Nida Khanam
Executive , Leadership & Success Coach
Consultant @ Dr Kanayalal Raina
- Currently practicing as Executive Coach, Business Mentor & HR advisor senior leaders & small & medium organisations.
- Credentialed ACC from international Coaching federation, Neuroleadership certified Brain based coach. Have been practicing as a coach & strategic mentor last 4 years and have been instrumental in transforming senior leaders and organisations.
- Awarded at national & international levels for Coaching & HR Work & been a speaker at prestigious forums including Loksabha & acclaimed panels. Recently served on board of International Coaching federation chapter. Associated with advisory boards for mentoring Business women & SME's.
- Worked as Head HR for Jindal Stainless Ltd (1st June 2016 till 10th June, 2017) - Leading overall HR function for corporate overseeing plant.
Jindal Stainless is the largest stainless steel conglomerates in India and ranks amongst the top10 stainless steel conglomerates in the world. Jindal Stainless Group has an annual crude steel capacity of 1.8MTPA and the group has an annual turnover of 2.3 B USD.
-Organizational Development
-Talent Management
-Talent Acquisition
-Employee Life cycle & HR operations.
-Succession planning
-Employer branding
-Led and designed Hi-POT (1200+ employees) & leadership assessment (300 employees) organization wide for both corporate & plants followed by development journey for all clusters.
-Worked on vision & mission of the organization to align long term and short term objectives.
-Mercer Compensation benchmarking study across organization covering white and blue collar employees.
-Initiative to participate for Great Place to work Institute survey and certified in 1stYear with overall score of 76%. Worked on Action planning for the HR and organizational level.
GROHE, Lixil Water Technology-Global leader in Sanitary ware with sales of around $6 billion with 300,000 employees, Sales presence in 150 countries, with 50 manufacturing facilities around the world.
Worked as Head Human Resources( 20th May, 2013 till 18th May, 2016)- was responsible for entire gamut of HR function as country business partner for all brands under Lixil Water Technology group.
April 2015 onwards –Head HR Lixil Water Technology India part of Lixil group, Japanese MNC
May 2013- till March 2015- Head HR, Grohe India, Subsidiary of Grohe AG
Key Responsibilities:
Organizational Development
- Re-alignment & Integration of new brands as part of LWT. Worked on integration of brands post acquisition.
- Participated in the global succession planning model for senior/key employees and institutionalized and facilitated for India organization.
- Redesigning of Sales organization
- Established HR as function from scratch and processes
§ Talent Acquisition
- Talent Acquisition strategy & implementation for India organization.
- Implemented Psychometric tools for determining competencies and leadership capabilities at the Managerial level & Leadership team.
§ Talent management & L&D
- Implemented Balance Score Card driven Performance Management process.
- Growing effective Managers series
- McKinney Rogers Mission Analysis dashboard for Leadership team.
- Led core team for Asia Performance management system post Lixil integration.
- Conducted and facilitate the Employee Engagement Survey for India and part of core team of Lixil Asia engagement survey with Tower Watson.
- Hi-Performing team workshops for country.
- Led design and implementation of Structured R&R program(Sales championship & VIVA)
- Designed and Facilitated LEAP & GOLD program for high potential and key talent. Leading HIPO program for Asia Pacific.
§ Compensation & Benefits.
- Managed Compensation reviews and benchmarking for the country.
- Worked on Job Analysis & Competency framework for Asia Pacific.
§ Payroll and Health benefits
§ Brought Balance score card and online Performance system to the organization
§ Led overall Employee life cycle and HR operations.
Worked with UFLEX (Packaging Business) as Head Human Resources-August 2012- till April 2013-India’s largest flexible packaging company. Managed HR function(plant) for Packaging & holography division and was responsible for factories HR function including Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, compensation and overall employee lifecycle and IR.
Rockwell automatioN INDIA PVT LTD
A US based MNC into industrial Automation headquartered in Milwaukee, with presence in 80 countries. It has strength of 850+ employees with presence at 18 locations pan- India. Company is focused on Industrial Automation sales, Software, Global Engineering & Design centers and Information Solutions businesses.
Worked as HR Manager– March 2006 till July 2012
Key Responsibilities:
Talent Acquisition
® Managed Talent acquisition for all the functions across organization including Sales, Support , SSB & Global regional Engineering centre(GREC)
® Was instrumental in setting up GREC-India which was catering across countries to support engineering business.
® Successfully established Customer care centre as a captive unit for India from the point of HR, Talent acquisition.
