Rahul Kumar Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

As a CPO, my top areas of focus are:- Enable Business Growth: develop strategies that help in creating a sustainable long term business growth year on year. - Enhance Employee Experience: use data science and technology to build strategies that help attract, develop, retain the most engaged and diverse talent in the industry.- Increase Business and HR.

• Independent HR / People & Culture Consultant:
• Consulting with early stage technology start-ups across various domains.
• Designing Business Strategies, vision, culture, organization design, global expansion strategies, HR processes (Performance, Talent, Compensation, Engagement, Shared Services), Employee Lifecycle process design.

Seattle, WA, US

• Provide strategic Global HR Business Partnership to fast growing (40% YoY) AWS Technology teams (Software Development; Product Development) with over 5000 employees working directly with global leaders (VPs / SVPs)..
• Focus on Amazon HR’s Strategic Imperatives of Enable Growth, Develop Large Leaders, Cultivate Culture, Operate Optimally and Enhance Employee Experience.
• Drive talent agenda, provide executive coaching to global business leaders, partner in org design and development, enhance leadership capabilities. Manage rapid growth rate, maintain culture and innovation.
• Build sound HR strategies in all core HR functional areas including talent, performance, diversity, compensation, learning & development, workforce competencies.
• Ensure Amazon’s customer-centric culture runs deep. Every employee in the organization must feel the same sense of ownership, innovation, and hustle.
• Build big leaders who care – about customers, about their people, about results.

Seattle, WA, US

• HR Leader for full function team (HRBPs, Recruiting, Learning & Development, HR Services) of 35 professionals providing HR Business Partnership to Amazon Customer Service Leadership.
• Focus on building a high-performance customer obsessed culture and sound HR strategies in all core HR functional areas including talent, performance, diversity, compensation, learning & development, workforce.
• Providing HR Business Partnership and growing head count from 600 full time employees to over 5000 employees through business peak.
• Provided strategic leadership in the formation of the India retail business Customer Services organization from start up through rapid growth.
• Additionally, provided HR leadership to Customer Services teams in South Africa for over 12 months in 2012-13.
• Global project lead for Change and Communication management stream for a high impact HR Transformation project for WW Ops and Customer Services org.

London, GB

• Managed full function HR teams of 25 to 45 HR professionals and delivered HR Business Partnership to 2000 to 10000 employees base.
• Worked directly with multiple CXO level executives as part of the Senior HR Leadership team at HSBC Technology and Services setting strategic direction for the business.
• Led the team and provided HR Business partnership in Talent Acquisition; Compensation & Benefits; Employee Relations; Performance & Talent Management; Organizational Culture; Learning & Development; Employee Engagement.
• Additionally, HRBP Lead for business-critical lines of businesses of Analytics and Global Banking and Markets (GBM) including Global Research across APJC and EMEA.
• Led HRBP Transformation strategies to achieve the Target Operating Model (TOM) for the function.
• Managed hiring and onboarding of over 15000 professionals into the organization.

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, IN

• Led a team of 10 HR professionals to meet talent acquisition requirements in 17 countries globally for IT Infrastructure Services Division of HCT Tech.
• In addition, HR Business Partner for Global Sales team of over 100 professionals in 17 countries
• Led initiatives in designing and implementing Reward strategies for India, Europe and the US for all IT and Sales functions
• Worked on multiple projects sponsored by the CEO and COO which included designing global sales incentive schemes, organization re-engineering & redeployment strategies, employee engagement & Employee Relations strategies

Post Graduate In Management, Human Resources And Marketing

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