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Work History
Education
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Accomplishments
Timeline
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Nikhil Nayan

Pune

Summary

Self-driven and results-oriented HR professional with proven experience across diverse HR workstreams. Adept at delivering business-specific HR solutions with expertise in Employee Engagement, Program Management, Capability Building, Employee Relations, and Succession Planning. Strong academic foundation with Masters from India and the UK, specialising in HRM in both Indian and global context. Solid grounding in psychology complemented by a natural flair for people management, enabling a thoughtful and intuitive approach to building strong employee and leadership connections and fostering a positive work culture.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

People Partner (Department: Global Finance)

Maersk GSC
05.2018 - 11.2023
  • Acted as a strategic HR partner for 600+ employees, advising leadership across the full employee lifecycle while supporting global Finance (600 employees, 80+ leaders across 7 countries).
  • Led change management and transformation projects, including global reorganizations, policy harmonisation, and digital adoption initiatives.
  • Designed and delivered employee engagement & recognition frameworks that improved participation, retention, and trust across multi-location teams.
  • Partnered with leadership on succession planning and capability building, coaching managers and strengthening leadership pipelines.
  • Ideated and launched the Career Navigator Tool to boost internal mobility, while leveraging people analytics to provide insights on attrition, performance, and engagement.

Employee Engagement Lead (Department: HR Strategy and communications)

Maersk GSC
10.2021 - 03.2022
  • Entrusted (as additional responsibility) for leading Employee Engagement Strategy and Deployment for the entire brand – approx. 12,500 employees spread across 5 site offices in India, China and Philippines.
  • Collaborated with Business and HR Leadership for analysis and interpretation of scores, decoding insights and planning tailored interventions for the team(s).
  • Collaborated with senior HR and business leaders for engagement strategy deployment across the organisation.

Talent Acquisition and Management

Maersk GSC
02.2019 - 10.2019
  • End-to-end strategising and execution for 2019 campus hires- interns and Management trainees.
  • Actively collaborated with Internal and external stakeholders to understand needs and further drive seamless campus hiring process.
  • Revisited the Campus hiring approach to ensure maximum efficiency and cost effectiveness.
  • Hired largest MT and intern batch for GSC in 2019 (21 interns and 13 MTs). This included first ever hiring of top ranked CAs and CMAs.

Assistant Manager (Department: Dangerous Cargo Management)

Maersk China
02.2019 - 07.2019
  • Managed daily audits of approved dangerous goods to ensure error-free booking processing. Also, designed an efficiency framework to further reduce DCM booking errors.
  • Launched one of its kind ‘Safety First’ initiative to drive down errors in DCM booking approvals with collaboration across operations and commercial teams
  • SPOC for the Dangerous Cargo team. Led HR initiatives partnering with local HRBP.
  • Trained and mentored over 50 employees in various soft skills including communication, presentation design and delivery.
  • Collaborated with CGD DCM Management to optimise workforce allocation and productivity of employees.
  • Coached 10+ leaders on engagement and culture initiatives. The team went on to have one of the highest employee engagement score for leaders in China GSC.

Business Consultancy

Hi Kan Biotech
11.2024 - 06.2025
  • Led consultancy project for HI-KAN Biotech, a veterinary healthcare start-up
  • Conducted primary research on consumer trends, pricing, and distribution gaps
  • Proposed D2C model, eco-friendly packaging, and enhanced after-sales service
  • Delivered data-driven recommendations to improve competitiveness and CX.
  • Supported change management via process improvements, training, and alignment

Summer Internship

Boston Scientific
04.2017 - 06.2017
  • Implemented Tech Lead Academy as a structured leadership development program.
  • Designed learning framework using customer insights and industry benchmarks.
  • Delivered targeted training for managers and technical architects and created structured learning timelines and progress tracking.
  • Deployed assessment centre to drive measurable leadership growth.

Education

MBA - IHRM

Leeds Beckett University
01.2025

MBA - Human Resources

Symbiosis Centre for Management and Human Resource Development (SCMHRD)
01.2018

B.A (Hons.) - Applied Psychology

Amity Institute of Psychology and Allied Sciences
Noida, Uttar Pradesh
01.2015

Class XII - Commerce

St. Paul’s School
Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh
01.2012

Class X - undefined

St. Paul’s School
Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh
01.2010

Skills

  • Employee relations
  • Talent management
  • Strategic planning
  • Succession planning
  • Diversity and inclusion
  • Organizational development
  • Employment branding
  • Employee engagement

Websites

Accomplishments

  • STAR Award For ideation and deployment of HR strategy for Finance GSC (~4000 Headcount) Apr, 2021
  • Going the Extra Mile Ideated and deployed ‘Career Navigator’ to address succession planning Dec, 2020
  • Team Excellence Award Collaboratively led the first HR Agile team project and represented Finance HR July, 2020
  • Title- iCoach Awarded iCoach for successful qualification of the Connect program - Neuroscience of Quality Conversations (by NeuroLeadership Institute) Oct, 2019
  • Team Excellence Award Worked with FNA HR team to ensure that first ever ‘FNA Career Pitstop’ was a resounding success. Nov, 2018

Timeline

Business Consultancy

Hi Kan Biotech
11.2024 - 06.2025

Employee Engagement Lead (Department: HR Strategy and communications)

Maersk GSC
10.2021 - 03.2022

Talent Acquisition and Management

Maersk GSC
02.2019 - 10.2019

Assistant Manager (Department: Dangerous Cargo Management)

Maersk China
02.2019 - 07.2019

People Partner (Department: Global Finance)

Maersk GSC
05.2018 - 11.2023

Summer Internship

Boston Scientific
04.2017 - 06.2017

MBA - Human Resources

Symbiosis Centre for Management and Human Resource Development (SCMHRD)

B.A (Hons.) - Applied Psychology

Amity Institute of Psychology and Allied Sciences

Class XII - Commerce

St. Paul’s School

Class X - undefined

St. Paul’s School

MBA - IHRM

Leeds Beckett University

References

Reference available on request

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