Nov 2018 – May 2025 · 6 yrs 6 mos · Gurgaon, India · On-site

• CarDekho is the flagship portal of Girnarsoft, along with its other group portals like Gaadi.com, ZigWheels and PowerDrift is India’s biggest digital automotive solutions provider working on digitizing the Indian Auto Ecosystem.
• Valued at $380 million, CarDekho has raised funding from Marquee investors including Sequoia Capital, Google Capital, Hillhouse Capital, Tybourne Capital, HDFC Bank, Ratan Tata and Times Internet.
• CarDekho became profitable even before it raised any funding, however, the investments scaled the company to new heights.
• CarDekho, India’s largest Auto-Tech Company was founded in March 2008, by two brothers and IIT graduates – Amit Jain and Anurag Jain. From just two individuals back then to two thousand employees now, from a small garage in their home in Jaipur to offices in 10 cities and a presence in 800 cities nationally; CarDekho has disrupted the Indian Auto Ecosystem and redefined new ways in its 10 years journey.
• Headquartered in Jaipur, CarDekho has offices in 10 cities including Gurgaon, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Mumbai. The group’s vision is to be a unicorn before the year 2021 with global footprints offering innovative products and services.
• CarDekho is an end-to-end automotive solution provider offering its expertise from buying or selling the vehicle to its finance, insurance, and maintenance through company’s different business verticals. CarDekho plays a crucial role at all stages of a vehicle buyer’s journey, by giving them a holistic experience and helping them in taking the right decision.

Sep 2015 – Nov 2018 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Bravvura - Breaking Down Barriers to Build Better Solutions !!
• Building cutting-edge Solutions for today's Omni-Channel Digital world that specializes in Audacious creative and Immersive Technology.
• We are more than an agency; we’re a partner for emerging and daring brands. We stand for meaningful, long-lasting connections between our clients and their customers through tailor-made strategies incorporating a custom-blend of creative and technology.
• We work beyond borders and bring influences from different countries, industries and backgrounds to deliver diverse and innovative work.
• Responsibilities :
• Conducted all human resource responsibilities including: assessments, interviewing, hiring, orientations, employee relations, employee coaching, and terminations
• Define and drive the Talent Acquisition strategy for the business in India.
• Manage all team members, including commitment setting and performance management
• Drive workforce planning and capacity planning, optimize team to deliver against full hiring demand whilst ensuring productivity targets are being met
• Monitor headcount execution plan and own headcount forecasting
• Central Sourcing, Diversity, Staffing Marketing, and other organizations and peers as appropriate to ensure a high quality experience for hiring managers, the staffing team and candidates
• Ensure that a positive candidate experience is managed by leading a high quality recruitment, feedback and communication process via On-Boarding Process
• Develop a diverse pipeline of excellent prospects to source proactively for current and future roles. As a result, the business will be able to fill key positions more quickly with top talent
• Advise hiring managers on strategic staffing issues including industry talent trends, best tools to use or sources for candidates
• Ensure any changes in staffing policies, systems and processes are implemented & guide stakeholders on expected impact

Jan 2014 – Sep 2015 · 1 yr 8 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Founded in 1989, G4S India is the leading security solutions group in the country. The company today has more than 160,000 employees with a strong network of over 200 branches and regional offices spread throughout India. Besides its core business of Secure Solutions, Cash Solutions, Security Systems, G4S offers a range of services including Training, Facilities Management, Aviation Security, Central Monitoring, Garment Manufacturing, Recruitment & Placement, IT, Asset Tracking and Security Consultancy. As a worldwide security solutions provider, G4S operates in more than 125 countries. We manage a workforce of nearly 657,000 employees worldwide
• Responsibilities:
• o Responsible for end-to-end Recruitment of Mid & Senior Level professionals for India Sales
• function and Global Development Center for High end technology
• o Instituting new Recruitment Processes and Policies and org-level Recruitment MIS
• o Driving Aspirational Staffing for the business group
• o Validating and streamlining open demands
• o Development of channels/relationships – vendors, portals, referral, etc.

Feb 2013 – Jan 2014 · 11 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• IndiaHomes, headquartered in New Delhi, backed by Helion Venture and Foundation Capital investor firms of International repute, is India’s No.1 Property Advisory Company, serving its customers through a network of eight offices located in top cities in the country. We exemplify the spirit of customers aspiring to own a home, by giving them the right choices to make a decision and hand-holding them through the procedure of buying a house.
• Responsibilities:
• o Overall Recruitment responsibility, covering Operations, Sales, Technical & Leadership
• o Overseeing multi-location, multi-specialty hiring teams
• o Recruitment Process development/redesign and MIS
• o Implementation of ATS and developing the ‘Market Intelligence for Recruitment’ activity
• o Supporting Manpower Planning and validating the link between business plan and hiring plan
• o Developing and executing a clear multi-channel sourcing strategy
• o Supporting Brand Building & Communication – key, as we hiring en masse

