Abhijeet Parlikar

January 2023 - Current

JOHN DEERE INDIA PVT. LTD. - Regional HR Business Partner, Pune, MH

· Responsible for leading Human Resources function for Technology, Engineering and John Deere India corporate functions for 5000+ workforce to spearhead the following functions:-

- Enterprise Technology and Engineering Center - ER&D
- Global Information Technology India - IT Products
- Corporate functions

Leading Strategic HR initiatives like Strategic workforce Planning, Talent Management, Succession Planning, Wellness Initiatives, partnering with the Regional HR Functions like C&B, Staffing, Talent Development, spearheading the Employee Engagement, Org. restructuring. Tactical workforce planning, Performance management & Business Partnering.

• Spearheading HR, IR, and Admin for 5 John Deere's manufacturing entities.
• Team size - 30 employees & direct reports - 9.
• Headcount - 4350 members (650 on Payroll, 2200 blue-collared on payroll, 1500 on contract).
• Driving end-to-end talent strategy, engaging with board to align and establish business-critical priorities, and aligning global agenda with the local nuances.
• Working on strategic HR & LR initiatives, driving alignment within the leadership group.
• Leading the Human Resources planning process & execution across a diverse, multi-generational, multi-level workforce that is decentralized.

• Joined forces with unit HR teams to drive multiple HR/IR ambition projects across units.
• Created India level workforce strategy for blue-collared employees that eased operations by xx%.
• Designed methodologies that suggest HR Cost vis a vis business model, IR & workforce modeling.
• Re-structured & streamlined policies and processes around the waged workforce.
• Laid heavy emphasis on leading through rapid HR change and transformation programs.

• Orchestrated a team of 150+ engineers offering virtual & digital manufacturing globally.
• Accelerated the assembly competency team & key global business relationships worth $6m.
• Led initiatives to partner & develop strong relationships with the enterprise team.
• Deployed efforts to acquire talent for region 1 assembly lead position with a budget of $100k.
• Intensified training & development initiatives with a budget of $40k.
• Acquired additional enterprise assembly competency projects worth $45k.
• Drafted business OKR's and team/ individual KPIs that targeted sustainable results.
• Attained confidence by encouraging a culture of transparency & developing individual development plan & group career plan for the team, adopted at an organizational level.
• Deployed the engagement model across 3 different divisions.
• Penetrated newer markets & areas of engagement leading to additional revenues worth $2m.

• Drive Human Resources strategies as a part of the leadership group to expand business in India.
• Collaborated with the operations and legal team to ensure smooth setting up offices and its functions covering 3 start-up factories and 7 area offices.
• Recruited 180 key talent and wage workforce and a contingent workforce of 120 within 9 months.
• Worked with the leadership to expand its footprints in the Indian Agriculture market.
• Set up factory covering end-to-end licensing, legal formalities, team hiring & HR functions set up.
• Liaised to start ground up an electronics solution unit in Pune.
• Implemented HR shared services through 'Global Human Resource organization' covering compensation and benefits, staffing, learning & development & HR communications.
• Achieved 100% compliance with 0 adverse remarks in the external inspection of government officials for all the above units for the applicable labour laws in Maharashtra, Pune & Punjab.

• Partnered and managed key business relationships with engineering & manufacturing services, embedded systems, technical authoring, regional supply management center, and support functions totaling 1500+ headcount.
• Closed a large-sized staffing requisition of over 300 positions on a yearly average.
• Achieved a 30% decrease in recruitment spend with innovative sourcing strategies of top-caliber candidates through various methods (i.e., networking, referrals, online searches, internet postings, job/career fairs, local colleges, groups, forums, campus placements, etc.)
• Curtailed the hiring cost by introducing & promoting the Employee Referral scheme & hitting 45% hiring through internal reference and saving overall 50% of the recruitment cost.
• Planned entire branding communication & launched campus connect program & recruiting over 400 GETs/PGETs from premium campuses (IITs & NITs) and gained preferred slots for hiring.