Anvesha Singh has taken up the role of director-talent development, Microsoft, recently. She was earlier vice president-talent management, Vodafone for over two years.
An alumna of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), she interned with Tata Communications, PepsiCo, RPG Enterprises, DDI and Crompton Greaves before joining the RPG Group in June of 2010. She started off as a management trainee-group HR for a year. In 2011 she was elevated to group campus lead. A year later, she was promoted to manager, organisation development, CEAT Tyres. In this role, she was responsible for driving the engagement and feedback mechanisms for the organisation. Another promotion came her way just seven months later. In January of 2013, she became head-learning and organisation development, Raychem RPG.
Till December 2016, she successfully led the organisational capability-building agenda, owning the talent-development activities across functional/managerial skills, experiential learning and knowledge-sharing groups. She helped design and develop interventions that maximised learning, collaboration and fun.
Singh’s next stop was ZEISS Group, in Bengaluru, where she essayed the role of senior manager and head of talent from December 2016 to April 2019. She was mandated with focussing on getting the organisation ready for transitioning into a global benchmark for talent within the ZEISS Group and its industry peers.
In 2019, she relocated to Mumbai to join Bajaj Consumer Care as AGM/talent CoE head. She was responsible for putting the CoE operating model in place for the organisation covering talent acquisition, management and development.
After a successful three-year long stint with Bajaj, Anvesha Singh moved to Vodafone as vice president-talent management.
Known to be a smart, sharp and energetic individual, her ability to think strategically will be an asset to Microsoft. HRKatha wishes Anvesha Singh all the best in her attempt to “fuel Microsoft’s mission to empower every person and every organisation on the planet to achieve more.”
