Praneeth Varma

Head of Talent

Hyderabad, Telangana, India13 yrs 11 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 10 years of full cycle recruitment experience.
Managed 1000+ hiring requirements annually.
Expertise in building talent strategies for technical roles.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition expert with extensive experience in IT recruitment and team management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionRecruitment

Other Skills

Applicant Tracking SystemsBenefits NegotiationClient communicationCold CallingHiringIT RecruitmentInternet RecruitingInterviewingLateral hiringManagementNegotiationOnboardingPharmaceutical IndustryRecruitingRecruiting metrics

About

Talent acquisition professional with 10+ years of experience handling full cycle recruitment. Responsible for lateral hiring for the clients across the unit handling 1000 + requirements every year. Expertise in full cycle recruitment, stakeholder management, team handling, strategy and operations.

Experience

Tata consultancy services

2 roles

Manager Energy and Resources business unit

Oct 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 5 mos

Manager, Talent Acqiusition : Business transformation group

Mar 2021 – Jul 2024 · 3 yrs 4 mos

 Managing the Lateral hiring activities for a business unit with 1000+ requirements every year.
 Managing a high-performing recruitment team and partner closely with Senior Business leaders giving guidance on building talent pools and leading through changing market conditions.
 Delivering a consultative and high-quality talent acquisition (TA) service to the business and be involved in creating talent strategies to help hire top technical talent.
 Leading recruiting strategy with a focus on acquiring top diverse talent.
 Leading the team to drive efficiency and bringing new ideas to improve candidate and hiring manager experience.
 Ensuring all hiring policies and procedures are adhered to and the best practices are administered throughout the recruitment process.
 Drive team to be compliant and ensure all processes are followed as per audit guidelines.
 Deploy forecasting and reporting to track recruiting metrics and measure progress against team goals.
 Partnering with the sourcing teams in defining the sourcing strategies on a weekly basis.

Lateral hiringTalent acquisitionRecruitment strategyStakeholder managementTeam managementSourcing strategies+3

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3 roles

Team Lead Recruitment

Promoted

Jul 2016 – Mar 2021 · 4 yrs 8 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

 Leading a team of Recruiters, Coordinators, Payroll, EDM. Compensation and benefits professionals.
 First point of contact for any escalations from the client.
 Responsible for entire recruitment life cycle as per the business needs.
 Plan and implement strategic actions and Communicating with Hiring Managers, Delivery heads, and ensure effective recruitment delivery.
 Expertise in recruitment life cycle sourcing, screening, short listing, salary negotiation and on boarding.
 Handled across technologies/software skills and recruited IT professionals at all
experience levels.
 Work closely with the Client, IBMs operation management, and Internal teams.
 Prioritize and manage requisition flow on a daily basis.
 Define, develop, plan and implement sourcing strategies to provide a potential candidate pool.
 Use detailed screening and selection criteria to identify potential candidates and determine relevant strength of the potential candidates in the pool.
 Work closely with Hiring Managers and Business unit leaders to define and document hiring forecasts.
 Review, analyze, mentor and coach teams to ensure recruiting goals are being met.
 Responsible for training the new hires in India through Classroom or Online sessions. Track the performance in the practice sessions and provide the feedback to the management.