Devender Sharma has been appointment as executive director–HR at VRC Group.
Sharma is backed by over 30 years of experience in the HR domain, across manufacturing, infrastructure, and automotive sectors.
He began his professional journey as a senior HR manager at LML, in 1994. In this role, he worked out of Kanpur for over nine years before moving to Delhi to join SICPA India as head-HR, in 2003. Two and a half years later, he moved to DSC where he played vice president and group head, human resources from 2006 to 2009.
Sharma’s next stop was Samsung Electronics where he joined as head-HR where he dabbled in HR policy formulation and implementation, including talent acquisition & management, employee relations, industrial relations, learning & development and administration for almost three years.
March of 2012 saw Devender Sharma taking up the role of general manager-HR at Ashok Leyland where he handled HR Activities for all white-collared employees ( PAN India). He was based out of Chennai for six years.
From March 2017 to October 2020 Sharma was associated with Galfar Engineering as country head-HR. Over three and a half years later, he moved to Okinawa Scooters and Motorcycles as vice president-HR for over a year and a half.
It was in April of 2024 that he founded DeReCo Corp, an HR consulting company based out of Chandigarh where he played MD.
He holds a doctorate in HR and an MBA from Himachal Pradesh University (Shimla).
In his latest assignment at VRC Group, a construction firm specialising in civil, structural, and multi-discipline infrastructure and commercial projects, he will be tasked with leading the people and culture strategy.
HRKatha wishes Devender Sharma all the best!