Priya Premkumar
Human Resource Leader
Chennai
Summary
Committed and passionate results-oriented HR leader with 22+ years' experience in management and leadership. Extensive experience on functional areas like Employee Relations, Employee Engagement and Talent Acquisition. As an HR Professional who has lived and worked in India and the Americas, I understand cultural differences and can easily work with people across diverse cultures and backgrounds. I have a strong record of accomplishment in leading high visibility people initiatives and am known for my ability to quickly gain the respect of business leaders and execute to plan. I am a results' driven HR leader with high energy, possessing excellent communication skills and known to be highly collaborative in my approach to problem solving. I leverage my education in psychology to solve people issues and approach solutions from multiple perspectives. I am a lifelong learner who sees the value in change and doing things differently.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
6
6
Certifications
Work History
General Manager - Human Resources
Renault Nissan Technologies Business Centre India
09.2022 - 12.2024
- Responsible as a HR leader for over 5000+ employee span collaborating with Business Leaders to align HR strategies for various functions of IT, Purchasing, Global Business Solutions Unit and all Enablement Functions
- Heading the Women Forum for the Organisation as part of the Diversity & Inclusion portfolio
- Presiding Officer of the POSH (Prevention of Sexual Harassment) committee
Assistant Vice President - HR
Intellect Design Arena Ltd
02.2012 - 09.2022
- Currently playing the role of HR Director for all Business Enablement functions, India Sales, and CTO team in India and as a Lead Facilitator for Leadership Development initiatives across the organization
- Played the role of GEO HR Director for Americas, based at New Jersey, USA for 4 years handling the responsibility for the entire gamut of HR activities for US, Canada, and Chile regions
- Played the role of HR Business Partner for Global Consumer Banking unit managing a team size of 1200 associates globally
- I have also had the opportunity to play the role of the GEO HR Manager for Middle East and Africa associates catering to 120 associates in these regions
- Work closely with the business leadership team and the associates to improve work relationships, build morale, and increase productivity and retention within the units I am responsible for as a HR Director
- Provide guidance and input on business unit restructures, workforce planning and succession planning
- Partner with line managers to identify talent development needs for the business units and individual executive coaching needs for the leaders
- Ensure the Performance Management activities are closed on time and provide necessary coaching for the line managers to conduct meaningful Professional Development Dialogue with their team members
- Lead the execution and delivery of Leadership Development programs in partnership with external and internal facilitators
- Drive the execution of key talent initiatives across the organization like 360-degree feedback for leaders and Talent Round Table discussions
- Connect and Engagement activities for the corporate function - Have started new initiatives and conducted lots of engagement activities for the associates in India and across the globe virtually
- Have experience handling the payroll activities for the Geo - Ensure the payroll sheets for the Middle East Africa, Egypt countries are taken care and advised to finance for payouts
- Provided End to end HR support for IMEA sales team - Involved in the design of the Sales incentives and responsible for the advice of payouts, handled the salary fitments for those traveling to Middle East regions and recruitment of sales professionals in new regions in ME
- Policy framing for the Geo - Have been involved in the policy framing for the region (Middle East - Saudi and UAE)
Sr. Lead, HR
Infosys Technologies
10.2009 - 01.2012
- HR account management for a team size of 3200 across locations
- Involved in all Location level activities for the unit in Chennai
- Employee Assimilation: Have been involved in assessing the effectiveness of the assimilation process and incorporate revisions to the process as required to ensure that the assimilation process in the unit is strengthened
- Deployment: Prepared a short-, medium- and long-term skill requirement analysis based on the unit's business plan
- Continuously monitored the execution of the process, reviews the entry level deployment, bench management and transfer process to effectively manage the talent deployment process in the unit
