Venkatesh GR

V Venkat esh GR
Position: CHRO
Company: Reliance Retail Limited
Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Experience: 31 years exp
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Mobile Phones: +91 93239 31475, +91 93412 48840
Works Phones: +91 22 4477 0000
Works Emails: venkatesh.gr@ril.com
Personal Emails: venkygr@hotmail.com, venkygr@gmail.com
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Skills
Engineering Investment Banking Telecommunications Performance Management MIS
Retail Management Team Management Human Resources Project Planning Store Management
Project Management Business Analysis CRM Business Strategy Marketing Operations Management
Work experience
Oct 2014 - current time CHRO
Reliance Retail Limited
Visioning and Executing HR Strategies to serve 2 lakh employees Leading a
team of 900 HR profession Scaled HR processes from 40000 employee, Rs.
20,000 Cr business to current Rs. 170,000 Cr business Functional Leadership
for all HR processes including Talent Acquisition, Leadership Development,
Operations, L&D, D&I, IR, Performance & Rewards Management, HR Analytics,
HR Business Partnering across Grocery, Fashion, CDIT & Pharma Domains
Process Transformations People Happiness
Dec 2005 - Oct 2014 Head - People Office, Retail Businesses
Future Group
Multiple Roles – Chief People Officer (Retail), Head – Group Program
Management, Head-Strategy, COO-Malls Division Led HR function for 30,000
employees strong Retail businesses of Future Group Launched &
Operationalized the Retail Group-wide Integrated Hire to Retire (H2R) People
Management System Managed the several organization restructuring and re-
design exercises Developed and rolled out capability building frameworks
both at NHQ and at Store levels Conceptualized Group business strategy,
identified opportunities, converted strategies into executable action plan Due
Diligence of businesses for mergers & acquisition opportunities Led the P&L
responsibility for Group’s Mall Operating Business
Jun 2001 - Dec 2005 Head - Service Strategy
Bharti Airtel Limited
Established Customer Service Setups in New Rollout Telecom Circles Led
Service Strategy at the Airtel Mobile HQ level Led Service Marketing at Airtel,
Karnataka Responsible for Churn & Retention, Showroom Management, Cross
Sell & Upsell Led Billing System Migration & Consequent Change Management
Standardized Customer Service processes at an All India level Developed
and operationalized the Management Planning and Review Process for Airtel
Mobile Services business
Jan 2001 - Jun 2001 Senior Consultant
TeleCompetence India
Senior Consultant in Telecom Consulting & Advisory Space, Advising clients on
strategy, financial feasibility and techno-commercial decisions
Mar 1996 - Jan 2001 Manager - Corporate Planning
Fujitsu Optel Limited
Formulated broad strategies for stability, profitability and growth of the
business Development of business plans and operating budgets;
May 1994 - Mar 1996 Equity Research Analyst
Peregrine Capital Limited
Financial analysis and forecasting at the Economy, Industry and Company
levels to identify potential investment avenues among stocks
Educat ion
2018 - 2019 Executive Coaching
Post Graduate Program in Executive Coaching
Coaching Foundation India (CFI)
1992 - 1994 Strategy, Finance & Operations
Post Graduate Diploma in Management
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
1988 - 1992 Electronics
BE
Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology
1976 - 1988 Kendriya Vidyalaya
Secondary & Senior School
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CHRO at Reliance Retail
Summary
An alumnus of Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and an Electronics engineer by background, Venkatesh
has a rich experience of around 27 years in the Indian Corporate Sector in Retail, Telecom Services, Engineering,
Consulting, and Investment Banking domains. He has worked in Companies such as Future Group, Bharti Airtel,
Fujitsu and Peregrine prior to Reliance and has handled roles in People Office, Finance, Planning, Customer Service,
Marketing, and Project Management. He headed the People Office and the Group Strategy Cell at Future Group,
before taking up his latest assignment in HR with Reliance Retail Limited. Specialties: • Multiple Functional Expertise:
HR, Finance, Operations, Marketing, Project Management, Strategizing & Planning, Customer Service & Mall
Management • Multiple Domain Experience: Retail, Telecom Services, Engineering, Consulting, and Investment
Banking • Multi-Skilled: Result oriented, motivated, self-starter; Superior inter-personal skills; Expertise in tactical and
strategic thinking;
Languages
English
Hindi
Kannada
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