Peush Garg

• Strategic People & Culture Partner for Technology R&D (Software, Hardware, ADAS, Cybersecurity, Data & AI), advising senior leaders on organization, capability, and culture.
• Assisted in Two org redesigns, enabling 3× headcount growth and expanded tech product ownership in India and established a New organization in Japan from scratch.
• Drove Culture Re-ignition journey for the entire India R&D site.
• Coached 40+ leaders on various business and people aspects, resulting in improved leadership effectiveness and higher manager feedback scores.
• Facilitated Leadership Team‑Building interventions that sustained higher collaboration, trust, and transparency—strengthening camaraderie and embedding a lasting ‘Kind Leadership’ culture
• Embedded a data‑to‑action operating rhythm with leaders across three years, resulting in attrition declining from 18% to 5%
• Enabled high‑performance culture by challenging legacy ways of working and embedding values-led leadership behaviors across R&D.
• Handled complex and sensitive cases including Performance Improvement, POSH, whistleblow, and team conflicts with fairness, confidentiality, and strong governance.
• Delivered end-to-end people processes (performance, compensation, talent reviews) with a focus on leadership readiness and future talent needs.
• Enabled organization‑wide operational excellence by Optimizing core HR processes and aligning policies to business needs.
• Leveraged advanced people analytics to steer workforce planning, reveal critical talent gaps, and enable data‑backed strategic decisions.

Key Accomplishments:

• 3x growth in Employee Headcount, corresponding increase in product ownership
• Built robust internal succession pipelines, resulting in more than 70% of leadership hires coming from internal talent
• Enabled global talent readiness, resulting in 5 outbound Expat Assignments in a single year
• Successful setup of New organization in Japan

• Led the year‑end performance appraisal process for 550+ FMCG employees, ensuring disciplined execution, leadership alignment, and timely closure.
• Built Dashboards and Automated Workflows using Excel Macros to enhance process visibility, efficiency, and compliance.
• Managed HRMS modules (HR Foundation, Workforce, Performance) on Adrenalin Max, supporting accurate data flow and reliable system operations.
• Supported the integration of a social recognition platform with Microsoft Teams, strengthening real‑time recognition and employee engagement.

• Led the end‑to‑end performance management cycle for 5,500+ employees for three consecutive years, guiding goal setting, reviews, and calibration with strong governance and leader alignment.
• Strengthened PMS by Integrating L&D, Idea management, Behavioural competencies, and Corporate values, and developed tools for training need identification and standardized KPIs.
• Enhanced Innovation and Employee Involvement by embedding idea submission into PMS, resulting in 4,000+ ideas; also enabled an 11% rise in learning hours through L&D integration.
• Managed Annual R&R programs, conceptualized Failure Awards to promote innovation, and curated the concept of an Employee Appreciation Portal that captured 8,000+ recognitions in two months, earning appreciation from the C&MD.
• Managed Internal movements simulations, Aspiration analysis, and Mobility insights to support leadership decisions on internal movements, talent placement, and succession planning.
• Led HR digitization initiatives including HRMS evaluation, digitalization of personnel folders, and designing online platforms for recognition and failure rewards.

Key Accomplishments:

• Received formal appreciation from C&MD and leadership for R&R initiatives.

• Identified the competencies for various job roles present in Customer Service in PD/DF division
• Designed Technical Career Path options for service engineers to facilitate vertical as well as cross-functional job rotation, based upon the competency gap analysis
• Created a Ready Reckoner for all the HR Policies and also designed the content for handling HR related queries through an IVR system

Key Accomplishments:

• Career Path as well as IVR system got implemented at Pan India Level post internship period
• Awarded Pre Placement Interview and Second best internship project

• Automated daily/monthly reporting pipelines in Pentaho, streamlining ETL, campaign, and database workflows to improve reporting timeliness and reliability.
• Monitored and supported end‑to‑end web services to maintain high availability and meet SLAs.
• Built business analytics reports/dashboards in MS Excel to inform stakeholder decisions.
• Standardized fixes by documenting recurring issues into a team knowledge basehe team’s future reference
• Received Superior Performance Award at Infosys Limited