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SAGAR SARAF
Mobile: 9552549655 Email: sagarsaraf81@gmail.com
Career Objective
To facilitate transformation of line managers into effective people managers by ensuring Human
Resources team plays an instrumental role of a change agent and strategic business partner to
achieve and sustain business excellence
Highlights – Certifications and Competencies
 Over 11 years of rich experience as Generalist HR in Corporate HR & Plant HR
 Certified as an assessor in European Foundation for Quality Management Business Excellence
Model 2013 through CII Institute of Quality, Bengaluru
 Participated as an assessor for CII HR Excellence Award Assessment of Bharat Petroleum
Corporation Limited, Mumbai in 2013
 Certified as a Lead Assessor in Job Evaluation using Hay Group Guide Chart Profile Method
 Certified in personality based assessment inventories through Hogan Personality Inventory;
Hogan Development Survey; and Motives, Values, Preferences Inventory
 Certified in Competency Mapping through T V Rao Learning Systems
 Certified in Designing & Implementing Assessment and Development Centers through T V Rao
Learning Systems
 Experience in Talent Acquisition &Talent Retention, Talent Management, Learning &
Development, Performance Management System, Employee Engagement, Job Evaluation,
Compensation & Benefit Administration, Employee Bonding and Employee Grievances
 Hands on experience of working in HR-ERP like PeopleSoft and SAP – HR module
 Certified Thomas Profiling Analyst
 Computer Skills: MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Outlook
Professional Experience
Organisation : Deepak Fertilisers And Petrochemicals Corporation Limited
Duration : September 2011 to till date
Location : Pune
Achievements
 Crop Nutrition Business achieved the highest Employee Engagement score across the
organisation
 Pioneered in conceptualising and implementing following initiatives across Crop Nutrition
Business
1. Reward & Recognition
2. Employee Engagement Dialogue
3. WISDOM (Where Innovation Success Depends On Me) – Ideation Platform
4. Mentoring
 Recognised with Gold Award and Certificate of Achievement for valuable contribution to
“Institutionalise WISDOM” across Crop Nutrition Business
 Conducted job evaluation of more than 230 positions across various Sectors

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 Initiated and executed the strategy of walk-in interviews for penetration of crop nutrition
business into potential markets of South India
 Facilitated and anchored talent management process for employees across Crop Nutrition
Business
 Conducted employee empowerment survey across Crop Nutrition Business and formulated
& implemented the action plan
 Shared Development Center report with employees and facilitated Line Managers for
formulating & implementing the Individual Development Plan (IDP)
 Closed more than 250 positions across Crop Nutrition Business with an average lead time
of 46 days against target of 90 days
 Closed 74% of positions through employee referral and job portals
 Trained line managers by facilitating workshops on Behavioural Event Interview and
Mentoring
 Increased training man days from 1.5 man days/employee/year to 2.54 man
days/employee/year across Crop Nutrition Business
 Conducted workshops on Leadership Values in Action for Middle Management & Junior
Management as an identified champion for Leadership Values in Action
Talent Acquisition
 Finalisation of manpower planning aligned to business strategy across Crop Nutrition
Business
 Designed and implemented manpower requisition form
 Facilitate formulation of job descriptions for new positions followed by job evaluation to
arrive at Hay Level as per principles of Hay job evaluation
 Formulated competence based interview questionnaire and facilitate line managers
 Analysis of Thomas Profile & Hogan Personality Inventory for identifying the right fit
candidates
 Salary negotiation with selected candidates and influencing them for early on boarding
 Facilitate empanelment of manpower service provider for engaging agronomists and
supervisors on third party rolls
Learning & Development
 Identification of learning & development needs andbridge the gap by deploying 70:20:10
learning model
 Create awareness on 70:20:10 learning model by constant communication with business
head and line managers
 Facilitate business heads and line managers to formulate & implement development
action plan
 Promote a culture of learning & development through success stories, propellers and
knowledge sharing forum
 Nominate employees for behavioural, technical / functional and managerial training
programs
 Facilitate workshops for line managers on Manager Led Development

