People & Culture related Consulting for organisations.
Coaching: Work to help clients especially top performers across mindset, career and leadership verticals based on need. Enable them to harness their potential by providing the right tools & techniques and support them as a performance coach.

Mindset, Career & Leadership Coach for High Performing Executives

Traders Central

Traders Central is a fast growing remote-first Fin-tech startup based in Canada. 
Key responsibilities include developing best in class people processes across talent attraction, development  & employee engagement including coaching employees and managers and employee engagement surveys for identifying action areas for improvement regularly.

People and Culture Consultant

Virtual Internships

Virtual Internships is a global leading Edtech startup connecting companies and interns around the world through remote internships. Virtual Internships was featured on BBC and won Top 100 Euro Edtech Start-up. We partner with universities and foundations that are doing their best to help their students to enhance global employability.

Company Placement Manager

Eurofins

Key responsibilities: Overseeing overall HR function for the India & Middle East region including recruitment, compensation & benefits, organisation policies in line with local laws, optimize organisation design and building a performance driven culture.

Director HR-India & Middle East

Godrej Consumer Products Limited

As Business HR led people agenda for India Marketing and Global functions : Global Design,Innovation,Exports, Communication Design &  Research & Development (R&D).

Responsibilities included providing overall leadership, coaching and guidance by partnering in areas of  talent acquisition, engagement, career development, succession planning, retention, training, leadership development, compensation, and benefits. Coaching business leaders and functional heads on people management, motivating and engaging teams.

Key projects : Streamline and revamp talent acquisition practices for the partnering functions and strategies for attracting and hiring niche skills including launching campus program for Graduate trainees, Marketing & Quality organisation restructuring ; design & roll out of functional competencies for Marketing organisation & career development plan/ programs ; developed technical career path and competency framework for R&D.

Senior HR Business Partner

HR Business Partner for Global Exports, SAARC countries & Centre of Expertise for Management Trainee Program and Great place to Work Practices & Audit. Responsibilities included Internal Employee Engagement surveys and external Best Employer Surveys (Aon Hewitt Best Employer, Great Place to Work survey) across India & SAARC supported by team of 3 team members. Led HR for SAARC countries and led setting up practices for Hiring, resourcing, organisation development and optimize structure based on business priorities and plans.
Achievements: 
SAARC employee engagement score moved from 50% in 2014 to 91% score in 2016
Developed innovative and insight led practices for Campus program (NPS of 81%) a
GCPL featured in Aon Best Employer Study as one of the best employers in the country

Deputy General Manager-HR

Colgate Palmolive

Key Projects: Led Pan Asia Talent Development projects including conceptualisation, design and implementation of Asia Early in Career Leadership Program Design ; Roll out of EVP survey and  facilitate EVP development for Asia subsidiaries ; Developed scope and draft design for Asia Learning Academy.

Assistant Manager- Human Resources

Led Sales HR for West India, responsible for end to end HR processes for Sales team. Key responsibilities included: Talent Acquisition, Manpower planning, On boarding for faster productivity & designing HR policies & processes for the Sales Team

Key projects: Development Sales Graduate program for effective onboarding of sales interns. Design & implementation of Sales training program for merchandisers.

Sales HR Manager-West India

Led Training & Development (Functional & behavioural), Employee Relations & Engagement, Performance Management & Change Management for the Factory consisting of 350 associates (Blue & White collared employees)

Key project:· Launched and Implemented Revised Performance Management System for Associates by applying Change Management Principles·

Area Leader-Training & Development

One year rotation program across Sales, Operations, Sales HR, Manufacturing and Corporate HR.

Achievements
Won YCMAD Award (Chairman’s You Can Make a Difference Award) twice in the first year which is the highest award at country level

Business Leadership Associate (Human Resources)

Ashlesha is a People & Culture specialist as well as a  mindset, career & leadership coach based in Vienna, Austria. A Psychology enthusiast, she has more than 12 yrs of corporate experience at various levels in the field of Human Resources. She has experience working in large multinational organisations and startups across geographies in Asia & Europe. Passionate Human Resource professional with 12+ years of overall HR experience & 8+ years of experience in multinational FMCG organisations such as Colgate- Palmolive & Godrej Consumer Products limited across countries leading teams in person & virtually. Adept in strategy and implementation of best practices across people processes as an HR business partner. Skilled in employee engagement, performance management, recruitment, compensation & benefit, succession planning processes in line with organisation objectives. 
She thrives in co-creating, driving and delivering the talent agenda in complete sync with the business needs and reality.

She holds  Masters degree in Human Resource Management from Tata Institute of Social Sciences & a Post Graduate diploma in General Management from University of California, USA (UCLA) where she studied with some of the best minds in the continent.

Ashlesha Jain

Applied Medical

👍Used ServiceNow and Flexera to oversee Cisco, Microsoft, and Adobe Enterprise Agreements in compliance with defined terms and conditions. Upheld high accuracy in software licensing data collection and repository maintenance. Worked with a team administering 400 different software titles according to regulatory requirements.

