Soumya Sharma
Vancouver,Canada
Summary
HR leader with 11+ years' experience partnering with C-Suite and leaders across North America to lead enterprise-wide programs that strengthen organizational capabilities, advance Performance, Hiring and elevate Leadership development by aligning HR strategies with business outcomes
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Manager - Total Rewards
Kabam Games
Vancouver
01.2024 - Current
- Transformed global compensation architecture for scale, equity and consistency
- Supported 600+ employees spread across US, Canada and South Korea. Managed a team of 2.
- Overhauled, Redesigned and Standardized the Compensation Review process, partnering across 3 countries, with 120+ leaders and C-Suite to deliver a streamlined experience saving 2000+ hours, reducing errors by 92%, cutting rework from 75% to 3%, and achieving 98% first-time-right accuracy.
- Rearchitected fragmented job architecture across Canada, US, and South Korea. Established pay levels, and market-aligned bands reducing complicated 550+ salary structures to 54 enabling scalable practices.
- Led enterprise-wide title standardization by aligning manager designations to span of control. Optimized 25+ misaligned roles, elevated 10 ICs to manager titles, and embedded scalable naming conventions.
- Forecasted Total Rewards costs and budget alignment with FP&A, unlocking USD 700K+ in savings through a creative go-to-market approach that preserved benefit value and employee experience.
- Established Compensation Governance framework aligned to SOX requirements, enabling audit readiness while strengthening accountability, risk management, and decision-making transparency.
Senior HR Business Partner
Aquatic Informatics
Vancouver
03.2023 - 01.2024
- Enabled global growth via talent, change, and engagement transformation
- Supported 500+ IT(SaaS) Employees in Canada, US, Australia, Europe. Managed 1 team member.
- Sole HR and Change Management lead on Business Strategy team with President and VPs; forecasted future skills to steer workforce planning and power 20%+ YoY growth.
- Launched first-ever Talent Reviews, Career Conversations, and Learning Paths to engage and retain critical talent, cutting voluntary attrition by 31% and boosting leadership learning by 21%.
- Drove org-wide engagement uplift (+40%) by leading focus groups across Engineering, Product, Finance, and Sales, surfacing systemic issues, and partnering with the VP and President to restructure teams and eliminate redundancies.
People & Culture Business Partner
LUSH Cosmetics
Vancouver
03.2022 - 02.2023
- Elevated leadership trust by 11% through engagement programs
- Supported 1300+ Employees (Corporate, Retail and Manufacturing) in Canada and US.
- Collaborated with the Leadership to implement leadership development actions post-engagement survey, raising trust scores by 11% and strengthening team alignment.
Human Resource Business Partner
DNE Energy Consulting
Vancouver
10.2020 - 03.2022
- Drove Performance, Hiring, DEIB, and Talent Management programs
- Supported 120+ Employees in the US and Canada. Managed a team of 1.
- Launched first-ever Performance Management program tied to Compensation and Variable Pay. Led the Leadership Development Program, leading to development of solid Middle Management.
- Revamped hiring strategy and sourcing mix, reduced cost-per-hire by 55% across 60+ hires.
- Improved the Great Place to Work survey score by 9%, awarded as Canada's 19th Great Place to Work. Compensation related scores increased from 66% to 87%.
- Led the DEIB efforts. Built a cross-functional DEIB team and increased the organization's BIPOC representation from 7% to 23%, other than male %age from 19% to 42%.
- Designed and implemented full-scale Talent Management programs (Talent Review, Succession Planning, Career Maps).
Senior Manager - Total Rewards and Workforce Planning
TPG Retail
09.2019 - 02.2020
- Transformed workforce strategy, talent management and hiring team efficiency for 15,000 employees
- Managed a team of 8 and supported 15,000 employees.
- Orchestrated workforce planning transformation with VPs and C-suite, unlocking 18% organizational productivity.
- Optimized benefits provider selection, reducing HR operating costs by 3%.
- Embedded Predictive Recruitment Analytics to boost hiring efficiency by 30%, enabling a lean 2-member team to scale recruitment for 15,000+ employees.
HR Business Partner
TPG Retail
10.2018 - 08.2019
- Managed a team of 2 and supported 9,000 employees.
- Revamped new hire Learning & Development, boosting new-manager effectiveness by 16%.
- Achieved 0% vacancies in 9 months through targeted development using Personality Inventory Model.
- Developed Discovery Gold (Succession Planning) program, which led to reduction in physical vacancies from 5% to 0% and internal recruiting time frame from 45 to 15 days, productivity increase by 17%.
- Cut attrition from 147% to 72% in 6 months using data-driven engagement.
Performance Enablement Manager
TECH MAHINDRA
10.2016 - 10.2018
- Led global performance enablement and bonus strategy shift across 27,000 employees
- Dotted line manager a team of 8 associates and led the performance enablement for 27,000 global employees. Across India, North America, Europe, Asia Pacific.
- Aligned bonus payouts with company performance, shifting to Balanced Scorecard-based variable pay saving 8% and driving organization-wide adoption through ADKAR-led change.
Human Resources Generalist
MARKS & SPENCER
02.2014 - 10.2016
- Led HR tech transformation and cross-functional adoption through stakeholder collaboration
- Implemented new HRIS for 1500 employees and refreshed analytics dashboards, enabling data-driven workforce decisions across HR, Talent, and Training.
- Revamped compensation plans using benchmarking tools (E&Y, Towers Watson, Aon Hewitt, Hays), driving internal equity and market competitiveness.
- Launched first ever enterprise-wide campus hiring program, onboarding 50+ hires in 6 months across 10 business units.
Education
MBA - Human Resources
01.2014
Bachelor of Engineering -
01.2010
Skills
- Transformation strategy
- Compensation architecture
- Total rewards forecasting
- Change management
- Compensation governance
- Talent management
Timeline
Manager - Total Rewards
Kabam Games
01.2024 - Current
Senior HR Business Partner
Aquatic Informatics
03.2023 - 01.2024
People & Culture Business Partner
LUSH Cosmetics
03.2022 - 02.2023
Human Resource Business Partner
DNE Energy Consulting
10.2020 - 03.2022
Senior Manager - Total Rewards and Workforce Planning
TPG Retail
09.2019 - 02.2020
HR Business Partner
TPG Retail
10.2018 - 08.2019
Performance Enablement Manager
TECH MAHINDRA
10.2016 - 10.2018
Human Resources Generalist
MARKS & SPENCER
02.2014 - 10.2016
MBA - Human Resources
Bachelor of Engineering -
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