Junal Maria D’cruz is currently working as a Human Resource Business Partner for the Pharmaceuticals Division at Bayer Pakistan Private Limited. She is responsible for working closely with the relevant stakeholders and is deeply involved in analyzing, developing, and implementing solutions to support and align the business goals and works on designing strategies in the context of human resource management.

 In 8 years of experience as a Human Resource Professional, she has had the opportunity to work in various functions and projects of HR, including Compensation & Benefits, Talent Attraction, and Talent Management, that has allowed her to comprehend the role of HR overall. To drive alignment with Global strategies and act as a change agent in collaboration with business to engage employees through a new performance management approach and enhance the culture of teams and organization based on the company’s values are some of the key projects she has been associated with and is acknowledged for; it has helped to shape her up as a professional HRBP. As an HR enthusiast, Junal believes that understanding the business mechanism and effectively communicating the impact HR creates on business through data analytics is the key to successful strategic partnering.