Sweta Kochar

Critical role in driving organizational success by aligning human capital strategies with business objectives, fostering a positive work culture, and supporting the growth and development of employees.

Set-up and integrate a well-structured HR Dept. from scratch & contributing to HR strategy, systems, analytics and global performance management to promote a culture of performance and development, across the organizational hierarchy. Have also handle large multi-year business transformation programs for the group to drive operational, strategic & enablement agenda across entities and actualize a performance-based culture. Serving as Head of Human Resources, Industrial Relations, and Administration, across the entities worth 13000+ Cr. in revenues and with global employee bandwidth of 10,000+ employees under Uttam Group. * Supporting multiple operational business transformation initiatives ranging from business and operational strategy to process improvement. * Working towards building the global talent management framework involving developing talent management strategy, programs and processes ensuring their integration with the organization’s strategic talent agenda. * Developing a high-performance service culture, continuously monitoring and improving HR & IR systems and processes besides continuously striving and enforcing measures for high-quality leadership development and Regulatory Compliance culture. * Standardising performance management, including defining and linking competencies to positions and units. Over the years, have been instrumental in: * Setting-up an HR Dept. focused on Operational Excellence and timely Customer Service * Benchmarking and redesigning Compensation Structure to make it more contemporary, benchmark senior executive compensation with Aon-Hewitt * Redesigning Org. Structure & Policies to instill agility and efficiency while increasing productivity and output * Streamlining and strengthening the PMS & implemented “SAP - Success Factors” for PMS * Leadership Development/Manager Coaching * Establishing centralized Recruitment Cell and streamlining the recruitment process

Responsible for developing a comprehensive framework on short term and long term Talent Management Strategy w.r.t. Talent Sourcing , Performance Management System and Talent Development and facilitate its implementation, to ensure adequate pipeline and availability of requisite human capital / talent at al times, continuous improvement of performance culture and retention of key talent across Steel Business for long term business sustainability.

Head HR / IR, leading a team of 10 officers and responsible for Human Resource initiatives across Corporate Functions; Finance and Accounts, Engineering and projects, Information Technology Services, Technical Training Institute & Management Development and Corporate Services Division consisting of Tata Main Hospital, Security Services, Procurement Division, Aviation, Sports department and Corporate Social Responsibility department of Tata Steel with 3500 employees and around 5000 contractors employees.

Worked as Sr. Manager (IR) Power systems department. Power System consist of state of art 3power generating units of 120 Mw captive power plants

Responsible for Industrial Relations of 1900 employees, negotiations and settlement of long term agreements / productivity linked schemes, with regular interaction with Union representatives

Managed end to end employee life cycle, Conceptualized & led ‘hot seat exchange’ at the end of each shift to improve productivity of the operations unit (increase in turnover of INR1.8 Cr). much appreciated concept and later implemented across the operating units of the organisation.