Naveen Kumar C S

Talent Acquisition Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India17 yrs 6 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 16+ years of IT recruitment experience
  • Expert in BFSI, Telecom, and Healthcare sectors
  • Led recruitment initiatives across multiple countries
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned IT recruitment professional with expertise in BFSI and Telecom sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

RecruitmentTalent AcquisitionBusiness Development

Other Skills

Account managementCandidate database managementClient communicationCustomer acquisitionCustomer relationsEnd-to-end recruitmentHiring for consulting positionsIT hiringMass RecruitmentProcess setupRecruitment managementRecruitment planningRecruitment strategyRecruitment-to-RecruitmentSourcing candidates

About

A hardcore IT Recruitment professional with total 16+ years of experience of which, 11 years in large corporates including PERSISTENT SYSTEMS LIMITED AND SYNECHRON TECHLOGIES in the capacity of day-to-day recruitment across the functions to vendor management to manage recruitment team. • Responsible for managing accounts and hands on recruitment across different skills and domains. • Exposed and experienced as business acumen with right mix of business development skills in the early stage of the stint with the customer business account management. • Extensively worked BFSI, TELECOM, HEALTHCARE, EMBEDDED and New age technologies. • Contributed to support overseas recruitment for 5 years of which deputed to DUBAI, UAE for 6 months. • Instrumental in setting up recruitment process and team spread across locations to align with the business requirements and to lead and manage several strategic recruitment initiatives for campus, lateral and leadership/CXO hiring. • An active member of cross functional HR teams working on organization wide programs and initiatives. • Contributed to evaluate right vendors, assessing the performance of the partners to reduce cycle time of recruitment process and also training vendors to set the right expectations. • Ability to scale business right from scratch to sizable numbers [ Got opportunity to boost PERSISTENT SYSTEMS initiative to setup office in Bangalore and being one of the first 5 employees to contribute to reach 500+ tech workforce mark) • As a passionate recruitment professional, throughout the career was directly or indirectly involved in screening candidate skill genuinely at the microlevel and to train staff for better hit ratio.

Experience

Jade global

Talent Acquisition Manager

Jul 2025Present · 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Synechron

2 roles

Recruitment Manager

Promoted

Feb 2022Jun 2025 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Hybrid

  • Managed end-to-end recruitment, from requirement gathering to onboarding, with a focus on IT hiring for Banking clients across India, USA, Europe, UAE.
  • Leading & mentoring a team of 16 people across India & UAE.
  • Successfully closed multiple senior-level IT positions across various domains.
  • Reporting hiring status to senior management and respective stake holders also part of strategic workforce planning.
  • Maintained and managed candidate databases with an emphasis on talent retention strategies.
  • Prepared and shared weekly and monthly hiring reports with data-driven insights.
  • Conducted induction programs for new hires, enhancing engagement and retention.
  • Negotiated offers in collaboration with hiring managers and senior leadership ensuring alignment with budget and market standards.
  • Overseas hiring projects and led an onsite recruitment team from Dubai for 6 months.
End-to-end recruitmentIT hiringCandidate database managementTalent retention strategiesStrategic workforce planningRecruitment+1

Recruitment Lead

Oct 2018Mar 2022 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Hybrid

  • Recruiting Professionals for the consulting positions for offshore requirements.
  • Hiring for roles like Freshers, Associates, Leads, Technical Architect and Solution Architects
  • Partner with the directors & senior managers to decide on the recruitment strategy for a period.
  • Ramping up one of the key account under BFSI vertical for Bangalore & Hyderabad location
  • Responsible for creating and rolling out Offers and maintain parity.
  • Lead & mentoring a team of 3 people.
  • Awards:
  • Employee of the month award – Jan 2019
Recruitment strategyHiring for consulting positionsTeam mentoringRecruitment

Persistent systems

2 roles

Assistant Manager - Talent Acquisition

Promoted

Jul 2015Aug 2018 · 3 yrs 1 mo

  • Sourcing from Industry recognized job portals, Analysis & profiling using Social Media like LinkedIn, Head Hunting and other sources such as referrals, professional network etc.
  • Manage, document and track incoming applications and candidate inquires to ensure timely response and communication (Usage of Intranet, Portals etc.)
  • Creation of rolling recruitment plan for open requisitions and timely closure
  • Conduct regular follow-up with managers to determine the effectiveness of recruitment plan and its implementation
  • Regular communication with my clients to assist them in articulating their strategic vision and assist with resource and talent acquisition requirements
  • Achievements:
  • Received “Note Worthy Award” in Feb 2016 for closing key & critical positions.
  • Star Performer Award for Q3(Oct 2015 - Dec 2015)
  • Star Performer Award for Q1(April 2015-June 2015)
  • “Team Award” for Q1(April 2015-June 2015)
  • Part of DWA for new Win.
  • Achieved targeted closures month-on-month across all skills
  • Successfully managed and coordinated Recruitment events across skills
  • Worked for the different Business Units and achieved targets and closures within defined SLA
Sourcing candidatesRecruitment planningClient communicationTalent Acquisition

