Vikram Samanth

About Vikram Samanth

Over 20 years’ of professional human resource experience in Employee Relations. My outcome focus has ensured:• Employee transitions and rebadging – employees across 3 Geographies • 100+ investigations • employees inducted annually. • man hours and 75 head-count reduced due to HR automation.• Positive work environment enablement across 10 countries for more than managers.

Experience

1. Principal HR - Employee Relations

   Infosys BPM

   Apr 2006 — Present · Bangalore, IN

   Employee Relations functions for India,EMEA and APAC Employee Assimilation & New Hire Compliance – o Inducted employees annually across hierarchy levels in the organisationo Defined the induction process ensuring compliance and synergy between global offices of the organisation and local laws. o Successfully implemented Virtual induction ensuring smooth functioning and adherence to Company’s compliance and Code of Conducto Background verification (BGV) process for the organization across India and the world. Employee Engagement Conceptualize the employee engagement strategy for the organisation in line with the Company’s theme for the FY. Responsible for managing the team that executes these employee engagement strategies as well. Manage Rewards and Recognition programso Overall planning, budget allocation, measuring ROI of programs.Managing Workplace Issues & Grievanceso Managing high-risk investigations, employee grievances, employee misconduct and violation of company policies including those raised through the Ethics helpline. Labor Compliance o Resolved over 50 cases with labor department / labor courts o Assessment: Responsible for Risk Assessments, Business Impact Analysis and certifications, Information security and Business continuity. Responsible for ensuring ‘Positive work environment’ o Conducted over investigations with respect to financial fraud and whistleblower complaints.o Responsible for educating and initiating programs across all 10 countries. Employment Lawso Identify changes to evolving landscape, pro-actively engaged with functional leaders to assess risk/impact and drive mitigation action. Responsible for creatingDigitization of HR Processeso Reduced manpower cost and launched multiple strategic initiatives across HR with interventions of technology like o Automation of HR processes : Paperless onboarding, discipline systems, exit systems,o Predictive analytics and insights : Retention dashboards etc

Education

• Mangalore University

  MSW

  2001 — 2003

Skills

• Performance Appraisal
• Screening
• Bpo
• Recruitments
• HR Consulting
• Management
• Talent Management
• Employee Engagement
• Talent Acquisition
• Recruiting
• Performance Management
• Human Resources
• Employee Relations