Jitendra Sawan
Wakad
Summary
Business partner HR specializing in Strategic HR initiatives and Performance management. Proven track record in enhancing Employee engagement and implementing effective Succession planning. Strong communication skills and meticulous attention to detail drive successful policy development and process improvement. Extensive experience in Benefits administration and employee coaching ensures comprehensive HR support.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Head HR-Enabling functions
Persistent Systems
06.2023 - Current
- Analytics and Statistical reporting – Analysis and reporting of the RnR data and Attrition data Align on enterprise-level initiatives, customize and deliver the program for the unit to leadership with the key findings. Analysis and development of dashboards for monthly connects across the organization
- Strategic HR initiatives- Worked on the Monthly ESAT survey for the unit, did the complete analysis of the responses along with the recommendation for the focus areas. Basis the findings, ideated, Conceptualized, and developed Introduced innovative programs like Feedback Friday, Ripple actions- Reflections for manager empathy and coaching.
- Employee Engagement - Playing the Employee relations and Employee Engagement SPOC role. Planning and executing the engagement plan for whole year. Organizing Town halls, All hands meet, one on one meetings for top performers, Managing Rewards & Recognition program, HR connects. Running engagement initiatives for top talents.
- Performance Management – Managed Performance Improvement program for poor performers.
- Attrition Handling, Ringfencing and retention of talent: Worked with the leadership in pro actively ringfencing the top talent via project Top talent and KeY talent
- Succession planning – Did the succession planning for the leadership level roles for the enabling functions.
- Grievance Handling – Handling of employees’ grievances and taking proactive steps to ensure local level resolution of grievances. Along with resolving general employee grievances also handled cases of Counseling out employees off the organization due to performance reasons, disciplinary cases.
- Exit Management - Keep track of all exits happening within the Business, Conduct exit interviews of employees.
- Statutory Compliance – Ensuring that the employees comply by the policies and directives during work from home.
BPHR
BIRLASOFT
10.2020 - 04.2023
- Analytics and Statistical reporting – Did Analysis and reporting of the RnR data and performed attrition analysis Align on enterprise-level initiatives, customize and deliver the program for the unit to leadership with the key findings. Analysis and development of dashboards for monthly connects across the organization
- Strategic HR initiatives- Worked on the annual ESAT survey for the unit, did the complete analysis of the responses along with the recommendation for the focus areas. Basis the findings, ideated, Conceptualized, and developed the RnR framework for the complete business unit. Introduced innovative programslike Allempics, recognition Mondays and HALO, which have now become the flagship programs for RnR in the organization. Started a new program around peer-to-peer recognition, called Santafe. Ideated, designed framework, and executed the Buddy program at the organization level, which connects new joinees with organizational old timers Ideated and presented the HR plan for grade harmonization of X grade employees and Gamification of PMS.
- Employee Engagement - Playing the Employee relations and Employee Engagement SPOC role. Planning and executing the engagement plan for whole year. Organizing Town halls, All hands meet, one on one meetings for top performers, Managing Rewards & Recognition program, HR connects. Running engagement initiatives for top talents.
- Performance Management – Ensured timely and effective program launch of Performance appraisals cycles; Mid review and Evaluation. Provide first time appraisee/appraiser training, handled entire communication, Manager Enablement sessions, work with leadership team to ensure normal distribution. Managed Performance Improvement program for poor performers.
- Process improvement/Problem solving/Restructuring: Improved the exit process in the organization by implementing an out of the box approach to the system. Worked with the leadership in restructuring the organization to improve the turn Around time for important OD activities.
- Attrition Handling, Ringfencing and retention of talent: Worked with the leadership in pro actively ringfencing the top talent via project springboard and worked on the complete process development of retaining the employees as a measure of reactive retention.
- Compensation Review - A yearly exercise to decide increment percentage to employees based on the budget received, individual employee ratings and management discretion.
