cabin Crew Frankfinn Management Consultancy, New Delhi, India, 2001

A key partner in Canadian Accreditation drive of Aster Hospitals – Dubai, attained Diamond certificate

Accredited Certified NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) Practitioner & Life Coach, U.S., 2019

Partnered in HRMS portal implementation and conducted training programs across the Aster Hospitals vertical 2019

Published “Stress Management” in IUJ journal of Management, Vol -7, No. 2, Dec 2019 AWARDS & MERITS

Received 2nd Topper award in Cochin Region for Semester IV from Mr. Pramod Khera - CEO & Managing Director of Aptech LTD. in the curriculum of Higher Diploma in Software Engineering provided by Aptech LTD an affiliation with NCC University of UK – 1997.

Awarded a Plaque for Excellent Doctor’s Recruitment from Aster – 2014

Certificate of Recognition for achieving big milestone of Aster Clinics – 2014

Awarded Aster Volunteer - 2018

PERSONAL VITAE

Date of Birth : 29th April, 1978

Nationality : Indian

Gender : Female

Marital Status : Married

Visa Status : Employment Visa

Driving license : UAE driving license (valid)

Languages Known : English, Hindi, Malayalam and Tamil References : upon request

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