The document is a resume for Sagar Saraf summarizing his career experience and qualifications. It outlines over 11 years of experience in human resources roles with several companies. It details his responsibilities in areas such as talent acquisition, learning and development, performance management, and employee engagement. It also lists his certifications in various HR-related assessment and evaluation methods.

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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