- Grievance Handling – Handling of employees’ grievances and taking proactive steps to ensure local level resolution of grievances. Along with resolving general employee grievances also handled cases of Counseling out employees off the organization due to performance reasons, disciplinary cases.
- Exit Management - Keep track of all exits happening within the Business, Conduct exit interviews of employees.
- Statutory Compliance – Ensuring that the employees comply by the policies and directives during work from home.
BPHR
DWF MINDCREST
04.2020 - 10.2020
- New Strategic HR initiatives- Ideated and presented the HR plan for leave management during work from home scenario.
- Employee Engagement - Playing the Employee relations and Employee Engagement SPOC role. Planning and executing the engagement plan for whole year. Organizing Town halls, All hands meet, one on one meetings for top performers, Manage the monthly Rewards & Recognition program, HR connects. Creation of QBR data points with respect to people side.
- Performance Management – Ensured timely and effective program launch of Performance appraisal cycles; Mid review and Evaluation. Provide first-time appraisee/appraiser training, handled entire communication, Manager Enablement sessions, worked with the leadership team to ensure normal distribution. Managed Performance Improvement program for poor performers.
- Statutory Compliance – Ensuring that the employees comply with the policies and directives during work from home.
Senior Lead BPHR
INFOSYS LTD
06.2011 - 03.2020
- New Strategic HR initiatives- Ideated and executed new HR Strategic Initiatives like Pitstop completion and Guru DRONE-Acharya, FIFA, ACCRUE, BFF, I-Aspire. Received HRD award –Bravo from the HR head for the path breaking concept and execution of Guru Drone-Acharya and Summit(e).
- Performance Management – Ensured timely and effective program launch of Performance appraisal cycles; Mid review and Evaluation. Provided first-time appraisee/appraiser training, handled entire communication, Managerenablement sessions, work with the leadership team to ensure normal distribution. Managed Performance Improvement program for poor performers.
- Statutory Compliance – Kept a track of HR Compliance.
- Key Account handling- Owing to continuous excellence and extra ordinary performance, awarded with the additional role of a Key Account HR for one of the key accounts of Infosys, while continuing with the Unit HR partner role.
- Strategically Revamping of performance management- Worked with the central team on the complete revamp of the performance review system and branding the new system as I-count.
- Policy Anchor- played as policy anchor for enabling employees on new policies and conducting sessions for employees on various aspects of policies specifically designed for Performance evaluations. Also conducting various sessions/ chat hours for employees to answer their specific queries.
- Induction for new joiners- Successfully conducting HR Induction of employees in batches, with each batch size spanning from 250-450 Employees.
- Recruitment- Actively involved in the recruitment drives within Infosys campus, with a span of recruitment from entry level engineer to j16 management.
- Promotions & Progressions – Collaborated with COE team and Leadership team to get required role change slots for the unit. Managed the Role change program every quarter.
- Human Resource Operations – Handled all operational activities related to employee life cycle, activities such as employee Joining, induction, transfers, leaves, exit interviews, etc.
- Compensation Review - A yearly exercise to decide increment percentage to employees based on the budget received, individual employee ratings and management discretion, also was part of finalizing the quarterly performance bonus for employees.
- Resource handling and training- Successfully handled the employees on bench via Accelerate and CPOOL exercise and was able to achieve 100% allocation of employees, jumping 20% from the earlier mark. Also handled Visa allocations and Space planning. Identify training needs for operations teams / capability-building requirements and work with the ETA team to develop and implement the same Identifying training needs to up-skill employees. Doing a training need analysis for various teams and creating a learning plan for the year
- Exit Management and Retention - Keep track of all exits happening within the Business, Conduct retention interviews of employees and perform attrition analysis Align on enterprise level initiatives, customize and deliver the program for operations team. Reviewing HR operations effectiveness; monitor the recruitment dashboard; Execute the unit specific performance management framework and initiatives; Quarterly/periodic communication plan for DU/DC in line with overall unit communication plan in order to ensure HR service delivery candidate engagement and ensure fair and effective feedback mechanism will lead to improved performance abiding within guidelines of Infosys
- Grievance Handling – Handling of employees’ grievances and taking proactive steps to ensure local level resolution of grievances. Along with resolving general employee grievances also handled cases of Counseling out employees off the organization due to performance reasons, disciplinary cases, assisted the internal counsel on sexual harassment cases, resolved employee manager conflicts etc.
