Bhavya Gupta

Overview:

• Leading the People and Culture function in collaboration with the founders for implementing strategic HR processes for 90+ employees across all 3 brands

Employee Engagement:

• Led the Employee Engagement Strategy and calendar engagements based on 4 crucial pillars for Datability (Health and Wellness, Learning and Growth, Rewards and Recognition, Fun@work).
• Measured impact based on the annual theme
• Impact: Employees started anticipating the next event lined up in the calendar. Participation in organizational activities significantly increased - result was higher collaboration. Employee satisfaction rate post every activity was greater than 90% (survey results)

Employer Branding:

• Built dedicated career pages and launched enhanced role-based JD templates
• Partnered with Marketing to amplify brand presence on social media and Glassdoor
• Impact: Careers pages are now #2 source of recruitment post referrals. Employer branding efforts amplified the brand visibility by 3x.

Learning and Development:

• Personalised JD-based skill mapping for 40+ roles and initiated quarterly growth syncs for revisiting the L&D goals, constant feedback and career growth for all employees
• Leveraged the LMS platform to create knowledge repositories and group trainings
• Impact: The learning rate of the employees has increased from 22% (2023) to 94.7% (2025). Continued efforts to bring this to 100%.

Performance Appraisal:

• Ownership of end-to-end appraisal cycle and process improvement initiative
• Designed and implemented a regression-based appraisal calculator.
• Impact: Curated a transparent, unbiased, and streamlined appraisal process, directly addressing employee feedback.

Policies and Compliance:

• Development and quarterly audit of 18 HR policies in alignment with organizational growth and State labor laws
• Encouraging HR policy hygiene periodically
• Impact: Achieved 100% compliance adoption with reduced policy-related queries and smoother adherence.

Culture

• Defined and embedded 4 core values into recognition programs and day-to-day practices
• Reimagined office culture through initiatives like a gratitude wall, office library, and redesigned workspace.
• Impact: Strengthened cultural alignment and enhanced sense of belonging among employees. Rating of 4.2/5 after pulse survey July 2025 (post-appraisals)

HRMS (Zoho)

• Owned the management of the company's HRMS tool (Zoho People Plus). Led the change management process of using Zoho for all things people
• Creating workflows and automations that support HR policies and processes
• Impact: Reduced manual effort to save time (30%) and enabled data hygiene and process discipline across the organization

Special Projects (Highest-impact)

• Designed and delivered 2 workshops: Team building through Trust and Communication and Self-Awareness for Happiness
• Datability DNA through psychological profiling and leadership 1-on-1s
• Job and role mapping for an external compensation benchmarking study
• Impactful Onboarding 2.0

Accomplishments

• Promoted into senior leadership role within the first appraisal cycle, recognizing strong performance and impact
• Rewarded for curiosity and passion, reinforcing reputation as a proactive and growth-oriented HR leader
• Became the voice of HR function in business reviews

• Lead Business Analyst to the People function lead of Consumer and Healthcare vertical. Responsible for preparing data based dashboards to facilitate strategic HR decision-making by the leadership group
• Improved people function performance for VP’s across all segments via gamification of HR metrics on a monthly basis
• Derived actionable insights from analyzing vertical level Attrition cuts
• Built and executed Strategic Engagement Interventions (Retention trackers, Skip one-on-one connects, job visibility, promotion opportunities) for Top Performing Talent at AVP level.
• Project manager for Destination Growth - Internal Job Movement
• Strategized engagement and communications initiatives to attract eligible candidates
• Published dashboards to track movement and push for support wherever required
• Tracked promotions and attrition in this group to understand process effectiveness
• Led a team to handle end-to-end process for Lean Digital Transformation (LDT) hiring
• Identified internal candidates for LDT and support roles and managed end to end hiring process
• Supported recruitment for smooth hiring drives
• Coordinate between stakeholders and handle escalations
• Built weekly dashboard on hiring update to track hiring metrics (TAT, offer drops, etc.)
• Drove the change management process for raising hiring requisitions on Taleo and conducted training sessions for HR business partners on Taleo

Awards and Recognition:

• Received Gold Team Award for exhibiting INCISIVENESS in Destination Growth team
• Received Silver Award for COURAGE in LDT Hiring along with Destination Growth
• Received Silver Award for COURAGE for successfully organizing HR Town Hall

Single-handedly built the team from 15 members to 50+. Responsible for managing and setting up the company's HR department in its growth phase.

• Managed end-to-end recruitment for all roles and standardized the recruitment processes
• Coordinated with multiple campuses and recruitment agencies
• Created internal HR policies in accordance with the applicable Labour Laws and executed HR Administrative activities
• Introduced and created Performance Management System for career growth progression of the employees
• Set-up the HR department to ensure continuity of work by mentoring HR Interns and documenting all HR processes

• Identified potential clients in the North India region for implementation of Internal Financial Controls and conducted a survey across them.

• Facilitated a seminar on economic terminologies used in the Financial Sector and tools of Monetary Policies in India
• Compared various Mutual Funds and presented the results