Siddhartha Chowdhury

HR Business Partner with 1.5+ years across HR and 1.5+ years in Consulting. Partner to 25+ business leaders driving Performance Management, Talent Management, Employee Relations and HR Analytics for a workforce of 950+ employees. Proven record of improving employee experience, enabling data-driven people decisions and delivering measurable business outcomes.

Associate Manager – HR Business Partner at MANIPAL HOSPITALS (2025-04 – Present)

• Partner to 25+ Department Heads, driving people strategy across Performance Management, Talent Development, Employee Relations and Workforce Planning for 950+ employees.
• Led the HR function for 4 months during the absence of the Unit HR Head within one year of joining the Management Trainee Program, managing a 2-member HR team while overseeing Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Payroll, Compliance and HR Operations.
• Partnered with business leaders to design SMART goals and drive a continuous performance culture for 950+ employees, including 100+ managers and senior leaders, leading end-to-end performance management through annual appraisals, calibration, bell-curve moderation, 25+ promotions, 15+ salary revisions and 13 Performance Improvement Plans, ensuring fair and data-driven talent decisions.
• Owned the AI-enabled Employee Listening Platform, resolving 15+ critical sentiment alerts and 30+ grievances; conducted 60+ employee counselling sessions.
• Increased New Joiner Experience Score from 70 to 90+ through structured onboarding experience, pulse surveys and calendarized employee connects.
• Retained 13 high-potential employees through career discussions, development planning and internal mobility interventions, contributing to average monthly attrition of approximately 1%.
• Facilitated 100+ learning interventions reaching 1,000+ participants, including a Cybersecurity Awareness campaign achieving 100% workforce coverage in 7 days.
• Improved hostel satisfaction from 6.0 to 8.5+ by implementing employee welfare initiatives across food quality, hygiene, safety and recreation.
• Owned HR dashboards, MIS, budgeting and people analytics to support leadership reviews, workforce planning and financial governance.
• Led 30+ employee engagement and wellbeing initiatives covering 950 employees and 400 outsourced associates.
• Partnered with Operations to improve executive conversion from 56% to 80% and cut TPA turnaround from 338 to below 250 days; through HR initiatives.
• Member – POSH Internal Committee; Member Secretary – Grievance Committee, ensuring governance and policy compliance.

Internal Audit Analyst at ERNST & YOUNG (EY) (2021-08 – 2023-05)

• Executed SOX 404 audits across Hire-to-Retire, Payroll, Inventory and Revenue processes for Fortune 500 Healthcare, Pharma and Technology clients.
• Coordinated stakeholders across 50+ global regions and trained a 3-member team; recipient of the EY Spot Award and Bronze Badges for Finance and Data Integration.

HR Intern at MOSS ADAMS INDIA LLP (2024-04 – 2024-06)

• Conducted 30 interviews and 13 focus groups with 120 employees; built the 6C Engagement and GROW Retention Frameworks, adopted for implementation.

MBA in Human Resource Management – T. A. Pai Management Institute (TAPMI), Manipal (2025)

B. Com in Honours – Goenka College of Commerce & Business Administration (2021)

XII/X – Birla High School (2018)