NIHARIKA PRASAD

Role - Lead HR Business Partner & Talent Acquisition

Profile - Business HR for Commercial Risk & Underwriting, Commercial Lending, FD and Wealth Management.

Responsibilities:

Business Partner (Primary Focus) -

• Strategic HR Planning - collaborate with senior management to align HR strategies, driving initiatives that support organizational objectives. Also assist in AOP, head count planning and workforce alignment.
• Employee Relations - act as trusted advisor to employees and managers, addressing grievances and conflicts and provide guidance on HR policies.
• Talent Management - identify talent gaps and work with leaders on enhancing employee growth and retention.
• Change Management - support organizational change initiatives and communicating the same ensuring employees adapt to new processes and structure.
• Employee Engagement - develop and implement strategies to improve employee engagement and satisfaction, conducting surveys on a quarterly basis and analyzing the same.
• Attrition Management - drive monitor attrition management initiative, analyse trends and present comprehensive attrition reports to leadership, enabling data driven decision making and workforce planning.
• Job Rotation Drive - championed and executed job rotation program to enhance cross functional exposure, build internal talent pipelines and align employee skills with evolving business needs.
• Redeployment - led strategic redeployment initiatives to optimize workforce utilisation, matching internal talent to critical open roles and reducing dependency on external hiring.
• PIP - designed and implemented structured PIPs in collaboration with managers, providing clear milestones, coaching support, and regular check in's to facilitate performance turnarounds and accountability.
• HR Metrics and Reporting - track and report key metrics using data to identify trends and make informed decisions to improve HR processes.

Talent Acquisition -

• Recruitment Strategy - crafted, developed and implemented effective recruitment strategies, forecasting hiring needs based on business growth.
• Job Advertising and Marketing - designed and managed job postings leveraging multiple channels to attract high quality candidates.
• End to end recruitment - manage a team of recruiters who did end to end hiring for the required positions.
• Offer Management - successfully negotiating terms of employment to secure top talent.
• Recruitment Metrics and Reporting - tracked and reported on key recruitment metrics using data driven insights to continuously improve hiring processes and strategies.
• Stakeholder Collaboration - partnered with HOD and senior leadership to understand hiring needs and deliver tailored talent solutions accordingly.

Role: HRBP

Profile: Business HR for Technology, Product Design, Product Management, IT and Smart Devices

Responsibilities:

• Hiring Strategy – end to end recruitment for businesses and quality onboarding with the help of various sources.
• Manpower Planning & Budgeting – Liaison with BU Heads for manpower requirement and plan recruitment strategy accordingly.
• Attrition Analysis – take care of overall attrition for business units and aim on minimizing regretted attrition.
• Revamping organizational values to the vision/mission of the organization – involved in projects aiming inculcating values in Rebel ecosystem.
• Employee Pulse – survey to capture pulse of employees followed by thorough analysis.
• Employee Engagement – plan and drive engagement activities to keep up the spark and also driving reward and recognition program.
• Stakeholder Management – maintaining continuous connect with internal as well as external stakeholders

Role: Consultant

Profile: Recruitment & Research

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for handling recruitment & research assignments for vast geographies including APAC and India for high level management. Act as SPOC for mandates across IT and FMCG industry.
• Extensive experience in hiring across functions like sales, manufacturing, legal & regulatory affairs, human resource etc for high level management for various industries like medical technology, banks, FMCG, IT etc.
• Identify and engage with potential candidates on a global scale through different search techniques like team mapping, cold calling, and headhunting and job portal.
• Foster long-term relationships with clients and potential candidates by providing thehigh level of service to meet the strategic needs of the organization.

Apart from below clientele, have worked on urgent and confidential assignments for both India and APAC market as per business demands.

Clientele -

India’s top 3 largest Private Sector Bank - Sales hiring and Tech hiring for India market Computer Software Firm Tech hiring for APAC market

IT and Services and also a Certified Microsoft Gold Partner - Tech and Non Tech hiring for APAC and India market.

World leader in serving science from Biotechnology industry - Tech and Non Tech hiring for APAC market

Multi-cloud data platform for enterprise analytics, solving data challenges from ITindustry - Tech hiring for India market

IT and Services firm specialized in Enterprise Storage Solutions, Internet of Things, Big Data,Flash Storage, Cloud Infrastructure, Content Mobility, Digital Transformation, and Storage Software - Tech hiring for India market.

A leading international tobacco company engaged in the manufacture and sale of cigarettes,smokefree products and associated electronic devices and accessories, and other nicotine- containing products in markets also a certified “Global Top Employer” - Non Tech hiring for APAC market.

Responsibilities:

• Understand the client requirements, screen profiles and conduct interviews
• To manage (4 recruiters and 2 accounts) the requirement with the help of sourcing team to achieve the desired results.
• Strong client management, vendor management, stakeholder management and business partnering.

• Generalist HR role responsible for end-to-end recruitment, manpower planning, transfer IOC, joining formalities, coordination with site offices, and cultural/corporate event initiatives.

• Talent Acquisition role responsible for understanding business requirements, sourcing and screening candidates, conducting HR rounds of interviews, partnering with business, and handling pre-joining formalities.

• Internship role involved in recruitment coordination, HR audits, canteen administration, and interacting with blue-collar workers for HR improvement.

Project details:

• To spread awareness on Tuberculosis and Leprosy in various schools and colonies in Navi Mumbai by generating leads and seeking permission from the concerned authorities to serve the purpose with the help of PowerPoint presentation, flashmobs, streetplays etc.

Project details:

• To learn various HR practices followed at Tata Motors Limited