Vinitha Platel

Senior HR Business Partner for all business units across India. Strategic partner for all business leaders to envision and implement HR initiatives for the employees to improve performance, growth and create a customer impact.

Key Responsibilities:

• Partnering with business leaders and formulating strategic solutions.
• Strategic Partner to the India Center Head.
• Partnering with business leaders on succession planning, identifying critical roles and talent assessment for the business units in India.
• Partnering with leaders to redefine their organization design.
• Collaborating with the Global HR Team to drive initiatives across different business units.
• Collaborating with the Compensation team on internal programs, redefining roles across the organization.
• Facilitating leadership acceleration workshops, which help leaders assimilate into their new organizations.
• Collaborating with managers to coach them on managerial effectiveness.
• Partnering with the OD team on performance management, leadership effectiveness programs, and skill assessments.
• Formulated a graduate program for the organization.
• Collaborating with the I&I teams to implement initiatives in India.
• Working with the Business and Compensation Team to formulate retention strategies.
• Partnering with Employee Relations and Legal teams to enhance employee experience and manager effectiveness.
• Providing mentorship to team members.
• Strong in data analytics, which helped me and the leaders make data-driven decisions.

HR Business Partner for the Sales, Presales, Alliances and Corporate Marketing teams across India and APAC. Working closely with the business leaders as a strategic partner to envision and implement HR initiatives for the employees in these teams to improve performance, growth and create a customer impact. Employee engagement for approximately 200 people in India and the APAC region.

Key Responsibilities:

• Partnering with business leaders and formulate strategic solutions for people engagement initiatives.
• Responsible for performance management, Succession planning for the business units I partnered with.
• Working with the business to formulate retention strategies including but not limited to skill bonus, account term incentive and long-term incentives.
• Collaborating with the Compensation and Benefits team to provide innovative solutions to employee retention.
• Strategic partner to the core team that formulated a rewards program specifically for the Sales Org, executed the quarterly recognitions.
• Partnered with the learning team to curate specific sales enablement training programs which helped improve the development areas identified at the time of succession planning.
• Collaborating with managers a to coach them on managerial effectiveness.
• Strong at Data analytics.
• Supporting the business with talent onboarding and leader assimilation for APAC region.

Strategic HR Partner for the Travel, Transport and Hospitality business unit of 900 employee strong across geography. Implementing HR initiatives and driving multiple engagement programs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic partner for the business and curated multiple employee engagement initiatives which were used across the team to identify and resolve employee issues/queries, increase in connects.
• Handled end to end of the performance management cycle and worked closely with the business on succession planning and competency mapping.
• Formulated retention strategies with the business which included customer incentives, onsite travel on rotation, long term incentives and top talent connects.
• Formulated a coaching program for the managers during COVID to handle discussions related to performance review, difficult conversations virtually.
• Lead a team of two in this role, one direct and another shared.
• Enhanced and found unique recognition opportunities to cater to the scale, especially at Architect and project management level Encouraged through various internal platforms and customer interventions.
• Active contributing partner for Mindtree’s campus talent acquisition program.

Key Responsibilities:

• Transfer management system: Releasing transfer letters, updating the SRT, system changes and handling queries related to transfers.
• Employee Relations: Involved in handling queries on policies and programs across the globe.
• Rewards and Recognition: End-to-end query handling, procurement of plaques, closure of tickets for the Rewards and Recognition process.
• Monthly Reports: Preparation of monthly and quarterly MIS reports.
• Exit Management System: Ensuring the last working days were correctly updated, release of letters.
• Handling Timesheet and utilization related queries.