Colette Parakh

Senior HR Lead for Business Operations(India) and HR for HR (APJ) team

• Quickly gained the respect of leaders and emerged as a trusted counsel.
• Partnered with managers at all levels to help them become more productive through individual and group coaching engagements.
• Over the last six months, 50% of unique managers from Business Operations teams attended coaching cohorts and regarded them as valuable insights learned.
• Customized peer mentoring requirements based on business needs
• Reduced the prevalence of Employee Relations cases due to "poor" manager capability (by 10%), resulting in higher quality performance improvement program outcomes (by >90%).
• Manager onboarding was facilitated for new and first-time promoted managers.
• Collaborated on design, development, and execution of people programs with HR Centers of Excellence (COEs).
• Partnered with senior leaders on their respective people plans
• Collaborated with colleagues and support staff to maximize team efficiency
• Partnership and insights were provided to HR Business Partners, HR leadership, and COEs in accordance with overall HR and business strategy.
• Identified organizational health trends/concerns, such as business, external, or regional effects

HR Leader for the largest Business unit (1000 employees) within India development centre

• Maximized efficiency by coaching and mentoring leaders on management topics, industry practices, company procedures, and technology systems.
• Successfully implemented a career landscape for enterprise level, resulting in a clear understanding of the qualities, behaviors, and competencies required for roles.
• I served as a sounding board for leaders outside my Business scope on a variety of topics
• Led change management across the organization for numerous HR subjects such as compensation and benefits, and performance management.
• As a key part of a cross-functional team that successfully combined two Siemens enterprises (problems including in-depth analysis of HR topic harmonization, change management, and roll out), I contributed significantly. I was recognized for the same.
• Contributed to the recruitment, hiring, training and mentoring of team members
• As part of the Enterprise level awards in 2019, the HR team was recognized as the best function.

HR and Recruitment Leader for a R&D team and Business Operations team

• Responsible for end-to-end Talent Acquisition and HR Partner roles for the Research team.
• 90% of the research team's hiring came from direct sources (social, website) and employee referrals from a team of TA executives.
• Implemented an organized internship program with leading engineering universities, resulting in a fresh talent supply year after year at a 10% offer conversion rate.
• Learning interventions for the leadership team and critical responsibilities were initiated, designed, and implemented.
• Driven outcome-driven performance management/succession plan conversations on a regular basis
• Led notable employee engagement projects

Campus Representative for the Product Development team

• Implemented an excellent campus recruitment campaign for the Oracle product development team, which included internship hiring from Tier 1 engineering colleges.
• Did an intensive benchmarking survey to assess institute rankings at the national level and presented management with information that would help us approach our campus plan more effectively.
• Hired 150 campus grads and approximately 50 interns year after year with a 90% conversion rate.

Talent Acquisition Specialist for the R&D team

• Recruited R&D specialists for the Global Research team in Aerospace, Metallurgy, and Intellectual Property (postgraduates (Ph.D./ Masters)) at entry/experience levels.
• Led notable projects such as process digitalization deployment and increasing the quality of the recruitment process.
• Implemented a planned internship and campus hiring strategy for the center from Tier 1 institutions, resulting in a strong talent pool at the entry level.
• 150-200 hires per year with 95% conversionRecognized for continuously exceeding recruitment targets for the expansion of business teams