Manjunath Rao

Operations Associate

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India8 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in building and scaling engineering teams.
Proven track record in optimizing hiring processes.
Strong focus on employee engagement and retention.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned HR and Technical Recruiting professional with expertise in scaling teams in the tech industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

People ManagementStakeholder ManagementPerformance ManagementTechnical RecruitingTalent AcquisitionRecruitment

Other Skills

Change ManagementCollaborationEngagement InitiativesFull Cycle RecruitingGoal SettingGrievance HandlingHeadhuntingHiring Process OptimizationIndustry MappingLateral HiringNegotiationRating CalibrationSocial MediaStrategic SourcingSurveys

About

I am passionate about people and process. While I love 'the thinking', I also love 'the doing'.

Experience

Rapido

2 roles

Manager - HRBP ( Operations )

Promoted

Oct 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 5 mos

HR Business Partner – Bike, Auto and Cab Taxi Operations.
Partner with operations leadership to align HR strategies with business goals, driving performance, ride growth, and city-level operational KPIs across India.
Manage end-to-end performance management, including goal setting, rating calibration, and appraisals for 300+ employees.
Lead engagement initiatives such as R&R programs, ENPS/MNPS surveys, grievance handling, and regional visits to boost retention and culture.
Conduct training need analysis and collaborate with L&D to deliver targeted capability-building programs and succession planning for high-potential talent.
Act as the HR point of contact between business and COEs, driving policy feedback, process improvements, and change management for operational excellence.
I worked with TA on the hiring and manpower planning..

People ManagementStakeholder ManagementPerformance ManagementEngagement InitiativesTraining Needs AnalysisChange Management

Associate Manager (TA)

Jan 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 2 mos

Single-handedly established and led engineering divisions across different verticals including Engineering.
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Successfully expanded the (Customer & Captain) Android and iOS teams from 5 to 30 members
Built engineering teams such as G2G, MONEY MOVEMENT, MONEY CONTROL, PAYMENTS, PLATFORM, and RETENTION from the ground up.
Optimized the tech hiring process, reducing Time-to-Fill (TAT) for technical roles from an average of 200 days to just 45 days.

Technical RecruitingTeam BuildingHiring Process Optimization

Recruitinggames

Senior Technical Recruiter

May 2019 – Dec 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos · India

India's first Gamified hiring flat form.
Experience in building and scaling engineering teams in the early and mid startups.
Extensive experience in lateral and leadership hiring.

Technical RecruitingTeam ScalingLateral Hiring

Blue yonder(formerly jda software group)

Talent Acquisition Specialist

Jan 2018 – Apr 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bangaon Area, India

Independently handled full cycle recruiting process by partnering with business leaders to
create customized solutions across various business units.
Drive and identify talent by leveraging recruiting process, tools and gathering role
requirements and recommendations.
Built highly scalable distributed engineering teams for BY's LCT (Luminate control tower)
from the scratch and ramped up JDA's innovation labs team.
Collaboratively worked with Germany team and built new team of Data scientists and Big
data analytics for LDE (Luminate Demand Edge) from the scratch.
Built the digital supply chain Mobility platform team from ground up.
Designed rewards (Referral programs), hiring through Employer branding, involved in
campus hiring & on-boarding formalities

Full Cycle RecruitingTalent IdentificationTeam BuildingTalent Acquisition

Wenger & watson inc

Consultant

Dec 2016 – Aug 2017 · 8 mos · Banglore

As a individual contributor, worked on Mid-Level and Leadership niche skilled roles through industry mapping, LinkedIn, Social Media, Online search, Job portals and Headhunting.
Involved and Supported Amazon and Expedia in hiring SDE II, SDE III to senior level roles to design and implement large-scale distributed systems using the latest in industry technologies.

RecruitmentHeadhuntingIndustry Mapping