Neeti Arora (She / Her)

I work with founders and leadership teams on people, structure, and decision clarity during growth or transition. I am doing selective advisory work around Org diagnostic, Org design, frameworks - Competency & Performance , leadership alignment review, Culture / Process audits and transition.

At Embibe, strategic HR leadership is the cornerstone of my role, where I focus on enhancing robust HR systems and processes. Through meticulous organizational restructuring and transformation, our team has elevated the HR agenda, ensuring compliance and optimizing compensation and benefits frameworks.M&A Change Management: Successfully led change management and HR integration through four mergers and acquisitions, providing strategic support during organizational restructuring. Innovative • HR Compliance • Organization Restructuring and Transformation • Compensation & Benefits -Define and execute the strategic roadmap for HR service delivery, aligned with organizational goals. Collaborate with HR Operations leadership, Centers of Expertise (COEs), and cross-functional teams to introduce process enhancements, best practices, and innovative service models. -Lead, develop, and inspire a large, diverse team of salaried managers and associates. Oversee onboarding, training, performance management, and engagement, while promoting a continuous learning culture and creating pathways for professional growth through collaboration with senior leadership. Provide strong leadership across key HR functions including Payroll, HRIS, Talent Acquisition, and Quality, ensuring operational excellence and alignment with business objectives. -Drive the creation, refinement, and regular testing of process documentation—such as SOPs, knowledge scripts, and work instructions—ensuring accuracy, relevance, and compliance in partnership with HR operations and governance teams. -Manage budgets, headcount, and P&L responsibilities for HR support functions. Optimize resource utilization and cost efficiency while ensuring sustainable and scalable service delivery. -Ensure full adherence to HR policies, regulatory requirements, SOX compliance, and audit protocols. Identify and mitigate operational risks through rigorous controls, monitoring, and cross-functional collaboration.

At BARC, played a pivotal role in shaping the organization's HR framework from the ground up, focusing on long-term sustainability, cultural alignment, and scalable processes. Key contributions included: Cultural Foundation & Values Definition: Collaborated with leadership to define and embed fundamental organizational values, serving as the cornerstone for a cohesive and purpose-driven culture. Career Architecture & Role Framework: Designed hierarchical grades along with clear, aspirational career trajectories to support growth, transparency, and internal mobility. Performance Management Framework: Developed an end-to-end performance management system including process flows, competency models, training modules, and evaluation templates—ensuring fair, consistent, and growth-oriented assessments. Compensation Structure Design: Introduced a dynamic pay structure integrating compensation principles, ESOP plans, merit-based bonuses, and a flexible stock allocation model tailored to individual employee preferences. Competency-Based Recruitment Strategy: Formulated and implemented recruitment practices rooted in competency evaluation, enhancing talent quality and role alignment across functions. HR Tech Infrastructure Development: Architected a robust HR technology ecosystem encompassing the full employee lifecycle—recruitment, onboarding, internal deployment, and offboarding—optimizing both efficiency and employee experience. This role involved close collaboration with CXOs and department heads, ensuring alignment of all people practices with strategic business goals while fostering a culture of performance, inclusion, and innovation.

Played a central role in shaping the organization's hiring strategy, operational excellence, and employer brand. Key contributions included: Talent Acquisition Strategy & Execution Directed a high-performing TA team, providing mentorship, setting targets, and ensuring consistent delivery of high-quality hires across verticals. Employer Branding: Partnered with marketing and communications to craft and promote a compelling employer brand, positioning Flipkart as an employer of choice in the tech and retail ecosystem. Strategic Stakeholder Engagement: Built strong partnerships with senior leadership and hiring managers to deeply understand talent needs, address challenges, and offer proactive hiring solutions.. Candidate Experience Management: Championed a smooth, engaging, and consistent candidate experience from sourcing through onboarding, enhancing offer-to-join ratios and brand perception. Onboarding Excellence: Worked cross-functionally with HR and business leaders to ensure seamless onboarding and cultural integration for new hires. Data-Driven Decision Making: Leveraged analytics to monitor recruitment performance, uncover bottlenecks, and report hiring health to executive leadership through dashboards and performance metrics. Budget & Vendor Management: Managed the talent acquisition budget effectively while overseeing external recruitment partners and technology vendors to maximize ROI. Led internal training programs for hiring managers covering interview best practices, diversity hiring, unconscious bias, and competency-based assessments. HR Tech & Tools Implementation: Adopted and optimized tools including ATS, recruitment marketing platforms, and analytics dashboards to drive process automation and data visibility. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: Advocated and operationalized inclusive hiring practices, ensuring diverse candidate pipelines and unbiased selection methods across all levels.

