Apr 2024 – May 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• 1. Overseeing the Recruitment Database to promote the Employee Referral Scheme.
• 2. Administering the vendors & service providers.
• 3. Accountable for the complete recruitment life cycle following (SOP) & (TAT). - Leading the retail hiring efforts across South India for over 750 (COCO) stores.
• 4. Supervising a high-performing Talent Acquisition team of 16 members in the southern region.
• 5. Engaging with 35 (AOMs) and 5 Circle Heads as primary stakeholders.
• 6. Collaborating with the Projects and BD teams on expansion initiatives and optimizing the New Store Opening process, ensuring staff hiring is executed effectively.
• 7. Guaranteeing the team adheres to the Recruitment Plan as outlined in the (AOP).
• 8. Formulating and executing a cost-effective Recruitment Plan.
• 9. Ensuring completion of Job Requisition Forms for all positions being sourced, whether new or replacements.
• 10. Sourcing candidates through Internal Job Postings and assessing options for Function or Region Transfers.
• 11. Leveraging team in Identifying candidates via Recruitment Database, Job Portals, Social Media, Employee Referrals, Job Fairs, and Campus Interviews.
• 12. Managing the offer process, including negotiations, reference checks, BGV, and relationship management.
• 13. Coordinating with HR Operations, HRBP's, Administration, IT, and Learning & Development teams to keep them updated on new hires, joining dates, and necessary inputs.
• 14. Conducting weekly review meetings with functional stakeholders.
• 15. Managing the Recruitment Tracker and overseeing Budget Management.
• 16. Preparing Monthly and Annual Recruitment Management Information System (MIS) reports.
• 17. Responsible for teams effective performance management.
• 18. Regular business travel.
• 19. Volunteered in various central company projects/Off Zone.
• 20. Partnering with the business & the HRBP's in terms of employees engagement activities & employees life cycle management to ensure the attrition rate is in control and high retention percentage.

Mar 2022 – Apr 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Feb 2021 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• ✓ Key Responsibilities:
• Managing Talent Acquisition team of Karnataka & Goa Region(Domestically) & US Region(Overseas), Handling both IT & Non-IT(Retail Chain Space) Verticals for the organization; from the associate level to the leadership hiring.
• Creating and implementing holistic recruitment strategies to streamline the recruitment process for both Permanent & Contractual hiring (FTE & C2H).
• Accountable for all the Requisitions forms to be closed smoothly in a given Tag-Time/SLA/TAT.
• Conducting the Campus Recruitment Drives program in various colleges across the city & Also handling the vendors.
• Working closely with all the stakeholders to understand recruitment needs and plan the hiring accordingly.
• Running the daily stand up meetings, weekly review meetings & monthly team meetings to streamline the hiring needs & fulfilment
• Acts as a single SPOC.
• Training the team with respect to them understanding the nature of the requirements, Job Specifications, and helping them to identify & tap the right Industry/Market to source the Lucrative Talent/Resources for the clients.
• Defining KPI's, monitoring performance, identifying skill gap and facilitating Upskilling and capacity building measures for better team performance.
• Having a Pragmatic and Eloquent approach towards meeting short, medium and long-term business challenges.
• Preparing the monthly, quarterly reports and presenting to the leadership, Creating PPT, trackers on hiring and attrition for the review meetings with stakeholders.
• Handling Escalations, Offer Negotiations, Counter offers, Conducting the HR Discussions, POFO, Understanding the Salary compensations, Exit interviews, Employee retentions Etc.
• Assist the management with Appraisals Cycles.
• Managing daily candidate trackers & demand trackers.
• Hands on ATS, Networking tools, university alumni sites, blogs, local organizations websites, discussion groups, resume databases.
• Reports directly to the HR Director.

