Malathy V

Strategic HR Business Partner with 5+ years of experience advising senior leadership on people strategy, organizational design, and workforce planning across startup, manufacturing, and recruitment-consulting environments. Proven record of translating business priorities into scalable HR frameworks — leading 100+ pan-India hires as sole HR, implementing performance management and succession pipelines, and standardizing HR policy and governance. Skilled at operating as a trusted advisor to leadership while owning end-to-end HR operations, payroll, employee relations, and statutory compliance.

Uses data and stakeholder insight to strengthen workforce capability, improve retention, and drive measurable gains in engagement and organizational performance.

Business Operations Manager — Strategic HR & People Operations - LS Devices Pvt Ltd - Chennai, India

(2024-06)

• Serve as strategic HR partner to senior leadership as the sole HR lead, aligning workforce strategy with business objectives and enabling company-wide growth initiatives.
• Led end-to-end recruitment for 100+ positions pan-India via job portals, employee referrals, campus hiring and targeted job advertising — improving quality of hire and hiring-manager satisfaction.
• Designed and rolled out HR policies, SOPs and governance frameworks that standardized practices and strengthened compliance across the organization.
• Drove implementation of the Performance Management System (PMS), covering goal setting, manager feedback cycles, appraisals and development planning.
• Partnered with leadership on succession planning and talent development, identifying high-potential employees and building internal capability pipelines.
• Reduced attrition through strengthened onboarding, engagement and employee-experience initiatives.
• Streamlined HR and operational workflows by closing process gaps, cutting manual effort and improving turnaround time across the employee lifecycle.
• Analyzed sales and administrative operations to surface inefficiencies, secured management buy-in and drove implementation of process improvements.
• Led cross-functional collaboration with Sales, Operations and R&D to ensure workforce readiness matched delivery and expansion goals; managed remote teams and converted client prospects through solution demos.

Senior HR Executive - LS Devices Pvt Ltd - Chennai, India

(2023-06 - 2024-05)

• Managed end-to-end payroll administration, ensuring on-time salary processing with zero payroll grievances.
• Administered statutory compliance including PF and ESI contributions and complete employee documentation.
• Owned the employee lifecycle — onboarding, joining formalities, confirmations, promotions, increments, salary revisions and exits.
• Partnered with reporting managers on performance monitoring, review cycles, corrective action and appraisal and incentive decisions.
• Resolved employee grievances with confidentiality, timely intervention and a win-win conflict-resolution approach.
• Introduced employee welfare initiatives, identifying and partnering with an insurance provider to extend coverage to employees.
• Established structured exit management covering exit interviews and analysis, asset recovery and no-dues clearance.

Recruitment Consultant - People First Consultant Pvt Ltd - Chennai, India

(2020-12 - 2021-11)

• Delivered end-to-end recruitment across Startup, Manufacturing, IT and MNC clients, closing niche roles within aggressive timelines.
• Built talent pipelines through LinkedIn, job portals, social sourcing, referrals and job advertising.
• Screened candidates against job specifications — skill fit, relevant experience, competitor mapping, salary expectations and notice period.
• Managed client relationships end to end: requirement discussions, shortlist submissions with screening notes, interview coordination, negotiation and offer closure.
• Tracked candidate pipelines, interview progress and offer status using ATS platforms and hiring metrics.

Master of Social Work - HR - Madras School of Social Work (2017 - 2019)

B.Sc. - Computer Science & Technology - Women's Christian College (2014 - 2017)