Jigyasa Bajaj

Roles & Responsibilities

• Initiating and leading human resource programs and projects
• Conducting research through various methods to identify a problematic situation or find the cause
• Providing guidance and recommendations to HR personnel for resolution of daily issues
• Formulate strategic and practical plans to address human resource matters
• Assist in recruiting, training and management of personnel
• Devise plans and techniques to drive change and culture management
• Assist in the development and integration of policies
• Help establish control systems for compliance with business methods and HR practices
• Review systems and processes and make modifications to address issues
• Explore knowledge of advancements in the field and present new ideas

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Lead providing HR support for the group initiatives for all Dubai-based companies
• Designing Policies, Procedures On-boarding, Off-boarding Processes in compliance with the UAE law for the new office
• Work closely with the recruitment team to close all positions for businesses and keep track of the recruitment metrics
• Drive annual HR Manpower budget in planning and be a part of overall Company KPI, Strategies and budgeting, along with the signed organizational structures from all departments/ Co’s.
• Lead implementation of performance management across the companies, and coach managers on the performance management for under-performers
• Overlooking the entire recruitment, onboarding process, and developing JDs for all existing and new roles for companies within the group
• Managing the annual increment process, including salary and bonus payouts
• Work on short-term incentive plans and rate cards for outsourcing positions
• Manage Cost optimization and reduction within the HR domain
• Plan and coordinate employee engagement, disciplinary, grievance, and separation initiatives
• Assist in training needs from business
• Led a team of 2 HR professionals along with support from (GHR team – shared services model)

Roles & Responsibilities:

• HR advisory to senior leaders on People matters & designing talent priorities
• Setting up end-to-end Recruitment by liaising with senior leaders and internal recruiters to develop and drive a world-class proactive internal talent engagement strategy.
• Developed and implemented HR strategy for change management for the organizational change journey
• Leadership development and manager coaching – Design and delivery of leadership training and manager’s training
• Led implementation of a new Performance management framework across the organization.
• Employee Relations & Compliance - Developed policies processes & guidelines in compliance with labor law.
• Design and implement Onboarding and Offboarding to focus on compliance and enhance experience new joiner and employee experience
• People manager for team members based out UAE, India, and Singapore.

Ventured into the start up domain by setting up Enjobs as a firm delivering HR solutions for customers from IT back office and Oil & Gas verticals in New Delhi.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• People Operations – Employee lifecycle administration, including recruitment, onboarding, compensation review and revision, performance management, exit management, etc.
• Restructured recruiting process for 17 countries through the creation of an interview guide, tracking sheets for an applicant, in-house recommended channels and a database for candidates for easy accessibility by other team members which streamlined the process and achieved result saving of more than 1 million Euro in 2 years
• Short Term Incentive plan implementation with direct responsibility to manage the plan for the leadership teams across Emerging Market teams in alignment with global guidelines.
• Standardization and communication of HR policies and processes across Emerging Markets.
• Develop and present an HR KPIs dashboard on a quarterly basis
• Lead member of kaizen ideas/ initiates for the WEMEAI targeting global cost efficiency in all pockets of the business
• Enabling efficiencies and harmonization in HR spending by integrating and standardizing partnerships, vendors and volume-based requirements across countries in the area’s employee engagement initiatives, event management and communications

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Internal Communication function with additional responsibilities for HR operational activities for all 13 locations of Deloitte
• Worked with HR team in designing Policies, Onboarding, Rewards and recognition, Employee Engagement and Employee Surveys
• Create Newsletters as an editor of the internal newsletters, original content was created, sourced and reviewed from the other contributors
• Employee Engagement - establish new ways of employee engagement, be in tune with HR practices and employee engagement across Deloitte.
• Managed Townhall's, company meets with a proper outcome to communicate the company goals to employees and address their needs during the Q&A

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Responsible for end-to end management of employee and business events for 500 associates.
• Assisting in the recruitment and updating of internal databases with new hire information
• Handled employees Rewards and Recognition program, develop training and onboarding material
• Led events such as Town halls, All Hands meetings, Managers/Team off-sites
• Managing internal communication channels i.e. content creation, managing site contribution for the corporate Intranet, Newsletters & other brand and employee communication media.
• Key representative for Fidelity Cares (vertical for CSR initiatives)
• Responsible for driving participation and involvement of employees and senior leadership.