Absenteeism down 38% in a quarter.
16% → 10% in one quarter, through regular listening sessions, floor walks, wellbeing support and tight weekly labour planning.
Akansha Priya, HR Generalist
Employee Relations & People Operations Ex-Amazon
I help leaders run large teams well: fair, fast employee relations, people who show up, and workforce decisions backed by data.
- Dubai, UAE
- UAE residence visa
- Available now
- CIPD Level 5 in progress
Proof
- 38% lower absenteeism in one quarter16% → 10%
- 82 to 90 Employee Relations score, after rebuilding trusta second turnaround: 84 → 88
- 90% fewer respectful-leadership concernsstructured Plan-Do-Check-Act turnaround
- 1,700 people in the largest workforce I supportedfull HR responsibility for workforces of 1,200 to 1,700
What I bring
- Partnering with leaders
- Advised the HR Business Partner and Operations lead, and gave cluster and regional leadership the workforce analysis behind their labour-planning and training-compliance decisions.
- Employee relations and investigations
- Complaints, leadership-bias and sexual-harassment (POSH) cases handled end to end: interviews, statements and CCTV review, meeting 48-hour first-response and 72-hour closure targets.
- Engagement and retention
- Listening sessions, wellbeing support and survey-led recognition plans. Used exit data to find why people left and improve retention and eNPS.
- People operations and data
- Attendance reconciliation and payroll inputs in AllSec and A to Z, so pay matched time worked. Owned absenteeism, POSH and DEI dashboards and turned the trends into decisions.
- Talent
- Full-cycle hiring across Sales, Accounts, R&D and Design Engineering, including bulk campus drives with hundreds of engineering candidates, plus onboarding.
Selected work
Two trust turnarounds.
Rebuilt trust in one workforce and raised its Employee Relations score from 82 to 90. In another, led a structured Plan-Do-Check-Act turnaround that cut respectful-leadership concerns by 90% and lifted the score from 84 to 88.
The hard cases, handled fairly.
Handled the toughest employee-relations cases, from complaints to leadership-bias and POSH investigations, within 48-hour first-response and 72-hour closure targets. Led a 4-person agency team at one location and a 7-person team at the other.
WhatsApp is the fastest way to reach me.
WhatsApp me (opens in a new tab)Experience
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HR Associate Partner
Amazon, India
Ran people operations for two fulfilment centres of about 1,200 and 1,700 people. Led a 4-person agency team at one and a 7-person team at the other.
- Advised the HR Business Partner and Operations lead; gave cluster and Western Region leadership the workforce analysis behind labour-planning and training-compliance decisions.
- Cut absenteeism from 16% to 10% in one quarter.
- Raised an Employee Relations score from 82 to 90; led a PDCA turnaround elsewhere that cut respectful-leadership concerns by 90% (score 84 → 88).
- Handled complaints, leadership-bias and POSH cases end to end, within 48-hour first-response and 72-hour closure targets.
- Ran attendance reconciliation and payroll inputs in AllSec and A to Z; owned the regional absenteeism, POSH and DEI dashboards.
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HR Executive
Knest Manufacturers Pvt Ltd, Pune
Full-cycle hiring across GTM/Sales, Accounts, R&D and Design Engineering, including bulk campus drives. Owned onboarding, employee relations, performance operations and HR systems; used exit data to improve retention and eNPS.
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HR Executive, Employee Engagement
Jendamark India Pvt Ltd, Pune
Turned employee surveys into engagement and recognition plans that improved employee relations and eNPS; ran leadership and communication workshops; supported full-cycle hiring.
Recognition
Amazon
- Game Changer AwardQ42025
- Voice Bearer AwardQ22025
- Superstar Performer2025
- Regional Team AwardQ1 & Q22025
Credentials
- CIPD Level 5 Associate Diploma in People ManagementOakwood International. In progress, expected Dec 2027.
- MBA, Human ResourcesD.Y. Patil University, Pune, 2021 – 2023
- BBA, FinanceMIT World Peace University, Pune, 2018 – 2021
- Languages
- English, Hindi, Marathi
- Systems
- AllSec (payroll and HR records), Amazon A to Z (employee self-service), Excel, PowerPoint, workforce dashboards, AI-assisted feedback analysis, workflow automation
Hiring an HR Generalist in the UAE?
I’m in Dubai on a UAE residence visa and can start now. I’m working towards an HR Business Partner role. WhatsApp is the fastest way to reach me.
+971 54 158 6782
akankshapriya687@gmail.com