- Performance Management: Execute unit specific Performance Management framework and initiatives by managing the appraisal & review cycles, conducting orientation workshops, and ensuring timeline adherence
- Address escalations on ratings/appraisal process to ensure fairness in the execution of the process covering all geos of the unit
- Compensation and Benefits: Provided input and partnered with COE's for policy formulations and revisions
- Designed and customized programs based on the unit strategy
- Ensured compliance to the overall C&B principles and guidelines
- Analytics and Reporting: Involved in creating and reviewing the HR solutions dashboard by giving inputs on metric, review the workforce management dashboard to check for health of HR operations; prepared the report on effectiveness of business solutions; looked for trends and have drawn inference to influence future direction -In order to use reporting as an effective tool to steer HR initiatives in the right direction
Associate Manager, HR
Satyam Computer Services Limited
02.2003 - 09.2009
- Expertise in multi-tasking a broad spectrum of core HR functions
- Proven ability to build and manage creative, highly energized focused teams
- Endowed with a sense of high integrity and adaptability to change
- Core competencies include
- HR account management for 2000 associates
- Developed and strengthened the HR PROCESSES AND SYSTEMS with respect to designing/customizing effective HR policies across the Businesses
- Streamlined the PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT process by working with the corporate to provide guidelines to the managers and coaching and mentoring them to conduct a Goal driven and Competency based evaluation process
- Designed and implemented various OD initiatives such as ADI (Associate Delight Index), Open House meetings, Team Learning events, Aspiration Management, Career Tracks/development plan and FUN@WORK
- Performance Management: Responsible for implementation of the entire performance management cycle at the business unit level in line with corporate guidelines
- This includes creating a compensation distribution matrix for the business unit
- Associate Relations: Ensure timely responses are sent to all queries, concerns on a day-to-day basis within the prescribed SLA's
- Operational Excellence: Responsible for maintaining 100% accuracy while handling all operations in terms of transfers (India to other countries), other countries to India
- Ensure all movements (associates) are tracked and closed effectively for smooth processing of respective payrolls which leads to MD (Managing Director) approvals
- Successful in bring down the numbers from 12 per week to 0 per week
- Joining formalities: Creation/storage/retrieval and maintenance of personal files of associates
- Includes SAP for ID generation and reports, background check etc
Placement Coordinator
TULSI - Dr. Reddy's Foundation
05.2002 - 10.2002
- Company Overview: Dr
- Reddy Foundation is a Hyderabad based Social Work Organization
- Involved in the training function
- Ensure the process adherence on performance management and appraisal cycle for the organization and facilitate career roadmaps for the employees
- Manage HRIS and responsible for all transactional and process related activities
- Dr
- Reddy Foundation is a Hyderabad based Social Work Organization
Education
MA - Social work Specializing in Industrial Relations and Personnel Management
DG Vaishnav College
ChennaiBA - Psychology
SIET/JBAS
ChennaiSkills
Strategic Workforce Planning
Certification
Certified POSH Trainer
Accomplishments
- Team Award for HR @ Renault Nissan Tech for HR Excellence 2023.
- Recipient of the Chairman's Team Excellence Award at Intellect for executing the flagship leadership development program with high learner engagement and experience. Several Quarterly and Monthly Awards.
Scholasticrecord
- MA in Social work Specializing in Industrial Relations and Personnel Management, DG Vaishnav College Chennai, 4th (Rank Holder), Madras University
- BA Psychology, SIET/JBAS Chennai
Timeline
General Manager - Human Resources
Renault Nissan Technologies Business Centre India
09.2022 - 12.2024
Assistant Vice President - HR
Intellect Design Arena Ltd
02.2012 - 09.2022
Sr. Lead, HR
Infosys Technologies
10.2009 - 01.2012
Associate Manager, HR
Satyam Computer Services Limited
02.2003 - 09.2009
Placement Coordinator
TULSI - Dr. Reddy's Foundation
05.2002 - 10.2002
MA - Social work Specializing in Industrial Relations and Personnel Management
DG Vaishnav College
BA - Psychology
SIET/JBAS
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