Varshitha H
HRBP
Bengaluru
Summary
Management professional with 7 years of experience, have diverse HR exposure in, Manufacturing Plant, QSR, Automobile & Logistics . My experience spans across roles such as Recruitment, Payroll, ER&IR, L&D, HR-Generalist and HRBP. Experience in working with senior business leaders & partners in specialist HR functions. Collaborate with managers for learning & development, engagement and retention of the employees to achieve their fullest potential.
Overview
5
5
Languages
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Regional HRBP
Sodexo
06.2026 - Current
- Led HR initiatives across multiple locations, enhancing employee engagement and retention efforts.
- Implemented talent acquisition strategies, streamlining recruitment processes and improving candidate quality.
- Facilitated performance management programs, driving alignment between organizational goals and employee performance.
- Developed and delivered training programs, increasing staff competency and compliance with regulatory standards.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to enhance employee relations, fostering a positive workplace culture.
- Mentored junior HR staff, promoting professional development and knowledge sharing within the HR team.
- Streamlined HR processes for increased efficiency, resulting in reduced administrative costs and improved employee satisfaction.
Asst.Manager
Jubilant food Works
08.2024 - 05.2026
- Employee Engagement & Culture Building: Led data-driven engagement initiatives, leveraging Appreciative Inquiry to shape action plans that improved Pulse survey, GPTW, My Voice, scores and strengthened workplace culture.
- Talent Acquisition: Handled Talent Acquisition at mid, senior, and confidential levels; closely worked with line managers.
- HR Budgeting: Planning & executing HR Annual budgeting, Collaborated with the Finance department to develop manpower budgets and payroll estimates, ensuring all HR initiatives were executed within approved fiscal limits.
- Compensation & Benefits: Provided strategic guidance: Defined and implemented C&B strategies on a monthly and yearly basis, advising business leaders and collaborating with the total rewards team on market benchmarking and family job development.
- Retention & Engagement:
- Reduced attrition: Led a committee focused on attrition management and implemented retention levers, achieving a 7% reduction in employee turnover. Boosting morale: Spearheaded organization-wide engagement activities, including business-linked, employee-linked, and family-linked initiatives, resulting in a 15% increase in engagement scores.
- Rewards and Recognition: Revamped the Rewards frameworks and pioneered the Anniversary Recognition program.
- Employee experience: Spearheaded various projects to enhance employee experience at various stages of the employee life cycle. A few of them include creating a new hire onboarding framework, leading the employee survey and insights, conducting 1-0-1’s and FGDs to find the pulse, handling employee grievance and talent relations and ensuring smooth offboarding.
- Statutory & Compliance Management: Taking care of all factory related compliances, Audits, Audits Closer, Contractual labor licenses, agreements, payments- And CLRA Audits.
- Leadership Development & Capability Building: Designing and executing leadership development programs, developing L&D frameworks and competency-based training program to groom future leaders and strengthen managerial competencies.
- Performance, potential, learning & succession planning: Work with business stakeholders to evaluate and analyze talent performance and potential. Work with region leadership to analyze future readiness of current talent, bench strength, potential successors and need for proactive hiring. Proactively work on retention risk of key employees.
- Exit Management: Ensure flawless exit process for all employees as they are the external ambassadors for JFL.
- Performance Management: Responsible for end-to-end implementation of the Performance Management System for the unit. Linking the PMS with EMPOWER (Career Progression Program) and leading it for the Unit.
- Attendance Management & Payroll: Streamlined the Attendance-to-Payroll workflow for 200 On roll employees, reducing manual reconciliation time and ensuring timely salary disbursement in compliance with statutory norms.
End-to-End HR
Skoda Automobiles Under- Mahindra Logistics Limited
05.2023 - 08.2024
- Hiring, onboarding & employee life cycle management: Creating a great experience for candidates and new hires. Achieve hiring KPIs measured by source, quality & TAT to hire. Implement organization & functional on-boarding for all new hires and transition plan for any movements and promotions, Employee Exit formalities & Exit employee feedback capturing & Report making.
- Strategic HR Projects
- 1.Designed and implemented 4 impactful HR projects:
- Developed a hiring framework to increase the diversity ratio of women in leadership positions.
- 2.Launched multiple employee resource groups to champion gender parity, equal opportunities, CSR activities, women’s empowerment, leadership mentoring, and more.
- 3.Organized an internal career fair to promote internal job postings and critical projects, fostering career ownership among employees.
