Tuhina Kharbanda

Handling overall HR responsibilities in a Leadership role.

· Lead end-to-end HR strategy, including talent acquisition, performance management, L&D, and HR operations, managing a team of 3.

· Scaled hiring processes for strategic roles through improved sourcing, referral programs, and partner management.

· Spearheaded ERP implementation and led the firm’s GPTW certification for the 5th consecutive year.

· Managed FY25 performance cycle, including PDP/BSC frameworks, reviews, moderation, and ACL communication.

· Oversaw compensation planning, including salary benchmarking and cost budgeting across the firm.

· Curated leadership development programs and led HR consulting for external clients, including policy revamp and handbook creation.

· Serve as HRBP for Primus Solutions, aligning people strategy with business goals.

• Leading HR function for two BUs - Style Up and Marigold Lane with business size of 150 crs.
• Covering stores across India and an employee base of 500+.
• Managing Business expansion plans including Hiring, On-boarding, Learning, PMS, Budgeting, and Driving Engagement and Productivity across functions.
• Responsible for Driving Diversity Initiates for Pantaloons, Style Up & Marigold Lane with the target of expanding the gender diversity ratio to 35%.
• Additionally handling Rewards & Recognition for all 3 Business units with objective of designing Recognition Framework, and enhancing current rewards structure.
• Responsible for designing POSH framework and employee grievance handling.

• Managing entire employee lifecycle for Operations, credit group and retail banking teams constituting 14000+ employees across Mumbai.
• Leading a highly qualified team of 6+ team members to handle employee relations lifecycle from onboarding till exit.
• Business Partnering with leadership team for talent management needs.
• Managing employee relations through investigation handling and closure of disciplinary & workplace issues.
• Conducting productivity and attrition analysis through quarterly Exit Interviews.
• Member of Internal Committee constituted under POSH.
• Implementation of HR- Virtual Relationship Manager – chatbot “ICare” for employee query handling, tracking service delivery efficiency for better employee value proposition.

• Responsible for employee relation management of retail banking team for South Bombay region.
• Responsible for managing region’s development needs including grievance resolution, GNP, conducting improvement programs for non-performing employees etc.
• Driving regular engagement sessions, digital branch visits, ground sensing & employee wellbeing sessions.

• Talent acquisition for transaction banking and credit group for entire West zone and retail banking for ROM and Goa region.
• Responsible for timely Fulfillment of positions in different skill set categories with smooth candidate onboarding experience.
• Managing and executing complete recruitment life cycle including profile understanding, matching qualifying candidate, preliminary selection, interview process and closure of vacancy for multiple large scale business groups.
• Handling Campus recruitment cycle for Summer Internship and Final Placements.

• Responsible for resource requirement under IPDS (Infrastructure project delivery services) program for client PepsiCo.
• Channelizing requirement through work force planning team (internal) to identify on-bench resource.
• On-boarding for external resource by checking cost fitment, salary negotiations, back- ground verification.
• Initiating internal on-boarding trainings, roll out NDA & Mob-verification forms, create global PepsiCo id’s, Seat Allotment, ODC Access and resource assignation.