Vishnu's CV
Vishnu Pryal
HRBP |Executive Coaching |BASF | CK Birla Avtec | Unilever
Profile summary
Strategic Human Resources Leader with 18 years shaping industrial relations, organizational design, and leadership development frameworks. Known for driving workforce strategy, cost optimization, and cross-cultural team leadership across global operations. Committed to aligning people operations with organizational growth to deliver sustainable business outcomes.
Career highlights
Industrial Relations and Workforce Strategy: Negotiated and finalized a 7-year unresolved LTS with a CITU-affiliated union and redesigned organizational structure to reduce personnel costs by 20%.
Talent Acquisition and Diversity Scale Up: Directed India Centre scale-up strategy and diversity initiatives to reach 43% gender diversity by 2016 while driving engagement to 80%.
Global Talent and Cost Optimization: Transitioned processes from external vendors across 14 countries generating 1.2M euros in annual savings and dropping attrition from 15 percent down to 8 percent within 1 year.
Performance and ISO Certification Leadership: Led ISO certification for 600 plus employees across diverse units by implementing standardized HR operations and quality benchmarks resulting in full compliance.
Key skills
Professional experience
Reported to executive leadership while steering industrial relations, organizational design, and leadership development frameworks across operations. Defined workforce and employee relations strategy for the site, directing functional execution across all departments.
- Launched Women at Shop Floor to address 3% gender diversity, tripling representation to 10% in 24 months and establishing a Chairman-reviewed benchmark.
- Negotiated and finalized a 7-year unresolved LTS with a CITU-affiliated union, mitigating industrial relations risk and resetting relationship dynamics.
- Redesigned organizational structure to reduce personnel costs by 20%, enhancing customer-facing capabilities through strategic realignment.
- Facilitated 25 workshops to embed the ABC framework, institutionalizing it as the operating culture backbone across all organizational levels.
- Streamlined contract labor management and designed a cost-neutral canteen upgrade, enhancing employee experience at 0 net cost increase.
Steered talent acquisition strategy and service delivery, directing a team of 10 recruiters to scale low-cost hiring, execute digital transformation of workflows, and manage global hub-exit initiatives.
- Built employer brand strategy to attract women in tech, coaching 50 women through a returnship policy and mapping 1000 profiles to refine recruitment strategies.
- Drove savings of 20M and 1 Mn Euros by building talent pipelines, consolidating fragmented sourcing, and embedding strategic workforce planning.
- Executed DEI strategy to close gender imbalance, hiring 45 women mid-managers in 60 days and achieving a 5050 gender ratio during center scale-up.
Reported directly to account leadership while directing recruitment operations across a large client account scope, managing vendor ecosystems, hiring pipelines, and process standards for high-volume execution.
- Designed a high-volume recruitment engine to meet 500 monthly onboardings, delivering a sustained pipeline for 6 months and strengthening the RPO partnership.
- Led diversity hiring initiatives, including women and People with Disability hiring, establishing standard operating procedures and training.
Reported directly to executive leadership to guide human resource operations across IT services, fast-moving consumer goods, and automobile sectors. Shaped departmental direction and established workforce capability standards across diverse organizational units.
- Designed and rolled out a performance management system to address role clarity challenges and skill gaps, resulting in aligned teams and elevated capabilities.
- Led ISO certification for 600 plus employees across diverse units by implementing standardized HR operations and quality benchmarks, resulting in full compliance and streamlined workflows.
- Streamlined candidate submission processes across teams to exceed assigned hiring goals.
- Built business cases and trained internal teams to transition processes from external vendors across 14 countries, generating 1.2M euros in annual savings.
- Designed a leadership coaching program for 30 managers, addressing new-joiner retention and dropping attrition from 15 percent down to 8 percent within 1 year.
- Builds structured coaching frameworks for corporate clients.
Education
Managerial Competency Matrix
Human Resources
Science