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Jojo Acharya

Senior People Analytics Specialist (Zone Asia Oceania Africa Lead)

Gurgaon

Summary

“Driving change and performance through data, analytics, and organizational science”

Strategic People Analytics leader with 12+ years of experience transforming human potential into tangible business outcome and driving organizational change and performance through data, analytics, and organizational science. Proven expertise in leveraging big data, AI, and advanced analytics models to develop actionable operational and behavioral insights, specifically for agile workforce transformation, new skilling initiatives, and optimizing human capital in large-scale organizational changes (e.g., M&A, strategic redirection, cost optimization, Organizational Development, Strategic Workforce Planning). Possesses a strong focus on the intersection of data, technology, and AI with organizational capabilities.

Overview

years of professional experience

6040

years of post-secondary education

Language

Work History

Senior People Analytics Specialist

Nestle Business Services

09.2023 - Current

Regional Leadership & Data Science Innovation: Led the People Analytics hub for AOA (Vietnam, Indonesia, Indochina, Korea), providing Data Science & Innovation support.
Value Delivery & Risk Mitigation: Delivered data-driven insights, drove value optimization, and established best practices in Data & Analytics across regional businesses. Innovated analytical approaches to understand and mitigate people-driven business risks.
Core People Analytics & Consulting: Delivered data-driven analytics solutions, established standards, frameworks, tools, and methodologies for people analytics & reporting, and provided consultation & advice to Directors and Business Leaders on People Analytics.
Strategic Planning & Governance: Oversaw Strategic People Planning and Data Standards and Governance initiatives.
Data Culture & Cross-Functional Partnership: Drove a data-driven culture across all functions and partnered with the wider Nestlé Analytics community for end-to-end business insights.
Business Intelligence & Scalable Solutions: Designed and developed innovative Business Intelligence solutions for scalable global value within Nestlé.
Advanced Analytical Capabilities: Expertise in: Strategic Workforce Planning, Organizational Network Analysis (ONA), Employee Experience and Wellness Analytics, Advanced Analytics & Data Science (e.g., Gender Pay, Flight Risk Analysis, Burnout Indicator), Survey Value Extraction (NLP), Culture & Employee Experience Analysis (leveraging Behavioral Science), Workplace Analytics

Principal, Management Consulting

Accenture Strategy

01.2020 - 09.2023

Global Leadership & Strategic Impact: Led global organizational science group within a major consulting firm's (Accenture) Talent & Organization analytics practice for India, focused on driving enterprise transformation and bottom-line impact through HR/People Analytics.
Cross-Functional & Interdisciplinary Expertise: Oversaw Commercial, Products, and Delivery functions globally, managing a diverse team of scientists spanning social science, I/O psychology, economics, computer science, and data science to apply big data, machine learning, and advanced analytics to people/talent/organization domains.
Solution & Product Development: Created and launched over 30 new People & Talent Analytics offerings, including Transformational GPS 2.0, Culture DNA, No-touch Culture MRI, Enterprise Agility Assessment, Inclusion & Diversity Perception Index, Digital Dexterity, Org Fitness for M&A, New Workforce Solutions, NLP-based Performance Review, and People Value Lab.
Strategic Consulting & Digital Transformation: Provided strategic consulting services across various geographies in Talent & Workforce Analytics, Digital Transformation, AI, Survey-based Analysis, and Forecasting (Organizational & Workforce).
Data-Driven Capability Building: Designed and implemented business-focused capability frameworks, assessment & development centers, learning journeys, and change management initiatives, with data analytics as a core component for objective decision-making.
Large-Scale Organizational Change: Drove extensive organizational changes (e.g., strategic redirection, growth, M&A, leadership changes, cost-cutting) leveraging data, analytics, and organizational science methodologies.
Outside-In/External Data Analytics: Pioneered 'no-touch' external data analysis (e.g., Glassdoor, LinkedIn, Annual Reports, Earnings Transcripts) for use cases like Culture, Inclusion & Diversity, and People Value Propositions, utilizing dynamic data embedding (NLP) and sentiment analysis.

