Jun 2022 – Jun 2023 · 1 yr · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · Hybrid

• Reporting to the Head of Talent Acquisition for dentsu South Asia, I lead TA for Merkle Sokrati (dentsu's customer experience management business).
• Key Accountabilities:
• ■ Defining/Executing the talent acquisition strategy to make over 1500+ offers annually to hire exceptional talent for media & martech businesses (from a diverse talent pool of companies/internal mobility pool/campuses/ad agencies/digital agencies/tech companies/digital institutes/technical finishing schools, etc).
• ■ Partnering closely with various touch points across business, finance, people services, HRBPs, etc teams to attract, engage, and select qualified candidates in line with agreed upon talent plans, benchmarks and timelines.
• ■ External talent mapping, DEI (diversity, equity & inclusion) guided hiring, candidate experience management, compensation / offer negotiation, employer branding/talent branding, talent analytics, effective recruiter utilization, etc.
• ■ Managing/Mentoring/Coaching a team of 8-10 recruiters to successfully close open positions within a healthy turnaround time, focusing on metrics like Time To Offer, Time to Join, future ready skills fitment, recruitment funnel optimization, weekly reporting, stakeholder management, etc.
• ■ Developing & maintaining a strong candidate pipeline for all roles within all sub business units.
• ■ Leveraging multiple recruiting sources and techniques to identify and engage a diverse pool of active and passive candidates, including LinkedIn, search engines, niche/mainstream job boards, social media, user groups, career page, IJPs, employee referral programs, etc.
• ■ Hiring as a team manager as well as individual contributor with the potential to take on more open positions as business needs dictate.
• ■ Using applicant tracking systems (ATS) & HCM Workday/SmartRecruiters to efficiently invite/screen/onboard/manage candidate applications & the end to end hiring process as a single source of truth.

Dec 2021 – May 2022 · 5 mos · India

• Key Accountabilities:
• ■ Accountable for handling the complete recruitment life cycle starting from sourcing the best talent from diverse sources to onboarding.
• ■ Responsible for lateral hiring for mid to leadership level roles.
• ■ Hired for roles across: Quality, Design, Project Management, Finance, Content Marketing, HR, BD, Research, Marketing Automation, etc.
• ■ Global Stakeholder management.
• ■ Candidate Experience
• ■ Compensation benchmarking & industry mapping for recurring roles hired.
• ■ Stakeholder management, reporting & engagement
• Achievements
• ✓ Successfully had 12+ first cv conversions (offers) within the first 6 months.

May 2016 – Dec 2021 · 5 yrs 7 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

• Media.net is a leading ad tech company comprising 1750+ employees exclusively focused on developing innovative monetization products for digital publishers. By revenue, Media.net runs one of the top #5 largest contextual ads program globally. We have a global footprint of offices spread across New York, Los Angeles, Dubai, Mumbai, Bangalore, and Zurich. Some of our publisher clients include Forbes, Hearst, Meredith, Yahoo, MSN, Reuters, Kiplinger, The Street, Ziff Davis, NY Daily News, and many more.
• Building world-class talent for Media.net, as Associate Manager – Talent Acquisition my responsibilities included but were not limited to:
• ■ Talent Acquisition
• ■ Manpower planning based on business requirements.
• ■ Responsible for lateral hiring wherein I managed entry, mid and leadership level hiring.
• ■ Responsible for hiring for Business & Shared Services functions across HR, Finance, Marketing, IT/Procurement, Sales/BD, etc
• ■ Driving hiring for 15+ open positions at any given time.
• ■ Global Stakeholder reporting & management.
• ■ Driving IJPs and Employee Referral programs.
• ■ Driving a world class & progressive Candidate Experience (Glassdoor rating 4 - 4.4/5)
• ■ Handling the end-to-end recruitment life cycle starting from sourcing to onboarding.
• ■ Campus Hiring (Tier I/II Graduate & B-School/Pg Campus - Relationships, Brand building, Hiring & outreach. Building strategic relationships with SPOCS and campuses to get Day-0 slots.
• ■ Compensation benchmarking of competitive offers for both UG/PG campuses.
• ■ Communications for campus hiring - Preparation of corporate deck, Preplacement talks.
• ■ Visiting campuses for Pre-placement talks and final placement which includes tier 1 management, engineering and Non-Tech campuses.
• ■ Employer Branding.
• Achievements
• ✓ 100% reduction of vendor support for both domestic / global hiring for media.net offices.
• ✓ Creation & execution of campus strategy to reduce early attrition of early careers talent.
• ✓ Brand Building on campuses.

Jul 2014 – May 2016 · 1 yr 10 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

• ■ Pan-India recruiting for mid-senior levels across diverse industries.
• ■ Sourcing, screening, and interviewing.
• ■ Stakeholder Management (clients)
• ■ Mentoring new team members.
• Team Management.

Nov 2012 – Nov 2013 · 1 yr · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

• ■ Hiring for associate and mid-level positions.
• ■ Employee Engagement.
• ■ Training & Development.
• ■ Formulating HR policies and procedures
• ■ Managing Performance Appraisal process.
• ■ Talent management

Apr 2011 – Nov 2012 · 1 yr 7 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

• ■ Recruitment
• ■ Employee Engagement
• ■ Data Management
• ■ HR Audits