Sweta Choudhary
M: +91 7680-885-293 | Email: swetachoudhary1001@gmail.com
A performance-driven HR Professional with approx. 8.5 years of experience contributing to the organizational
growth and success through strong domain knowledge and diverse experience.
Core Competencies: Talent Acquisition | Talent Management | Organization development | Performance
Management | Employee Engagement | Workforce Planning | Succession planning | Campus Relations | Program
Management | Change Management
Total Work Experience:
Feb’20 – April’21
8.5years
Bharti Airtel, Hyderabad
Role: HR Business Partner
 Worked closely with Business leaders on workforce planning, leadership development, talent retention
and organization health
 Lead end to end performance management cycle (PMS) covering KRA-setting, performance and leadership
competency review, normalization, increment and promotion cycle
 Supported development and application of guidelines, frameworks, toolkits and methodologies for a range of
talent management initiatives/programmes
 Executed succession planning frameworks and systems across verticals
 Lead People and Capability Development to ensure the organization is always fit to compete in the
marketplace
 Worked on comprehensive HR metrics on a regular cadence to drive business discussions and support talent
reviews
 Collaborated with leaders to carve out hiring strategy and create a high-performance culture by creating and
implementing team and organizational design solutions
 Brought in overall governance and ran review cadence with the team to ensure all regions and hiring plans
are controlled and supports business plans
 Lead the Learning and Development need identification for the state (AP&TS) covering 850 employees
 Launched the learning platform and Leadership Academy in order to ensure development of the emerging
leaders
 Handled employee grievances / conflicts in line with organization compliance
 Drove developmental initiatives like engagement surveys, open communication forums, skip meetings etc. to
check the pulse of employees on a quarterly basis
 Lead training courses such as POSH, Code of Conduct (COC) to create awareness which reduced the violation
of COC cases from 10% to 4%
 Served as focal for several HR initiatives such as engagement activities, on boarding and induction, and
workplace safety
Sep’14 – Feb’20
Dr. Reddy’s Ltd., Hyderabad
Role: Business HR
 Launched talent management process and enabled people managers through processes, systems and
capabilities for talent assessment
 Enabled managers to have non-judgmental and empathetic conversations around the assessment inputs for
their direct reports
 Implemented individual development plans and execution strategies as per plan
 Identified pivotal roles and successors in line with the succession planning process of the organization
 Designed and launched a new Performance Enablement System across Dr Reddy’s covering 20,000
employees including overseas employees
 Created a platform for identifying issues, processes & capability gaps for better alignment, manpower
productivity and minimize redundancies
 Developed and implemented business aligned HR strategies for functions in the assigned business unit
 Led the role banding process for one of the business unit covering 350 employees
 Designed and implemented a reward and recognition program to create motivational culture
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Redefined the People Manager Effectiveness Program (PMEP) playbook through integration of 8
expectations with principles of Lean Daily Management
Launched Strategic Deployment process in defining pivotal roles, objectives, measures and counter
measures of the same
Designed Young Leaders Development Program for campus hires contributing ~ US$ 2.5MN across
commercial organization
Worked closely with CEO and CHRO to build employer brand which was one of the lever to attract talent
across online and offline platforms
Evaluated, improved and redesigned assessment and evaluation methodology that helped enhance quality of
hires
Mar’13 – Sep’14
Biocon Ltd., Bangalore
Role: Executive, Talent Acquisition
 Handled a high volume of open job requisitions across multiple departments
 Coordinated with Senior Management and identified appropriate manpower requirement
 Handled entire recruitment cycle for critical positions from sourcing and identifying potential candidates
through on boarding
 Adopted innovative strategic approach to meet staffing metrics
 Implemented contemporary recruitment methods to attract top quality candidates tailored to meet the position
and company needs
 Organized and participated in campus and off campus recruitment drives at various intervals
Role: Talent Acquisition (Intern), Biocon Ltd, Bangalore
 Executed multiple recruitment initiatives/events
 Closed approx. 180 positions across functions
Honors and Awards:
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Awarded for exemplary performance for displaying “Spirit of Collaboration” as part of “Project Purpose” in
the year 2021 at Bharti Airtel
Awarded for exceptional contribution during COVID – 19 in the year 2020 at Bharti Airtel
Awarded as the Best Business HR at Dr. Reddy’s for the year 2016
Bestowed with Individual excellence award for the year 2015 for enhancing quality of hire at Dr Reddy’s
Recognised as critical talent resource with A+ rating and earned fast track promotion to next level in less
than 2 years
Received appreciation from CMD, Biocon for closing a critical position
Academic Qualifications
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MBA from Institute of Finance and International Management, Bangalore in 2013
B.Sc. (Biotechnology) from Nagpur University in 2011
HSC from St Mary’s, CBSE board in 2007
SSC from St Mary’s, CBSE Board in 2005
Extra-Curricular Activities
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Enabled 100% summer placement of 150 students of 2012-14 batch as one of the placement cell member by
conceptualizing and conducting several HR events including sales pitch to over 60 companies
Lead CSR activities for Business School in collaboration with CRY