NIKITA PUGAONKAR

HUMAN RESOURCES

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(+91) 9765000314 [email protected] in.linkedin.com/in/nikita-pugaonkar

EMPLOYMENT
M a n a ge r - H R | G l a x o S m i t hK l i n e P h ar m ac e u tic a l s
Talent Acquisition – May’17 onwards

Talent Acquisition
• Develop & implement Hiring plan and recruitment strategy for Corporate mid to senior level hiring
• Developing, implementing and monitoring effective assessment techniques for career progression
• Building interviewer’s capabilities and creating culture of panel selection
• Drive New Hire engagement and act as coach for Line managers for right selection
• Tracking attrition and formulating appropriate actions to enhance retention
• Develop the service level agreement with the business and HR Ops team to identify the SLAs
• Responsible for central recruitment matrix

May’17 Talent Building

onwards • Onboarding new capabilities to support business within agreed timelines
• Proactive talent mapping of key skills & roles as agreed with business.
• Work closely with talent management team and support them in filling the gaps in succession
planning by taking proactive measures
• Women talent mapping under diversity agenda

Campus Management
• Responsible for hiring of Management Trainees & Summer Trainees across businesses and manage
the process of embedding them
• Onboarding the Summer and Management Trainees
• Drive Campus relation and engagement programs - Responsible for Campus branding in Tier 1 & 2
MBA Colleges & work as Campus Relationship Manager

HR Projects
• Implementation of People Fluent (ATS) to ensure better candidate experience and efficiency
• Employee Value Proposition
• Evaluate and bring in new channels of hiring. e.g. Social media

H R B u s in e s s Par t n e r | S a in t - G o ba in
Apr’14 –
Sales HR – Apr’14 to May’16 || HR BP (Finance) – June’16 to May’17
May’17
Capacity & Staffing Management
• Manage the Talent Architecture and Talent Pipeline strategy by implementing different
Manning Models
• Organization Design, Manpower Planning & Headcount Management along with Org Structure
management and responsible designing of Job Descriptions
• Ensuring effective internal opportunities & mobility of employees along with effective role transition
management
 • Ensure effective recruitment of the open positions
• Ensure effective assimilation of new joiners through effective on-boarding, orientation processes

Being an Employee Champion and building Employee Commitment

a. Ensure effective management of the annual cycles impacting employee experience
• Ensuring an enriching employee experience through employee Life Cycle Management by driving
People Engagement initiatives, Managing effective deployment of people policies & benefits,
practices and processes
• Managing employee expectations, recognition, total rewards and compensation
b. Establish credibility as an influential HR business partner: Ensuring effective communication &
connect with employees through employee meetings & employee connect processes by resolving
employee queries and grievances on day to day basis

Campus Management
Management Campuses
Responsible for recruitment of the Management Trainees & Summer Trainees from Tier 1 and 2 MBA colleges
• Employer Branding: Developing and executing the strategies and activities to ensure Saint-Gobain is
positioned as a premier employer and developing and nurturing relationship with campuses
• Campus Hiring: Actively managing the overall Recruitment process, including shortlisting,
interviewing, selection, on-boarding, reporting activities and reviews
• Transition to Business: Ensuring the smooth transition of the trainees into the business by
implementing policies and processes
Engineering Campuses
Responsible for recruitment of Graduate Engineer Trainees and Diploma Engineer Trainees across pan India

Projects
• Started National Employability Through Apprenticeship Program which gave a platform to create the
employability and is contributing to the CSR activities
• Streamlined the manpower Budget Exercise across all the businesses in Grindwell Norton Ltd. (Group
company of Saint-Gobain)
• Manage the HR budgeting exercise by estimating the cost involved in various HR activities

S ys te m s E n g in e e r , Pu n e | In fo s ys L t d .
Sept’10 - a. Worked in Data Migration project
May’12 b. Fully accountable for the installation of the SharePoint 2010 farm in a mini project
c. Developed the Intranet Sites of the client company
d. Extensively involved in monitoring, tracking and fixing the defects

INTERNSHIP
S u m m e r T r ai n e e | V IP In du s tr ie s L td
▪ To Benchmark the Rewards and Recognition practices followed across leading Retail industries & To
Apr’13- Design the Reward & Recognition program for customer facing staff of VIP Industries Ltd.
May’13 ▪ To design an Induction Module for new recruits of VIP Industries Ltd.
Finalist for the BEST PROJECT and received a Letter of Appreciation from VIP Industries
Ltd.
 EDUCATION
2012–14 MBA - HUMAN RESOURCES | Symbiosis Institute of Business Management – Pune 3.06 / 4

2006–10 B . E ( E X T C ) | Sardar Patel Institute of Technology – Mumbai 70%

2006 H . S . C | Kelkar College – Mumbai 83.83%

2004 S . S . C | Shreerang Vidyalaya – Thane 87.6%

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
SIBM Senior Member, Alumni Team (students’ council)
PUNE Event Coordinator, Encore North, South Alumni Meets and Batch of 1993 Reunion
Co-creator, Alumni Clubs & In-charge, Alumni Portal and Database

HR Member of National Human Resource Development Network

FORUM Participant of SRM India Pune Forum
Participant of CII WR INQUIZZITE Quiz Competition

PERSO Date of Birth : February 26, 1988

NAL Current Location : Mumbai
Permanent Address : Mumbai