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Vivek Muthappa K K

Vivek Muthappa K K

HR Business Partner
Bengaluru

Summary

Senior People Partner with extensive experience partnering with leaders to design and execute HR strategies that scale business operations. Proven expertise in site leadership effectiveness, change management, manager capability, diversity, equity & inclusion, and driving high-performance culture. Skilled at leading complex HR initiatives across Technology, Non-Tech, Support, and COE functions in dynamic, high-growth environments.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Manager People Success Partner

Toast
02.2023 - Current
  • Enable inputs that drive a high performance culture by partnering leaders across engineering teams of lending and wealth at Toast
  • Strategic partnership with leadership locally and globally in shaping talent upskilling and continuous improvement initiatives that help achieve high performing engaged teams
  • Anchor discussions with the business to provide insights for enhancing team engagement and people development
  • Drive inputs and own mechanisms that drive leadership accountability towards building a people first organization
  • Influence and drive change through data, identify problem areas and build effective and data driven solutions
  • Partner to drive org and talent needs, run mechanisms that include but not limited to performance reviews, compensation planning
  • Work with teams and look at enhancing lifecycle experience for team members and be seen as a go-to person for all facets of talent development

Manager Talent Experience

MiQ Digital
09.2021 - 02.2023
  • Strategic advisor, bring the business acumen and contributes to business strategy and ensuring alignment with MiQ India Vision and Organization’s goals
  • Steward in enhancing employee experience, wellbeing and nurturing a culture of collaboration
  • An employee champion who constantly evaluates, manages and enhances employee experience
  • Data-drive problem solver - Passion for Data and insights that drives product design forward
  • Results Driven - Emphasizes on technology, training, upskilling and reskilling of our workforce to create the competitive edge
  • Trusted Coach - Deepening focus on diversity, equity, inclusion and create an impact setting organization
  • Influential Storyteller - Understands every avenue of the business to its core and helps navigate employees with empathy and strategic thinking
  • The Independent Voice - Brings the outsider’s perspective to make the department and organization successful
  • Adopter of forward-thinking approaches and champion of business agility and methodologies

Manager HR Business Partner

Walmart Global Tech India
09.2019 - 09.2021
  • As a people partner, have been instrumental in ramping up the teams by identifying and deploying impactful people strategies and programs. Acted as a steward for company culture through taking high judgement calls on reinforcing alignment with Walmart’s cultural values and leadership principles
  • Liaised with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless implementation of all HR processes and practices and drove org health in terms of employee engagement, retention, talent management, Inclusion and diversity, succession planning and compensation.
  • Create effective analytical tools and reports to analyse associate information. Enable managers and leaders with proactive solutions to address people challenges and foster positive work environment
  • Handle performance management process of all associates in the designated area from setting up goal, to assessing their performance and identifying development gaps. Managing and executing succession planning and help leaders in identifying high potentials and create intervention plans.
  • Advise business leaders on critical employee relations issues upholding highest standards of ethics and compliance

Lead HR Business Partner

Lowe’s India
08.2015 - 09.2019
  • Responsible for delivery of HR practices and priorities, processes and initiatives for Lowe’s India supporting their Technology and Product business segments
  • Lead the process and governance of annual performance management. Coaching senior leaders or re-aligning performance management framework in line with organization philosophy
  • Manage the annual talent review, high potential identification and succession planning with a focus on identifying and developing top talent and next line of leadership
  • Partner with business leaders on strategic workforce planning and advise leadership on future roles, capabilities and organization design
  • Roll out progressive employee policies, guidelines for better employee experience catering to the evolving needs of workforce

Senior Human Resource Officer

Tesco India
04.2014 - 08.2015
  • Being an advisor for the business and aligning business goals to effectively manage associates
  • Work with the managers to know and understand associate pulse and in turn work with the other HR teams to translate it to concrete actions
  • Managed and launched performance management for India working along with the global team
  • Worked on projects related to career and development for associates
  • Help to design and execute the processes and procedures necessary to carry out organizational restructuring
  • Help departments develop, execute and monitor the progress of action plans to execute the Lowe’s Diversity and Inclusion Initiative

Human Resources Executive

EXL Service
07.2013 - 04.2014
  • Responsible for supporting, planning & deploying people strategy
  • Managed performance management for India
  • Partner with the Talent Acquisition team, as needed, to help execute strategies or tactics to address the staffing needs with respect to lateral and college recruiting
  • Involved in Staffing Optimisation & Restructuring project.
  • Conduct exit interviews for team leaders and managers on terminated employees, as well as diagnose issues or trends and prescribe appropriate corrective actions

Human Resources Consultant

Quess Corp
06.2012 - 07.2013
  • An account manager for technology and analytics based companies
  • Delivered staffing needs for clients across levels
  • Head-hunter working on leadership hiring
  • Market research expert mapping in candidates across industries

Education

PGDM-HR - Human Resources

Sri Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain College
01.2012

B.Com - Accounting & Marketing

Sri Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain College
01.2011

Skills

HR Business Partner

Timeline

Senior Manager People Success Partner

Toast
02.2023 - Current

Manager Talent Experience

MiQ Digital
09.2021 - 02.2023

Manager HR Business Partner

Walmart Global Tech India
09.2019 - 09.2021

Lead HR Business Partner

Lowe’s India
08.2015 - 09.2019

Senior Human Resource Officer

Tesco India
04.2014 - 08.2015

Human Resources Executive

EXL Service
07.2013 - 04.2014

Human Resources Consultant

Quess Corp
06.2012 - 07.2013

B.Com - Accounting & Marketing

Sri Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain College

PGDM-HR - Human Resources

Sri Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain College
Vivek Muthappa K KHR Business Partner