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Saloni Kumar

New Westminster,BC

Summary

People & Culture Leader with proven track record of delivering HR process excellence for established organizations as well as startups. Experience working with diverse & cross functional teams across geographies and multiple industries including energy, education, hospitality, manufacturing, digital marketing and healthcare. Broad functional expertise and experience in being part of the leadership team to support and advise executives, managers and employees alike.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work History

DIRECTOR OF PEOPLE & CULTURE

CONVERSION
10.2021 - Current
  • Working with the leadership team to create an adaptive people strategy and build systems that enabled Conversion to grow and thrive
  • Transforming business ambiguity and challenges at the time of the great resignation into clarity and opportunity for Conversion by hiring back 60% of the team that we had lost and introducing a solid benefits program to ensure retention, bringing turnover down from 54% in 2021 to 6% in 2022
  • Collaborating with stakeholders to establish and document key HR processes and policies ensuring alignment with organizational goals
  • Conceptualizing and introducing a Performance Management System for the first time ever
  • Implemented the successful conversion to Lattice, a people success platform keeping in mind comprehensive stakeholder needs
  • Developed internal recruitment strategy and implementation of Humi s HRIS and ATS system to ensure a seamless recruitment process
  • Ensuring hiring based on revenue and headcount forecast resulting in improving time to fill and offer acceptance ratio being 100%
  • Lead the compensation reviews effectively transitioning from individual compensation reviews to cyclical reviews ensuring alignment with revenue & growth projections for the next fiscal year
  • Collaborating cross functionally to identify development opportunities and solutions that maximized and accelerated the growth of high performing talent
  • Planning, designing, and developing comprehensive resources and manuals for people leaders & teams
  • Providing strategic leadership and coach leaders on the consistent application of people processes, practices, and policies, providing advice and guidance on embedding these across the full employee life cycle

HR Consultant

GME Australia
01.2020 - 01.2021

People & Culture Manager

Assistlist (Volunteer)
01.2020 - 01.2021

SENIOR TALENT AND STRATEGIC BUSINESS PARTNER

AIRBNB
01.2018 - 01.2019
  • Point of contact for 20+ teams averaging 350 employees
  • Partnered with People Managers and management to proactively lead people & change management
  • Fostered effective partnerships with Managers and Business Leaders across the business in India, San Francisco, Montreal, Dublin & Singapore
  • Set up new teams in Finance and Global Shared Services i.e
  • Workforce planning, recruitment, compensation & grade, incentive plans metrics for probation, PIP etc
  • Participate in assigned portfolio leadership team(s) as lead talent advisor, identifying people opportunities, talent challenges and gaps, and leveraging key talent management strategies and programs
  • Accountable for the execution and delivery of key talent management programs within the portfolio
  • Facilitate collaborative discussion; provide executive coaching and advice to ensure business leaders understand and address the talent implications of business strategies and decisions
  • Act as a cultural advocate and ensure leaders are fully aligned to and live the Airbnb core values

HR & ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

TATA POWER
01.2008 - 01.2018
  • Managed full HR functions: recruitment, onboarding, employee relations, performance development, offboarding, and L&D
  • Provided coaching and development to managers, fostering continuous feedback and communication
  • Created HR roadmap with VP, considering budget, resource, and capability needs
  • Designed and implemented L&D strategy for 5000+ employees across 150 locations
  • Administered Employee Engagement Survey for 4500 employees in consultation with KPMG
  • Implemented new Performance Development system, recommended and integrated SAP
  • Developed HR KPI Dashboards for trend analysis, performance tracking, and decision-making
  • Led Great Place to Work survey, improving company rank from 77th to 46th
  • Designed in-house HR software for training and grievance redressal, introduced HR balanced scorecard, newsletter, handbook, and 30-60-90-day onboarding program

Education

Masters of Business Administration - Human Resources Management

Bachelors - Psychology

Skills

  • Recruitment softwares: UltiPro, Jazz, Humi
  • HRIS: SAP, Humi
  • Engagement: Bucketlist, Lattice
  • Project Management: Trello, Slack, Asana
  • Performance Management: SAP, Lattice
  • Microsoft Office, Google Spreadsheet
  • Leading the People & Culture Function in an Organization
  • Talent Vision & Execution
  • Strategic Partnerships, Relationship Building and Stakeholder Management
  • Complex Problem Solving
  • Leadership Development & Coaching

Timeline

DIRECTOR OF PEOPLE & CULTURE

CONVERSION
10.2021 - Current

HR Consultant

GME Australia
01.2020 - 01.2021

People & Culture Manager

Assistlist (Volunteer)
01.2020 - 01.2021

SENIOR TALENT AND STRATEGIC BUSINESS PARTNER

AIRBNB
01.2018 - 01.2019

HR & ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

TATA POWER
01.2008 - 01.2018

Masters of Business Administration - Human Resources Management

Bachelors - Psychology

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