MARIA JACOB

• Responsible for Human Resources Business Partner function for the Company
• Highly skilled in working with both established and 0-1 businesses
• Continuous optimisation of people costs and efficiencies by interventions in Organization Design, Organisation Structure & Policies. Ensuring people policies, programs and pracices are aligned to the evolving nature and needs of business.
• Custodian of all Employee engagement, reward and communication programs - design, deployment and ensuring delivery of success metrics to foster positive work environment and build high performance, inclusive culture
• Part of the start-up team tor BlackBuck Europe business- involved in Proof of Concept, operationalisation and scaling of the business in Central Europe.

• Handled multiple roles across Business Partnering, Talent Management and Business Partnering
• In my last role, I was heading the Talent Acquisition function for the organization, responsible for fulfilling the people requirements across all levels and for all lines of business with a team of 50 people delivering 500-700 hires per month
• Worked closely with the leadership team to arrive at resourcing requirements in line with business plans to build a healthy talent pipeline
• Deployed workforce analytics to deploy the right predictive hiring models resulting in shorter time to hire and better quality of hire
• Brought efficiency, expertise and effectiveness in Talent Acquisition process across organization both in internal as well as external talent
• Developed campus strategy for attracting young across various functions-Sales, Finance, CA, Engineering in order to build a robust talent pipeline
• In my prior roles as Zonal HR Business Partner was responsible for 2500 employees, 60 branches, was supported by 6 HRBPs
• Enabled the team to function as employee advocate to facilitate an open, inclusive & ICICI Values-based work environment
• Responsible for the success of all people programs -Talent Management and ringfencing initiatives for high performers, Individual capability planning, Career development, 360 Degree Feedback, Employee Feedback Surveys & action planning, Communication programs, Rewards & Benefits
• Created culture of “learning organization” – worked on People Manager’s capability to develop and manage people and performance.

Additional roles:

• Practice Head for Performance Management for the organization Designed rewards and recognition programmes to drive high performance, talent retention and motivation leading to high performance culture
• Subject Matter Expert for Employee Relations & labour compliance across the organization
• Led the Implementation of SuccessFactors full suite for the Company

Additional projects:

• Revamped Talent Assessment, Promotion and deployment process
• Designed interventions to robust Talent Pipeline at two levels below leadership team, lowered regrettable talent turnover
• Developed Predictive Hiring and attrition model to staff 2 major manpower ramp ups

• Recruitment partner for Retail Liabilites-South spanning 450 branches.