- 4.Company Climate study & new Project implementation
- Learning & Development: Conducting Periodical Learning & Development programmers on site, Planning L&D Calendar, Conducting TNJ-MS Tracking & Management.
- Performance Management: Implementing performance appraisal systems, setting goals , providing feedback, and managing performance-related issues to improve overall employee productivity.
- HRMS&HRIS: Implementation of IRMS toll (Erisphere for pan Entire South) Hands On experience on HRMS & HRIS Tools like Darwin box. Emsphere, Oracle, Zing.
- Grievance Handling: employee day to day Grievance in the project & Discipline Management.
- Audits & Compliance: Accountable for Company external ethical sourcing Audits by Customer and Conduct periodical Inter Audits.
- Statutory compliance: Related to ESIC,PF, Payroll, Gratuity ,Bonus, CLRA Licenses, Agreements with Vendor.
- HR Annual Budgeting -Engagement Budget & Manpower Budget Preparation on different projects.
- Attendance Management: Optimized attendance and leave management systems to ensure 100% data accuracy, facilitating the seamless and timely processing of monthly payroll.
- Compensation & Benefits: Collaborate with the C&B team to ensure competitive compensation and provide guidance on compensation decisions.
- Payroll: Handling Attendance management payroll for 400+ off role employees.
HR & Admin Officer
Kerry Ingredients India Pvt. Ltd.
01.2022 - 05.2023
- Employee Engagement & Culture Building: Planning and execution of the site Employee engagement calendar: Annual picnic, family day celebrations, annual sports meet, tea with HR, annual health checkup and wellness programs, hall of fame(R&R campaign for workmen).
- Manpower planning : Maintaining a healthy manning at the region andensuring headcount control within budget.
- HR Budgeting & Execution: Planning for Annual HR budget Ensure Planned vs budgeted workforce in terms of quality & numbers.
- Talent Acquisition: Right from planning phase to implementation of the recruitment plan. Responsible for New and lateral recruitments.
- Compliance Management: Taking care of all factory related compliances along with lessoning with local govt authorities.
- Learning & Development: Lead for the unit Learning & Development Program – right from assessing talent needs to planning and implementation of Unit’s Training calendar
- Contract Labor Management: Managing and handling of all CL manpower and related activities. Responsible for implementation and 100% compliance of the requirements of CLRA. Liaison and managing government officials related to factories. Responsible for 100% statutory compliances.
- Learning & Development: Accountable for the whole training activities of the site for almost 200+ employees (On role/contractual) right from training need assessment to training feedback effectiveness and competency mapping. Also developed training modules.
- CSR Events: Planning & execution of Annual CSR Activity for factory & Corporate.
- Attendance & Payroll Management for (On role/contractual) Employees.
- Committee Management: Periodically holding Committee meetings, ensuring the Safety, Canteen, OHC, PoSH and Grievance redressal Committees to ensure 100% compliance.
- Administration: Canteen, HK, Transportation, Procurement, Bookings and Stakeholder management.
FDE & Admin
Podar Education Institute
11.2017 - 01.2021
- Ensuring the safety and security of the organization.
- Ensuring that all visitors Monetization system are active & accurate.
- People Connect & Marketing.
- Handling recruiting process for Open position.
- Collection and verification of documents of candidates-BGV.
- Attendance & payroll management.
- Maintain Leave records of all staff.
- Maintain offer letter and Appointment Letters.
- Stakeholder Management, Procurement, People management.
- Administration & Management
Education
Master of Business Administration - Human Resource
SSIT College Tumkur
Karnataka01-2020
B.Com - Business & Accounts
Sacred Heart First Grade College-Tumakuru
Tumkur, Karnataka 04.2001 -
Skills
Talent Acquisition & Recruiting
Training Development
People Management
Stakeholder Management
Audits Clearance
Employee engagement
Learning and development
HR budgeting
Workplace culture
Interests
Reading, Traveling, Coaching
Timeline
Regional HRBP
Sodexo
06.2026 - Current
Asst.Manager
Jubilant food Works
08.2024 - 05.2026
End-to-End HR
Skoda Automobiles Under- Mahindra Logistics Limited
05.2023 - 08.2024
HR & Admin Officer
Kerry Ingredients India Pvt. Ltd.
01.2022 - 05.2023
FDE & Admin
Podar Education Institute
11.2017 - 01.2021
B.Com - Business & Accounts
Sacred Heart First Grade College-Tumakuru
04.2001 -
Master of Business Administration - Human Resource
SSIT College Tumkur