Tesantha Naidoo

Tesantha Naidoo

Senior Associate, Mercer South Africa

Professional Background

Tesantha has over 14 years experience spanning across organisation design, HR transformation, talent management and change management consulting.

 

Her experience primarily covers large workforce transformation projects.

 

She has worked within the areas of business architecture, change management, workforce transition, finance transformation, process design, organisational design, campaign management as well PMO across various industries.

 

Tesantha has completed her MSc in Business Psychology (University of South Wales)

Functional Expertise

  • Organisation Design
  • Workforce Transformation
  • Training
  • Campaign Management
  • Business Process Analysis, Design and Implementation
  • Change Management
  • HR Transformation

Industry Expertise

  • Mining
  • Petro-chemical
  • Retail
  • Insurance
  • Fast Moving Consumer Goods
  • Banking
  • Pharmaceutical
  • Telecoms

Experience

Anglo-Australian multinational mining, metals and petroleum company

  • Conducted a gap analysis as part of the new organisation design and global system implementation for London and Brazil
  • Provided recommendations for implementation

Global mining company

  • Process optimisation - travelled across mines in Tanzania, Guinea, and Ghana over a period of six months in order to analyse the as –is processes across 5 mines and define the to-be processes based on best practice

Middle East’s and North Africa’s most successful group of companies operating restaurants, manufacturing consumer foods and food-related products

  • Developed the to-be HR organisation structure to support 40000 employees. Developed and managed the HR baseline to achieve a $1.3M saving within the function
  • Completed an in-depth as-is analyses of existing HR functions across 13 countries. Developed high-level job descriptions, functional HR KPI’s, Governance Model. Identified integration points across the Business and functions.

Major satellite TV service in Sub-Saharan Africa

  • Conducted the as-is analysis to understand the HR landscape. Worked with the CHRO, country leads and HR leads to define the new HR Operating model and associated HR structures, governance models, KPI’s and key role job descriptions

French multinational food-products corporation

  • Responsible for the regional Operating Model analysis and  implementation

Other pursuits

HR Transformation

  • Working collaboratively with the global Mercer COE HR Transformation team to continuously modify optimal HR practices

Culture

  • Working collaboratively with the global Mercer COE Culture team to understand how to cultivate a working  culture that positively contributes to the employee experience

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

  • Collaborates with the global Mercer Diversity, Equity and Inclusion team to understand how to build and embed a culture of diversity  and inclusion