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Strategic Business Partner and Member of the Senior Leadership Team. Performed Senior HR Generalist responsibilities including change management and leadership development. Managed the business' succession planning process, conducted employee orientation, exit interviews, organized and led leadership off-sites and team building initiatives, conducted investigations and resolved employee disputes, developed and delivered wide range of training & development programs including diversity & sexual harassment prevention, managed total compensation, rewards, and recognition, developed and implemented 360 peer review process, coordinated international staffing, managed EEO & legal compliance, updated and revised HR policies and implemented process improvements, supervised team of HR professionals and support staff.• Reporting to the CHRO, responsible for HR strategy and transformation + HR business partner for Global HR team.• Maximizing effectiveness of Global HR organization into a contemporary delivery model (COEs, Business HR, Shared Services) to optimize the HR delivery model to increase efficiency, improve effectiveness, and reduce cost. • Emphasis on increasing capability of the Global HR Team through identification and assessment of HR competencies, and execution of focused development to increase individual and global capabilities.• Partnering with Executive HR Team to maximize team effectiveness through facilitation, consulting, coaching, communication, team building and collaboration. • Employ talent strategies to identify, develop and engage top HR talent.• Executing three-year HR strategy (2011-2013), leading goal alignment and cascade, HR workforce planning and talent development.

Delivered world-class HR service and quality at an optimum cost with maximum impact for all managers and employees. Held wide-ranging responsibilities essential to the success and growth of the company, including strategy and financial planning, program management, organization development/effectiveness and global workforce management. • Led the vision, strategies and planning for all HR transformation activities designed to create a new HR operating model; overdrove plans to deliver $13M in direct cost savings for five year horizon. • Provided day-to-day rigorous global program management and operations for over 35 projects with a $25M capital budget, which improved current customer satisfaction scores 10 bases points year over year from 76% to 86%. • Maintained robust product launch process and delivered improved results against all quality metrics of cost, quality and cycle time.• Established change management and knowledge sharing for the HR function across organizational boundaries, serving as champion of the transformation process, translating desired end-goals into specific initiatives.

Provided regional HR leadership, talent management and HR process excellence across 25 sites totaling 7,600 employees operating in 11 countries across Asia Pacific region. Led team of over 30 HR professionals with $7M annual budget. • Drove the organization design and restructure of all 3 strategic business units, which optimized cost, fueled turnaround of business results and improved overall leadership bench strength.• Provided day-to-day management of over 35 projects to improve workforce efficiency, cost management and reduce the overall manufacturing footprint with over a $100M in annual cost savings. • Led the lean management function achieving 100% compliance of yearly training, certification and project implementation requirements. Managed core team of 4 HR lean experts realizing all training and certification plus project oversight.

Provided HR leadership, talent management and HR process excellence across 20 sites totaling 3,500 employees operating in over 13 countries across Asia Pacific region; Led team of over 25 HR professionals with $5M annual HR budget.• Upgraded commercial leadership positions including global sales, commercial excellence, growth and innovation to deliver aggressive growth and business development pipeline.

Undertake Data collection, Business Research,Consulting & Auditing across various industries like FMCG, CPG, Hi-tech, Insurance, Banking, Healthcare on Compensation & Benefits, health & benefits analysis and research activities to assist Asia Pacific, Australia-New Zealand & US Consultants and/or teams in ensuring the timely completion of projects or delivery of industry/cyclical surveys.• Manage and maintain Mercer Processing Systems to ensure that these applications support the processing of reports on Health & Benefits, Compensation, Market Research, etc.• Monitor Data Submission from clients. Follow up with regional offices on a regular basis to meet deadlines.• Perform Data checking and cleaning activities.• Completing of all the process steps as per SAS 70 procedures & auditing for QC.• Produce standard and customized regional reports to meet survey production standards and schedules.