HR Business Partner - ByteDance - India and Jakarta
(2023-11 - 2024-11)
- Managed end-to-end performance cycles on workday for 350 employees across India and Jakarta after rejoining ByteDance, including monthly scorecard calibrations, biannual reviews, and management of 20+ PIP cases annually, presenting incentive and rating recommendations to senior leadership.
- Drove employee surveys and action planning, translating sentiment data into structured leadership action plans. Designed a change management framework in response to change fatigue cited in exit interviews, reducing attrition-linked exits.
- Coached 40+ managers on performance feedback, 1:1 structuring, and employee relations, building people management capability in a high-pressure, high-attrition environment covering two geographies.
- Launched and scaled the Women's Circle programme, growing to 40+ active members monthly, resulting in internal promotions, successful maternity returners, and increased female representation on hiring interview panels.
HR Business & Talent Development Partner - Oppo
(2022-08 - 2023-09)
- Drove employee engagement from 70% to 80% across 400 employees through quarterly/annual surveys and structured action planning, translating feedback into initiatives spanning wellness, culture, and DEI.
- Managed the bi-annual Vocational Qualification promotion process for 30 employees per cycle including training them on competency frameworks. Managed behavioural interview panels, and presented final promotion outcomes to leadership teams.
- Ran quarterly skip-levels org-wide and delivered a Leadership Development Programme for 35+ managers, focused on feedback delivery, accountability, and reducing micromanagement.
- Designed a First-Time manager programme for 50 managers, measuring behavioural change via post-training feedback from their teams.
- Built a DEI Champions network and led end-to-end onboarding including campus trainees and factory visits.
HR Business Partner - Pernod Ricard
(2021-04 - 2022-08)
- Drove end-to-end talent calibration and performance review cycles with leadership teams, facilitating rating discussions, evaluating promotion eligibility, and ensuring structured documentation of decisions for all employees.
- Built a 9-box succession planning database mapping HiPo talent and successors for critical roles, driving internal mobility and hiring decisions org-wide.
- Rolled out quarterly pulse surveys and annual engagement surveys across teams, achieving 80% action plan completion by working directly with leadership on feedback analysis, designing improvement initiatives, and tracking outcomes.
- Leveraged Amber chatbot to track employee sentiment at key milestones (30/60/90-day, 6-month, 1-year), personally followed up with at-risk employees and promoted EAP mental wellness services for 400 employees in partnership with leadership.
Talent Development Partner - ByteDance
(2020-02 - 2021-01)
- Ran the TNA-led "Learn Over Lunch" series, delivering 20 sessions covering topics like business communication and decision-making to 1,000+ employees, continuously refining the programme based on participant feedback.
- Co-designed a 6-module First-Time manager programme covering leadership, feedback, and team management for 50+ managers with global L&D, measured impact through team and leader feedback.
- Curated and marketed learning pathways on EdCast LXP for corporate teams, drove a 20% increase in platform adoption through targeted communication campaigns and regular usage analysis.
- Designed onboarding framework from scratch, onboarding 500 new joiners through customised schedules and a 60-person buddy pool.
Talent Development Partner - Uber - APAC
(2018-06 - 2019-11)
- Conducted TNA across APAC to identify training needs and eligibility, managing training delivery through internal and external trainers, collecting post-training feedback, and implementing improvements that increased employee satisfaction scores by 10%.
- Designed, budgeted, and ran Uberversity, a 3-day induction programme for 100+ new joiners, managing end-to-end logistics, including leadership sessions, simulation exercises, and activities, ensuring a seamless onboarding experience.
- Built and marketed LinkedIn Learning pathways tailored to different team functions across APAC, driving a 30% increase in platform usage through consistent communication campaigns and regular adoption analysis.
- Designed and launched a Mentorship Programme on the L&D website, creating mentor profiles, enabling self-serve mentor booking, and tracking programme health through structured feedback from both mentors and mentees.
HR Business & Employee Engagement Partner - Capgemini
(2014-05 - 2018-01)
- Managed the complete employee lifecycle - onboarding, documentation, performance management, and platform training, ensuring 100% timely closure of goal-setting and feedback cycles, backed by daily completion-rate reporting to managers.
- Led quarterly attrition/retention analysis (by gender, age, role, department) for leadership, combining data insights with exit and stay interviews to shape retention strategy.
- Built role-wise competency frameworks and ran organization-wide self vs. manager-rated competency gap assessments.
- Conducted regular talent reviews to identify training/support needs, and led the promotion process including behavioral interviews and assessment centers for 50+ employees biannually.