▪	👇Achieved a 25% price reduction through cooperative negotiation of vendor renewals based on mutual consent.
▪	Elevated IT cost management and reporting efficiency by consolidating IT contracts into a single source. 
▪	Supported Engineers and Service Desk, including procuring and delivering activation software keys to install the software in respective hardware and facilitated seamless linkage of hardware serial numbers to software key numbers and Smartnet.

IT Asset Management

LogicalisUS

👌Monitored cost containment within Salesforce by setting and administering IT hardware and software, amplifying overall financial efficiency. Spearheaded asset reconciliation, resulting in increased financial transparency, more efficient workflow, and raised license entitlement reviews.

▪	Attained 20% enhancement in cost savings, asset compliance, and service improvements through clear goal definitions.
▪	Accomplished greater precision in hardware inventory gathering and status reporting through process improvement.

Converge

✌️Expedited procedure of reviewing and tracking asset data by utilizing various components for easy and readily accessible information to make informed decisions and remained within budget constraints by procuring assets from both national & international markets.

▪	Forged strategic alliances with vendors and legal entities, saving valuable time through part compliance assurance.
▪	Secured 30% of the cost by sourcing semiconductor spare parts for legacy equipment.

Rand Technology

👍Augmented legacy component delivery times by identifying and acquiring end-of-life parts. Documented and sustained well-defined procedures to facilitate seamless scrutinizing of features, saving time and resources.

▪	Delivered a 10% reduction in component expenditures by steering asset reconciliation, contributing to raised financial stability and operational excellence.
▪	Established a robust asset regulating process that includes recording dates and transaction histories to minimize the risk of audits.

ePlus inc.

👍Controlled costs within a predetermined budget by leveraging Ingram's volume licensing desk while obtaining Microsoft Suite and Adobe software packs. Guaranteed Cisco's hardware and software stayed under warranty and oversaw and negotiated enterprise agreements to get favorable terms and pricing.

▪	Recognized for substantial time savings by supervising inventory organized based on service tags and serial numbers to meet customer demand within the allotted timeframe.
▪	Attained 50% cost savings by conducting a detailed analysis of assets to optimize hardware and software deployment.

AHEAD

✌️👌Boosted operational performance by streamlining nationwide processing of Kaiser's EMC-Dell Power Path software orders. Retrieved and assured access to vital information that saved valuable time by retaining license keys in a centralized repository.

▪	Spearheaded software inventory worth $10M annually; applied strategic, rationalizing 20% of processes to gain competitive advantage and respond to market changes and customer demands.
▪	Implemented cost-effective strategies, substantially benefiting $990K using manufacturer discounts.
▪	Offered attractive and competitive pricing through effective negotiations with distributors.

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.🎢 Ever wondered how to turn IT asset management into a thrilling adventure? 

🌟Look no further! I'm a Versatile and Strategic IT Asset and Procurement Manager with over 15 years of experience, ready to revolutionize your organization's IT landscape and drive it to new heights of success!

🔍 My journey has been a thrilling adventure of optimizing processes and driving cost savings through strategic partnerships and efficient procurement strategies. With a knack for negotiation and risk management, I'm here to make IT asset management efficient and downright exhilarating!

💼 But wait, there's more! As a hardware and software asset management pro, I've spearheaded the creation of departments and implemented best practices in lightning-speed environments. Plus, with certifications galore, I'm armed to the teeth with tools and techniques to automate and streamline asset management across the board.

👋Managed government bids with finesse for GSA, CMAS, WSCA, FSS, E-rate, FARS, DFARS, and PEPPM and always came out on top.

🎯 So, are you ready to take your IT asset management game to the next level? Let's chat!  

😀I appreciate you taking the time to learn more about me!✨
Jira-Certificate of Completion-07/17/24
Cloud FINOPS-Certificate of Completion-07/01/24
Power BI-Certificate of Completion-07/01/24
Foundation ISO 55001 Asset Management System-Certificate of Completion-05/26/24
Cobit Foundation-Certificate of Completion-05/26/24
ITIL 4 Foundation-Certificate of Completion-05/16/24
Cyber Security From Beginner to Expert-certificate of completion-05/07/24
ISO/IEC 19770-1 Lead Auditor-certificate of completion-02/06/24
AWS Cloud Practitioner-certificate of completion-12/18/23
Microsoft Azure-certificate of completion-11/30/23
Agile Software-Certificate of Completion-11/02/23
NCMA Certified Professional Contracts Manager (CPCM)-09/10/23
Six Sigma Black Belt-Certificate of Completion-09/21/23
AI Prompting Essentials Certificate-09/21/23
IAITAM-Certified Mobile Asset Manager (CMAM)-07/01/25
IAITAM-Certified Software Asset Manager (CSAM)-07/01/25
IAITAM-Certified Hardware Asset Management Professional (CHAMP)-07/01/25
Project Management Essentials-Certificate of Completion (PMEC)-01/13/23
Excel Advanced-Certificate of Completion-01/12/23
Salesforce Administrator-Certificate of Completion-01/04/22
SAP-Certificate of Completion-01/04/22
ServiceNow System Administrator-Certificate of Completion-03/13/22
Scrum Master-Certificate of Completion-03/14/22

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