Vivek Naithani

• HR leader for India for a global, matrixed organization. Increased headcount from 27 to 500 employees within a three-year period
• Lead and implemented HR strategies, policies, and procedures to ensure compliance with all labor laws.
• Advised senior leaders on best practices in talent acquisition, retention, and succession planning.
• Oversaw compensation plans including salary reviews, bonuses, incentives, benefits packages.
• Assisted in developing career paths for employees based on their individual strengths and interests.
• Created and implemented employee retention strategies.
• Launched innovative incentive program to achieve low turnover rate in highly competitive market.

• As the Head of HR, I have been entrusted with managing the entire gamut of HR, including Talent Acquisition, New Hire Assimilation, Performance Management, Compensation and benefits, learning and development, policies formulation, and implementation of HRMS.
• Business partner to the employees who are disrupting the construction space with new-age solutions. The employees were in India and overseas in Singapore, US, and UAE.

• Oversaw comprehensive HR functions for large-scale, multi-office operations in India.
• Structured and implemented foundational HR systems at NowFloats
• Built the team and processes from the ground up.
• Expanded company presence significantly through strategic hiring across multiple locations
• Launched the 'Everest Basecamp' project and expanded it monthly, resulting in 160+ hires month on month.
• Conceptualised and developed learning framework for organizational growth
• Induction and refresher trainings administered in a complex and diverse audience.
• Employee Engagement Surveys – Construction, administration, diagnosis, and action planning.
• Employee Retention - Identifying patterns, trends, and root causes and taking proactive steps to improve motivation, increase retention, and efficiency of employees.
• Created the Core Values and Culture framework.
• Created P&L models for teams to make them self-sustaining and achieve growth hacking.
• Implementation of HRMS.
• HR Policies and Processes, Engagement, and Employee Relations
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams, with a focus on driving optimized performance and monitoring the financial health of the business.
• Gender diversity at 21% in a sales intensive team, framework for internal opportunities for progression.

A young and growing HR consulting firm, which provides customized HR services for IT and ITES organizations in the areas of:

• Policy formulation.
• New Hire Onboarding.
• Performance Management
• Compensation and benefits.

• Designed employee orientation program, built employee benefits, and drafted the employee policy handbook, incorporating local and global policies.
• Act as a strategic business partner, providing advice and guidance to managers and leadership regarding all aspects of employee relations, performance management, compensation, career counseling, and HR compliance.
• Conceptualized and implemented internal and external branding for FactSet India.
• Developing and driving the people strategy for the business; analyzing and presenting information to the management team that enables good business decisions.
• Establish and implement compensation and benefits policies based on salary benchmarking, business plan, and retention strategy.
• Have direct responsibility for meeting the milestones and driving projects to completion - Development and launch of Career Path Site, Designed and implemented the Reward and Recognition program, Job Evaluation for Compensation benchmarking.
• Institutionalized campus relationship with universities, leading to 180 campus hires in 2 months' time.

• Assigned responsibility of setting up an Offshore Development Center at Hyderabad for Birlasoft.
• Oversaw comprehensive Human Resource operations, including employee relations and compensation data analysis. Managed payroll interfaces, process compliance documentation, and exit processes. Attrition analysis, retention measures, and change management.
• Additional responsibility for being the HR leader for the APAC region, in addition to the responsibilities in Hyderabad.
• Key responsibilities: Compensation benchmarking, compensation design, rewards, and recognition framework.
• Performance Management: HR Metrics: Quantify all HR activities in numeric terms as a measure of HR's performance.
• SHI, PCMM.
• Communication: Augment and strengthen communication to align employees with company goals and policies.
• Ensure compliance management, including GE C&S controls, SAS, ISO, PCMM, etc.
• Design and implement Human Resource programs for new hire onboarding, Performance Management, and rewards.
• Employee Engagement and Policy Formulation.
• People management accountabilities: Involves improving the Employee Engagement Index through communication initiatives like Open Houses, Skip Level, Know your Manager, etc.
• Have been able to ramp up the center from 10 employees to 600+ employees in one and a half years.
• Helped center achieve ISO certification in the very first audit, with the HR function becoming visible for a lot of 'best practices.' Adjudged the best HR team with highest scores in SHI across all centers.
• People Development: Managed a young team of 4, with 2 team members getting promoted within the first year of joining.

• Coaching on the performance review process to avoid various impediments, based on various effects and perceptions.
• Designed the entire HR Connect.
• Addressing Grievance Handling – based on the nature, type, complexity, and severity of the case.
• Part of the HR Investigation team in critical cases e.g->Employee fraud, Ethics hotline cases, workplace harassment cases, Supervisor Vs People Management Issues, PIP (Performance Improvement Program) & CAP (Corrective Action Plans)
• Extended support to an LOB, being a LOB HR partner, with an LOB size of over 650 employees.
• Nominated to set up HR operations for the new center at Gurgaon.
• Ramped up from 0 to 63 employees in 40 days' time at the new center while continuing to extend HR support to parent location at Hyderabad.

• Essential part of the team that set up FMR footprint in Bangalore, India. Hired as the 40th employee at Fidelity India.
• Involved in diverse activities like offers, background vetting, and new hire onboarding.
• Responsible for statutory compliance and hiring for the BPO team at FMR, India.
• Administration of employee benefits and helping deliver training to new hires.

• Led campus recruitment for IBM Gurgaon across Tier 1/2 engineering colleges across North and East India.