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 Functional Efficiencies: Obsess on improving and simplifying business and HR processes for increased efficiencies on a continuous basis.- Build a Customer Obsessed Culture: Partner with leadership in continued focus on building an innovative customer focused culture that constantly evolves.- Design & Deploy digital transformation strategies to develop people, processes and technology in line with the corporate vision and future of work needs. About Fareportal:Fareportal is a travel technology company powering a next-generation travel concierge service. Utilizing its innovative technology and company owned and operated global contact centers, Fareportal has built strong industry partnerships providing customers access to over 600 airlines, a million hotels, and hundreds of car rental companies around the globe. With a portfolio of consumer travel brands including CheapOair and OneTravel, Fareportal enables consumers to book online, on mobile apps for iOS and Android, by phone, or live chat. Fareportal provides its airline partners with access to a broad customer base that books high-yielding international travel and add-on ancillaries. Fareportal is one of the fastest-growing travel companies in the world, the largest privately held flights booking platform in North America and one of the largest consumer facing online travel agency in the U.S. We are a progressive company that leverages technology and expertise to deliver optimal solutions for our suppliers, customers, and partners.

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). Managing a team of 10 HR Professionals directly and 15 indirectly. • 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.• Obsess on improving and simplifying things – processes, tools, communication, and measures.• HR Project lead for new Infrastructure Region Launches, Connections - Employee Engagement, Diversity & Inclusion. • Partner in design and delivery of various AWS Infrastructure learning and development series for leaders.

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 competencies. Building succession planning and career development according to business needs.• 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 and Retention; HR Shared Services; Mergers and Acquisitions, Change management. Managed functional P&L.• 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. • Co-led an industry HR forum (India Analytics Forum) focused on HR practices comprising of top global Consulting, Banking and Financial, ITES, IT Services organizations.

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

B. Com, Commerce