Dr. Sumukh SG

Recruiter

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India14 yrs experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Designed automated hiring process saving 1,400+ interview hours.
Led high volume recruitment across 34 cities in India.
Established diversity and inclusion projects at Amazon.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition expert in HR Tech with a focus on diversity and high-volume recruitment.

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Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionRecruitingDiversity & Inclusion

Other Skills

Algorithmic TradingAutomationCampus HiringCandidate CounselingDiversity RecruitmentEmployee EngagementEmployee RelationsExecutive SearchHR ConsultingHead HuntingHead huntingHiringIT RecruitmentInternet RecruitingInterviewing

About

As a seasoned Talent Acquisition leader at Amazon, I specialize in driving end-to-end recruitment strategies across three major business units: Amazon Pay, Customer Experience, and Corporate Development. With over a 12 years of experience in talent acquisition, I bring expertise in building innovative hiring processes, optimizing recruitment efficiency, and delivering exceptional results in leadership hiring, lateral hiring, and bulk hiring. Completed Ph.D. in Human Resource Management, I combine academic rigor with practical insights to enhance recruitment frameworks. My proven track record includes designing and implementing a scalable, automated hiring process for high-volume recruitment across India, saving 1,400+ interview hours within six months. I manage a diverse team, including recruiters, coordinators, and RPOs, while ensuring alignment with key recruitment KPIs and industry best practices. My expertise extends to crafting talent acquisition strategies that align with business objectives, foster diversity, and enable workforce planning for dynamic and high-growth environments. Happy to connect for anything related to talent acquisition.

Experience

Amazon

3 roles

Recruitment Business Partner

Promoted

Sep 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 6 mos

Responsible for driving the full spectrum of recruitment activities for 3 big business units (amazon pay, customer experience, corporate development)
Creating and implementing Talent Acquisition strategies for Leadership, Lateral and high volume hiring.
Designed automated hiring process for bulk hiring across India. (saved 1400+ interview hours in six months)
Optimizing recruitment process to increase the productivity of the team. Ex: automated sourcing, diversity sourcing hacks, auto prescreening tools
Lead the team (Recruiters, recruitment coordinators and RPO) to deliver against the hiring plan and continuous monitor of metrics (both input and output), implementing best practices and increasing operational efficiency.
Establish and drive equal employment opportunity, diversity, equity and inclusion projects. (Managing 4-member project)
Work with central campus recruitment team for annual hiring from colleges throughout the country. (Part of campus interview in all top institutes to tier-3 institutes)
Apart from core recruitment I manage other projects like - Recruitment budget, Candidate experience and recruitment analytics.

Diversity & InclusionTalent AcquisitionRecruitingTeam ManagementPerformance Improvement

Recruitment Manager

Feb 2019 – Sep 2021 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Heading High Volume Recruiting for Non Tech roles across Sales, Account Management, GTM & seller support.
Leading hiring for FoS, freshers, entry level in 34 cities and 12 virtual office across India.
Designing, Implementing & Executing Talent sourcing models & strategies for various business units.
Interact with the function heads to identify the geography, skills and transition plans on feasible hiring strategy to deliver on agreed timeline
Building proactive pipeline for the ongoing attrition and new business launch.
Headed PAN India Recruitment for a new business launch across India. (Kisan, transport, academy, affiliate marketing)
Spearheaded the team of 6+ seasoned sourcing, recruiting specialists, RPO and recruitment agencies.
Deployed new aged recruiting tool & drove recruiting excellence projects within Prione to automate high volume hiring, offer management and documentation.
Managed campus hiring from the various institutes across the country.
Involved in the area of developing industry - academia relationship to improve employ-ability of students from institutes which have zero exposure to corporate world.

Talent AcquisitionRecruitingSourcingTeam LeadershipCampus Hiring

Recruitment Program Manager

Jan 2018 – Feb 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo

Managing Leadership hiring and ecommerce hiring for Cloudtail (category / Instock / Vendor Management )
Talent Acquisition (TA) professional hiring teams across India. Own Sales & Marketing staffing across multiple e-commerce businesses in India and be involved in creating talent strategies to hire top talent.
Seasoned recruiting Professional who is building an overall Talent Acquisition strategy for the business units with various stakeholders in the complex business environment.
Mentoring the team of associates and co-ordinators and partner closely with Senior Business leaders giving guidance on building talent pools.
Creating customized sourcing strategies that scale, lead teams to build quality talent pipelines, and drive sourcing strategy recommendations for critical roles.
Involved in many automation, standardization, and drafting SOP to improve the smooth functioning of the department.

Talent AcquisitionRecruitingMentoringSourcing Strategies

Ansrsource

Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

Jun 2014 – Jan 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Responsible for all levels of talent acquisition, recruiting and recruitment programs, procedures, and plans. Serve as consultant and partner staying current on business and market trends, assisting on both the strategic and tactical level. Possesses strong understanding of client needs and hiring conditions external and internal. Provides advice, expertise and assistance to all levels of personnel both internal and external on various recruiting/talent acquisition related issues.
Established metrics for sourcing, offers and hires as related to level, position and business group. Also maintained accept/decline data on offers extended and meets goals on number of annual hires relative to level and metrics.
Using multiple channels in sourcing outside of typical job board and resume posting. Possesses a good understanding of requirements gathering and sourcing avenues. Understands and drives creative strategic solutions within multiple groups and/or locations. Understands market conditions as related to client group.

Talent AcquisitionRecruitingMetrics Establishment

Exl

Senior Recruitment Executive

Oct 2011 – Apr 2014 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

>> Full-life cycle recruiting experience, responsibilities include sourcing, screening, and recommending candidates for employment
>> Using extensive sourcing methods to find the right candidates by leveraging different tools like Internet sourcing (Social networking sites), Employee referrals, Head hunting and Job portals.
>>Assessing candidate’s technical abilities, professionalism and communication skills through telephone and F2F discussions.
>>Interacting with HR Manager/ Technical managers/ Team Leader/ Candidates.
>>Counseling the candidates on Negotiating salaries, notice period, explaining company benefits for candidates to ensure offer is converting into joinee.

RecruitingSourcingCandidate Counseling

Anakin management consultants pvt ltd

Senior Recruitment Consultant

Jan 2010 – Oct 2011 · 1 yr 9 mos

Being a recruitment consultant I was responsible for counselling job aspirants to get a better career and working closely with many companies to understand their pain areas in recruitment and providing suitable talent pool to build the organization repute.
Below are some of my key responsibilities but not limited:
Head hunting.
Leadership hiring. (CXO hiring)
Team directorate.
Vendor management.
Pool / Bulk recruitment.

RecruitingHead HuntingVendor Management