P Padmakumar

Mentor select Business Leaders, HR Heads, HR Practitioners and aspiring HR students from academia. Advise on right HR strategy for Organizations to support growth / restructure. Hand hold HR processes and systems. Conceptualize CSR approach for Organizations.

Develop new contours for Industry / academia connect. Leadership characteristics connect by mentoring bright students. Guide and coach faculty for better Industry & Academia faculty..

Responsibilities include, envisioning emerging Business requirements w.r.t People Organization and developing Leadership, Building people capability, Conceptualize and deploy relevant HR Strategy to build a culture of High Performance Organization by Managing Talents, providing Career Options, encouraging Mobility, Management of Expatriates, HR Administration, Developing Social Goodwill through Governance, Sustainable Investments and thought Leadership.

Role as Head of Human Resources, Flat Glass Business & Research - Saint Gobain India. Responsibilities include, envisioning emerging Business w.r.t People and developing Leadership Organization, Building people capability, Conceptualize and deploy relevant HR Strategy to build a culture of High Performance Organization, by Managing Talents through Career Options, Mobility, and Succession and development plans, Management of Expatriates, HR Administration, Develop Social Goodwill through Governance, Sustainable Investments and thought Leadership.

Responsibilities include, developing and deploying HR strategy and People Practices for Glass and Automotive Glass Business located at Chennai and Pune

Responsible for HR actions for Glass Business that include capability building through recruitment and training, people organisation for future projects, skill building and de-risking the entity

Was accountable for HR for 6 manufacturing locations that include 4 of Sugar, one Chemicals & Bio-Pesticides and R&D Centre with predominant presence in Tamil Nadu. Was also responsible for Operations of a Sugar factory at Pudukottai, TN for One year.

Was accountable for Human Resources and Industrial Relations function of the oldest smelter of INDAL in India. Achievements include – Ensuring uninterrupted production amidst turbulent Industrial Relations issues, Management in an Multi-Union environment, Working capital management through multi-skilling, redeployment and rationalization of Manpower by maintaining power balance with all stake holders

Responsibilities for HR at Electro Cast Refractories factory and were predominantly in people capability building through training and people engagement at factory level, Trade Union & Industrial Relations Management and social good will generation