Gerald Santosh

As a seasoned HR leader, specialized in driving organizational success through strategic talent management, employee engagement, and fostering a high-performance culture. Led transformative HR initiatives, improving employee satisfaction, and building diverse, inclusive workplaces.

HR leader for India. Partner with client groups and leaders to plan, prioritize, and implement people and culture goals. Collaborate closely with the leadership team to build a culture of feedback and coaching. Building a leadership pipeline and culture of coaching for leaders to enable continuous organizational evolution and maximize productivity and engagement. Collaborate and partner with stakeholders across the globe to develop and build a plan for addressing future skill gaps by job rotation, skills development programs, and targeted recruitment strategies. Day-to-day management and leadership of all HR functions with a team of 12 in multiple locations.

Led HR for APAC. Executed programs in performance management, talent and succession planning, leadership development, employee engagement, career development. Built retention strategy for HIPO’s, and a strong culture of feedback and coaching to achieve the best people outcomes. Day-to-day management and leadership of all HR functions with a team of 9 in multiple countries.

Was responsible for setting up the Bangalore office & hire the Senior Leadership team. The company started with 14 people and went to 120 people. Worked on implementing various HR polices & process, building a robust & employee friendly C&B structure, also partnered with the UK leadership to bring in the Causeway culture in to India. End to end HR role. Policy mapping, implementation, adherence to International Standards, compliance, leadership development, talent deployment, KRA, etc.

Grew from Staffing Manager to General Manager Human Resource. In 6+ years of stay and donned various roles. Was the HR Lead for Saudi Arabia, Bahrain & Yemen. The main responsibility was to create a new legal entity post the merger & align the Compensation & Benefits program for the 3 countries. Change mapping, alignment to new policies, rolled out employee handbook in line with the local laws, etc. Was the CoE Talent Acquisition Leader for South Asia. In this role, post the merger was responsible for strategically aligning the 2 companies in terms of process & policies.

Worked for 2 GE businesses (Aircraft Engines & JFWTC). At Aircraft Engines ramped up the headcount from 26 to 205 before moving to JFWTC to handle strategic recruitment for the research labs. Here got the exposure to really look at sourcing and attracting some of the best minds from across the globe. A lot of the talent sourced was PhDs, Domain scientists, and people with really extraordinary talents. Skills included nano-scientists, imaging specialists, gas turbine engineers, etc.