Ashima Rakheja

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Head HR at McDonald's

Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Overview

Ashima Rakheja is a seasoned HR leader with over 14 years of experience across the Automobile, FMCG, and QSR industries. As the People Resources Lead at McDonalds, she focuses on organizational effectiveness, engagement, and talent management. People who have worked with her often describe her as detail-oriented, highly committed, and a person of high integrity.

Ashima is passionate about social responsibility and leveraging her companys brand to create opportunities. She actively promotes initiatives that provide employment to less privileged communities, demonstrating a commitment to making a positive social impact through corporate action.

She has a passion for creating employment opportunities for underprivileged youth through partnerships with NGOs.

Personality Overview

Decisive But Friendly

Friendly But Fast

Dynamic But Sincere

They combine a unique set of diverse traits where they are fast and friendly but can slow down to be thorough when needed  If they are convinced, they can become very strong champions for your product They have the unique ability to win both love and respect from their team (or outsiders)

Topics They Care About

Youth Employment
Actively invites NGOs to partner on providing employment opportunities for less privileged communities, using hashtags like #Mcdonald'sforyouth.
Talent & Opportunity
Focuses on connecting talented individuals with opportunities at an iconic brand, as seen in her recruitment-related social media posts.
Organizational Effectiveness
Her role at McDonald's centers on driving organizational effectiveness, which includes employee engagement, productivity, and capability development for over 6, 000 employees.

Media Appearances

Ashima has no verified media appearances

Work History

10-2019
Head HR at McDonald's
7-2017 - 10-2019
HR Business Partner Sales Head Quarters & Defense, Channel CVBU Commercial at Tata Motors
11-2016 - 6-2017
HR Business Partner Fleet Management Services , Customer Care , CVBU Commercial , Delhi at Tata Motors
5-2014 - 6-2016
HR Business Partner & Unit HR Manager, Delhi, West Uttar Pradesh & Uttaranchal at Hindustan Coca Cola beverages Pvt Ltd
6-2010 - 4-2014
Team Leader Human Resources at Hindustan Coca Cola beverages Pvt Ltd

Education

12-2021 - 1-2023
Executive Program in Strategic Human Resources Management from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta
2004 - 2006
MBA from Apeejay School Of Management

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Exp : 18 Location : Gurgaon, Haryana, India Job Level : N/A Designation : Head HR at McDonald's
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Insights For Selling To Ashima

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Build a trustworthy relationship while keeping the product center-stage
  • Keep your pitch focused on the impact but nurture the relationship too
  • Mostly stick to your standard pitch and qualifying script, but add some stories or anecdotes to it

DONT's

  • Don’t be too verbose or overly friendly; a little bit, however, is fine
  • Don't lean very heavily into providing too much information, sharing whitepapers etc.
  • Don’t be very informal during the early interactions even if they are being so themselves

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Ashima is

  • Nothing less than a strong combination of proof of results, relationship and high levels of professionalism is effective with them.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Ashima

  • They can say no while staying friendly, but can also be pursuaded to reconsider

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Ashima move?

  • They are generally fast movers and can take quick decisions
  • Can Ashima take some risk or not?

  • They have high risk-appetite but can get ahead of themselves once in a while. Observe carefully

You And Ashima

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