Dr. Arun Mani

Ideassion operates in the digital transformation space with offices in Chennai, Tamilnadu, India and New Jersy, USA. At Ideassion, the reimagining of business using digital technologies has helped in creating and modifying the business process, culture, and customer experiences to meet market requirements. We work towards providing such services, but involve creativity to make it unique, meeting the demands of our clients in a way that fits the changing digital landscape. We support businesses to build an innovative digital strategy and deploy an agile process that facilitates transparent and effective communication to optimize digital transformation • Provide leadership to the Human Resources department while optimizing organizational performance • Partner with leaders to plan and manage talent - Hiring, Succession, Career Development, Retention and Compensation and Benefits strategy • Provide counsel and guidance as a member of the senior management team • Partner with the CEO and Compensation Committee to manage executive compensation and global compensation/benefits • Provide leadership in the design and implementation of a responsive organizational structure to meet long-term business needs • Coach and advise senior leaders and managers regarding strategic and complex employee issues, and provide proactive solutions and alternatives that are pragmatic • Achieve desired results through others with positive, persuasive and energetic communication • Work collaboratively with others toward common company objectives, demonstrating respect for the ideas and contributions of team members and cultivating positive working relationships • Develop metrics to identify key workforce issues and trends, and develop proactive recommendations and long-term strategies accordingly`

Instrumental in obtaining Great Place to Work Certification for two consecutive years - 2023 & 2024. Instrumental in designing and delivering talent development initiatives. Introduced talent management practices that best suited the manufacturing industry.

Instrumental in implementing Business Efficiency Tools which encourages - Innovation Oriented Thinking, Lean Innovations, Improves the program / organization profitability, obtains long term benefit such as of cycle time reduction, manpower savings and productivity improvements and enhances employee’s skill set and equip them with adequate resources to perform Created performance based compensation programs which supported a win-win experience Formulated and Implemented Learning methodologies to improve performance for better succession Effectively implemented retention strategies which supported to reduce the re-hire and payroll cost Formulated and Implemented frequent mentoring and coaching sessions Created and facilitated learning modules for newly promoted leaders and Managers Created and facilitated coaching methodologies which helped employees understand their potential and have shown an increase in the human potential Created Joint Ownership Training Module to ensure that all departments are aligned to increase their efficiency and effectiveness

Support a team of 10 HR Professionals to cultivate a unified, value based culture Serve as a key member for Medical Coding Business Unit and HR Strategic Business Leader, with dual reporting to the Senior Director HR and Vice President – Coding Devised staffing and human resource practices that allowed Omega to achieve an average of 7% revenue growth from 2015 with 15% less employees, yielding improved revenue per employee Improved employee work flow productivity by 10% by creating effective organization design and engagement activities Introduced Compa Ratio to arrive on salary benchmarking, supported the team to reduce the appraisal increment by 2% Increased the production % with less error log through enhanced Rewards and Recognition program which witnessed less than 5% of employees in the bottom levels Eager in collecting market data – new business, compensation levels and hiring pattern Created monthly dashboards for the function which supported to showcase the initiatives/activities in a much larger perspective

Support a team of 11 HR Members to handle Talent Engagement, Talent Management & Development activities. Formulated and Implemented Competency Mapping, Succession Planning which resulted in better performance and hiring Instrumental in creating Early Warning Signal, Identify Gaps, prepare action plan with other stakeholders and increase the satisfaction levels which increased the employee stay Analyse the Team Health by conducting surveys and Stay Interviews Responsible to implement at least 1 Process Improvement every month

Support a team of 15 HR Members for Recruitment and Post Recruitment activities across 9 Locations in India Partnered with the business unit for special HR initiatives Responsible for resource forecasting on a periodic basis Responsible for handling conflicts on employee welfare related issues Execution of HR policies & practices across the organization Playing an integral role in Project Growth & drive benefits for the organization Implemented rewards, value-based and innovative People Engagement activities Assists the Operations Head in creating a nurturing, enabling, congenial and positive work culture Performance Appraisal, Design and deploy appropriate Performance Management Systems Presentation of annual appraisal policy and timelines to Business Managers and provide guidelines for normalization of employee ratings for respective Business Units Provide Development plans to Training department as part of the appraisal cycle and monitor the 60 day plan for bottom performers Responsible for brand building initiatives and relationship management across colleges in India Managed HR MIS, Reporting and Analysis. Preparation of HR dashboards for circulation to client and leadership Conduct regular employee discussions to ensure timely career planning, employee motivational mapping and attrition health tracking Anchor organization wide internal communication. Touch point with the leadership team with the Ask the CEO, Ask HR columns through the intranet portal Various Communication Initiatives - Need of the Hour / Senior Leadership Interactions / Feeling the Pulse

Generated dashboards to continuously monitor and improve on the retention Health Check Provided HR MIS to the clients & Leadership team on all employee related issues to support faster decision making Liaison with the Operations Managers for all critical people related issues to facilitate faster execution Implemented communication, knowledge/ success sharing and teambuilding strategies to inform, educate and motivate employees Payroll administration for PAN India Managed recruitment and selection of candidates from campuses across levels Strengthened the campus hiring network by managing new initiatives and increased coverage Provide forecast related information to all recruitment teams thereby facilitate accurate hiring Rigorously drove employee connect Managed the induction for freshers and lateral hires, background verification for all lateral hires In charge for the organization wide Fun @ Work committee, for all cultural and sports activities All’s Well – initiative on healthy living for the employees. Communiqué on health tips and organized health programs as part of the initiative Sustenance of Work Culture – Centre Level Values workshops, Address aspects of including new hires to fit the Allsec DNA

Worked for US and UK projects handling Telemarketing, Customer Service and Collections calls