Varun Chaudhary Email & Phone Number

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Engaged with multi-sized organizations spanning early stage startups to legacy establishments. Crafting customized HR practices, employer brand, and Go To Market strategies to facilitate organization growth. Post-pandemic, expanded advisory services to individuals aiding their professional growth through focused career advice and guidance.Key highlights:Mentoring higher-education aspirants and guiding them from SOP writing to interview prep. Over 90% clients received admission offers from their preferred institutions.Reducing voluntary attrition for a pan-India shipping firm by orchestrating a 360-degree overhaul of the existing HR framework.Improving employer brand perception among the millennial demographic by revamping the engagement strategy, introducing targeted initiatives, and employing gamification.

Mumbai Area, India

A mix of leading and supporting multiple projects such as:• Restructuring Sales Incentive programs• Designing a Performance Management system• Reviewing and restructuring compensation• Drafting a detailed HR policy manual in line with labor laws and good market practices• Conducting competency assessment centers to identify employees’ development needs• Designing a public survey seeking information on organizations’ workforce analytics maturity • Liasoning with prospects to understand their requirements and craft business proposals

Mumbai Area, India

Developing the Vision 2020 HR strategy roadmap in alignment with the business strategy inputs in consultation with top management.Designing a Post merger integration plan, as part of the acquisition of Jaypee Cement, through: Mapping policies and processes Communication plan for all levels of the organization Transition toolkit for managers and employees Job Band mapping to ensure parity

Needham, Massachusetts, United States

Collaborating with Prof. Michael Porter in developing an article for the future trends of Augmented Reality which will be published in the Harvard Business Review.Analyzing the overall market for AR, MR and VR and assisting the team in preparing a strategy roadmap for the same.

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Identified the system landscape and developed a data migration strategy to secure employee data in a data warehouse.Analyzed user needs and proposed an appropriate Business Intelligence solution to drive more insightful people-analytics.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Developed a market entry strategy for Europe with a focus on achieving 15% of gross revenues from the new market within the next 3 years.Identified and liaised with potential distributors in Europe to facilitate the product launch in the European market.

Kolkata

Designed & implemented the roll-out strategy for successful completion of the appraisal process – 98% of 3000 employees completed within the stipulated time frame.Implemented 1X1 sessions with employees and facilitated the alignment of their career path with their career goals through on the job training, role enhancement and coaching mechanisms.Liaised with top management to determine the promotion percentage figures and annual salary hike percentage for employees.

Bangalore

Consulted for top management to develop a strategy to improve employee satisfaction - Identified the top five concerns of employers through the creation and execution of an Organization Health Survey. Thereafter, I conducted an in-depth analysis of over 4000 variables using tools such as Excel and SPSS along with Focus Group Discussions to evaluate attitudes by tenure, age, gender, work-life balance, and over all experience. Consequently, I set up Cross Functional Teams to implement the solutions recommended, which increased buy-in from all verticals and insured full employee participation which led to an average 15% improvement on each of the actioned upon solutionsConsulted for top management to recruit fresh graduates and groom them for leadership positions through conceptualization of the Circle Management Trainee (MT) program - Launched the Circle MT program in Karnataka & recruited 8 MTs from top colleges, who have been placed in Sales and Service Delivery functions.Spearheaded the project for selling mobile phones to employees to jump start market penetration achieving 200% of the target of 150 handsets - Identified and liaised with the distributor to ensure sufficient stock of handsets while insuring Just-In-Time inventory. Simultaneously, I managed the communication plan to employees and built significant interest in the product by offering a cashless purchase option involving short term salary deductions. I also constituted a cross functional team of sales, finance and logistics personnel to execute the project.Developed manpower budget for each function for each fiscal year based on business unit’s growth strategyEstablished clubs and societies (sports, culinary, motor enthusiasts) based on common interests to provide a forum for employees to interact socially

Kolkata

Competitive Intelligence and Industry Tracking for clients who were in the global Packaging industry and the U.S Banking industry. I tracked the latest developments in the packaging and healthcare industries as well as the latest initiatives of my clients’ competitors.As a member of the IDEASYNC team I was involved in organizing company celebrations and CSR activities.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Marketing And Data Analytics

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration, General, A

Activities and Societies: Organized Colloquium - the National HR Summit - as a member of HRuday (the HR club of IMT, Ghaziabad)

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Economics

Activities and Societies: President of Indian Catholic Youth Movement (ICYM) mentoring and organizing education fairs and seminars.