Leads HRMS operations at Posimind. More than twenty years across HR and recruitment, with an entrepreneur's view of how HR functions need to work to keep a business running.
Padma Kale is the Operations Head for HRMS at Posimind Consulting. She runs the firm's HRMS practice operations and is the senior consultant clients meet on most full-lifecycle HR engagements.
Padma's career spans over two decades of HR and recruitment work, with senior responsibility for HR operations and talent acquisition strategy across several sectors. She has also run her own business — an experience that informs how she thinks about HRMS engagements. The HR function exists to keep the rest of the company moving; her engagements are designed to produce that operational outcome, not just a compliant set of policies.
Inside Posimind, Padma owns the operating model behind the HRMS practice: scoping a client's current state, designing the hybrid delivery model (a partner visits in person on the cadence the engagement needs, with remote ongoing operations the rest of the time), and ensuring that the team delivering the work — recruiters, HR business partners, payroll and compliance specialists — operates to a consistent standard.
She is also a steady advocate for promoting consulting careers in HR among younger team members. Her view is that HRMS practice is one of the most under-appreciated career paths in the profession, and she invests time in showing junior consultants what a senior HRMS engagement actually looks like, end-to-end.
HRMS exists to keep the rest of the business moving. The day it stops feeling operational is the day it stops being useful.