- Employee Engagement - Handled the Employee relations and Employee Engagement SPOC role. Organized Town halls, Locations wise All hands meet, Onsite meets, skip meetings, luncheon with Heads, one on one meetings for top performers, Manage the entire quarterly Rewards & Recognition program, HR connects, floor walks
- Statistical reporting – Did Analysis and reporting of the statistical data of employee dashboard to the higher management.
Summer Interns
TRIDENT INDUSTRIES
05.2010 - 07.2010
- Received a bonus of 1 lakh, for a product idea, which was then PATENTED by the company.
- A comprehensive study was shared and presented on special request to the CEO, which helped the company to reiterate and realign their manpower, marketing, sales and innovation.
- RESPONSIBLE FOR COMPANY’S foray into a completely new market, which was never been explored before i.e. 17 years.
ASE-T
TCS LTD
05.2007 - 01.2008
- Awarded as “Innovator of the Chennai DC” by the HR team, for proposing and implementing an innovative idea in the Development centre, which was later implemented throughout the T.C.S. It resulted in PROMPT HR SKILLS, High productivity and High employee motivation.
- Worked on Mainframes for revamping the interest rate calculation module of the project.
- Promoted to the role of HR-Representative owing to excellent people skills and good representation skills.
- Received Client appreciation for handing and resolving client queries and issues.
- Received Team player award for helping out other team members.
Education
Certificate - Human resource management
CORNELL UNIVERSITY
01.2019
Masters of business management - General
UBS
Chandigarh05.2011
B.tech - Electronics
DIT
Dehradun07.2006
Skills
- Performance Management
- Attrition handling
- Employee Engagement
- Talent Acquisition
- HR strategy and innovation
- Training & Development
- Organization Development
- Statutory Compliance
- Promotion & progression
- Compensation Planning
- Grievance handling
- HR Analytics
PERSONAL INFORMATION
English
Hindi
German
Hobbies and Interests
Playing cricket, playing virtual reality games, Reading books, Travelling, Listening soft music and visiting new places.
ADDITIONAL SKILLS/ACHIEVEMENTS
- Skilled in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint).
- Awarded with talent of the year in State Level Under 19 cricket Tournament.
- Going the extra mile award from HR head Birlasoft.
- Special recognition- One HR initiative in Pune DC.
- Bravo Award for happy campus initiative,2013 Trivandrum (Team category).
- Received INSTA Award- For Handling the Appraisal Cycle and Consequence Management.
- Most Valuable contributor award for coming out with innovative ideas for timely closure of performance evaluation.
- Member of Toastmasters, Chandigarh club and have won the award of Best Table Topic Speaker.
- Established Toastmasters club in the Trivandrum.
- Winner of JAM competition organized at Trivandrum.
- Started a computer literacy program in villages of Uttarakhand called "SAROKAR".
- Qualified CAT 2009 with 98.8 percentile.
- Member of college and company cricket team.
- Won National Level Personality Development Scholarship in school.
Timeline
Head HR-Enabling functions
Persistent Systems
06.2023 - Current
BPHR
BIRLASOFT
10.2020 - 04.2023
BPHR
DWF MINDCREST
04.2020 - 10.2020
Senior Lead BPHR
INFOSYS LTD
06.2011 - 03.2020
Summer Interns
TRIDENT INDUSTRIES
05.2010 - 07.2010
ASE-T
TCS LTD
05.2007 - 01.2008
Certificate - Human resource management
CORNELL UNIVERSITY
Masters of business management - General
UBS
B.tech - Electronics
DIT
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