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Senior HR Generalist · Workforce Analytics @ NIQ

People · Data · AI

EzhilArasan

Workforce Analytics & HR Strategy Leader

I help global HR leaders make better workforce decisions through people analytics, organisation design, talent intelligence, and AI-enabled transformation. With 7+ years across HRBP, shared services, and analytics, I turn complex people data into clear action.

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7+

Years in HR

22K+

Employees analysed

60%

Faster screening

23%

Attrition reduction

01 // About

People strategy, powered by evidence

I work at the intersection of people strategy, workforce intelligence, and technology — translating complex organisational data into decisions leaders can act on.

At NIQ, I support global HR leaders with workforce planning, organisation design, talent and succession reviews, performance analytics, and governance across a 22,000+ employee population.

My approach combines deep HR context with advanced Excel, automation, Python, and AI to build repeatable systems that improve speed, quality, and decision confidence.

  • ▹PG Certificate, Strategic HRM — IIM Tiruchirappalli (2024)
  • ▹MBA, HR & Marketing — Jansons School of Business (2019)
  • ▹HR Analytics — IIM Rohtak
  • ▹7+ years across analytics, HRBP & transformation

02 // Experience

Where insight became impact

May 2026 — Present

Senior HR Generalist — Workforce Analytics & HRBP Enablement

NielsenIQ (NIQ)

Chennai, India

Delivering workforce intelligence and governance for global HR leaders across planning, organisation design, talent, succession, and performance.

  • ▹Build integrated analysis across headcount, hierarchy, job levels and families, performance ratings, succession, improvement plans, workforce actions, and labour cost
  • ▹Analyse multi-year performance data to identify first-time, repeat, and sustained low-performance patterns for targeted leadership interventions
  • ▹Run organisation-health diagnostics across spans of control, ICs with direct reports, and grade or reporting anomalies
  • ▹Reviewed 47 low-span managers and 65 individual contributors with reports to surface structural opportunities
  • ▹Analysed headcount and labour-cost distribution for 22,000+ employees across market cost tiers using reusable Excel and Power Query logic

Jul 2024 — Apr 2026

AI HR Transformation & People Analytics (COE)

Intellect Design Arena Ltd

Chennai, India

Designed and deployed AI-enabled HR solutions across talent acquisition, candidate experience, internal mobility, and executive people analytics.

Jul 2022 — Jun 2024

Specialist — HR Shared Services & Process Digitization

Intellect Design Arena Ltd

Chennai, India

Improved HR service delivery through analytics, self-service, process digitisation, and stronger operational governance.

Feb 2019 — Jul 2022

HR Business Partner (HRBP)

Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd

Madurai, India

Partnered with regional leaders on workforce planning, recruitment, engagement, retention, and HR operations for roughly 800–1,000 employees.

03 // Capabilities

Skill modules online

01

Workforce Strategy

Planning · Organisation Design · HRBP Enablement

02

People Analytics

Headcount · Cost · Spans & Layers · Performance

03

Talent Intelligence

Succession · Internal Mobility · Semantic Screening

04

Automation

Power Query · Power Automate · VBA · Apps Script

05

AI Transformation

Generative AI · LLM · RAG · Prompt Engineering

06

Data Toolkit

Advanced Excel · Python · APIs · Data Storytelling

04 // Selected impact

Initiatives that moved the needle

2026 · Enterprise analytics

Workforce Intelligence

22,000+ employees, one decision-ready view

Workforce PlanningPower QueryExecutive Reporting

2026 · People analytics

Performance Patterns

From ratings history to targeted action

Performance AnalyticsTalent IntelligenceData Storytelling

2026 · Organisation design

Organisation Health

Making structural friction visible

Spans & LayersJob ArchitectureGovernance

2024–2026 · AI transformation

Sorting Hat

Semantic screening, 60% faster

Generative AISemantic MatchingTalent Acquisition

2024–2026 · Internal mobility

Project Cerebro

An intelligent internal talent marketplace

Internal MobilityTalent MarketplaceAI

2022–2024 · Process digitisation

HR Service Automation

Less repetition, more strategic capacity

AutomationShared ServicesProcess Design

05 // Contact

Let's turn people data into action

Interested in workforce strategy, people analytics, or AI-enabled HR transformation? I'm always glad to exchange ideas and explore meaningful organisation challenges.

ezhilarasan1618@gmail.com+91 8098833777Download résumé

Chennai, India

Ezhil Arasan M — Workforce Analytics & HR Strategy Leader

Senior HR Generalist · Workforce Analytics @ NIQ

I help global HR leaders make better workforce decisions through people analytics, organisation design, talent intelligence, and AI-enabled transformation. With 7+ years across HRBP, shared services, and analytics, I turn complex people data into clear action.

About

I work at the intersection of people strategy, workforce intelligence, and technology — translating complex organisational data into decisions leaders can act on.

