Vinita Ahuja Bajaj
Senior Human Resource Associate - Staffing
Pune
Summary
Experienced resource management professional with 9 years of expertise in capacity planning, workforce management, staffing, stakeholder engagement, and negotiations. Successfully collaborated with clients from the US, UK, and EU regions across diverse industries including BFSI, manufacturing, and tech & consulting. Proven track record in effectively managing a workforce of up to 3000 employees.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior Human Resources Associate - Staffing
ZS Associates (ZS)
Pune
11.2022 - Current
- Proactively understanding the pipeline and sold work with the current and potential stakeholders, planning pyramids for timely fulfillment.
- Assess internal options and map future projects based on skill set, tenure, and aspirations.
- Ensuring desired utilization numbers are maintained.
- Periodic staffing connects with senior partners, PAMs, and leadership to discuss staffing deployment, forecasted needs, transfers, evolution, and utilization trends.
- Understanding the capacity gap and highlighting external fulfillment through contractor or full-time hiring.
- Planning fresher and interns intake with stakeholders based on the expansion or attrition in the project. Ensuring the timely mapping to them.
- Conduct periodic training on staffing tools and processes for new staff.
Resource Management Lead
L&T InfoTech (LTI)
Pune
08.2021 - 10.2022
- To communicate with stakeholders, project managers, and KDM to understand the requirements.
- Creating fulfillment strategy and capacity plans.
- Managing, tracking, and utilization of resources from their entry into the organization until the exit.
- Collaborating with different business units for transfer and deputation cases, wherever applicable, and ensuring that the timelines for staffing are met.
- Establishing communication with employees to understand their skills and goals in order to align them on the projects.
- Efficient utilization of visa-ready resources to onsite projects.
- Initiating reactive hiring to bridge the demands in case of niche skill set.
- Involved in HR operations and Analytics, such as tracking BU Utilization, demand coverage, compliance, and other miscellaneous reports.
Senior Human Resources Executive
L&T Infotech (LTI)
Pune
06.2013 - 05.2018
- Succession planning of manpower through forecasted ramp downs, redeploying bench, and ensuring optimum utilization of the organization's talent pool.
- Arranging training programs and cross-skilling bench to propose them for new and advanced skilled projects.
- Dealing with employee grievances, employee motivation, and personnel/family counseling, thereby instituting measures for reducing absenteeism and meeting employee expectations while project allocation
- Interacting with business groups and delivery to understand their future resource needs, thus submitting the forecast to senior management.
- Deciding on fresher intake and campus hiring intake.
- Manage cross-business unit/location transfers in system.
- Project allocation of new joiners.
- Arranging skill-wise recruitment drives to prepare an internal resource pool. Helping recruitment team in identifying panels to take interviews.
Education
Master of Labour Law and Labour Welfare -
Balaji Law College
Pune, MH 01.2011 - 04.2013
PGDM - HR -
Balaji Institute of Management & Human Resource Development
Pune, MH 01.2011 - 04.2013
Skills
Capacity planning
Workforce management
Negotiation & conflict management
Time management
Leadership
Stakeholder management
Communication
Accomplishments
· Rewarded as “OP” outstanding performer for continuous 3 performance cycle in year 2017,
2018 and 2021
· Acknowledged with Individual ‘PRIDE’ award for the quarter January-March 2018.
· Accolade of being Best BU in LTI by ensuring highest utilization & maximum billing count 2016
· Awarded Best RM Team in 2015
· Merit of billing 100 associates within a month (in Bangalore) by efficiently utilizing bench pool & hiring new recruits and got appreciated for the same for timely and effective resource deployment in 2015
· Received Numerous appreciations from key delivery heads, superiors & subordinates
Timeline
Senior Human Resources Associate - Staffing
ZS Associates (ZS)
11.2022 - Current
Resource Management Lead
L&T InfoTech (LTI)
08.2021 - 10.2022
Senior Human Resources Executive
L&T Infotech (LTI)
06.2013 - 05.2018
Master of Labour Law and Labour Welfare -
Balaji Law College
01.2011 - 04.2013
PGDM - HR -
Balaji Institute of Management & Human Resource Development
01.2011 - 04.2013
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