Dec 2010 – Feb 2013 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Gurgaon, India

•  Recruitment & Selection
• Handling the North India Recruitments with a team spread across Line of services and across business line.
• Interacting with Partners/Executive Directors and other key managers to develop the recruitment plan for current and pipeline projects requirements.
• Devise ramp- up plan/ search plan and adopt effective search strategies to meet delivery unit needs
• Ensure effective employee referral utilization and on-time payment release.
• Handling the recruitment planning process & build the talent pipeline for the business to achieve the hiring targets within the standard timelines at optimal price points
• Improve candidate conversion ratios & overall quality of vendor service to the business
• Generate and provide analytics around recruitment
• Responsible for coordinating a large recruiting pipeline and meeting recruiting targets and process requirements.
• Core team member for developing recruitment strategy design and implementation of process for hiring within TAT as per the SLA
• Identify suitable recruitment channel and vendor management
• Monitored hiring processes are effective, and recommend process improvements.
• Planning for strategic and tactical (Volume) hiring through multiple channels.
• Initiate ad execution plan for driving Employee Referrals for cost effective recruitment.
• Preparing various MIS reports based on the requirements open, closed, pending. Hire and placement reports.
• Responsible for use of technology to improve the recruitment process & a collaborative hiring model with the business.
• ACHIEVEMENTS
• Joining ratio improved from 85% - 92%
• Playing integral role in implementation of system in recruitment across India.
• Consultant hiring ratio improved from60% to 10%
• Referrals moved from 20% to 29%

Feb 2007 – Nov 2010 · 3 yrs 9 mos

• Recruitment & Selection
• o Oversaw hiring from when headcount was 100 to when it became 750, including setting up the 120-strong Pune centre
• o Migration of a Ukraine acquisition onto SAP and related recruitment systems and processes
• o Campus hiring at Management & Engineering institutes, including maintaining the annual Campus calendar, designing and running the Summer Trainee, Exec/Sr. Mgmt. training programmes and overseeing onboarding
• o Creation of new and relevant Recruitment dashboard as the company expanded
• Resourcing & Bench Management
• o Supporting Manpower planning and staff deployment across projects and planning for new wins
• o Ensuring average utilisation of at least 80% in both Ukraine and India
• o Overseeing the roll-off process, including feedback collection
• o Bench management and training need assessment to support new wins and keeping up with the market
• Other HR initiatives
• o Part of the team that rolled out the Employee Engagement Survey and Performance Management System
• o Part of Core team for migrating all new locations onto SAP and internal reporting tools for smooth transition
• o Organizing targeted off-sites for Team Building, including an Intervention Program for the Leadership Team
• o Employee communication via newsletters and organising regular skip-levels

Oct 2003 – Jul 2005 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Involved in the recruitment process of Induslogic & help them locating suitable candidates for different positions across the India and US.Extensively involved in resource of technical and non technical professionals for domestic and international market.Developed and maintained relationships with Clients.Sourcing, Short listing, maintaining and managing records/reports. From active resume database like Monster,Naukri, Jobsahead, etc.Interviewing, Negotiating Compensation and closing the role and finally presenting offers and performed reference checks on all qualified recruits.Shelling out resumes against differentrequirements, checking them against different specifications set by internal recruitment team and even by the client such as skill set, salary range, relocation, work authorization etc.Interacting with the Project managers, technical teams.

Jul 2005 – Mar 2007 · 1 yr 8 mos

•  Recruitment & Selection
• Involved in the recruitment process of Headstrong & help them locating suitable candidates for different positions across Pan India, US and UK.
• Manage and develop the database for optimum utilization. Use all methodologies of sourcing like Headhunting, Networking, Employee Referrals, and Internet Sourcing for low cost hiring.
• Coordinate with other Recruitment Agencies for sharing the skilled resources and requirements.
• Sourcing, Short listing, maintaining and managing records/reports. From active resume database like Monster,
• Naukri, Jobsahead, etc for all levels.
• , clients, candidates and external recruiting sources.
• Coordinating technical interviews and HR formalities.

May 2003 – Oct 2003 · 5 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Main accountabilities:-
• Talent Hunting: - To source the exact profile as per client specification and execute the requirement in the shortest possible time.
• Designing daily, weekly, monthly reports for recruitments and interviews.
• Counseling candidates and other human resources development related activities so as to maintain the level of satisfaction at the height of highest level on both sides.
• Mainly taking care of all the functionalities of Client Servicing.
• Identifying the professionals in the market and obtaining CV’s through various means like Headhunting, Networking, References, and Industry Mapping etc.
• Preparing for Client presentations and documentations.

Jul 2002 – Apr 2003 · 9 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• MAH India - Consulting Organization :
• Client facing role
• Recruitment targets
• Leading client communication for Mid-senior level hiring