STEER World, an engineering innovation firm that specialises in materials transformation, has announced the appointment of Ajay Bhasin as its group chief human resource officer (CHRO).
Bhasin has moved to STEER from Tata Coffee, where he was heading HR for the firm’s Instant Coffee Division, since 2017.
An alumnus of XLRI Jamshedpur, Bhasin spent the initial four years of his career with FCC-CCL Joint Venture, as site lead-HR. In 2005, he joined Panacea Biotech as plant HR, where he was an active member of the green field project team, and responsible for manpower planning and mass recruitment. A year later, in 2006, he switched to Johnson & Johnson, as plant human resource manager, based out of Chandigarh.
The year 2011 saw him move to GlaxoSmithKline as plant human resources manager, working out of Patiala. A year and a half later, he moved again. This time he joined Britannia Industries, Delhi. After four years of heading HR for the bread business, as regional HR manager-North, he was elevated to the role of head-total rewards, in 2015, based out of Bengaluru. For the next year and a half, he worked to balance the reward opportunities available to employees, aligning them with the organisation’s goals, budgets and expectations.
In 2017, Bhasin took on the role of head-HR, Tata Coffee, where he successfully partnered with business heads at a strategic level in the areas of workforce management, development and productivity to optimise workforce utilisation in global operations.
After spending a little less than seven years at Tata Coffee, Bhasin has now joined STEER, where he will be responsible for the company’s worldwide human capital strategy and operations; talent management; inclusion; safety; and compensation and benefits.
He will be part of the executive leadership team reporting to TN Hari, executive chairman of STEER World.
Bhasin looks forward to being “a catalyst in further building on the STEER World culture while keeping its high-performing employees at the core.” He hopes to ”strengthen and drive growth in the exciting times ahead.”
TN Hari, executive chairman, STEER World is confident that Bhasin’s, “wealth of experience and strategic acumen will play a pivotal role” at a time when STEER is “poised to create several deep-tech companies” in the materials sciences technologies space from India, with human capital sure to “play a very strategic role at this stage of growth”.
Founded in 1993, STEER World has five global offices, and is committed to the design, creation and implementation of advanced materials platform technology that effectively transforms and functionalises materials in the field of pharmaceuticals, plastics, food and nutraceuticals, biomaterials and biorefining.
