Ravi George David A

Career progression @ Reliance Communications Limited:

Regional HRBP - Rest of India & Head – Talent Acquisition (Aug – 22 to till date)

Regional HRBP - South West (Jul–16 to Jul-22)

Hub HRBP - TN&KL (Oct-15 to Jun–16)

Hub COE – Talent Acquisition – TN & KL (Apr-14 to Sep- 15)

Circle HR – All Business (Nov-12 to Apr-14)

Hub Talent Acquisition Lead – All Businesses (Jan – 11 to Nov-12)

Hub Talent Management Member – Non Wireless (Apr-09 to Dec-10)

Circle HR Lead – Home Business (Nov -07 to March – 09)

Circle HR Lead – Network Function (Dec – 06 to Oct – 07)

Circle Talent Acquisition Team Member – (Sep – 05 to Nov – 06)

Key Responsibilities:

Regional HRBP (Rest of India) & Head – Talent Acquisition – Reliance Communications Limited (Aug – 22 to till date)

Head - National Talent Acquisition:

• Manpower Planning, Identifying organisation’s needs and working to create and implement efficient talent acquisition strategy to improve recruitment and business performance.
• Overseeing talent acquisition process, ensuring recruitment and on boarding of top-tier talent for all roles.
• Developing and maintaining strong working relationships with executives, HR team, and hiring managers to foster partnerships that produced consistent results.
• Measuring recruitment metrics for monitoring performance (e.g., time-to-hire, source-of-hire, cost of hire, etc...)
• Maintaining TA dashboard and sharing it with relevant stake holders.
• Applying strategies to attract diverse candidates to all areas of business
• Leading and mentoring high-performing TA team.
• Saving cost by leveraging alternatives methods of hiring like employee referrals, talent polls data base, Social media, etc.

Regional HRBP (Rest of India) Reliance Communications Limited (Aug – 22 to till date)

Regional HRBP (South West) – Reliance Global Enterprise Business (Jul–16 to Sep -19)

Hub HRBP (T&KL) – Reliance Global Enterprise Business (Oct-15 to Jun–16)

Human Resource Business Partnering:

• Collaborating with all levels of regional organization of Reliance Communication Limited to understand business strategies, goals, objectives, and key performance measures in order to tailor HR strategies to changing needs of business and build high-performance workforce through clearly defined goals, rewards, recognition and growth.
• Developing and implementing HR strategies aligned with business goals of Region.
• Partnering with senior leadership to drive organisational effectiveness, talent management, and workforce planning.
• Serving as trusted advisor to business leaders, providing guidance on all HR-related matters.
• Implementing and executing HR initiatives to enhance employee engagement, retention, and performance.
• Developing and implementing strategies for talent retention, succession planning, and career development.
• Participate in development and administration of policies, leading change and help to promote deeper HR partnership in organization.
• Delivering tactical and strategic HR guidance for assigned region and is responsible for performing wide variety of activities, such as talent acquisition, talent management, talent development, leadership development, employee communications, performance management, employee reward and recognition, employee benefits and compensation.
• Playing active and integral part in company’s employment branding, culture and engagement efforts, active role in driving change and evolving company performance-oriented culture and values, including interpreting engagement results and translating into action.
• Fostering collaborative and innovative team culture that aligns with organisation's values.
• Proactively partnering and collaborating with internal HR colleagues (regional and Corporate) to ensure effective delivery of all organisational programs, processes and communications.
• Enabling people managers to better engage their team members through one-to-one connects, counselling, coaching and other methods.
• Being highly accessible & visible to employees

• Leading team of 6 recruiters and managing whole recruitment and staffing process for Hub as one point of contact for all Talent Acquisition activities.
• Responsible for recruitment of Wireless, Wireline, Network, DTH, Commercial and Retail Business verticals of company.
• Developed and maintained strong working relationships with executives, HR team, and hiring managers to foster partnerships that produced consistent results.
• Built relationships with external recruiters and staffing agencies to access quality talent.
• Developed and maintained applicant tracking system, tracking all job openings, applicants and interviewing activity.
• Negotiated contracts and managed budget for recruiting expenses
• Created and distributed job postings on job boards, corporate career sites and social media networks to increase reach
• Analyze, prepare and present hiring statistics to Hub HR Head and Hub Leadership Team.

• Handled complete employee life cycle of circle manpower.
• Performance Management and Developmental Activities (Annual, Mid Year, Quarterly and Monthly performance Evaluation.
• Managing whole recruitment and staffing for Regional roles and Tamil Nadu Circle roles.
• Increase process efficiency and effectiveness (Ensuring a turnaround time of 45 days for positions up to Sr.Manager Level and 60 days for DGM & above).
• Employee Engagement and Community Facilitation (Open Houses, Team Meetings etc.)
• MIS, Communications, Maintaining Employees’ details & SAP Administration
• Implementation of various Corporate HR related strategies, systems and processes
• Coordinated implementation of people-related services, policies and programs through departmental staff.
• Developed and monitored employee recognition programs.
• Collaborated with managers to identify and address employee relations issues.
• Partnered with departmental managers to ascertain hiring needs and subsequently provide candidate recommendations.
• Generated and analyzed reports to monitor employee engagement and attrition trends.

