AREAS OF EXPOSURE / EXPERTISE
● In Licious i have handled entire Tamilnadu, Pondicherry and Kerala in end to end HR Operations.
Key Qualifications & Responsibilities :
● Effectively liaised between senior management and employees to maintain and improve company-employee relations.
● Researched, recruited, staffed, onboarded, and trained new company hires according to the needs of department managers and company budget.
● Ensured compliance of company directives, regulatory concerns, and health and safety protocols.
● Administered payroll, company benefits packages, corporate events, and team building meetings and outings.
- Maintained human resources regulatory compliance with local, state and federal laws.
- Educated employees on company policy and kept employee handbook current.
- Maintained optimal staffing levels by tracking vacancies and initiating recruitment and interview processes to identify qualified candidates.
- Recommended appropriate resolutions to employee relations concerns and handled disciplinary issues and investigations of misconduct.
- Met with employees annually for progress reviews and performance assessments.
- Spearheaded shared governance and collaboration on employee relations, HR administration, collective bargaining agreements and related HR topics.
- Provided updates on HR policy changes to employees to satisfy compliance and state laws.
- Structured compensation and benefits according to market conditions and budget demands.
- Directed hiring and onboarding programs for new employees.
- Fostered cross-functional relationships to connect managers and employees and improve overall efficiency.
- Conducted company-wide town hall meetings to convey updates.
- Directed job fairs to bring in local talent for long term and seasonal positions.
- Performed administrative and customer service functions by responding to general employee inquiries, addressing employee relations issues and scheduling meetings.
- Interviewed potential hires, negotiated salaries and benefits and performed reference checks.
- Designed and implemented region-wide recruitment, behavior-based interviewing and skill matching procedure, decreasing employee turnover.
- Coordinated work activities for HR managers, specialists and recruiting agents.
- Collaborated with stakeholders across organization to maintain proper flow of communication and execution of planned initiatives and projects.
- Coordinated and engaged with leadership in planning and organizing calendars, events and activities.
- Developed succession plans and promotion paths for staff.
Policy formulation and Modulation :
Involved in formulation of new policies and procedures and modulation of the policies wherein requires changes to make healthy working environment.
Recruitment, Induction & Redeployment:
- Identify business manpower requirements through continuous interaction with various Departmental Heads.
- Develop / Implement new recruitment / selection policies as per staff projections.
- Optimize channels of recruitment, specifically recruitment database subscriptions and consultants.
- Manage the complete recruitment life cycle along with the team and sourcing partner.
- Manage the hiring process across middle & senior levels.
- Facilitate Induction and Orientation for new employees.
Salary & Payroll Functions: (Compensation & Benefits):
- Studying the market rates and offering competitive rates to attract manpower
- Salary negotiation and fitment of offered candidates
- Designed a salary structure across various positions by finding out the rates from secondary data.
- Preparing payroll inputs every month and coordinating with corporate team and payroll vendors for ensuring error free & timely salary
- Effectively manage bonus & other incentive payouts calculations for entire team.
- Leave Accounting.
- Coordinating with Insurance team for registering and claiming of medical expenses of employees.
Statutory Compliance :
- Coordinate with vendor for filling returns like monthly, Quarterly, Half yearly and Annual Based under Labour laws.
- Pertaining labour license under Catering and Shops Act.
- Handling Labour Authorities on monthly basis.
Employee Welfare & Relations :
- Act as the Counselor for Support functions through their Performance Development Plans.
- Implement Performance Management System & identify scope for enhancement.
- Initiate & drive various rewards & recognition (R&R) programs.
- Maintain a consistent communication plan on HR core activities across the organization levels.
- Conflict & grievance management for employees through effective counsel forums.
- Ensure healthy employee-management relations in the organization.
Training & Development :
- Evaluation of training needs, designing of training schedule and arrangement of training sessions
- Thorough evaluation of post training sessions
- Conduct Training Need Analysis, prepare Training Calendars & conduct Training Effectiveness Reports.
Exit & Attrition Management :
- Analyze & report data based on the exit interview feedback and suggest changes for improvement (Attrition management)
- Deep analysis of attrition which helps to design the recruitment structures and channels to increase quality hiring.
- Coordinating & conducting disciplinary proceedings and exits in line with the policies and procedures
- Responsible for Full and Final Settlement.
First mile to last mile :
- Handling employees in both first mile and last mile which is around 500+ employees across TN, KL and PY.
- Managed 2 Mother hubs in Chennai and Coimbatore they dispatching stocks to Entire Delivery Centers
- Handling the Cities 8 Cities with 19 DC in Chennai Coimbatore Pondy Trichy Madurai Palakkad Thrissur and Kochi.
- Managing 50K - 70K orders in a month
- In addition to that in charge of Health and safety of all employees by implementing the safety protocols and first aid training.
Business Partner Role :
- Analyzing the business requirements and deploying manpower of shift basis.
- Controlling absenteeism and attrition to achieve the business targets.
- Arrangements of daily wages in case of high absenteeism and sudden business increase.
- Analyzing and increasing the productivity of employees by which reducing the manpower cost.
- Taking responsibility of Manpower, overtime and staff welfare cost shouldn’t exceed CP cost of the location.
- Coordinating with 3PL vendors and EB module sources to fulfill the last mile delivery needs.
- Assessed acceptable new business risk parameters, maintaining compliant services and maximizing profit.
- Developed and implemented people management strategies, maximizing staff capabilities and competencies.
- Managed large groups of influential stakeholders effectively, enabling smooth-running project coordination and delivery.
- Created and delivered innovative, transformative business restructures, maximizing operational efficiency and financial growth.
- Delivered proactive coaching and guidance to management teams on best practice, policy and process strategy.
- Recruited high-performing, motivated teams to deliver first-class sales service for maximum profit.
- Collaborated with operational leadership teams to implement talent programes for enhanced staff development.
- Monitored sales performance against monthly targets, improving processes to meet annual financial forecasting goals.
- Increased efficiency, effectiveness and profitability by managing team productivity, costs and budgets.
- Delivered high level of service to customers in effort to build upon future relationships.
- Implemented company policies and legal guidelines to maintain standards and verify compliance from staff.
- Negotiated with contractors and vendors to provide cost friendly contracts.
- Directed hiring and training of new managers to drive organizational improvements.
- Established professional relationships with business partners, shareholders and authorities to develop trust, rapport and reliability.