At NIQ, I support global HR leaders with workforce planning, organisation design, talent and succession reviews, performance analytics, and governance across a 22,000+ employee population.

My approach combines deep HR context with advanced Excel, automation, Python, and AI to build repeatable systems that improve speed, quality, and decision confidence.

Based in Chennai, India.

Experience

Senior HR Generalist — Workforce Analytics & HRBP Enablement — NielsenIQ (NIQ)

May 2026 — Present · Chennai, India

Delivering workforce intelligence and governance for global HR leaders across planning, organisation design, talent, succession, and performance.

  • Build integrated analysis across headcount, hierarchy, job levels and families, performance ratings, succession, improvement plans, workforce actions, and labour cost
  • Analyse multi-year performance data to identify first-time, repeat, and sustained low-performance patterns for targeted leadership interventions
  • Run organisation-health diagnostics across spans of control, ICs with direct reports, and grade or reporting anomalies
  • Reviewed 47 low-span managers and 65 individual contributors with reports to surface structural opportunities
  • Analysed headcount and labour-cost distribution for 22,000+ employees across market cost tiers using reusable Excel and Power Query logic

AI HR Transformation & People Analytics (COE) — Intellect Design Arena Ltd

Jul 2024 — Apr 2026 · Chennai, India

Designed and deployed AI-enabled HR solutions across talent acquisition, candidate experience, internal mobility, and executive people analytics.

  • Built passive talent discovery and RecruiterMax sourcing recommendations using public developer ecosystems and historic hiring patterns
  • Implemented the Sorting Hat semantic screening model, reducing time-to-screen by 60%
  • Developed pre-onboarding, sentiment-analysis, and evidence-based interview-assessment workflows
  • Architected Project Cerebro, an internal talent marketplace connecting employee capability with opportunity
  • Built zero-touch analytics bots that automated workforce-movement digests for leadership

Specialist — HR Shared Services & Process Digitization — Intellect Design Arena Ltd

Jul 2022 — Jun 2024 · Chennai, India

Improved HR service delivery through analytics, self-service, process digitisation, and stronger operational governance.

  • Analysed HR service-ticket trends and designed self-service interventions, including FAQ bots, to reduce repetitive queries
  • Released shared-services capacity for higher-value work through workflow redesign and automation
  • Managed corporate medical insurance and core HR operations
  • Re-engineered legacy document storage to improve governance, accessibility, and audit readiness

HR Business Partner (HRBP) — Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd

Feb 2019 — Jul 2022 · Madurai, India

Partnered with regional leaders on workforce planning, recruitment, engagement, retention, and HR operations for roughly 800–1,000 employees.

  • Designed a mentorship intervention that reduced regional attrition by 23%
  • Restructured high-volume recruitment workflows with business heads, reducing time-to-hire by 17%
  • Supported end-to-end people priorities for a regional workforce of approximately 800–1,000 employees
  • Recognised as Star Performer in Q3 and Q4 2020 and contributed to a Best Area of the Year award

Selected initiatives

Workforce Intelligence

2026 · Enterprise analytics — 22,000+ employees, one decision-ready view

Integrated headcount, hierarchy, job architecture, performance, succession, workforce actions, and labour-cost data into reusable analysis for global HR leaders.

Focus areas: Workforce Planning, Power Query, Executive Reporting.

Performance Patterns

2026 · People analytics — From ratings history to targeted action

Built multi-year performance analysis to distinguish first-time, repeat, and sustained low-performance patterns and help leaders target interventions.

Focus areas: Performance Analytics, Talent Intelligence, Data Storytelling.

Organisation Health

2026 · Organisation design — Making structural friction visible

Diagnosed spans of control, ICs with direct reports, grade anomalies, and reporting-line issues, including reviews of 47 low-span managers and 65 ICs with reports.

Focus areas: Spans & Layers, Job Architecture, Governance.

Sorting Hat

2024–2026 · AI transformation — Semantic screening, 60% faster

Implemented an AI-enabled semantic screening model that reduced candidate screening time by 60% while supporting more consistent, evidence-led evaluation.

Focus areas: Generative AI, Semantic Matching, Talent Acquisition.

Project Cerebro

2024–2026 · Internal mobility — An intelligent internal talent marketplace

Architected an internal talent marketplace to improve opportunity discovery, workforce mobility, and capability matching across the organisation.

Focus areas: Internal Mobility, Talent Marketplace, AI.

HR Service Automation

2022–2024 · Process digitisation — Less repetition, more strategic capacity

Used service-ticket trends to design FAQ bots and self-service interventions, reducing repetitive HR queries and freeing capacity for higher-value work.

Focus areas: Automation, Shared Services, Process Design.

Skills

Education & Credentials

Contact

Email: ezhilarasan1618@gmail.com

Location: Chennai, India

Phone: +91 8098833777

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