Aug 2020 – Feb 2021 · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• ➢ RPO Project 1 (Onsite) Mercedes Benz India
• ✓ Key Responsibilities:
• Served as the one-point of contact for all activities and communication related to Recruitment/Talent Acquisition, Fulfilling the entire Technical & Non-Technical Recruitment for MBRDI (Domestic & International Market) in India & US.
• Lead the inhouse and external Recruitment team of 6 people & Defining the KPI's.
• Managing the hiring needs of Daimler as well (One of the Fintech group entity of MBRDI).
• Handling the entire Infrastructure Hiring and Technology Hiring.
• Responsible for managing multiple stakeholders across the Group entities & Business Units.
• Responsible for End-to-end Recruitment Starting from receiving the requisitions up to the candidates onboarding.
• Engaging with senior level management to create fair and consistent Hiring process and procedures.
• Handling the escalation and maintaining the improvisation.
• Conducting regular meeting with the managers to understand the hiring need and plan accordingly.
• To identify the problem statements of all Line of Businesses and managing the execution and implementation of the strategies end to end.
• ➢ RPO Project 2 (Onsite) Koch Business Solutions India
• ✓ Key Responsibilities:
• End-to-end catering to all the open requisitions for IT & Non-IT (Domestic and International) India and US.
• Executed the Acquisitions with an assigned team of 5 members, Inclusive of Mid-level recruiters, Sourcing Specialists, Coordinators.
• Sanity check for the sourced profiles and share the profiles for reviews to the Hiring Managers.
• Successfully fulfilled all the requisitions in a given Tag-time with Zero Vendor Support.
• Showed due diligence in prioritizing assignments, interface and assist other team members to accomplish daily objectives.
• Running the review meetings, stand up calls & Preparing the Data required for the meetings.
• Assigning the requisitions to the team in order to fulfill all the FTE's & C2H positions before the ageing.

May 2017 – Aug 2020 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• ❖ Clients Handled - Accenture, Wipro, IBM, Infosys, HGS, Oracle, IDFC, Apollo, Mind Tree, CBA, Edureka, ARS Traffic, Pine Labs, Shell, ANZ, BigBasket, Icici, 24/7, Deloitte, Medlife, Byju's, No Brokers, OLA, Porter.
• ✓ Key Responsibilities:
• Understanding the Clients requirements & Fulfilling the Requirements in Tag-time.
• Responsible for End-to-end Recruitment (Starting from sourcing, screening, scheduling, feedback collection, follow ups, offer negotiation, dealing with counter offers, documents collection, offer release, POFO, up to the candidates Joining).
• Successfully lead the Team of 5 people to fulfill all the IT & Non-IT client’s requirements.
• Interacting with all my Clients & Stakeholders on Day-to-day basis as a SPOC.
• Identifying and Sourcing top talent and resources as per the client’s requirements from different sources i.e. Naukri, Monster, LinkedIn, OLX, Shine, Other Social Media, Head Hunting, Personal References & Internal Database.
• Organizing the mega interview drives in-house, and arranging the campus placements for Bulk Hiring.
• Maintaining the daily trackers/reports and data of every candidate interaction in order to create pipeline for the future requirements/requisitions.
• Developed proficiency in understanding all my clients staffing needs, thereby adding value in speeding up the entire recruitment process.
• Ability to prioritize the assignments, interface & assist other junior recruiters, staff and hiring managers to accomplish Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly & Yearly Objectives.
• Handling Escalations.
• Creating a strong pipeline in order to avoid the last minute no shows and declines.
• Verified applicant references and employment details.
• Served as an advisor and strategic liaison to hiring managers and human resources to offer guidance and direction for staffing programs.
• Handled the Entry level hiring, Executive Search, Mid-level Hiring, Senior Hiring.
• Handled APAC hiring; Gulf & Middle East Recruitment.

Mar 2017 – May 2017 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Jan 2017 – Mar 2017 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Nov 2016 – Jan 2017 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Jun 2016 – Oct 2016 · 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Mar 2016 – May 2016 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Sep 2015 – Feb 2016 · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India