Soumya Bansal
Gujarat
Summary
Sr People Partner at Hindustan Unilever who spends most days solving the intersection of people, process, and business reality. From supporting 400+ frontline employees across sales teams to helping drive HR tech adoption and organizational change, my work sits where strategy meets execution. My earlier factory stint keeps me grounded in employee relations and the operational side of HR.
Overview
2
2
Languages
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr People Partner, East Branch
Hindustan Unilever
Kolkata
07.2025 - Current
- Managing end-to-end employee lifecycle operations (Hire to Retire) for 500+ people across four Customer Development (CD) functions - GT, MT, Beauty PRO, Experts, ensuring seamless onboarding, movements, and exits with a strong focus on employee experience.
- Partnering with business leaders to optimise branch manpower, reducing headcount variance from 9% above plan to 2.5%, while maintaining 0 regrettable attrition among top talents.
- Ensured 100% data accuracy on monthly FTE sheet hygiene that serves as a core input for Employee Vacancy Tracking, Employee Position Mapping, Manpower Planning, Grade Mix Assessment, Promotions Feasibility, and Budget vs Actual Headcount Analysis.
- Leading Talent Forum (FRC) for the GT function, managing data validation, stakeholder coordination, and backend and frontend execution.
- Ensuring seamless HR execution during a major organisational restructuring, ensuring 0 escalations, 100% compliance with policies, timely addressing and resolution of employee grievances, alongside delivering high-quality branch-wide employee engagement initiatives such as Branch Conference, R&R, and Quarterly RM Cascade.
- Supported global HR process transformation to digitise and streamline policies and processes (UNA adoption, Workday Drop 3.5, Transition Triumphs) by driving adoption, creating/improving knowledge resources, designing communication guides, and conducting capability building sessions.
- Anchored branch-wide employee engagement initiatives such as Shark Tank, ideated and executed for the first time in HUL by the East branch, that encouraged entrepreneurial thinking by a pool of 30+ ASMs to pitch real market challenges and secure funding to bring in innovation; Cultureshop to cascade cultural shifts in Unilever's Ways of Working through roleplays, reflections, and rigorous discussions in MOC meetings; and Eastern Para fostering the idea of working as a team over individual contributions for a pool of 30+ ASMs.
- Redesigned and governed the SCAW promotion-assessment framework for HUL East Branch's frontline workforce (WL1A/1B), introducing AI-tool-inclusive testing for 49 field force employees, resulting in 16% promotion rate.
- Led National Project -CD Executive Trainee (ET) Hiring - Led end to end ET program across Customer Marketing, Ecom and QCom, GT functions, driving startegy, selection, onboarding, and induction for 18 ETs from a Talent Pool of 500+ Candidates. Partnered on continuous enhancement to the ET experience and program design to improve onboarding and talent development.
Sr HR Executive, East Branch
Hindustan Unilever
Kolkata
02.2025 - 06.2025
- Worked as a strategic HR partner alongside BHRM to translate business strategies and objectives into an HR agenda, drive engagement and building culture for 280+ Sales force employees across Bengal, Orissa, Jharkhand and Northeast.
- National Project (Careers) – Achieved a +200-bps improvement in WL1ABC Careers Score by maximizing omni-channel placement (20+), deploying learning catalogue (SCAW and Gurukool programs), and activating the TBR proposition for the current batch.
- Achieve optimal workforce pyramid structure in alignment with our productivity targets by proactively addressing territory-specific challenges, processing ERS and PIP cases and leveraging omni-channel talent movements.
HR Executive
Hindustan Unilever
Chiplun
07.2022 - 01.2025
- Developing and implementing HR strategies and policies
- Assisted HRM in end to end LTS process, including discussion, negotiation, and implementation
- Managed end-to-end recruitment and on-boarding processes for first ever batch of female employees
- Primary POC for employee grievances, managing concerns effectively and ensuring timely resolution.
- Administering performance appraisal and promotion processes
- Identifying skill gaps and leading training and development programs for employees, ensuring their skills are in alignment with business goals.
- Gauge employee pulse and implement initiatives to sustain high engagement levels
- Ensuring compliance with labor laws and regulations
- Collaborate with stakeholder to support talent retention, development, motivation, enabling individuals to reach their highest potential
HR Intern
Aarti Industries Limited
Vadodara
01.2022 - 03.2022
HR Intern
Paushak Limited
Vadodara
10.2021 - 12.2021
Education
Masters in Human Resource Management -
MS University of Baroda
04.2022
BA - Linguistics
MS University of Baroda
04.2020
12th -
Queen of Angels' Convent School
04.2017
Skills
- Communication
- Recruitment
- Microsoft Office
- Team leadership
- Negotiation
- Team collaboration
Languages
English
Proficient
C2
Hindi
Proficient
C2
Timeline
Sr People Partner, East Branch
Hindustan Unilever
07.2025 - Current
Sr HR Executive, East Branch
Hindustan Unilever
02.2025 - 06.2025
HR Executive
Hindustan Unilever
07.2022 - 01.2025
HR Intern
Aarti Industries Limited
01.2022 - 03.2022
HR Intern
Paushak Limited
10.2021 - 12.2021
Masters in Human Resource Management -
MS University of Baroda
BA - Linguistics
MS University of Baroda
12th -
Queen of Angels' Convent School