Senior Specialist, Location Communications, HR at Continental (2024-04 – Present)
Communications – Manufacturing & IT Office This responsibility helped me to learn the nuances and differences of communication with the change of audience – employees working for a manufacturing set up and employees working in service sector.
- Managed end to communication for plant and IT office in Bengaluru including internal comms, external comms, reputation management, employee engagement events and branding.
- Crisis Communications
- Hootsuite – Linkedin Account
- Stakeholder Management
- Shared contribution in corporate affairs
- Lead for Project 'Increasing female diversity at shopfloor'
- Learning & Development – Contributed to organizing various trainings, strategy workshops and team building sessions.
- Policy formulation – shared contribution
- Rewards & Recognitions
- Exit interviews
- Lead for CSR in our organization and currently working on developing the outline and framework of CSR initiatives for the plant.
- PoSH Committee head for IT HUB and co-chair for plant and market office
- Canteen Committee member
Associate Manager, Corporate Communications at Jindal Stainless Limited (2022-12 – 2024-03)
- Press Releases on regular developments of the company in both hindi and english
- Feature Stories - to be published as exclusive stories in print media
- Media management: organising press conferences and regular media rounds
- OOH branding through newspaper advertisements, bus shelters and bus branding and other transport vehicles
- Monthly newsletter named 'Abhivyakti' (approx 40 pages long) which features a cover story (thematic/interview) and news highlights from manufacturing units of Hisar and Jajpur along with schools, hospitals and subsidiaries.
- Abhivyakti is published in three different languages namely English, Hindi and Odia.
- The newsletter is shared in multiple formats such as video capsule, digital format and print format.
- Coordinating design and content of topical creative collaterals, wallpapers, screensavers and supporting other departments for similar requirements.
- Planning and executing employee engagement campaigns such as 'Survey on Gendertyping of Professions', 'Plastic Waste Collection Drive', 'World Mental Health Day'.
- Developed Hindi and English style guide to establish consistency and uniformity in content.
- Regular coverage of events and milestones for social media stories and posts.
- Shooting videos, testimonials and reels on relevant topics such as CSR projects, sourcing partners testimonials, process improvement, achievements etc
Corporate Communications Specialist at Bharat Aluminium Company Limited (BALCO), Vedanta (2021-10 – 2022-12)
- Writing and supervising the desk mailers released from CEO desk.
- Collating content and pictures for daily newsletter called BALCO Today.
- Content and design support to departmental magazines such as HR department, CSR department, Security department etc.
- Posting relevant content and highlight on Workplace (internal comms platform provided by Facebook)
- Writing press releases in English on major milestones
- Writing Third Party Advocacy articles
- Feature Articles
- Ideation, calendaring and development of content for social media handles of BALCO (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn and CEO Twitter).
Freelance Journalist at The Times of India (2017-09 – 2021-10)
Associated with the Times of India for four long years and contributed to the regular city edition, Gwalior Plus. My profile here, allowed me to cover feature stories on diverse topics such as art and culture, social and political issues and interview of prominent personalities. I have also covered stories for other cities including Raipur, Durg- Bhilai, Bhopal, Indore, Jabalpur, Ludhiana and Shimla from time to time.
