Ramanujan Pp

About Ramanujan Pp

I am a business focused HR leader with two decades of experience in building, scaling and…

Experience

1. Head - Total Rewards & HR Transformation Projects

   Appasamy Associates

   Feb 2025 — Present · Chennai, IN

   HR Leadership | Centre of Excellence | 4500+ Employees Across Manufacturing, Sales, R&D & Corporate. As a key member of the HR Leadership team, I am leading enterprise-wide HR transformation aligned with business strategy and scalable growth. I drive strategic projects across compensation, policy, culture and HR digitization.Key Contributions:• HR Digitization: Leading digital transformation across all HR functions for enhancing operational efficiency, employee experience, and analytics-led decision making.• Payroll Centralization & Governance: Centralized and transitioned payroll to a third-party partner, ensuring confidentiality, compliance and streamlined operations.• Agile HR Operating Model: Transforming fragmented legacy HR practices into integrated, agile workflows supported by SOPs and governance structure standardization across business verticals.• Policy Re-engineering for Inclusivity: Modernization of HR policies to align with current legal requirements, evolving workplace dynamics and the needs of a diverse, multi-generational workforce for fostering diversity and inclusion.• Organization Design & Role Architecture: organization structure realignment, job levelling and creation of a role matrix.• Compensation & Parity Alignment: Compensation restructuring to drive internal equity and market competitiveness. Realigned the CTC structure for better talent attraction and simplicity in governance.• Incentive Strategy: Working closely with the sales, technical service and production functions for co-creation of incentive schemes to link individual performance with business goals.• Rewards & Recognition (R&R) Program: Designing an enterprise-wide R&R framework that promotes engagement and performance culture.• Employee Well-being: Conceptualizing a comprehensive annual employee well-being calendar addressing physical, emotional and financial health.• Statutory Compliances: End to end compliance management for both Factory and S&E employees

Education

• Bharathidasan University

  MHRM

  2006 — 2008

• Institute for Behavioural & Management Sciences

  MS

  2001 — 2003

• Pachaiyappas College For Men

  Bachelor's Degree

  1997 — 2000

• Srimad Andavan College, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli

  M.Sc

  2002 — 2004

• St. John's Matriculation Higher Secondary School

  High School

  1983 — 1997

• Bharathidasan University

  Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.)

  2005 — 2006

Skills

• Deferred Compensation
• Talent Management
• Psychometry
• Personnel Management
• Salary
• Executive Search
• Organizational Leadership
• Consulting
• Job Descriptions
• Training & Development
• Performance Appraisal
• Benefits Negotiation
• Talent Acquisition
• Employee Relations
• Start-Ups Management
• Hris
• HR Policies
• Human Resources
• Counseling
• Hay Job Evaluation
• Compensation & Benefits
• Employee Benefits
• Rewards Management
• Performance Management
• Employee Training
• Employee Engagement
• Outsourcing
• Emotional Intelligence
• Compensation Benchmarking
• Leadership
• Training
• Management Consulting
• Team Management
• Strategy
• Succession Planning
• Organizational Development
• HR Shared Services
• Vendor Management
• HR Consulting
• Recruiting