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Performance Management System
 Facilitate business heads to finalise and cascade goals by deploying balanced score card
 Facilitate quality checks on balanced score card of employees and recommend changes
 Conduct workshops on performance management system and HR policies
 Facilitate, guide & motivate employees to complete midterm appraisal & annual appraisal
within the stipulated time period
 Facilitate workshop on PRAISE to communicate changes in the performance appraisal
process
 Facilitate business head / sector head to finalise post normalisation performance ratings
aligned to the prescribed performance rating distribution pattern
 Facilitate business head / sector head & line managers to understand compensation &
benefits approach implemented during annual performance appraisal
 Resolve queries of employees pertaining to performance rating & compensation revision
 Facilitate business head to formulate Performance Improvement Plan for poor performers
and facilitate separation of poor performers
 Facilitate business head for recommending promotions aligned with the promotion policy
Talent Management
 Spearheading end to end process of talent management across Crop Nutrition Business
 Introduce and sensitise business head and line managers about the objective and
importance of talent management
 Facilitate business head and line managers to map talent in 9-box grid, key position, key
person, retention risk, successor for key position / key person
 Facilitate business head & line managers to formulate & implement development action
plan and succession plan
 Quarterly analysis of separated employees to gauge reasons for separation and facilitate
implementation of action plan
Employee Engagement
 Prepare list of employees who would be eligible to participate in employee engagement
survey and ensure maximum participation in employee engagement survey
 Share employee engagement results with employees across Cross Nutrition Business
 Facilitate business head & line managers to formulate & implement employee engagement
action plan across the sector
 Facilitate business head & line managers to understand individual employee engagement
score card and enable them to formulate & implement individual employee engagement
action plan
Organisation Development
 Contributed in formulating policies / SOPs on recruitment & selection, confirmation,
employee referral policy, company owned car policy, prevent sexual harassment at work
place, full & final settlement, Hay governance mechanism, internal job posting scheme,
exit interview policy, notice pay, empanelment of recruitment consultants and picnic
policy
 Spearheading the alignment between business strategy and organisation structure of Crop
Nutrition Business
 Evaluate organisation structure and jobs by following the principles of Hay job evaluation

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 Share success stories of Crop Nutrition Business and ABFS across the organisation
 Spearheaded downsizing of ABFS from headcount of 80 to 59
Employee Connect
 Visit to Area Offices to conduct open house meetings and strengthen employee
communication
 Celebrate birthday of employees by organising a bouquet of flowers and sweets
 Organise picnic of employees along with their families once in a year
 Active member of the organising committee for events like summer camp, dandiya,
rangoli, department decoration, ganpati celebration, table tennis, carom and cricket
Organisation : ThyssenKrupp Industries India Private Limited
Duration : July 2008 to August 2011
Location : Pune
Responsibilities
 Talent acquisition for management staff and trade apprentices
 Group induction
 Designing of employee handbook
 Training & Development
 Performance Management System
 Competency mapping and job analysis
 Facilitated brainstorming sessions for SWOT analysis in business verticals & support
functions across the organization (MANTHAN)
 Pioneered a platform for motivating Graduate Trainee Engineers & Management Trainees
across the organization (UMANG)
 Initiated forum for informal interaction of Senior Management with employees (RUBARU)
Organisation : Kirloskar Brothers Limited
Duration : March 2007 to July 2008
Location : Pune
Responsibilities
 Talent Acquisition
 Training & Development
 Performance Management and Compensation Management
 180 degree feedback process
 End user of SAP–HR module
 HR-MIS

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Organisation : Grasim Cement (Aditya Birla Group)
Duration : October 2004to February 2007
Location : Raipur
Responsibilities
 Talent Acquisition
 Training & Development and facilitate workshops on E-Learning
 Performance Management System
 Talent Management System
 Mentorship Scheme
 Facilitate Organization Health Survey (OHS) through Gallup
 Facilitated series of workshops on “Valuing Our Values” for the Management cadre staff
 Formulated articles for inhouse quarterly magazine named “Samvad”
 Unit coordinator for implementation of various modules in PeopleSoft HRMS 8.9 ERP
Academic Qualifications
 Master in Personnel Management from University of Pune, Passed with First Class
 Bachelor of Science (Zoology) from University of Pune, Passed with First Class with
Distinction
 HSC from Maharashtra State Board, Passed with First Class
 SSC from Maharashtra State Board, Passed with First Class
Personal Dossiers
Date of Birth : 21st January 1981
Gender : Male
Languages Known : English – Hindi – Marathi –Gujarati
Address : 644/1, Flat No. 2, B2, Damodar Society, Near Jain
Mandir, Bibwewadi, Pune - 411037