Experience

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  S. P.Jain Institute of Management & Research (SPJIMR)

  • Mumbai Area, India

  • Head of Human Resources

    • Sep 2015 - Present
    • Mumbai Area, India

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  BASF East Asia Headquarters

  • Hong Kong

  • Director, Human Resources

    • Dec 2011 - Mar 2014
    • Hong Kong

    Member of the Structural Excellence team as the HR lead along with senior Business leaders and consultants from leading Management Consultancy firm. The Team was to study and propose organization design, role and responsibility of key positions in Regional Business, Regional Functional and Country organization, define Decision Rights matrix and propose enablement of the Marketing and Sales organization of the country.

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  BASF India Limited

  • Mumbai

  • Chief Executive , Human Resources

    • Apr 2008 - Nov 2011
    • Mumbai

    Responsible for the overall Human Resource management of the BASF group of companies in South Asia ( India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Pakistan ).Reporting to the Head South Asia and functionally to the Regional Vice president, Human Resource. Member of the Management Committee responsible for the success of the business in India Employee strength was more than 2500 direct employees and 4000 indirect employees with sale of more than USD 1.25 billion.

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  BASF Asia Pacific Shared Services Centre

  • Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  • Director, HR Services

    • Aug 2004 - Mar 2008
    • Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    The principal accountability was to set up the Human Resources service center for the region. That is, develop the strategic framework of the Human Resource services, recruitment and training of the personnel, standardization of the HR processes across the region for which services were to be provide from the center, transfer of tasks from the companies in the countries to the center and then ensuring that the services are provided from the service center to the countries (53 companies in 17 countries).

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  BASF India Limited

  • Mumbai Area, India

  • General Manager, Human Resources

    • Sep 1997 - Jul 2004
    • Mumbai Area, India

    Reporting to the Chief Executive, Human Resource and responsible for the Recruitment, Management of the Performance review system, Training and Development and Compensation and Benefits management for the BASF group of companies in India..

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  Essar Oil Limited

  • Jamnagar Area, India

  • Deputy General Manager

    • Jul 1995 - Aug 1997
    • Jamnagar Area, India

    Reporting to the President, Refinery Division and functionally to the Vice-President, Human Resource was responsible in supporting the President in building the basic infrastructure for the Greenfield Refinery, the setting up of the Human Resource function at the refinery site and recruitment of personnel. During the short period recruited about 200 personnel.

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  ICI India Limited

  • Kanpur

  • Staff Manger

    • Mar 1991 - Jun 1995
    • Kanpur

    Placed at their Fertilizer division in Kanpur, India, and had about 1800 employees. Was initially responsible for management of industrial relation for the first two years, wherein I was able two enter into long term contract with two different categories of employees. Subsequently promoted as Staff manager and was responsible for recruitment, Performance review process, training and development and compensation and benefit.

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  Hindustan Construction Company

  • Kolkatta

  • Senior Personnel Officer

    • Oct 1981 - Feb 1991
    • Kolkatta

    Responsible for the industrial relation for a few large construction site. Imbibed rich experience in managing employer employee relationship in a multi-union environment.

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  Jayshree Chemicals Limited

  • Ganjam, Orissa

  • Management Trainee

    • Sep 1980 - Sep 1981
    • Ganjam, Orissa

    Trained on the transactional jobs of Human Resource function.