Timmy Jose

My current role encompasses that of a Business Partner to multiple business units in the technological vertical. My core responsibilities include:

Employee Engagement:

• Connecting with associates through 1 on 1s and focus group discussions at regular intervals to provide updates, obtain feedback, identify pain areas and formulate change areas to address pain points
• Connecting with managers on a 1 on 1 basis to obtain feedback. Observations and recommendations are shared with respective stakeholders to ensure improvement in the work environment
• Facilitating skip-level workshops for associates
• Business Unit level induction to new joiners across all grades to ensure a smooth transition into the organization culture and ways of working
• Investigate and address concerns raised and maintain compliance of company policies
• Partner with core Fun committee and provide necessary support

Total Rewards:

• Lead roundtable discussions with senior leadership team on a quarterly basis with regards to promotions.
• Validate and advice leaders with respect to off-cycle salary increment requests
• Provide support and advice to leaders during the annual salary planning activity.
• Promote a culture of recognition within the business unit and ensures key achievements of associates are highlighted through appropriate channels

Performance Management, Career Development and Learning & Development:

• Leading the APAC Leadership Discussions program wherein I facilitate discussions on leadership topics. The program invites leaders to address aspiring leaders and share his/her experiences, learnings and inputs on various topics required for leadership roles.
• Ensure all stakeholders adhere to the timelines with respect to performance management
• Conduct workshops for leaders on performance management
• Conduct dipstick survey to understand quality of goals and feedback provided.
• Enabling managers to develop individual development plan (IDP) for all top performers and working with people managers in driving the development programs stemming out of IDPs
• Managing bottom performers.

HRBP Operations:

• Monthly and Quarterly reviews for HR and Business units
• Processing separations, along with stay interviews.
• Providing required inputs to recruitment team for IJP or rehires

I was the single point of contact for addressing all HR related queries and concerns for the R&D division of Ericsson. In addition, I was the HR Generalist to the Managing Director and CXOs of Ericsson India. Wore multiple hats of HR Generalist, hiring partner and talent management during my tenure here.

HR Generalist:

• Single point of contact and provide HR advice to the leadership team, managers and employees.
• Implementing HR programs and practices
• Facilitating change programs within the organization
• Collaborate with the Global HR team to ensure smooth operations of all HR activities

Hiring Partner:

• Conducting behavioral and HR round of discussions for all R&D aspirants
• Ensuring competitive offers are released for top talents, at the same time maintaining the compensation and position parity within the business unit.
• Core member of campus hiring for the business unit. Visiting premium and Tier 1 universities on day 0/1 to hire top students.

Talent Management:

• Ensure the organization structure remains as per the permissible standards.
• Partner with external consultants to conduct compensation benchmarking; basis which employee position calibration is done annually to ensure each employee is rightly mapped to his/her role and facilitate the annual salary revision process.

• HR Business Partner to multiple business units with 3000 employees across locations.
• HR Lead for a major business domain (2000+ employees) and leading a team of 3 across locations
• Member of the change management team bringing out a philosophy change in the organization’s performance evaluation methodology
• Analyses attrition data and develop strategies to manage and reduce attrition of SMEs, critical talents and Hi-pots
• Ensuring a culture of continuous learning is integrated within the business unit so that employees are up-skilled and ready for the next technological change
• Training and development of employees to higher level management. Certified as a trainer under “Facilitation Training” and conduct programs for an audience of 40-50 employees
• Part of the core team of ‘Safety First’, an initiative launched by the CEO

• Part of a 7 member team handling the HR Generalist functions of 1500+ IT services employees based out of Mumbai and Hyderabad
• Worked on various projects during the merger of Bank of America and Merrill Lynch including:
• Developing a new Reward & Recognition program;
• Merging the performance evaluation systems of both companies
• Integration of various policies such as promotion guidelines, medical, leave etc.
• Responsible for developing talent planning and succession planning for mid and senior leaders