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Sapana Suresh

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HR Strategic Business Unit Partner at IBM
📍 Pune, Maharashtra, India

Sapana is a strategic HR leader specializing in aligning talent and culture with business transformation goals. With experience at major technology companies like IBM and Cognizant, she holds an executive degree in Strategic Human Resource Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.

Her colleagues consistently describe her as a diligent, knowledgeable, and dedicated HR professional, highlighting her as an excellent leader and team player who excels in business partnering.

She has a notable talent for balancing corporate policy with practical business challenges, a skill one colleague described as something she handles "effortlessly".

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Experience
20 Years
Current Role
HR Strategic Business Unit Partner
Location
Pune, Maharashtra, India
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Business-Aligned HR
Her headline and experience emphasize driving talent and culture initiatives that directly support overarching business objectives and transformation.
Talent Engagement
A recommendation highlights her remarkable expertise in managing talent engagement and enhancing employee retention levels across large, multi-location teams.
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Career

Work history

10-2025
HR Strategic Business Unit Partner
IBM
4-2024 - 9-2025
Senior Director Human Resources
AST LLC
11-2021 - 4-2024
Director - Human Resources
AST LLC
10-2012 - 11-2021
Senior Manager - Human Resources
Cognizant
1-2005 - 9-2012
Deputy Manager
Tata Business Support Services
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Education
2019 - 2020
Executive Program in Strategic Human Resource Management
Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta
2009 - 2011
Masters in Personnel Management
Institute of Management,Social Sciences and Research
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