Avishek Mohanta

• Leading HR for Mumbai region with 7000+ facility , food operations and management employees
• Managing a team of 26 HR team members
• Partnering with Functional Head for sharing best practices and being the Sodexo Brand Ambassador in the region to drive the core values.
• Partnering with external leadership to have better and ensured industrial relations
• Ensuring that employees are engaged and they say great about the company, stay longer with improved productivity and strive to excel during their stay with Sodexo.
• Working in close co-ordination with the Corporate Talent development Team for creating the talent pipeline
• Collaborating with business and HR teams across India for Talent Acquisition, engagement, transfers, promotions, appraisals, increments, rewards & recognitions, compliance and separation of employees.
• Ensuring that employees are engaged and they say great about the company, stay longer with improved productivity and strive to excel during their stay with Sodexo.
• Design and implementation of employee engagement calendar
• Managing employee connect activities at the client site spread across various locations
• Ensuring proactive implementation of various reward and recognition programs at the client site
• Negotiating and amicably settling disputes with the Union and maintaining discipline & harmonious working environment across all employee levels without having any adverse impact on business
• Ensure a high level of understanding and compliance with existing and proposed legislation for HR
• Ensuring Process, Policy and reporting compliance
• Established performance goals for employees and provided feedback on methods for reaching those milestones.

Key responsibilities:

• Leading Sales HR for UP and Rajasthan
• Headcount of 800+ Sales team members from Associate to General Manager Sales
• Managing a team of 3 HRBPs
• Work closely with management and employees to improve work relationships, build morale and increase productivity and retention.
• Reduce attrition and increase employee commitment for my unit within input and output target ranges given to them by building creative approaches to maximise employee engagement and reduce attrition.
• Managing the Talent Management agenda for UP and Rajasthan managing promotions , PIPs and exits
• Resolve complex employee relations issues and address grievances.
• Build and Implement new HR strategies to create a high performance and conflict-free workplace.
• Identify training needs, evaluate training programs and help organize training development initiatives for teams and individuals as well as to improve policies and procedures.
• Improve job satisfaction by resolving issues promptly and organizing team building activities.
• Manage & resolve management and social media escalation
• Evaluated hiring, firing, and promotions requests.
• Reviewed and analyzed reports, records and directives to obtain data required for planning department activities.
• Implemented and developed operational standards, policies and procedures.

• Responsible for setting up HR function from scratch, its operations and execution
• HR Advisor to the HODs and Leadership team on people management, complex situations / conflicts, culture, performance management, rewards etc
• Build Policies and implement employee friendly technology for employee life cycle management right from Talent acquisition, performance management, employee engagement / experience to Exit
• Manage Team of 4 HR and Admin team
• Manage IT Support and office administration.
• Gained strong leadership skills by managing projects from start to finish.
• Resolved problems, improved operations and provided exceptional service.

Key Achievements

• Restructured the recruitment process – (RPO model, efficiency and effectiveness dashboard) Scaled up Seniority from 70 to 225 head count in 5 months
• Payroll and compliance process restructuring and outsourcing & Payroll automation
• Exercised leadership capabilities by successfully motivating and inspiring others.
• Implementing HRMS system (Talent Acquisition, On-boarding, Employee life cycle, Performance Management, Employee self-service, Time & attendance, leave management, separation, and Payroll module)
• HR Connect Program - Communication channels (Onboarding, communication, separations, grievance etc.)
• Implemented Structure salary framework along with Flexible benefits plan, banding and grading.
• Lead the covid-19 task force and build policies around the same.
• Set up HR function and processes for Evergreen community
• Ensured HRMS system and policies are ready on day 1 of the employee group transfer onboarding.
• Ensures HR and labour law compliance are followed for Evergreen club from day 1.

• Reviewed business goals to recommend new HR approaches, policies and procedures for continual improvements focused on meeting business objectives and enhancing productivity.
• Working with Head - Supply Chain, Head - Operations and HR COEs to develop and implement HR solutions to solve organizational challenges
• Anchor the Head Count and Budget for 230 On Roll and 600 Outsourced Employees.
• Review and analyze HR and Business Metrics on Talent Acquisition, Retention, Engagement scores, L&D interventions, identify areas of improvement and implement changes
• Responsible for reviewing DC, FC ranking and manage the R&R budget for the top performers which includes incentives and other recognitions.
• Process owner for Performance Management Process for Supply chain and Operations.
• Coach and mentor Delivery Center Heads and Fulfillment Center Head on managing and handling people issues.
• Manage employee relations and grievances fairly representing the interest of both employee and employer ü Responsible for driving HRIS usage and accuracy.

Additional Responsibilities :

• Coach and mentor HR operations and Payroll team on processes
• Creation of HR SOPs for all teams
• Holding the C&B processes for H1 ‘FY 2018-19 Streamlining 3rd party Roll Payroll processing.

Special projects:

• Job level Vs Salary mapping
• Designation and Role separation
• Implementing Standing Orders

• Support Business Leaders with Head Count & Budget Planning, Succession Planning, competency development, implementation of corporate initiatives and OD Interventions.
• Hosting Circle Review Meetings and anchor performance discussions (quarterly).
• Support Hipo Management & Performance improvement program, salary planning, job rotation, promotions, rewards and recognition.
• Responsible for preparing HR performance Dashboards for the circle which includes Talent Management KPIs as well Budget vs Actual Comparisons for Head Count, Cost, Revenue, Productivity etc.
• Manage end to end HR operations for 3 circles (Maharashtra & Goa, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh) consisting about 250 On Roll and 1500 FTC Employees
• Manage HR Operations, Audits (both internal and external) PMS, HR Communication & Branding for Internal HR initiatives for Western Region.
• Ensure Quality and SLA for New and Replacement hiring, induction, confirmations, appraisal cycle system completion, employment letters, benefits administration, exit process and exit interview.

Key responsibilities:

• Drive Talent Acquisition metrics, analytics, Market Intelligence, time to hire, cost to hire and quality of hire.
• Pan India Recruiter Training and Development (Linkedin, Naukri and Monster)
• Managing social media branding and sourcing initiatives projects with digital marketing team.
• End to end channel management – social media, job portals, Employee Referral and recruitment vendor.
• Managing Channel inventory management, utilization, effectiveness, costing, ROI evaluation & contract renewal.
• Lead 8 technical campus recruitment operations for B.Tech, M.Tech and MCA graduates in AP and Telangana region FY 14 - 15.

Achievements:

• Achieved 35% offers through referral and 3% offers through vendors Q2 & Q4 (2014-15).
• Handled the TCS campaign of MTv Linkedin Get a Job Season 1.Achieved same day offer target in 8 colleges.

• 8.04 GPA/CGPA

GPA: 6.14