Jitendra Babar

Talent Acquisition Manager

Pune, Maharashtra, India15 yrs 8 mos experience
AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • 16+ years in Talent Acquisition and Recruitment Management
  • Expert in SaaS Product Engineering recruitment strategies
  • Proven track record in managing high-impact hiring projects
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition expert in SaaS and technology recruitment.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionRecruiting StrategiesRecruitment Management

Other Skills

AIAutomation TestingCandidate EngagementData AnalysisERP RecruitmentElastic SearchEnd to End RecruitmentExternal Employment BrandingHadoopInfrastructureInterview CoordinationIoTJ2EEJavaMIS Reporting

About

Overall 16+ years experience in building GCC, Captives, SaaS Product engineering companies. • Dynamic and results-oriented professional • Excellent understanding of technical/business requirements • Exceedingly flexible and highly self-motivated. • Team player with strong organisational skills; ability to multi-task • Experience with working in fast-paced environments Technologies worked on: Java,J2ee,Hadoop, Automation Testing (SDET),UI/UX,MSTR,Teradata,Oracle Apps,SAP,Infrastructure, Elastic Search,IoT,AI, Virtualization, NLP, Machine Learning etc Specialities: Recruitment Strategy, stakeholder management, Hands on Technical Recruitment, Negotiations, Networking, People management, Employee Relations,Lateral & Bulk hiring,expert in Adhoc hiring, Recruiting Dashboards, contract staffing, Social Media hiring, Candidate engagement/experience.

Experience

Icertis

Talent Acquisition Manager (Engineering/R&D Hiring)

May 2021May 2025 · 4 yrs · Pune, Maharashtra, India · Hybrid

  • Managing hiring for SaaS Product engineering, Product Management, Solutions Engineering and Research & Development group.
  • Collaborate with Senior Leadership,VP – Engineering, Product Managers, Director and Engineering leaders to create recruiting strategies.
  • Partnering with Business leaders/ Talent Acquisition Managers and recruiting peers to share talent, market intelligence, and best practice recruiting methodology.
  • Developing and analysing key recruiting metrics. Supports and promotes programs in relation to hiring needs.
  • Managed various recruiting projects like candidate engagement program, Branding, Requisition persona, Referral help desk and created competency based questions for various roles.
  • As TA leader, managing a team of 5 members and doing Hands on for various roles like Chief/Principal Data scientist, VP Engineering, GM-R&D and other leadership roles.
  • For leadership roles, managed a strike rate of 100%.
Talent AcquisitionSaaS Product EngineeringRecruiting StrategiesStakeholder ManagementRecruiting Metrics

Xoriant

Lead Talent Acquisition

Aug 2015May 2021 · 5 yrs 9 mos · Pune Area, India

  • Managing Recruitment for Products and Services business units (various domains like BFSI, IoT,
  • Cloud,Virtualiazation,Analytics)
  • Stakeholder reporting, & escalation management.
  • Working with business leaders in driving Talent strategy and aligning to business goals
  • Build a world-class team of professionals in the organization by identifying & hiring high potential
  • talent.
  • Regular Synch up with the Directors, Delivery Managers at Onshore as well as Offshore for
  • strategies and to understand talent requirements across the business.
  • Handling and mentoring a team of 3 TA Executives. Prepare daily, weekly, monthly reports for
  • effective tracking and responsible for setting up the KRA’s and appraisal process.
  • Develop and manage the external employment branding activity through various sources.
  • Focus on implementing modern recruitment strategies that encompass social media, search
  • engine optimization and proactive sourcing.
  • Involved in Candidate Engagement program
Recruitment ManagementStakeholder ReportingTalent StrategyExternal Employment BrandingCandidate EngagementTalent Acquisition

Sears holdings corporation

Talent Acquisition

Oct 2012Mar 2015 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Pune Area, India

  • Responsible for end to end recruitment in order to ramp-up hiring across the Business Units.
  • Involve in Recruitment Strategies/Planing for Recruitment and Implement them to achieve Targets.
  • Interacting with the Directors, DM,Group Managers at Onshore as well as Offshore for strategies, challenges and work arounds.
  • Responsible for E2E Recruitment (Screening - till joining)
  • Maintain and Updating the Recruitment MIS and providing periodic reports to the relevant stakeholders.
  • Maintain a consistent Offer to Joining Ratio (80% and more).
  • Coordinate with external vendors for weekend drives and for niche Hiring.
End to End RecruitmentRecruitment StrategiesVendor CoordinationRecruitment MISTalent Acquisition

Fujitsu consulting india

Talent Acquisition

Feb 2010Apr 2012 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Pune Area, India

  • Being a part of ERP Recruitment Team, extensible working on Oracle Apps/SAP requirement (worked on Niche, Special and Vanilla) across the level and geographies
  • Directly interacting with Practice Head to understand the requirement, collecting initial technical interview questions, scheduling interview with technical panel, collecting feedbacks of interview
  • Making the best use of all the sourcing techniques to tap the best talent in the market - Agencies, Referrals, Job Postings, Mass Mailers, Job Boards, LinkedIn, Employee Referrals, Internal Database, and other networking Sites
  • Taking preliminary interviews to ascertain candidate's competencies, skills and, aspirations (based on work, position, salary and relocation etc)
  • Understanding technical and behavioral competency for leadership roles and understanding candidate fitments
  • Acquiring compensation proofs, setting the expectation right, through salary negotiation with the short-listed candidate.
  • Effectively handling Walk-in Drives for mass hiring
  • Handling external agencies, grooming them by providing inputs on the requirements, providing timely feedbacks on profiles sent.
  • Experience in Recruitment Tools “Taleo” – for uploading the candidate’s resume, updating the records, changing the candidate status as per the interview process
  • Creating Offer in HRMS Tools and submitting it for approval from WFM Head
  • Involve in Time Management & regularly interacting with Employees.
ERP RecruitmentSourcing TechniquesTechnical InterviewingSalary NegotiationTalent Acquisition

Triumph systems & solutions pvt. ltd.

Sr. Recruiter

Sep 2008Jan 2010 · 1 yr 4 mos · Pune Area, India

  • Worked on various requirement using multiple sources such as Jobs-Site, Employee Referrals, Social Network, Headhunting (case dependent) etc.
  • Responsible for the complete end to end recruitment process which involves screening profiles, scheduling, coordinating and conducting interviews/technical tests, reference checks, post offer follow-up until the candidate join.
  • Sourcing resumes, short listing candidate, negotiating in terms of (salary, relocation, joining time)
  • Attending conference call with HR-Managers/PM to discuss about the requirements.
  • Visiting client place to attend an Agency Meeting.
  • Efficiently handled multiple requirements.
  • Coordinating interviews with candidates & HR.
  • Ensuring the offered candidate joins on the intended DOJ avoiding all possible delays
  • Mentor new recruiter in the team with recruitment process and guideline.
  • Maintain MIS reports, daily and weekly tracking report (including offers and joiners
End to End RecruitmentSourcing ResumesInterview CoordinationMIS ReportingTalent Acquisition

Education

Pune University

MPM — HR

Jan 2005Jan 2007

Shivaji University

Bsc — Zoology

Jan 2002Jan 2005

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