Tushar Soni

Core Ownership

• HR Business Partner for 250+ employees, owning end-to-end talent lifecycle (recruitment, rotation, development, engagement, grievance, investigations, performance etc.) and core HR operations in strategic partnership with business leaders

Workforce Transition (Dubai to India)

• Led the end-to-end transition of overseas employees, covering communication, compensation realignment, relocation, rentals, schooling, visas, etc.
• Managed sensitive, case-by-case handling, ensuring 100% compliant closure, smooth onboarding in India, and minimized disruption and attrition risk

Employee Engagement & Culture

• Increased employee engagement survey participation from 25% to 81% through targeted communication and leadership connection.
• Converted insights into action programs, including mentoring and people-manager capability interventions

Annual Performance Cycle

• Managed performance cycle including ratings, leadership calibration, compa-ratio reviews, budget governance, and niche role retentions.
• Delivered merit based, timely payouts, and strengthened trust in performance outcomes
• Rolled out Performance survey and based on the identified gaps conducted targeted manager workshops to strengthen feedback quality and performance conversations

Performance-Linked Bonus Framework

• Designed and implemented a new performance bonus model aligned to business and individual performance
• Led leadership alignment and employee communication to enable smooth adoption

Stay Interviews and Skip-Level Meetings

• Instituted stay interviews and skip-levels to capture real-time employee pulse, and identify early attrition risks

Job Rotation and Talent Engagement Initiative

• Designed a job rotation framework to reduce stagnation and build readiness for higher roles to improve internal mobility and role exposure for identified talent
• Designed an engagement journey focused on business problem-solving, communication skills, leadership exposure, confidence, and business understanding for future critical talent

Mentoring Program

• End-to-end managed a mentoring program with 55 mentees and over 30 mentors through a structured EOI model to support career growth

Digital Literacy and Productivity Enhancement

• Championed digital adoption and AI-led productivity campaign to streamline operations and improve workforce productivity

New Hire Learning

• Led GET induction for 1,300+ trainees across 15 locations (2022 & 23), enabling faster assimilation and early productivity
• Anchored cadre and lateral hire induction programs ensure cultural integration and role readiness
• Designed gamified learning: Metaverse Module and R-Business Board Game first of its kind to improve understanding of end-to-end business value chain

Digital and Future Skills Capability Building

• Conceptualized and spearheaded 3D (Data–Digital–Design) Champion capability program for complete business to build future-ready tech skills
• Led LinkedIn Learning and Coursera adoption across 12 academies, achieving 87% and 140% increases, respectively
• Designed a 6-week HiPo future skills program for 360+ HiPOs, resulting in a 40% Tech Quotient improvement

Enterprise-wide Learning Programs

• End-to-end managed Spectrum Learning Festival (2020 and 2021), including in-house platform design, leadership talks, hackathons, and content curation
• Managed completion of compliance trainings for over 36,000 employees across Hydrocarbon and Allied Businesses

Reverse Mentoring

• Launched Reverse Mentoring for 25 senior leaders to improve digital readiness and cross-generation learning

Behavioral Capability Building

• Curated self-learning paths for 10 behavioral skills for meeting talent and performance needs, and created content for multiple virtual instructor-led trainings (vILTs) in response to the pandemic

Talent Management

• Designed a competency-based development program for over 390 Panel Officers, reducing attrition by 62%, and ensuring business continuity
• Conducted annual talent review capability sessions for 60+ key stakeholders, and facilitated calibrations for 50+ employees, strengthening succession and talent decisions