Vilas Gharte
Resource Manager (RMG), PMO, Workforce Manager (WFM), Business Manager
Pune
Summary
Dynamic professional with over 15 years of expertise in strategic planning and change management. Proficient in budget forecasting, demand management, and performance management, complemented by keen attention to detail and assertiveness. Demonstrated success in building high-performing teams and fostering global cross-functional collaborations to achieve shared objectives and drive significant business improvements.
Pursuing opportunities in Workforce Management (WFM), Resource Management (RMG), Project Management Office (PMO), Business Operations to enhance organizational success.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Manager Resource Management Group
Invenio Business Solutions
12.2025 - Current
- Managed 750+ billable resources
- Established strong relationships with clients and stakeholders, ensuring long-term partnerships, and repeat business.
- Implemented and developed operational standards, policies, and procedures.
- Held monthly meetings to create business plans, and workshops to drive successful business.
- Provided strong leadership to enhance team productivity and morale.
- Led cross-functional teams to achieve project milestones and deliver high-quality results.
- Reviewed and analyzed reports, records and directives to obtain data required for planning department activities.
- Utilized data-driven insights to make informed decisions that resulted in higher returns on investments.
- Executed appropriate staffing and budgetary plans to align with business forecasts.
- Championed process improvement initiatives that led to significant cost savings without compromising on quality standards.
Workforce Manager / Business Manager
HSBC
07.2022 - 05.2025
- Worked as an SME in Workforce Management and Business Management.
- Supported effective end-to-end resource management and workforce operations of resources for aligned teams in core business management disciplines.
- Managing and reporting on workforce-related requirements globally for various service types, support the automation of processes where required.
- Assurance of accurate Financial Management across portfolio. Support & drive Management of Direct costs for service line, own and oversee budget management.
- Maintaining and managing the resource demand process for the Portfolio, which allocates approximately 5,100 resources on demand to funded projects.
- Provide Team Leads with accurate and timely MI related to resource demand across programmes and projects.
- Proactively manage costs, and achieve and exceed key performance indicators, whilst building a sustainable business model.
- Deploy resources in line with agreed affordability in line with journey strategic plans. Tracked and updated all decisions, risks, and action items to ensure project is on track and within scope as well as following up with till resolution. Tracking resource billability, timecard management, Global Mandatory training complience etc.
- Workforce Planning: manage the COO's workforce plan, ensure workforce governance, be accountable for data quality in Pioneer, offboarding and onboarding of contingent workers, and management of open roles.
- Workforce data and insights: produce workforce FTE forecast, review data on D&I, attrition, tenured contractors, and collaborate with managers to drive people metrics improvements within COO.
- Workforce governance – ensure the policies and procedures driven by the Central team are adhered to within the COO. Accountable for data quality in Pioneer; perform monthly and quarterly vetting quality assurance checks.
Project Management Office, Resource Management Group
CAPGEMINI
04.2010 - 07.2022
- PMO operations for various clients, which include. International Recruitment Agency (SAP/Oracle Development). Aerospace giant (3D animation and design project). Manufacturing client (SAP, Oracle, Automation Projects). IT software development and testing for various clients. All of the above projects have a turnover ranging from $1.5 million to $15 million.
- Resource management operations for various business units: Apps NA, Apps UK, Asia Pacific, and Europe business areas.
- Internal Bench management, managing complete staffing needs
- Demand tracking – Track on fulfillment (irrespective of it is internal or in external queue).
- Ensure fulfillment for the Accounts and BU by working with options within the available pool, roll offs, proactive hiring.
- Work closely with SPOC to proactively identify demand in key technology and domain areas.
- Expertise in internal fulfillment with collaboratively working together RMG team SPOCs.
- Worked with recruitment teams to identify and allocate resources based on the project requirement and skill, and enabled them to create a resource pipeline for any ad hoc or planned ramp-ups in accounts.
- Worked as advisor to associates around their personal development, ensuring employee development needs are being addressed as part of the deployment process.
- Managed project financials, ensuring accurate invoice tracking and comprehensive financial reporting, keep track on various ramp up's/ram-downs and financial forecasting and scheduling on various projects.
- Tracking Timesheets and publishing weekly/monthly compliance reports, maintaining Project Details and Team allocations in Clarity.
- Familiarity with educational development and skill development, analyzing employee data, and advising on skill upgradation, cross-training, etc.
- MI Reporting, Tracking status of project/program deliverables and milestones.
- Bridging senior management and all stakeholders on various initiatives.
Project Engineer
VARIOUS ENGINEERING PROJECTS
09.2002 - 04.2010
- Engineering Projects : Design of structures using computer aided graphics. Automation aided and 3d softwares. Construction modelling planning and execution etc.
Education
PGDBM - HR MANAGEMENT
Welingkar Inst.
Mumbai01-2016
B.E. - CIVIL
M.G.M's College
Nanded01-2002
DIPLOMA - CIVIL
Govt. Polytechnic
Yeotmal01-1999
H.S.C (12TH STD.) - Science
D.D.Bytco College
Nashik01-1996
S.S.C (10TH STD.) - Science
Janta Vidhyalaya
Nashik01-1993
Skills
- WORKFORCE MANAGEMENT (WFM), RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (RMG), PROJECT MANAGEMENT OFFICE (PMO), BUSINESS MANAGEMENT (BM)
Timeline
Senior Manager Resource Management Group
Invenio Business Solutions
12.2025 - Current
Workforce Manager / Business Manager
HSBC
07.2022 - 05.2025
Project Management Office, Resource Management Group
CAPGEMINI
04.2010 - 07.2022
Project Engineer
VARIOUS ENGINEERING PROJECTS
09.2002 - 04.2010
B.E. - CIVIL
M.G.M's College
DIPLOMA - CIVIL
Govt. Polytechnic
PGDBM - HR MANAGEMENT
Welingkar Inst.
H.S.C (12TH STD.) - Science
D.D.Bytco College
S.S.C (10TH STD.) - Science
Janta Vidhyalaya
KNOWLEDGE
APPLICATIONS & TOOLS - InTrack, Darwinbox, R2D2 WEB AND DESKTOP, PACE HRM SYSTEM, TALEO, N2K, CLARITY PIONEER, GPDM, DISCOVER, JIRA, CONFLUENCE.