Rushikesh Jagtap
Rishikesh has a vision to make UTSS a leading brand in providing HR solutions to corporates. Rishikesh was inspired to start UTSS to provide corporate clients a one stop solution to all their HR problems from the earlier organization he co-founded alongside his father namely SSS Management Consultancy.
Over the past few years, Rishikesh has been actively contributing to the areas of HR Policies & Process and Statutory Compliances through UTSS.
Rushikesh is a renowned musician and is spiritual in his value system. A passionate Tabla maestro, Rushikesh has shared the stage with many renowned musicians / singers in musical programs & concerts. He is a postgraduate in music and to support his vision for UTSS, is pursuing his graduation in law.
Adv. Pournima Jadhav
Pournima is an expert in legal compliance, statutory compliances & payments, payroll process, domestic enquiries. She has completed her masters in Labour Law from Pune University and has over 8 years of experience in HRM.
Pournima is a seasoned professional on POSH matters and regularly conducts POSH training for corporate employees. She also is a nominated external member on internal committee under the POSH act with various companies.
Pournima has rich experience of industrial discipline and conducts domestic enquiries for the clients. She has a rich experience in counselling & coaching the team members in the context of domestic enquiries. At UTSS, Pournima manages operations and is responsible for the complete life cycle of UTSS employees working for client organization from his joining until relieving.
Vijay Jagtap
Vijay has 30 plus years rich experience in Human Resources and Industrial Relations. In the past, he has worked with reputed organizations including Deccan Group and Kirloskar Group in the capacity of General Manager HR & IR. Later, Vijay founded SSS Management Consultants Private Limited, a leading service provider for HR and Labor Compliances.
Over the years, Vijay has handled and advised on various facets concerning the Labor Laws and Legal Compliances. Disciplinary actions, inspections, inquiries, audits, employee issues, statutory compliances are the areas in which Vijay is a seasoned professional. He has partnered with many clients during testing times like accidents, employee issues, audits by government agencies, and inquiries. Audits conducted by SSS Consultants have created an industry benchmark. Liasioning with government offices and representing clients on various matters has been the strength of Team SSS Management Consulting.
Vijay’s leadership has put SSS Consulting into a high growth trajectory; with clients including Atlas Copco Ltd, Alfa Laval Ltd, Lupin Pharma Ltd, Cummins India Ltd, Cargill Ltd, Bosch Chasis Ltd, JCB Ltd, Sedemac Private Limited, Rexnord Group, and many others. SSS Management Consulting is now a team of 25 plus well-qualified members providing services to clientele across the country. SSS Management Consultants have earned the reputed Excellence Award by Cummins India Limited.
Vijay’s vast experience in compliance and legal matters simply frees clients from worrying about non-business activities whilst enabling them to focus on their core business.
Vikas Panvelkar
Vikas Panvelkar is a strong personality believing in a few words and strong actions. His innovative approach has resulted in a win-win for parties trying to resolve intricately complex labour situations.
Vikas completed his Post Graduation in Social Welfare from Nagpur University in 1986. He specializes in Labour Welfare & Personnel Management. Immediately after completing his studies, he joined the Labour Department of Maharashtra as a Government Labour Officer. Since then, there has been no looking back for him. Vikas has served the esteemed Labour Department in various regions and capacities. His postings include major cities of Maharashtra state like Pune, Mumbai, Aurangabad, Wardha, Chandrapur, Kolhapur & Satara. In his long career spanning over 33 years, he has played various roles including Enforcement Officer (enforcement of various labour laws & labour welfare), Deputy Registrar for Trade Union, Asst Registrar under Maharashtra Industrial Relations Act, Secretary & Chairman of Mathadi Board & Security Guard Board, Conciliation Officer handling various labour disputes.
Vikas believes in leading from the front and has naturally demonstrated this leadership style over the years. To his credit, Vikas has resolved many landmark cases including long-term wage settlements, played an instrumental role in avoiding several Strikes, Industrial lockouts, and closure of many establishments which would have otherwise resulted in several dire consequences. Vikas recently retired from the Labour Commissioner’s office as Deputy Labour Commissioner of Pune District.
