Sujatha Maniya
Chief folks officer, APACEssenceMediacomSingapore
Rising up in Singapore posed many challenges for Sujatha Maniya. Coming from a minority ethnic group, she was bullied and referred to as names in class alongside together with her buddies from underrepresented minorities. However Maniya was decided to face up for her rights, in addition to be the voice for different people handled in the identical method.Â
Maniya’s early ardour to be the change-maker ultimately led her to pursue a profession in HR. Starting at Millward Brown, she arrange the HR division for Southeast Asia. Maniya has since labored in expertise administration throughout Starcom Mediavest Group, Publicis Groupe, and KPMG Singapore, earlier than becoming a member of Essence as SVP, folks associate, APAC, in 2022. She was appointed chief folks officer at EssenceMediacom APAC in 2023.
Maniya has performed a transformative function on the firm, particularly enjoying a central half in orchestrating the combination of Essence and MediaCom throughout APAC. This has included driving the embedding of cultural rules by partnering APAC enterprise leaders and expertise companions on campaigns, which resulted in a excessive engagement rating in an worker engagement survey.
As a frontrunner, Maniya has demonstrated a stellar capability in assembling a brand new HR crew at Essence APAC, crafting a really perfect HR construction to assist the enterprise technique, hiring crew members with various profiles, and elevating the attention of HR enterprise partnering with stakeholders.
A devoted mentor, Maniya constantly goes above and past to information and assist her crew and members of her organisations and the business. She has additionally been proactive as a coach to enterprise leaders, driving collaboration between leaders and the HR companies unit.
Maniya has been an integral associate within the formation of EssenceMediacom APAC, and the affect of her work is obvious within the success of the merger, the engagement of workers, a discount in attrition, and elevated consumer satisfaction.Â
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