Varun Nandurkar

HR Leader for GE Renewable Energy businesses (Onshore Wind, Hydro, Grid, Offshore Wind) in ANZ

Demonstrated Capabilities: Regulatory Compliance, Leadership Coaching, Shaping Culture

Key Achievements:

• Established clear performance metrics and implemented a merit based reward system, fostering a culture of accountability and excellence with Service teams
• Guided leadership through conflict resolution strategies and interpersonal coaching, significantly enhancing team engagement and collaboration
• Steered the revitalization of HR compliance by identifying critical gaps and establishing robust processes to ensure regulatory adherence and clear accountability
• Championed compensation review with senior leadership leading to strategic salary adjustments for critical talent to align with market standards and aid retention

Led Talent Strategy for Information Technology teams based in APAC & Turkey and Energy Consulting teams based in India

Demonstrated Capabilities: Talent Strategy, Total Rewards, Talent Acquisition

Key Achievements:

• Lead strategic initiative to optimize talent distribution across geographies, effectively reducing fixed costs
• Improve market competitiveness on compensation to meet strategic talent objectives by influencing HR and Rewards leadership using key market insights
• Designed and implemented talent development programs, facilitated cross-team mobility, and established a robust talent pipeline as integral components of the strategic talent management framework to support business strategy
• Lead project to streamline Talent Acquisition process using Lean

Accolades:

• HR Rising Star at Human Capital Awards 2021 by Economic Times
• GE Research Technology Award (2021)

HR Leader for Information Technology teams in India. Role changed in Jan 2019 from supporting Enterprise Systems teams to entire IT organization for Gas Power in India.

Demonstrated Capabilities: Change Management, Capability Building & Talent Engagement

Key Achievements:

• Led significant change management and communication initiatives
• Conceptualized and implemented people leader capability building & HR Capability Building program
• Improved Employee Engagement score improvement over 5 quarters (from 69 to 80)

Accolades:

• Lead with Transparency (2020) award at Annual India HR Event & also global Gas Power HR event
• Deliver with Focus (2020) team award at global Gas Power HR event
• 6 impact awards (2017-2021) from multiple stakeholders

HR Business partner for strategically critical vertical with 1000+ employees spread globally. The role underwent enhancement in scope, facilitating transition from Senior Executive to Assistant Manager (Nov '15).

Demonstrated Capabilities: Talent Engagement, ER

Key Achievements:

• Developed new Rewards & Recognition framework to cater to specific business needs
• Facilitated roll out of retention bonuses by presenting cost- benefit analysis to C&B team

Accolades:

• Consistently rated as top performer
• Awarded “Above & Beyond” at HR All Hands '16-17 (among 500+ HR employees)
• Awarded “Shining Star” (FY15-16 & FY16-17) by business leadership team

HR Manager for a manufacturing unit employing 100+ full time & 150+ contract staff

Demonstrated Capabilities: Industrial Relations

Key Achievements:

• Successfully closed Wage Agreement for 100+ employees, Successfully handled 4 domestic enquires