Pioneered TA Transformation, Digitization & Diversity Hiring Across Global Markets At Unilever, played a pivotal role in transforming the talent acquisition landscape through strategic initiatives, digitization, and innovative hiring models. She successfully led the transition from an RPO-driven model (managed through Accenture) to a fully insourced recruitment framework, ensuring seamless operations and optimized performance of a 10-member team. Key Contributions & Achievements: TA Transformation & Strategy: Core team member in flagship initiatives like Open Talent Economy – Workey & Flex and Reimagine HR, leading the evolution of the hiring ecosystem. Diversity Hiring & R&R Programs: Developed and implemented strategies to accelerate gender diversity hiring, and conceptualized recognition campaigns such as Big Bang, 60 in 60, and 60 in 60 Reloaded. Digitization & Automation: Introduced cutting-edge platforms like Jobvite, HireVue, Docusign, and other automation tools to streamline hiring, reduce manual dependency, and improve recruitment velocity. Advanced Selection Methodologies:. Engagement & Learning Tools: Launched forward-thinking initiatives like DIY Packs, Learning Cafés, Talent Chatbots, and Talent Exchange JVs to improve employee experience and learning engagement. Global Volume Hiring Expertise: Orchestrated high-volume recruitment operations across India, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East, managing KPIs, performance dashboards, financial planning, and demand-supply analysis. Her ability to blend strategy with execution made her a key driver of HR innovation at Unilever, redefining how talent is attracted, assessed, and engaged in a global, fast-paced environment

Led the Talent Acquisition and Talent Management function, managing a team of 8 professionals. Role went beyond recruitment to include strategic workforce planning, process optimization, and driving large-scale change initiatives that aligned with business transformation goals. Core Responsibilities & Achievements: Talent Acquisition Leadership: Directed full-cycle hiring across functions and levels, ensuring the right talent pipeline aligned with current and future business needs. Strategic Stakeholder Engagement: Partnered with business leaders to analyze talent requirements, anticipate hiring challenges, and align acquisition strategies with organizational priorities. Process Re-engineering: Overhauled and streamlined recruitment and onboarding processes to enhance efficiency, reduce time-to-fill, and improve candidate experience. Organizational Design & Culture Diagnostics: Supported structural alignment by conducting organizational diagnostics and culture assessments, enabling informed decisions around role design, team structuring, and workforce capabilities. Change Management: Led initiatives in change impact assessment, business readiness, and communication planning to support organizational change. Developed and implemented change readiness surveys and strategies for smooth transitions. Employee Alignment & Engagement: Drove alignment initiatives to ensure new hires and internal teams were culturally integrated and engaged with business objectives from day one. This role positioned her as a transformational HR leader, combining talent acquisition with strategic organizational development to support Ingram Micro’s long-term growth and agility.

Managed Recruitment across India, Middle East, Japan and APAC region. Reliance Globalcom, a division of Reliance Communications, spearheads the global telecom operations of India’s largest integrated telecom services provider. Reliance Globalcom offers a highly successful bouquet of wholesale service encompassing Transmission, Ethernet, VPLS, MPLS VPN, Global Voice, Co-location and Internet Solutions. Reliance Globalcom owns the world Largest private undersea cable network with over 285000 km of fiber optic cabling including 73000 km sub-sea fiber connecting 40 key business markets in India, the middle East, Asia, Europe, and the US. Reliance Globalcom has an established customer base of more than 200 leading operators, including the top ten international carriers. With more than 5000 enterprise customers across 6 continents, the company is independently recognized amongst the Top 10 global providers of managed network solutions and international wholesale voice, as well as a Top 6 Global Ethernet Service Provider.

Sapient is a US-based global services co., who helps its clients compete, evolve, and grow in today’s complex marketplace. It has partnered with some of the world’s most recognized brands, and - by leveraging the power of both creativity and technology - helped them achieve success at a rate nearly three times the industry average. Sapient’s commitment to its clients is renowned; its passion for delivering exceptional value unparalleled. Sapient is known as inventor, rule-breaker and catalyst, and the work Sapient does changes lives. Its environment fosters growth and creativity, demands openness and client-focused delivery, and celebrates initiative and risk-taking. Organization’s passion for client success—evidenced by its ability to foster collaboration, drive innovation and solve challenging problems—is the subject of case studies on leadership and organizational behavior used by MBA students at both Harvard and Yale. Leading clients, including BP, Essent Energie, Harrah's Entertainment, Hilton International, Janus, Sony Electronics and Verizon, rely on its unique approach to drive growth and market momentum. Today Sapient operate out of 24 offices across North America (USA, Canada), Europe (UK, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Netherlands), and APAC (India, Singapore, Australia, Hong Kong). In India, we have presence across Gurgaon, Bangalore and Noida. The company operates three divisions that enable clients to gain a competitive advantage and succeed in an increasingly digital world. SapientNitro, Sapient Global Markets, and Sapient Government Services fuse insight, creativity and technology to drive innovation and to help clients navigate complex business problems. For more Please visit www.sapient.com. Managed India Contractor Enagagement Team- team which is responsible for contractors in India and Singapore. Managed end to end recruitment cycle. Vendor and Contract Management Compliance Management Staffing Management.

She worked with global leaders in Management Consulting, Investment Banking, Analytical Consulting, Financial Services, Asset Management, Information Technology & Business Process Outsourcing verticals. Executed search assignments for a broad range of corporate functions - Business Planning & Strategy Consulting Management Consultants Human Resources Marketing Corporate Finance Corporate Security/Fraud Investigation Gained expertise in areas like Analytics(Marketing Analytics, Risk Analytics, Quantitative Analytics), Decision Sciences, Investment Banking Operations, Equities, Credit Risk, Fixed Income, Debt Syndication, Market Risk, Quantitative/ Financial Modeling, Trading, Structuring, Derivatives, Fund Management, , Information Security, Transitions, Valuations, Solution Designing,

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Executive Program in Marketing and Human Resource Management

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