® Initiated and executed successfully “Commercial Leadership Development Program” & “Graduate Engineer Training Program”. Structured and implemented programs for Tier I and Tier II Institutes (IIT/BITS/DCE) and policies in the areas of training with various pedagogical setups like Class room instruction, Practical exposure, out bound trainings and on the job trainings. Working for Performance Reviews and Engagement for the batch/s.
® Work with Business Units for company’s Annual Strategy & Staffing Plans and also for the Monthly Reviews.
® Standardization & structuring of job descriptions across all levels.
Performance Management & L&OD
® Leadership Reviews
® Business partnering for Engineering Business units & regional sales teams.
Employee Engagement
® Was responsible for Rewards & Recognition activities across organization.
® Initiated concept of focused group on ESAT survey findings.
® Worked as core part of Leadership retreat and core Business group for Mission restatement.
® Was responsible for “Buddy Program” for the New Hires which was established as Best practice & was replicated in Asia Pacific and Globally
® Fostered a teamwork/open-door environment conducive to positive dialogue across the organization.
Compensation & benefits
® Was part of core team in working of Global job catalogue
® Compensation benchmarking with C&B team.
Initiatives
® Led Asia wide Leadership Effectiveness Accelerated Development Program for LIXIL & Grohe Potential Development Program.
® ERP (Employee Referral Program) –ERP was one of the most successful programs as we closed year on year 35-40% of positions with referral.
® Built Alumni-Re-Hiring of Ex-Rockwell employees-Evaluating rehiring model and engagement of alumni.
® Buddy-Mentee Program to help New Hires acclimatize with the new environment and develop them as better professionals - “Program was initiated to inculcate mentoring culture in the organization”.
® Project team member of Global Employee voice survey.
® Launched quarterly Employee Newsletter to give a face to Employee’s voice.
® Launched ‘Star of the Month’ an R&R initiative for Sales and Engineering Business Units.
® Leadership interventions for collaboration and change management workshops- part of core team of marketing restructuring, Drives & Manufacturing process solution business to integrate as SSB.
® Initiated Stay interviews for engaging employees and also to work as retention tool.
Indian Society Of Agribusiness Professionals, New Delhi
Indian Society of Agribusiness Professionals is a non-profit organisation working since 2001 for the empowerment of rural India through sustainable farm and non-farm livelihood development. It is one of the largest networks of agriculture and allied sector.
HR Generalist – Jan 2003 to Dec 2005
- Managed independently Internal HR and Administration activities ;
- Recruitment & Selection
- Payroll
- Assessment of Training needs, and arranging workshops to fulfill training needs
- Formulating HR policies and guidelines
- Career development programs
- Reviewing reward systems organizing
- Managed employee manual covering issues including disciplinary procedures, code of conduct and benefits information.
Quest Executive Search Services, New Delhi
Quest is privately held search firm specializing into financial services, banking and IT/ITES sector.
Senior Executive Recruitments – June 2001 to December 2002
® Handled sourcing & screening of prospective candidates
® Independently handles middle & senior level positions with leading financial institutes and Insurance industry.
® Managed client relationship
Education & Certifications
· ACC from International Coaching Federation.
· Senior Management Program IIM-Calcutta, November 2015- December 2016
· MBA in Human Resources & Agribusiness, A.M.U-2001
· Bachelor in Science with Honors, A.M.U-1999
· P.G. Diploma in Human Resource Management -2003
Of Note
Awards & Accomplishments:
Top 101 coaches in India by chro Asia and ET. Dr Sarojini Naidu international women achievers award in 2020. Featured by Silicon india magazine as top ten promising Executive Coaches in India.
Woemn achievers forum awars 2021.
® Annual Award for Best HR team in India-2014.
® “Way Forward Award” for the Talent Acquisition for the Year 2011 and also for the successful initiative CLDP.
® “Capture the Moment award” for Employee Engagement Initiatives-2009
® “Way Forward Award” for Highest Number of Hiring & Employee Referrals in the APAC region-2008
® “Way Forward Award” for highest number of recruitments through Employee Referral Program in the APAC region-2007
® Team Award for promoting Virtual learning (Soft skills trainings) in Rockwell India-2006-2007
® Certified Assessor for Development Center by E&Y.
® Certified on Caliper Assessment Tool
® Certified on Competency Based Interviewing by HR Anexi.
® Undergone certified training on Leadership & “Negotiating for Success”.
® Undergone TTT for GEMS & Great Conversations program
® Trained on Predictive index.