Rashmi Nair

As the India HR Head, I was accountable for translating Business Vision/Opportunities into an effective People Strategy & driving enterprise-wide progressive Talent Practices that enhances Employee Experience, Performance, Organizational Effectiveness, Brand Positioning and Culture. I’ve been instrumental in scaling the country to over 3000+ employees. A journey that saw us deeply focused on transformative changes, introducing new capability areas, modernizing the HR operating system with analytics and AI-enabled processes, launching University relations, enhancing velocity hiring and key focus on governance—moving compliance health from red to green. Through intentional location strategy, I’ve steered change with clear communications and manager enablement. The result: faster hiring, stronger internal mobility, steadier retention, progressive policies, equitable pay, and an engaged, future-ready India organization driving innovation and value for the Global entity.

Joined the organization during the acquisition of Life Technologies by Thermo Fisher Scientific. Was recruited based on my reputation as an HR Business Partner capable of delivering consistent results during periods of change & ability to scale an organization. Based on my initial success as an HR Site Leader was also given the mantle of functioning as an Employee Relations Advisor for APJ region. My role responsibilities included being the Strategic HR Partner for the leadership team driving scale (operations and revenue) both tripling over 5 years span, while providing Site HR Leadership support to over 2.5K employees across Sales, IT, R&D & Manufacturing teams and resolving complex ER cases with empathy and keeping litigation risks to zero for APJ. One of the many highlights of my tenure also include adoption of PPI adoption in HR and leveraging data to integrate, drive change and growth for the organization.

Collaborated with Global leaders and was part of the core team that started the Indian operations of this US based MNC in Bangalore. Led the HR due diligence for India during the acquisition of Mumbai based organization - What's On India. Consequently, as the only Resident Board Member in Bengaluru was actively engaged in all legal compliance related activities with respect to closure of the business unit in Bengaluru & managing employee redundancy and consolidating operations in Mumbai.

Began career with Reuters as a Talent Acquisition Manager and was engaged in volume and niche hiring. The merger of Reuters and Thomson saw exponential growth of the organization in terms of its human capital (5,000 FTE’s) resulting in need for HRBP to anchor the resultant organizational transformations. Enthusiastically began my journey as an HRBP and guided employees through the changes as a “safe pair of hands”. Identified HR interventions to support organizational transformation. Partnered with key leaders across the business to establish innovative and scalable processes to support expansion and integration across all People functions including recruiting, compensation, change and program management, global benefits, on-boarding, and more.

Joined the core recruitment team during the initial set up days of Microsoft GTSC in India and contributed to its growth over the next three years. During this time the organization scaled up from less than 100 to over 1000 employees.