Sumanta Sammadder

Mobile: +91 9051021995

Email: sumantasamadder@gmail.com
Seeking Leadership assignments with key focus on Strategic
Human Resource Management, Industrial Relation & Administration
with a reputed organization.

Professional Synopsis

 Carrying out Head (HR, IR & Admin) duties of all sites and factories
across the country (West Bengal & Gujarat) including the Head Office in
Crescent Foundry Company Private limited.
 An MBA with 25 years of experience, working in a leadership position ensuring
profitability and growth of the company with expertise in Corporate strategy,
linking & formulating Human Resource Strategy with Corporate’s strategy,
designing & implementing change initiatives, Organizational developmental
initiatives, Employee engagement, Industrial Relation, Govt. liaison & Green Field
Projects set up. Building a culture of transparency and trust to develop teams
and achieve goals.

Professional Qualifications

 Diploma in Training & Development from ISTD.

 Master in Business Administration (MBA) with specialization in Human
Resource Management..

Experience History
Assignments Handled
Jun 11 – Till date: Head (HR, IR & Admin) of Crescent Foundry Co. Pvt.
Ltd.
Aug 10 - May 11: Head (HR, IR & Admin) of ICore Group of Companies.
Dec 09 - Aug 10: Regional HR (East) in Anchor Electricals Pvt Ltd, A
Panasonic Group of Companies
Aug 94- Aug 09: In-Charge HRM & Training and Integrated Logistic
Management System & Resource allocation (Inventory
Management), Manpower Planning, Welfare/ Block &
Administration-in-Charge in Indian Navy across PAN India.

Core Competencies

Strategic HRM Industrial Relation Labor Management

Training & Development Compensation & Benefits Psychometric Analysis
General Administration Green Field Project Set Up Training & Development
Resource Allocation Vendor Management Liaising & Coordination
Recruitment & Selection Organisational Development Activities
Lean Management Crisis & disaster Management CSR initiatives
Crescent Foundry Co. Pvt. Ltd.: Head (HR, IR & Admin)

Organisation Brief: Crescent Foundry was established in 1982.

Manufacture products for over 55 countries around the world. Presence
Multinationally & strong export based company. Having factories located in West
Bengal (5 units in two different location) & in Gujarat (1 unit); Head Office at
Kolkata.

Reporting to: Board of Directors.

Key Responsibilities:

 Being part of leadership team help formulating strategic annual business plans and
conducting business performance/ monthly & quarterly reviews;
 Collaborating among top management for successful manpower planning,
resourcing and deploying expansion
 Responsible for solving all kind of problems
 Organisation Development, Change Initiatives & Design
 Organisational Diagnosis - Environment & Climate surveys & analysis, using
behavioral diagnosis instruments.
 Development plans for Behavioral Training & Leadership Development
 Creating enablers in the company with tools like NPS (Employee Engagement
Surveys & Initiatives).
 Role Clarification & Competency based recruitment.
 Compensation & Benefits revisions
 Fixation of wages and review the same time to time
 Plants - HR & IR (All Plants, PAN India)
 Legal and statutory compliances across region
 Liaising with various government bodies & ensure smooth business operation
 To manage and provide guidance to the HR & IR teams on the locations.
 To Manage and provide solutions on all IR issues at Customer end and resolve
them without disturbing Industrial Peace.
 CSR activities across locations to promote corporate reputation tracking SROI.
 Liasioning and maintaining good relationship with various Political and Govt
Bodies like Factory Inspector, Statutory departments, PCB, Police, Labour Office,
Gram Panchayats and Local Political bodies etc...

Notable Achievements:
 Employee Satisfaction Survey and Net Promoter score is at all-time high.
 Successfully brought down the Attrition rate below the Industry
standard to less than 10%.
 Ensured no IR issue in last 6 years in all the factories. Successfully
replacing Personal dept with HR dept.
 Established the HR & IT department
 Successfully administrating all aspect of HRM
 Green field project set up in Gujarat & Kulgachia.
 Cost Optimization by getting involve in the operational management
 Managing factory administration of all locations.
 Analising, framing, developing and implementing HR policies which is aligned with
business needs.
 Successfully developed and introduced the accountability of each employee
across all the level and linked the same with the PMS. This mechanism has
helped company moving towards a new direction which is aligned with Company’s
Vision 2022.
 Competency mapping done across the levels.
 Created a career path for each employee with the help of the competency
mapping, which in turn motivated the employee and also helped achieving the
best attrition rate in 30 yrs.
 Introduced the SAP HR module successfully.
 Taken active responsibility in creating the Vision of the Company with all the
member in the company and took it to shop floor level successfully.
 Managing over 2000 team mates across the country.
 Introduced the Top Grading Interview Process for all the senior position, and
achieved immense success in achieving the goal of hiring the best candidate.
 Successfully linked identifying training needs, conducting training program on
Higher and Middle level Management, Tactics and measuring its effectiveness
through periodic assessments.

Icore Group of Companies: Head (HR,Admin & Ops)

Organisation Brief: Icore group was having more than 12 factories and
more than 100 Sales office on PAN India basis. It’s having presence in Cement
Industry (Durgapur Plus & Super Cement), Paints (Icore Paint), Shopping mall
(Icore Planet- 04 in no.), Mobile, FMCG (Tooth Paste), Iron & Steel, Apparels &
Footwear. More than 3000 staffs are working.

Reporting to: Managing Director

Achievements:

 Strong relationship & liaising and maintaining good relationship with various
Political and Govt Bodies like Factory Inspector, Statutory departments, PCB,
Police, Labour Office, Gram Panchayats and Local Political bodies etc
 Successfully restructured the entire organization.
 Established a strong HR department.
 Analyzed, framed, developed and implemented all HR policies.
 Supervised and controlled the entire group and over 3000 subordinates across
the country. Recruitment, training & appraising performance of subordinates on a
periodical basis and accordingly handling matters related to wages management
and promotions.
 A special care being taken on the statutory compliances and streamlined and
updated the entire compliance.
 Taken active role in setting up factories, branches and other establishments
across the country.
 Ensured maintenance of amicable employee-management relations in the
organization, handling grievances, retention policies, welfare mechanism.
 Ensuring strategic and optimum utilization and deployment of available resources
including available funds to achieve the objectives.
 Achieved remarkable improvement in the safety awareness in all the factories.
 Successfully negotiated all IR issues.

Anchor Electricals Pvt Ltd: Regional HR (East)

Organisation Brief: Anchor started out almost four decades ago as a small
business venture. In the years to come it experienced massive growth and in 2007
become a subsidiary of Panasonic Electric Works (PEW) which acquired 80% of its
shares. Today Anchor is a wholly owned subsidiary of Panasonic Corporation which
boasts worldwide leadership in the development and manufacturing of electric
products for a wide range of consumer, business and industrial needs. It has a
strong operating base with two third of the company’s total sales generation by
products that hold the largest share in the Japanese market.

Reporting to: GM HR

Achievements:

 Supervising and controlling over 300 Team members across the Eastern Region.
 Successfully created a very healthy and positive atmosphere in the Eastern
Region.
 Resolved the adverse IR issue of VRS and employees those joined the Civil
Unions, had accepted the VRS within a month.

Indian Navy:

Notable Achievements:

 Trained more than few thousands cadets

 Successfully had tenure of best Block-in-Charge for several years.
 Completed the ILMS project on time
 Ensured smoother HR operation for the consecutive 15 years
 Personal Details

Date of Birth : 12th Mar 1976

Languages : English, Hindi and Bengali
Marital Status : Married
Address : 30/2 Sarkarhat lane, PO: Sarsuna, Kolkata- 61, WB.