Lead Group's Corporate and multiple Plant HR, Admin & Compliance Teams in bringing the best from all team members. Employee strength is 1200,• Created a Performance driven culture.• Business partnering and collaborating in operations model re-engineering.• Responsible for Leadership coaching for identified top/ critical talent.• Carried out effective and efficient Talent Management functions and succession planning.• Automated manual attendance and payroll HR Processes with latest HRIS.• Managed total reward process of the Group• Fostered cross functional team based problem solving at department/ factory floor level.• Conducted engagement surveys, focused group discussions, dip-stick surveys, action planning and follow up surveys.• Implemented Dashboards for KPIS of SLAs of all key HR Team.• Design and implement corporate HR policies and procedures.• Lead company wide training needs assessment and gap fulfilling.• Executed social compliance, diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.

Lead Corporate HR and multiple Plant HR & Admin Teams and was responsible for People strategy in a multi unionized multiple factory organization. Employee strength was 1000.• Implemented RPG Group’s Global HR policies and systems in Sri Lankan operations.• Installed Global Talent Management HRIS System “Success Factors” in Sri Lankan operations.• Conducted leadership coaching programs.• Automated temporary employees’ attendance and payroll system in SAP. • Initiated campus recruitment and Management Training Program.• Collective bargaining with multiple worker trade unions.• Lead Corporate Social Responsibility activities and engagement with the adjacent community in Factory locations.

Headed the HR function of the Consumer Foods Sector of the JKH Group. There are two companies in this Sector. Ceylon Cold Stores PLC (engaged in Soft Drinks and Ice Cream Manufacturing) and Keells Food Products PLC (Engaged in Processed Meat Manufacturing). Both companies are market leaders and possess 1300 employee strength.• Responsible for HR operations from recruitment to separation.• Collective bargaining with multiple unions.• Negotiated a Voluntary Separation Scheme with trade unions to reduce 50% workforce.• Increased worker productivity through work-studies in production floor.• Responsible for Health and Safety function.• Supervised and managed multiple HR Teams located in multiple business locations.

I was responsible for HR & Industrial Relations functions at Ceylon Cold Stores PLC (Engaged in Soft Drinks & Ice Cream Manufacturing). Employee strength was 900• Sustained smooth employer-employee relations and industrial harmony in multiple union environment.• Initiated change management programs to increase labour productivity of Ice Cream and Soft Drinks Manufacturing Plants.• Managed employee life cycle activities.• Uplifted competency levels of factory workers, staff and Executives.• Implemented and managed grievance settlement procedure.• Attending to Labour Tribunals, District Court Cases, Supreme Court Cases of the Company.• Responsible for Health and Safety function.• Supervised and managed multiple HR Teams located in multiple business locations.

I headed the Human Resource Development Division of Elpitiya Plantations PLC Company engaged in cultivation and manufacturing of black tea, rubber and palm oil. Company possessed thirteen estates and had staff strength of around 9500.• Labour - management Communication within the Company.• Talent engagement & development.• Conducted employee surveys.• Consulted and renewed ISO 9001:2000 Quality Management Systems in one of the black tea manufacturing factories.• Implemented and managed grievance settlement procedure.

Worked in the training & development unit, institutional development unit and quality systems development unit of the Group HRDD of Aitken Spence Group and was exposed to most of the subsidiary companies within the Group.