Hyderabad, Telangana, India, December 2025 — NCC Limited, the country’s second largest construction and infrastructure enterprise, has appointed Bikram K Nayak as Vice President Human Resources. In this strategic leadership role, Bikram will be responsible for the People function for nearly 15,000 employees across 13 regional offices in India, leading a comprehensive HR transformation agenda spanning diverse businesses within the Group. His mandate includes strengthening people processes, driving cultural and organizational effectiveness, and enabling NCC’s next phase of growth in India’s infrastructure landscape.
Immediately prior to joining NCC Limited, Bikram K Nayak served as Chief Human Resources Officer – Alumina Business at Vedanta Limited – Aluminium Business in Odisha for nearly two years. In this role he was a key architect of the HR strategy aligned to Vedanta’s ambition of becoming one of the top three global players in the aluminium segment, focusing on putting the right management in place, enhancing employee experience and productivity through digitization, driving diversity and inclusion initiatives, formulating employee relations policies, strengthening business partnership, and using benchmarking studies to implement best-in-class people processes and practices.
Before Vedanta, Bikram was Chief Business Officer at Empert Consultants in Bengaluru, where he operated in a self-employed consulting leadership capacity for close to a year. He led a team of recruiters on niche hiring mandates for multinational manufacturing and technology companies, guided start-ups in setting up their HR functions for solar, e-commerce and platform businesses, and coached and mentored young professionals sponsored by corporates and academic institutions. He also designed and delivered HR transformation and learning programs, competency-building initiatives, and advised clients on large-scale HR transformation programmes.
Earlier, Bikram served as Associate Vice President – People Function at Mindtree in Chennai, where he spent around a year driving key assignments in a fast-paced global technology environment. His responsibilities included the review and restructuring of global HR policies, working closely with compensation & benefits and geo HR teams, leading employee engagement surveys and interventions, and driving process engineering and improvements to enhance productivity, people experience, and business performance.
A significant part of Bikram’s professional journey was shaped at Larsen & Toubro, where he spent more than two decades in progressively senior HR leadership roles. As JGM & Head Human Resources – L&T-NxT, he helped build L&T-NxT into a world-class digital product and platform initiative, focusing on workforce strategic planning, organization structure, talent acquisition and management, learning and development, HR services, governance, business continuity, and diversity & inclusion, while coaching senior management and board members. As Head Talent Acquisition, Office of CEO & MD, he drove enterprise-wide leadership hiring, talent acquisition strategy, employer branding, and contributed to the think-tank exploring newer businesses. Earlier, as Head of Talent Management, he led leadership development, career and succession planning, performance management and rewards, compensation benchmarking, rewards strategy, ESOP exposure, and critical talent retention initiatives across one of L&T’s largest verticals.
In the earlier stages of his L&T career, Bikram held roles such as Head Human Resources – Engineering Design & Research Centre (B&F IC), managing HR for over 1,300 young professionals across locations, and as Manager (Personnel) overseeing corporate HR and OD including HR policies, recruitment, manpower budgeting, training & development, outsourcing, CSR, and performance appraisal. He began his professional journey as an Executive (Industrial Relations) at project sites, independently managing IR, statutory compliance (PF, ESI, WC, wages, retrenchment, etc.) at large industrial projects such as TISCO Jamshedpur, NALCO Angul and Haldia Port, building a strong foundation in on-the-ground people and labour management. Over time, he has further strengthened his capabilities through education at institutions such as Utkal University (PM&IR – Human Resources), XLRI Jamshedpur (Executive Diploma in HRM) and the University of Michigan – Stephen M. Ross School of Business (GLDP program in Business Administration and Management).
About NCC Limited
NCC Limited (formerly NCC Ltd) has, over several decades, established itself as one of India’s leading construction and infrastructure companies, known for delivering projects of uncompromising standards across multiple domains. Its work is a visible reflection of the organisation’s holistic construction expertise, driven by relentless innovation, strong execution discipline and a deep commitment to quality. Today, NCC Limited plays a prominent role on India’s infrastructure stage, leaving its signature of quality across key growth areas.
Founded in 1978 as a partnership firm by Padma Shri awardee Dr. AVS Raju (Founder and Chairman Emeritus), NCC Limited became a limited company in 1990 and was listed on the National Stock Exchange in 1992. It is currently ranked number two among listed construction companies in India, with a consolidated annual turnover of around ₹15,701 crore and an order book of approximately ₹50,244 crore (as of 31 March 2023). The company has a well-diversified portfolio spanning Buildings, Transportation, Electrical (T&D), Water & Environment, Irrigation, Railways and Mining, and enjoys a reputation for on-time project completion without compromising on quality. Recognised with multiple awards such as the 3rd Fastest Growing Construction Company in India, the Top Challenger Award, and the Build India Infra Award, NCC Limited is accredited with ISO 9001:2015, 14001:2015 and 45001:2018 for civil engineering works including design, development and execution of major industrial, residential, infrastructure, highways and airport projects.
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