Ambika Sharma

• Supporting 750~ employees across 17 countries for world-wide capacity planning and 200~ employees for D2 support teams in India
• Partnering and leading Q1 and mid-year talent reviews or WWCP, at VP level
• Leading DEI charter and conducting DEI-specific talent reviews
• Partnering closely with CP leadership team on strategic planning initiatives like SPS, OP1, and 3YIP
• Providing compensation support, including compensation planning, approval of salary actions / exceptions and promotions
• Leading MTR's to partner with leadership on key metrics and S-team metric goals
• Advising and coaching leaders on key people metrics, connections and engagement
• Driving adoption and guidance on CGA's, YWM and other org level launches and initiatives

Key Projects and Initiatives:

• Transfer-Out Survey:

Designed and implemented a transfer-out survey in end of 2022 to help identify specific actions to bring the high transfer-out rates (16.61%) to more consistent favorability

• LeadX: Leadership Excellence Program:

Conceptualized and implemented a new program, LeadX, as a leadership development program for all people leaders (L6+)

WWCP Genesis Onboarding Program:

• WWCP Genesis Onboarding Program:

Designed and implemented “Genesis” a 2-day " onboarding experience program

• Best Place to Work

Partnering on the best place to work program for talent development and employee engagement

• Partnered with business, advising solutions and collaboratively solving problems to ensure efficient functioning of business
• Partner with business on workforce planning, succession planning, and skills assessment
• HRBP for 600+ employees across teams in NA, EU and APAC
• Performance management by ensuring performance reviews, confirmation, goal setting, PIP and flagging any performance related issue
• Partnered with managers to retain, develop and motivate people to achieve their fullest potential
• Coached and developed managers around HR policies, processes and ways of working
• Employee engagement with team level connects and one on one connects with employees and addressing people queries and grievances
• Assessing business human resources training needs & partnering with the L&D team for leadership development and training needs for the organization
• Strategic business planning and partnering in successful implementation of HR programs and processes
• Partnered on Employee Relations with ER Partners on high impact cases
• Led manager excellence initiative to mentor and train manager community at Gap to lead high performing teams
• Working closely with COE's like compensation team for salary planning, approval of salary actions, promotions and job re-leveling
• Assisting and advising leaders in areas of talent management, succession planning, employee recognition & plan quarterly all hands for the function.

• Handled end to end recruitment for business unit of 17000+ headcount, closing quarter on quarter hiring demand, including both generic and niche skillset for Banking and Financial services vertical
• Liaison with scheduling team to plan weekend recruitment drive for service line for various geographical locations, namely Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai and Delhi- publishing event plan as per technology, location and experience
• Anchoring weekend mass recruitment drives across locations (Hyderabad, Chennai, Delhi, Pune and Bangalore)
• Offer Processing
• Post-offer connects
• Niche skill hiring/ weekday interviews: Liaison with business to identify niche skills out of quarterly demand to plan concerted efforts to meet niche skill numbers- Specific sourcing from JP and vendors, weekday/ telephonic interviews and seeking exceptional approval for deviations (academics/ salary)
• Stakeholder management: Connecting with business POCs on a regular basis for status updates, addressing critical gaps, expediting urgent hiring, strategizing, etc
• Liaison with branding/ candidate experience team- Handling escalations (regarding candidate experience) from candidates for entire service line; analyzing salary reject cases and re-opening such cases if found genuine (all within service level agreement)
• Liaison with Background check/ legal team- Validation of employment of candidates in case of experience with companies with legal clauses/ suspect companies
• Additional responsibilities: Candidate experience SPOC: Worked on various initiatives to improve the candidate experience
• Employer Branding-Worked with the marketing team on employer branding initiatives.