Senior Consultant - Analytics

Ernst & Young LLP

11.2018 - 12.2019

Talent Acquisition & Predictive Hiring: Developed 'Talent Miner – Hire Right,' an application leveraging historical trends, CHAID rule-sets, and probability scores for predictive hiring. Utilized APIs (e.g., LinkedIn, Indeed) for candidate sourcing and ensured industry-specific versatility.
Performance Analytics & Improvement: Built performance prediction models (Random Forest), mapping to productivity for a large insurance client, resulting in a 25% productivity increase for new and existing hires over six months. Designed and implemented targeted interventions (Knowledge, Skill, Enablement) for performance improvement, directly linking to productivity gains.
HR Transformation & Strategy: Led comprehensive HR process redesign (Hire to Retire) initiatives, encompassing HR transformation, HR tech strategy & implementation, change management & communication strategy, and People Analytics strategy & scale-up.
Product Development & Management: Engaged in product development and management for HR and People Analytics solutions.
Broad HR Advisory & Leadership: Provided advisory in areas such as operating model design, manpower optimization, compensation & benefits, workforce planning, culture integration, performance & KPI design, and succession pipeline. Managed and led global teams with account management and P&L responsibilities.

Senior Executive – Workforce Analytics

Cognizant Technology Solutions

05.2017 - 11.2018

Attrition Analysis & Prediction: Conducted in-depth qualitative analysis of Exit data to extract sentiments and clusters (K-means, Hierarchical clustering). Applied quantitative data to identify independent variables and variable importance for Exit prediction using AdaBoost, Random Forest, Logistic Regression, and ensemble models, validated by confusion matrices.
Retention Insights & Analytics Platform: Developed a unified platform for employee attrition analysis, incorporating external factors, individual risk scores (Neural Networks), and pattern detection to identify attrition reasons and present risk scores.
Time Series Forecasting Application: Created an interactive R-Shiny application for forecasting billed associates and utilization using Time Series Forecasting models (Holt-Winters, ARIMA, STL, Decompose & STL), providing model choice based on accuracy checks and hosting on internal servers.
Semantics/Sentiment Analytics Application: Developed an R-Shiny app for text mining (Word Clouds, n-grams, Top words, Happiness Index post-stemming) using the SVM algorithm, focusing on identifying keywords and creating key clusters.
Leadership & Diversity Analytics: Performed Sentiment Analysis on survey comments to identify positive/negative themes for retention plan development.
Deployability Prediction Application: Built an R-Shiny app to present deployability Index and predict 'Days to Deployability' using an ensemble of Random Forest & XG-Boost, identifying key predictors and charting risk scores.
1-on-1 Discussion & Action Tracking Tool (i-Discuss): Developed a solution to capture, track, and close one-on-one discussions related to assimilation, engagement, retention, and compliance, generating actionable items.

MBA Summer Internship

Merck Sharp & Dohme

03.2016 - 05.2016

Identifying the Key Process Indicators and structuring the data accordingly post cleaning.
Dashboards catering to demographics with multidimensional filtering structure using analytics tools Spotfire and Tableau.
Designed a dashboard presenting trends and visualizations corresponding to direct selling and exited employees.
Prepared a dashboard catering to attrition analysis and depicting a snapshot of department wise performance.
Received the Best HR Intern – Analytics award and the project was published in insideiim magazine.

Senior Systems Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services

10.2011 - 05.2015

Developed new analytical Dashboards (exploratory + prescriptive) pertaining to BFS domain for a major banking client.
Monitored and analyzed the reporting of database performance.
Project Management by acting as liaison between clients and technical teams, single point of contact for clients for issues/clarifications, articulated solutions and provided necessary consultation to clients.
Made use of various BI Tools (Spotfire, Tableau) to create dashboards to better present the detailed description of the latencies that existed in the Corporate Actions Cycle.