Senior Recruiter - Talent Acquisition

May 2013Jun 2015 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Roles & Responsibilities:
  • Sourcing from Industry recognized job portals, Analysis & profiling using Social Media like LinkedIn, Head Hunting and other sources such as referrals, professional network etc.
  • Manage, document and track incoming applications and candidate inquires to ensure timely response and communication (Usage of Intranet, Portals etc.)
  • Creation of rolling recruitment plan for open requisitions and timely closure
  • Conduct regular follow-up with managers to determine the effectiveness of recruitment plan and its implementation
  • Regular communication with my clients to assist them in articulating their strategic vision and assist with resource and talent acquisition requirements
  • HR events/ activities:
  • Successfully owned Bangalore Semi Colon Team in 2013(Desh Vikas) and 2015(Radiators)
  • As a part of Green Committee, organized Tree Plantation Event in Bevoor, 90km from Bengaluru .Successful executed 100 Tree Plantations by 40 employees along with their families.
  • As part of Persistent Foundation Activities, Persistent distributed 100 school bags, books and Toys in Bevoor government school.
  • Successfully organized Cultural Events like Dandiya & Children’s day as part of PAC Committee.
  • Coordinated Pulse Event for 2 years successfully
  • Organized Blood Donation Camps as part of WAG committee in PSL premises.
  • Part of sports Committee and organized cricket, badminton, football matches
  • Successfully worked on the quality of meals with the food committee
  • Part of Persistent Magazine Committee for first Bangalore Magazine
  • Awards:
  • Best Dress Award in Dandiya Competition consecutively for 2 yrs
  • Best Dress Award in Pulse Event in first year
  • Award for successfully organizing pulse for 2 yrs continuously
  • Bagged first position - Urja -150 surya Namaskars in Bangalore centre
Sourcing candidatesRecruitment planningClient communicationTalent Acquisition

Yarago software private limited

Manager Business Development

Oct 2012Mar 2013 · 5 mos · Bengalore

  • Reporting to CEO
  • Role: Acquiring customers in India, for Staffing Business.
  • As Business Development Manager:
  • Started and heading India Staffing business and acquired customers across Domains and Technologies
  • Positioning the company and created visibility to prospective in India.
  • Acquired and managed customers like IBM for Finacle projects.
  • Involved in end to end recruitement for Banking Projects from sourcing the candidate to till candidate joining the customer location.
Business developmentCustomer acquisitionRecruitment managementBusiness Development

Oak systems

Business Development Manager

Mar 2008Sep 2012 · 4 yrs 6 mos · Bangalore

  • Reporting to Director and CEO
  • Role: Involved in Business Development, Account Management, Human Resource, Recruitment
  • Account Management / Customer Relation Manager:
  • Acquired and Managed strategic accounts such as IBM, Infosys(Finacle), Yodlee Infotech, BMC, Athoria, Zyme Solutions, PERSISTENT etc
  • Strong and regular communication with business heads, senior management (CXO) of prospective clients to identify areas for business.
  • Short business trips to client sites for presentations and due diligence
  • Developed & maintained strong strategic relationships with clients at various levels.
  • Developing Business models for existing services & solutions, explore new avenues & markets for generating revenue for the company.
  • Weekly review meeting with other functional heads and presenting weekly report and seek advice.
  • Tracking each accounts status and identify new goals and risks during PMR’s
  • Review and renewal of contracts, purchase orders/ work orders.
  • Get timely feedback on resource and convey to employees and guide.
  • Handling customer complaints without affecting the business.
  • Monitoring Revenue Spread, Spend Analysis and revenue realization
  • Working on Pre-Sales, proposal designs and pricing
  • Business Management Responsibility: Contract Management (MSA), Commercial Matters - on Price Negotiation, Quotation, Annual Account Plan Development, Monthly Revenue Forecast/ Projections. Reporting & Analysis on Business & strategy
  • Research and identify target companies for business opportunities worked for major companies.
  • Identify key focus areas of target companies for the financial year and also the growth of the company for possible financial gains for the company.
  • Competitor Business Analysis.
  • Exploring business through “Social Networking”
  • Account Mining and assisting the field force team in devising go to market strategies
  • Capture Client Business Requirements/ Prepare SOW.
  • Engaging Customer in discussions to identify Opportunities/ Generating RFP.
Business developmentAccount managementCustomer relationsBusiness Development

Education

Visvesvaraya Technological University

B E — Electronics & Communication

Jan 2002Jan 2007

St Michael's English School

S.S.L.C

Jan 1997Jan 2000

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