At UTSS, Vikas will render his expertise to clients on matters pertaining to labour issues and approaches to adopt in dynamic challenging times, and mentor managers to handle labour issues preventing unrest and escalation.
Vivek Gagpalliwar
Vivek is a dynamic HR professional with work spanning over 35 years in the HR field. His areas of expertise include Human Resource Management, Industrial Relations, and General Administration.
Vivek has worked with large organizations including Videocon International, Bharat Forge, Mahindra and Mahindra. From 2014 until 2022, he was associated with JCB India as Associate Vice President-HR.
Vivek has always believed that the success of the Human Resources function lies in an integrated talent management approach. His expertise in developing integrated people practice strategies for effective support to business processes is popular. From carrying out due diligence for acquisition until closing a loss-making manufacturing unit employing 1000 plus employees, speak volumes about the spectrum of Vivek’s work in the field.
Vivek has developed a deep-rooted understanding of aligning the various facets of HR function to business strategy.
Vivek has many accomplishments to his credit. Vivek has customized many HR processes for the businesses he has worked with. He has revamped the hiring, performance management & succession planning processes based on business requirements and extended this approach to onboarding and induction processes for varied audiences including graduates, laterals, and new hires. This has led to creating a strong talent pipeline for the business and has contributed to branding initiatives too.
Other notable contributions by Vivek in the area of Employee Life Cycle include Leadership Development, Succession Planning, Talent Retention, Performance Management, Comp & Ben, Rewards & Recognition and Legal Compliances.
In corporate HR role in past, he has conducted HR audits of group companies and helped them to enhance HR efficiency & delivery. He always believes in reviewing the existing HR processes, policies & practices periodically, discarding the irrelevant ones, revising the rest to suit the current business scenario and adding the relevant new, if required.
Vivek is an advocate of using technology in the field and has been an early adaptor. Vivek believes digitalization improves analytics and therefore the effectiveness of the HR function. Employee Health & Wellbeing initiatives developed and implemented by Vivek have been ahead of time.
Vivek with his vast spread of knowledge will partner, guide, mentor, and advise clients on various employee-related initiatives to ensure effectiveness and success.
Further, he has led 11 long-term settlements with internal and external unions successfully. The highlight of these settlements includes business continuity due to un-disruptive work and effective negotiationskills.
Pooshkaraj W
Pooshkaraj brings to the table a blend of experiences from the corporate world spanning two decades. The blend comprises of HR Generalist, Consulting, Advisory, Learning and Organization Development roles.
Over these years of association with various industries and businesses, Pooshkaraj has developed a deep-rooted understanding of aligning the various facets of HR function to business strategy. His solution centric approach, coupled with moderate appetite for risk involved in experimentation and creativity have created results and amplified positive experiences. These have attempted to connect with other HR offerings for an improved employee experience.
Ideating, designing and implementing HiPo program, Leadership Development Program, First Time manager Program, Orientation Programs have been the flagship programs run by him in addition to the calendar programs deployed with a twist. Regardless of the standing in the organization hierarchy, Pooshkaraj has created solutions for all.
OD Projects initiated to clear inter-departmental bottlenecks caused by people impacting customer deliveries, capability building of engineering teams or Synergy Project, building effective sales teams (BEST) targeted at building sales capability, Doing Right First time (DRiFT) targeted at reducing material and time excesses, Project Managing Organization Culture Building Initiative have been some seminal areas of work undertaken either in own accord or per business requirement.
Pooshkaraj profoundly believes in working with people and building lasting relationships. As the organization scales up and matures, the learning delivery and impact has to match the pace while integrating with other organizational processes. Pooshkaraj has creatively used technology platforms for a geographically dispersed employee base. Learning application in such a case becomes a challenge. All the program designs are inspired from this challenge of making learning stick at the workplace.