Education

MBA - Human Resource And Analytics

Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies

Mumbai

04-2017

BTech - Electronics And Communication Engineering

Netaji Subhash Engineering College

Kolkata

04.2001 - 01.2011

Class XII -

Ryan International School

New Delhi, India

04-2007

Class X - Science

Vishwa Bharati Public School

Noida, India

04-2005

Skills

Strategic Workforce Planning

Total Rewards, Talent Management

Organisational Development

Time Series Forecasting

Talent & Workforce Analytics

Survey Analytics

Organizational Analytics

Machine learning

Sentiment Analysis

Leadership - People Management

Websites

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jojo-acharya-b4807

Key Competencies

Strategic Workforce Planning, Total Rewards, Talent Management, Organisational Development, Revenue forecasting, Headcount Forecasting, Talent & Workforce Analytics, Machine learning, Statistical Methods, Programming Languages and Visualization Tools, People Management

Accomplishments

40 under 40 India Leaders 2025:

Selected as India’s top 40 under 40 leaders in India 2025. The same being published in multiple global magazines and newspapers.

Accenture Strategy:

Promoted to a principal in 2 years • “Innovation in Action Award – 2020” for exceptional product delivery and storytelling • “Client Impact Award - 2020” for exceptional client delivery • “Most Promising Product of the year Award - 2020” • “Above and Beyond Award” – for my contributions towards OA NLP solutioning

Ernst & Young:

• “Gold standard Rating” in back-to-back quarters post joining • Twice Out of cycle promotion in a span of 6 months post joining owing to the quality of deliverables and business impact

Cognizant Technology Solutions:

• Received the Highest Rating for the annual year 2017 • “On the spot Award” for providing training to Upper Leadership & Talent Managers in the field of Analytics

Merck Sharp & Dohme:

• Best HR Intern – Analytics – Article published on the same in insideiim

Additional Information

Solution Areas: -

Strategic Workforce Planning, Total Rewards, Talent Management, Organisational Development, Revenue forecasting, Headcount Forecasting, Applications (using Shiny) for Semantics analysis, Time Series Forecasting, Tools/Dashboards/Simulators, Talent & Workforce Analytics, Trend Analysis, Survey Analytics, Change Analytics, Organizational Analytics

Skills: -

• Machine learning – LLMs, Sentiment Analysis (Text Mining), Supervised, Unsupervised & Reinforcement learning

• Statistical Methods – Time-series (ARIMA, STL, Holt Winters), Regression models, Hypothesis testing and Dimensionality reduction, Random Forest, ADA Boost, Logistic Regression, Neural Networks, Ensembles, H20.ai, AutoML

• Programming Languages and Visualization Tools - R, Python, Shiny/Shiny Dashboard Developer, SQL, Sybase, Excel-Vba, Advanced Excel, Spotfire, Power BI and Tableau, C++, Shell & Pearl Scripting

• People Management – Presently heading 4 markets – Vietnam, Indonesia, Korea, Thailand

Achievements:

40 under 40 India Leaders 2025: · Selected as India’s top 40 under 40 leaders in India 2025. The same being published in multiple global magazines and newspapers. Accenture Strategy: -

• Promoted to a principal in 2 years

• “Innovation in Action Award – 2020” for exceptional product delivery and storytelling

• “Client Impact Award - 2020” for exceptional client delivery

• “Most Promising Product of the year Award - 2020”

• “Above and Beyond Award” – for my contributions towards OA NLP solutioning

Ernst & Young: -

• “Gold standard Rating” in back-to-back quarters post joining

• Twice Out of cycle promotion in a span of 6 months post joining owing to the quality of deliverables and business impact

Cognizant Technology Solutions: -

• Received the Highest Rating for the annual year 2017

•“On the spot Award” for providing training to Upper Leadership & Talent Managers in the field of Analytics

Merck Sharp & Dohme: -

Best HR Intern – Analytics – Article published on the same in insideiim