Vasanth Viswanathan Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Bengaluru Area, India

Chennai Area, India

• HR Director for Corporate and Global Sales Business Units – 300 Associates – Directly reporting into the Global Head HR and the Head of Sales – IMEA Markets• Lead in the HR Insights and Analytics Team.• Involved in Global Reporting Projects. • HR Front Ending for Company De-Merger.• Business Partnering and OD Initiatives.• Designed and implemented HR dashboard. The dashboard gives instant insight for Management and HR team on various HR metrics by providing them with relevant and timely information and allowing them to identify to improve the overall efficiency.• Designed and Conceptualized the Budgeting template for the entire HR Team. • Partnering with functional leadership and advised on people matters, teambuilding, leadership development and change initiatives. • Handling a Global Profile consisting of Partners and Senior Executives of the Company with Direct interactions with Heads of Functions • Worked with functional business leaders on a day-to-day basis to support their team’s development and growth. • Provided guidance to leaders on strategies to effectively manage associate performance to reduce the risk of employment litigation, increase associate morale, and minimize turnover. • Promoted positive performance management and influenced the business stakeholders to drive an improvement in capability.• Single point of Contact for all Compensation and Benefits related issues for associates under my facilitation• Designed an Interactive Induction Program for New Joiners of the Organization• Associate Engagement – Organized and Conducted Rallies, Quizzes, Competitions, Town Hall meetings to provide a good work life balance for associates

Gurgaon, India

• Implementing High Performance Work Culture.• Provide associates with opportunities for multi-tasking and enabling them to gain leadership skills and perform higher responsibilities.• Improving the standards of associates in all aspects i.e. Quality of life, skill levels and higher order of thinking.• Recruitment and Selection of Internal OD Consultant and Internal Auditors for the project.• Training and Development to the auditors on 5S implementation and was a part of implementation team.• Training and Development to the Line Supervisor for Skill Mapping.• Improved and materialized Daily Work Management at shop floor.• Initiated Associate engagement programs like Birthday Celebration, Long term service award, Best line competition, and Family connect etc. to enhance associate morale.• Conducted Man power utilization study and proposed effective and efficient production lines.• Lead the team in Layout study and proposed ideal accepted solutions.• Working for associate empowerment through `Self-Managed Team`.• Motivated associates through various Kaizen implementations.• Working for culture building.

Chennai Area, India

• Worked in SAP Crystal Dashboard - a very robust tool for management reporting, Studied the product, designed, evaluated its value for us – Created Health Report, a dash board with more than 20 parameters (which are being used to evaluate the business and improve associate utilization) in one single view with Health Meter – A single score which is arrived based on the key parameters – The same enabled a healthy competitive spirit among the different business units to improve their efficiency.• Played a pivotal role in the up gradation of SAP 4.0 to SAP 6.0, Represented the HR team for testing and implementation activities from where I picked up the passion for SAP HCM. • Played a key role in making a proactive associate forecast based on Revenue, which resulted in minimized hiring and a 5% increase in associate productivity• Fostered the successful launch of new initiatives to Improve Associate Productivityo Predict attrition and retention of key associates and took proactive steps to control attrition to 16% which was the Industry Standardo Enable associates to have a Skip Meeting with their Managers boss to discuss about their career aspiration and about their Manager.o Enable sustained communicative culture with transparency in operations as its hallmark which also serves as a platform for redressal of associate grievances/concerns through a proper forum thereby helping in creating an engaged workforce.o Enable the business / delivery / HR leaders to set their expectation to their teams in the beginning of the year and track the performance against their KRA month on month in an online portal.• Played a significant role in preparing Skill and Competency based Hiring Grid.• Promoted Knowledge Sharing by designing and developing an online portal which became a rich reservoir of internal HR collaterals and knowledge-sharing docs for the HR team.

Pgdhrm, Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration, General

Bca, Computer Applications

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