Subrata Poddar

Led the Executive Education portfolio of Michigan Ross focused on providing design and development of customised leadership development interventions for clients across India, Asia, Middle East, UK and Europe.

Lead the entire gamut of Human Resources Capital management and Talent Development at Suzlon Group

Leading the strategic HR planning ( Strategic Workforce Plan, Recruitment, Learning & Development. , HR Policies and Systems etc ) for Cristal’s ambitious upstream/downstream new projects, which also involves HR collaboration and synergies with renowned JV partners in Canada ,Japan, France and Italy towards establishment of diverse new projects in the feasibility phase, and consequent execution. Cristal is investing approx USD 2.5 billion in these new projects.

Led Global Talent Management of Suzlon across its operations in India, Australia, Europe, US , Brazil, South Africa and China. Also, led the Human Resources Strategy and Hr deliverables for the Global Technology Group of Suzlon Energy spread across technical centres in Germany ( Hamburg, Rostock and Berlin), Netherlands, Denmark and India.

Led the Corporate HR activities of TATA Technologies managing global Competency Development, institutionalizing and integrating HR processes (including Performance Management System) across centres in North America ( Novi and Troy), UK (Luton) and Europe ( Stuttgart, Germany and Paris, France). I was also involved in the successful merger and integration process post-acquisition of INCAT, besides driving key organisational change initiatives like revising the Employee PTO Policy.

Headed the HR activities of Asia’s largest Fertilizer Complex – IFFCO Aonla Unit (ISO 9002 & ISO14001 certified) with strength of 1150 permanent employees and coordinating HR initiatives at the Corporate level. IFFCO is Asia’s largest fertilizer manufacturing and marketing establishment. I was involved in competency based HR processes & systems and HR restructuring at the Corporate level. IFFCO was also the winner of the “Best Managed Workforce” Award in Hewitt’s 2004 Annual Survey

As Manager – Personnel at India’s Largest Publishing and Media conglomerate, I headed the HRD, Training & Development, Recruitment and Induction of Personnel, Wages and Salary Administration, OD Interventions etc. of the Patna Branch of The Times of India.

As Deputy Manager- Personnel, I was looking after Training & Development, Counseling Cell, HRD interventions, Personnel Establishment, Recruitment, Promotion, etc. for this greenfield project in rural Himalayas

Personnel Management, Industrial Relations, Organizational Behaviour, etc