• Leading team of 8 recruiters and managing whole recruitment and staffing process for Hub as one point of contact for all Talent Acquisition activities.
• Responsible for recruitment of Wireless, Wireline, Network, DTH, Commercial and Retail Business verticals of Organisation.
• Analyze, prepare and present hiring statistics to Hub HR Head and Hub Leadership Team.
• Created effective talent acquisition training materials that supported culture and performance objectives
• Negotiated contracts and managed budget for recruiting expenses
• Optimized sourcing networks and used proactive methods to direct source candidates
• Conducted compensation conversations with human resources and hiring managers to foster internal and external equity
• Analyzed recruiting metrics to share reports and recommendations with stakeholders
• Promoted increased focus on internal talent mobility and emerging talent across organization

• Performance Management and Developmental Activities
• Conducted performance reviews and provided feedback to managers on employee performance (Annual, Mid Year and quarterly Performance Management).
• Developed and monitored employee recognition programs.
• Employee Engagement and Communications sessions (Open Houses, Team Meetings, Team Building activities, Celebrations, etc.).
• Employee Transaction & Standardization of HR Policy and Practices.
• Developed and implemented onboarding and orientation programs for new employees.
• Generated and analyzed reports to monitor employee engagement and attrition trends and shared with leadership team to take appropriate action plan.
• Coordinated implementation of people-related services, policies and programs through departmental staff
• Managed close to 1500 employees of Hub
• MIS, Communications, Maintaining Employees details & SAP Administration.

• Manpower Planning, projection and resource allocation for DTH and IPTV roll out for state of Tamil Nadu
• Recruitment, Induction, Training Needs Identification and Administration.
• Performance Management and Developmental Activities (Annual, Mid Year and quarterly Performance Management).
• Employee Engagement and Communications (Open Houses, Team Meetings etc.).
• Employee Transaction & Standardization of HR Policy and Practices.
• MIS, Communications, Maintaining Employees details & SAP Administration.
• Managed over 300 employees of circle.
• Coordinated technical training and personal development classes for staff members
• Administered performance evaluations to provide constructive feedback and identify ideal candidates for promotion
• Addressed employee conflicts with appropriate urgency, following all corporate procedures
• Developed and implemented HR policies and procedures to promote clear and consistent approach to managing employees
• Developed and monitored employee recognition programs
• Reduced expenses by analyzing compensation policies and implementing competitive programs while ensuring adherence to legal requirements
• Answered employee inquiries regarding health benefits and 401k options.

• Handled all HR activities for Network department (O&M, Projects, Construction, CDMA, NLD/ILD & FA) team.
• Recruitment and Induction, Performance Management and Developmental initiatives.
• Handled on-boarding process for newly hired employees.
• MIS, Communications, Maintaining Employees’ details & SAP Administration.
• Coordinated technical training and personal development classes for staff members
• Conducted performance reviews and provided feedback to managers on employee performance
• Generated and analyzed reports to monitor employee engagement and attrition trends
• Handled manpower strength of close to 2000 employees with 2 team members
• Monitored labor laws and regulations compliance to protect employers from litigations and employees from discrimination and harassment.
• Coordinated implementation of people-related services, policies and programs through departmental staff
• Developed and monitored employee recognition, engagement programs.

• Responsible for recruitment of all vertical of circle operations (Mobility, Enterprise, Network and Commercial) reporting to Circle HR Head.
• Manpower planning for circle based on geography, revenue and budget.
• Responsible for recruiting all levels of positions from entry/fresher level to Vice President/GM levels.
• Evaluated resumes, interviewed, and presented qualified candidates to hiring managers and solicited feedback to refine recruiting strategy
• Developed and maintained strong working relationships with executives, HR team, and hiring managers to foster partnerships that produced consistent results
• Acted as brand ambassador to educate candidates on culture, career growth, benefits, and advantages of working for company
• Sourced and screened candidates for Sales, Service, Network, Technology, Finance, commercial and other management roles and worked with hiring managers to coordinate interviews, offers, and onboarding.
• Reduced manpower gap to less than 5% of approved manpower in a span of six months.
• Sourced and screened candidates for all roles and worked with hiring managers to coordinate interviews, offers, and onboarding.

• Manpower Planning, Talent Acquisition, Formulating and implementing HR initiatives and policies.
• Enhanced operations from 25 seater Call center to 150 seater with in span of 6 months.
• Hired and managed 125 new employees to drive business growth.
• Responsible for employee performance and value addition and all other routine HR and Administrative functions.
• Handling employee grievances, Legal issues connected with statutory requirements, disputes etc.
• Handling payroll processing and administration of performance based incentive system.
• Established performance goals for department and provided methods for reaching milestones.

• Management resource person with Business Development Group, Had opportunity to have hands-on experience in all departments, which involves independent evaluation / critical analysing of challenges faced by different roles in all functional areas.
• Supporting all 4 regional offices of company in identifying their needs, providing inputs from corporate office for achieving their targets
• Performance Analysis of sales of all regional offices collectively and individually.
• Competitor’s analysis in terms of Sales, Network and Manpower which helped in manpower resource planning and optimum utilization of manpower.
• Organising corporate management events like Annual & Half-yearly Management Meets, Business meets and employee engagement activities.

• Followed up with leads to explain application process and answered questions to increase interest
• Evaluating resumes, short listing and preliminary screening of prospective candidates to suit requirements of corporate clientele.
• Coordinating with HR officials to obtain their human capital needs.