GODFREY SUJITRAJ C

Founded and currently leading Talent Syndicate, a boutique HR firm, offering support to clients across:

• Senior/Mid management and Technical hires
• Capability development services
• Payroll Services
• Statutory compliance services
• Outsourced full services HR operations

Currently serving 10+ clients across Telecom, Insurance, Real Estate, GCCs, Technology and more.

• Lead the areas of recruitment, performance & talent mgmt., L&D, retention efforts, employee health & safety and facilities administration
• Drive Talent management processes, workforce planning, succession planning
• Drive a culture that encompasses care for employees along with high business productivity
• Directs, counsels & executes an applicable HR strategy to drive organizational change to achieve business strategic goals while contributing to build a great place to work
• Play a crucial role in active coaching & developing of people leaders
• Leading, advising & assessing the effective implementation of the Gallup survey output actionable
• Play a key role in the assessment & identification of employees as well as leadership development & training needs along with recommending & delivering training
• Work with people leaders in setting performance objectives along with ensuring regular feedback & meaningful conversations
• Play a crucial role in advising on communication strategies on key business information
• Driving employee engagement initiatives including One on one Leadership / employee chats, Townhalls, Celebrations etc.
• People planning, budgeting, forecasting and instituting internal checks to ensure that the expenses are within budgets
• Interpreting, advising, administering & mediating on HR related matters, ensuring compliance with company policies, procedures & laws
• Part of core team that ideated and created HR Shared Services team
• Enabled multi-pronged approach to enhance engagement levels across organization. Employee engagement scores were above 75th percentile as per Gallup data base and achieved 'Top 50 Great Place to Work'
• Facilitated various practices to enable & foster practices of recognition, openness, fair and transparent culture

• Worked on developing compensation strategies and models in line with the external market trend
• Was a member of the Core Team responsible for driving the salary benchmarking exercise for the Life Insurance Industry comprising of ~20 companies
• Responsible for benefits administration for over 8000 employees across 80 locations
• Involved in cost negotiations with service providers, delivering 10% reduction in costs over two years

• Provided human resources support and consultation across the business functions on the most complex issues, supporting staff, managers and executives in all related areas and regions including recruitment, performance management, compensation and rewards, staff relations, and people development.