Sowmya Hebbar

To continue building high-impact people strategies as a senior HR leader, enabling organizational growth through strong HR business partnering, leadership development, and culture-driven performance excellence.

Director – HR at Catchpoint Systems Pvt. Ltd. (2025-07 – Present)

• Leading the Engineering Business HR function, overseeing payroll governance, performance management systems, ESAT surveys, employee engagement, and compliance operations.
• Driving enterprise-aligned HR strategy in partnership with global HR Center of Excellence (COE) frameworks.
• Supervising leadership development, succession pipelines, and workforce readiness for critical technical and managerial roles.
• Utilizing HR analytics and Power BI dashboards to monitor engagement trends, attrition patterns, productivity indicators, and leadership effectiveness.
• Providing senior advisory on employee relations, organizational change, and policy governance, ensuring consistency with labor regulations and internal standards

Sr. HR Manager at Everwell Health Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (2022-11 – 2025-06)

• Led strategic HR delivery across talent management, employee engagement, compliance, and performance governance.
• Worked with business leaders on workforce planning, succession strategies, and leadership capability development.
• Supervised performance management cycles, goal calibration, leadership coaching interventions.
• Strengthened employee relations frameworks, grievance redressal mechanisms, and statutory compliance controls.
• Institutionalized data-led HR decision-making using workforce metrics and people analytics.
• Anchored culture-building & engagement programs to refine organizational stability & retention.
• Set up the end-to-end HR function from scratch, including policy frameworks, HR operations, compliance processes, and performance systems.
• Improved retention across key functions by 25% by redesigning engagement touchpoints and leadership-led communication forums.

HR Manager at Everwell Health Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (2019-10 – 2022-11)

• Developed and executed HR strategies aligned to business goals, strengthening HR's role as a strategic partner to leadership.
• Led workforce planning, competency mapping, and succession pipelines across business-critical functions.
• Managed performance frameworks, leadership coaching initiatives, and structured change enablement programs.
• Designed & rolled out leadership development tracks for mid-management & emerging leaders.
• Handled complex employee relations cases, ensuring legal compliance and policy adherence.
• Worked with Compensation, Benefits, Learning, and OD teams to ensure integrated HR service delivery.
• Set up the end-to-end HR function from scratch during organizational scale-up, covering policy formulation, HR operations, compliance, and talent systems.

Sr. Human Resource Generalist at Microsoft Research India (2018-03 – 2019-10)

• Supported business leaders with strategic HR insights to improve workforce effectiveness in research-driven environments.
• Built and executed talent acquisition, retention, and succession strategies for niche technical and scientific roles.
• Led employee engagement programs, PIP processes, organizational development initiatives.
• Partnered with leadership on change management, minimizing disruption during structural and policy transitions.
• Leveraged HR metrics and dashboards to guide workforce planning and leadership decisions.
• Managed ISO and statutory audits, supporting due diligence and compliance governance.

Senior HR Executive at Honeywell Technologies (2014-08 – 2018-03)

• Managed end-to-end HR operations including recruitment, onboarding, payroll coordination, benefits administration, and performance cycles.
• Handled employee relations, grievances, and disciplinary processes, ensuring a compliant and constructive workplace culture.
• Designed & applied training calendars, development programs, and engagement initiatives.
• Owned HR policy formulation, system administration, analytics reporting, statutory compliance.
• Supported leadership in HR planning, organizational strategy discussions, workforce initiatives.
• Improved people dynamics and employee engagement by 20% through structured engagement programs and manager-led communication initiatives.

HR Officer at Tesco (2013-10 – 2014-04)

• Conducted exit interviews, onboarding programs, and associate inductions for IT Services teams.
• Organized employee engagement initiatives, FGDs, fresher connects, and HR forums.
• Supported performance management processes and director-level scheduling.
• Analyzed exit data and talent nominations to inform retention strategy.

HR Executive at Narayana Hrudayalaya Hospital (2011-08 – 2013-05)

• Managed the complete recruitment lifecycle including manpower planning, budgeting, hiring, induction, and onboarding.
• Ran performance management initiatives, compensation benchmarking, recognition programs.
• Led HR process optimization and supported HRMS migration from Oracle to SAP across recruitment, payroll, compliance, and training.

MBA – Poornaprajna Institute of Management, Mangalore University (2011)

Bachelor of Science – Mahatma Gandhi Memorial College, Mangalore University (2009)