Cireesha Mailavarapu

💼 Zonal HR Head – South | Sodexo India 📍 Hyderabad | 🌐 Leading HR for 29,000+ employees across AP, Telangana, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu & Kerala As Head of HR Operations for South India at Sodexo, I lead a high-impact HR team of 100+ professionals across diverse geographies, driving strategic and operational excellence for a workforce of over 29,000 employees. My focus spans: 🔹 HR Business Partnering & Strategic Workforce Planning 🔹 Talent Management, Development & Retention 🔹 Employee Engagement & Culture Transformation 🔹 DEI, Industrial Relations & Statutory Compliance 🔹 Payroll, Client Relationship Management & Tech-enabled HR Models With 19+ years of cross-industry HR leadership, I’m passionate about building inclusive, future-ready workplaces that balance operational rigor with human-centric impact. I thrive on scaling HR systems, nurturing talent, and aligning people strategy with business growth. Let’s connect if you’re passionate about transforming HR, building resilient teams, or exploring collaboration in the space of workforce innovation.

Key Result Areas: • Received reward and recognition from Global HR Head at Dr. Reddys Laboratories • Acted as HR Business Partner for two domains within Biologics as well as Welfare Officer for Biologics, and driving end-to-end organizational & HR practices that are aligned to the business strategy • Conceptualizing & rolling-out talent management strategies, new hiring strategies and engagement initiatives across both the domains • Managing illustrative projects/specific projects and taking functional & cross-functional initiatives • Mentoring & coaching the Executive Team through organizational restructurings to create a more flexible, cost-efficient workforce • Liaising & collaborating with the domains & functional leadership to provide tools which will enable them to design their own organization effectively and identify gaps • Rolling out the performance development process and partnering with the business to identify the top talent and also enable them deal with bottom talent as a natural outcome of the process.

Key Result Areas: • Built a 200 member team in a span of 1 year at Sagarsoft • Partnered with leadership to re-define & implement HR strategies, aligned with new organizational objectives; developed strong, positive relationship networks, supporting departments across company in aligning team goals with organization's mission

Key Result Areas: • Received reward and recognition from CEO at Napier • Designed and implemented a holistic HR strategy to meet short-term & long-term business challenges with focus on key areas such as talent & leadership, culture & values, engagement & connect and productivity & cost • Won performance linked cash reward for the high level of performance contribution

Key Result Areas: • Built HR practices from scratch as I was first HR person for OTSI. • Joined them when they were start up and Built a very strong 1000 member team in span of 4years • Received 2 promotions in the tenure of 4 years at OTSI

Key Result Areas: • Built HR practices from scratch as I was first HR person for Highradius. • Joined them when they were start up and built a very strong 100-member team in span of 1.5years

Managed all HR activities under the guidance of HR Manager.

Recruitment.

MBA

B.Tech in ECE