Simi Nair
Mumbai
Summary
Passionate and data-driven HR professional with over a decade of experience spanning Talent Acquisition, Employee Experience, Employer Branding, and People Analytics. I specialize in leading transformative HR initiatives that align with business goals to drive impactful outcomes.
My core belief is simple: every employee deserves to be treated fairly. This principle shapes my approach as an advocate for both employees and candidates, keeping their experience central to every decision I make.
Throughout my career, I’ve built a solid track record of success across diverse industries, including Tech, BFSI, Media, and Advertising, with a focus on scaling teams and departments from 0 to 1.
I thrive in dynamic and fast-paced environments, where I excel at solving complex challenges with pragmatic, data-backed solutions, holding HR practices and integrity at the forefront.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Human Resources Business Partner APAC
TeamViewer
12.2023 - Current
- Collaborate with senior leadership across regions to drive workforce planning, talent strategy, and organizational effectiveness in APAC.
- Designed and implemented a structured career path framework for Sales and Customer Support in APAC, enhancing career progression and internal mobility. Due to its success, the model was later replicated across AMS and EMEA, impacting 700+ employees globally.
- Led recruitment optimization in APAC, reducing time-to-hire from 182 to 67 days, significantly accelerating business expansion in India. This success positioned India as a strategic talent hub, leading to 30% growth in headcount as other regions shifted hiring to India.
- Oversee insurance, and other employee benefits across APAC, ensuring competitive offerings tailored to local markets, improving employee satisfaction scores.
- Successfully led the migration of payroll systems across 3 APAC countries from multiple vendors to the global ADP platform, improving payroll accuracy, compliance, and efficiency.
- Manage complex employee relations (ER) cases and grievances across APAC, ensuring fair and consistent resolutions. Oversee labor law compliance in multiple jurisdictions, mitigating risks and ensuring 100% statutory adherence. Partner with legal teams to address workplace investigations, terminations, and policy enforcement.
- Championed change management efforts during company restructures, minimizing disruption to employees and maintaining morale during transitions.
- Implemented onboarding program to help the new joiners settle in thus reducing infant attrition by 12%
Senior Manager HR Business Partner
Kotak Mahindra Bank
03.2021 - 11.2023
- Led talent acquisition and partnering for the technology business
- Conceptualised and implemented employee engagement initiative to reduce the attrition
- Streamlined processes to enhance employee experience
- Partnered with leadership to design and implement key processes in employee life cycle
- Consulted leaders on critical people interventions
- Top talent ring-fencing, transition of Hi-pots to next level, PIP for poor performance
- Evaluated pulse survey responses to design a strategy for the necessary cultural shifts & new behavior
- Designed a mentoring program for the new joiners, lowering the infant attrition from 18% in FY22 to 0% in FY23
- Launched customized learning journeys for each role thus increasing average monthly learning hour from 60 to 180 mins
- Played a pivotal role in building a new tech sub-function by onboarding 40 engineers, including leadership roles in 30 days
- Designed & launched the Hire-Train-Deploy program for fullstack developers
- Launched 'Tech@Kotak' linkedin page to portray the organization as an employer of choice for the techies & attract the right talent
- Key Achievements
- Best Team of the Quarter (2020)
- Special Mention of the Quarter Aug & Nov 2019
- Hiring Champ 2015
- Employee of the Quarter (Dec'22)
Assistant Manager HR
Publicis Groupe
02.2019 - 03.2021
- Led talent acquisition & partnering for the Digital Transformation business
- Connected with potential talent and interacting with them to create a candidate management experience with the organization
- Partnered with leadership to implement key processes, performance ratings, succession planning and grievance management
- Designed, developed and managed training initiatives as well as training effectiveness
- Responsible for publishing report to leadership on hiring numbers and various other trends
Senior Executive - Talent Acquisition & Analytics
DNEG
06.2018 - 02.2019
Associate Consultant
Capgemini Technology Services
04.2013 - 06.2018
HR Associate
Self Actualise Inc
07.2012 - 03.2013
Education
NLP Foundation & Practitioner -
The Knowledge Academy
Mumbai04-2024
Bachelor of Commerce - Human Resources Development
Mumbai University
Mumbai06-2012
Skills
- Talent Acquisition
- Employee Engagement
- Employer Branding
- HR Operations & Analytics
- Process Improvement
- Stakeholder Management
- Coaching leadership
- Policy implementation
- Talent management
- HR analytics
Passion
Curiosity and experimentation are an integral part of my life, both at work and in my free time: outside of work, you'll find me travelling, immersing in books & dance.
Timeline
Human Resources Business Partner APAC
TeamViewer
12.2023 - Current
Senior Manager HR Business Partner
Kotak Mahindra Bank
03.2021 - 11.2023
Assistant Manager HR
Publicis Groupe
02.2019 - 03.2021
Senior Executive - Talent Acquisition & Analytics
DNEG
06.2018 - 02.2019
Associate Consultant
Capgemini Technology Services
04.2013 - 06.2018
HR Associate
Self Actualise Inc
07.2012 - 03.2013
NLP Foundation & Practitioner -
The Knowledge Academy
Bachelor of Commerce - Human Resources Development
Mumbai University
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