Akhil Dave

• HR Head for 750 employees across a $700mn+ North America geography leading 9 team members
• Spearheaded asset acquisitions, HR compliance, learning and development, diversity and inclusion initiatives, and cultural transformations.
• Post acquisition integration of a $550mn manufacturing and R&D asset in Long Island, NY
• Diligence and acquisition of brown field manufacturing asset in Massachusetts
• Established a new branded pharmaceuticals division of Cipla in North America
• Leadership hiring, team building, culture building and setting up processes for a growing US organization which has doubled in the past 4 years

• HRBP for New York site, New Jersey & California (650+ employees) (Leading a Team of 4)
• Set up HR systems and strengthened recruitment/engagement/performance/internship processes & plans post acquisition in 2016
• Led the project to drive organization restructuring & optimizing at New York site to become fit to compete generating 15% cost savings
• Reduced vacancy rates & attrition rates by half, reduced absenteeism by 20%
• Designed our 1st US wide OD intervention called ‘ROCKIT’ across all legal entities in US
• Leading HR Compliances including Employee Relations strategies, Internal & External Audits
• Managing workforce budgets, leading compensation planning, increments & promotions

• Led a team of 25+ L&D managers spread across 13 therapeutic areas across India, supporting a USD 540mn business unit and a 10,000 salesforce
• Conceptualized and launched Sales Academy, the 1st functional academy at Cipla, by integrating technical and non- technical training teams
• Core team member in setting up learning governance, processes & learning frameworks for Cipla University
• Recommended & launched the 1st ever M-learning app within Cipla with 90%+ weekly active logins rate till date

• Served as HRBP for HR & Employee Services functions with 250 employees across India.
• Executed Talent & Organization initiatives, capability development, employee engagement, and met talent metrics targets.
• Rotational program across various HRBP, Sales, and Factory roles in India and an international stint in Shanghai, China.

Developed job profiles, capability profiles, and career templates for Supply Chain HR in Singapore and created a gamified 'Career framework' tool