HR Movements: 24 Oct, 2016

1.

Liberty Videocon’s HR head gets a business role

Jayesh Sampat, country head - HR has been elevated to the position of country head - HR, business operations & customer service. 

Having held various HR leadership roles in the banking & financial services sector in India, Jayesh Sampat, country head - human resources, at Liberty Videocon General Insurance has been promoted to take on a larger role as the country head - human resources, business operations & customer service this month.

In a movement sought after by most HR leaders, Sampat’s new role entails huge business responsibility along with managing the HR at the company. A founder member of the organisation, Sampat had joined as the second employee, and helped build the company from scratch. Hence, he was leading HR for the last five years. Also, “Since I was a part of the organisation since its inception, I always had a sense of how the business was growing,” Sampat adds.

After five successful years, the organisation was looking to restructure roles for people, helping them explore areas that they had not worked in earlier. In line with that, Sampat picked customer service and business operations as his new territories. He is now involved in managing the national call centre and business operations, which entails policy processing — beginning from processing at the branch, wording of the documents, their arrival at the central processing unit and their dispatch.

 

2.

Piramal Group beefs up its senior HR team

Vikram Duggal joins as the VP and head HR for pharma solutions, while Unmesh Rai is the new head-employer branding and talent acquisition.

Pharma major Piramal Group is all set for an HR overhaul. The company now has a new CHRO in Vikram Bector, who joined a few months ago.

Following this, the company has made two new senior level appointments in HR department. Vikram Duggal has joined as the VP and head-HR for pharma solutions, and Unmesh Rai is the new head employer branding and talent acquisition.

Duggal and Rai will both work with Vikram Bector, who joined the company as the Group CHRO this July. Bector, who is driving the HR Transformation 2.0 at the Piramal Group, has vast experience in building world-class HR practices. He is well known for his expertise in leading HR transformations on a large scale; as well as for being a thought leader and a leadership coach.

3.

Ganesh Chandan hops on to Greaves Cotton as CHRO from Suzlon

As part of the leadership team, Chandan will play a crucial role growth and transformation story at Greaves Cotton.

Ganesh Chandan who joined Suzlon as president and CHRO in August 2015, has made another switch in 17 months. This engineer turned HR professional has moved on to the manufacturing sector with Greaves Cotton as CHRO.

Greaves Cotton is a major player in automobile and industrial engines, farm equipment and auxiliary power business.

Sharing his movement with HRKatha, Chandan says, “The company has some ambitious plans and I am excited to be a part of the growth and transformation story as a member of the leadership team.”