Sanjay Saha

Technical Recruiter

Pune, Maharashtra, India13 yrs 6 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 13 years of experience in talent acquisition.
  • Expert in strategic hiring across multiple industries.
  • Trained over 15 recruiters to enhance their skills.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition Specialist with expertise in Fintech and IT recruitment.

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Skills

Core Skills

Global Talent AcquisitionNiche Talent AcquisitionEmployer Branding

Other Skills

Analytical SkillsApplicant Tracking SystemsBenefits NegotiationCertificationsClient CoordinationCommunicationEmployee RelationsEnd to End RecruitmentHR MetricsHuman ResourcesIT RecruitmentInternal RecruitmentInterviewsKPI ReportingKey Performance Indicators

About

Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist (Team Lead) | Naukri Maestro Recruiter | Certified Lean Six Sigma Hiring Process and KPIs | Global Strategic Hiring Specialist | Mentor Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist with 13 years of demonstrated success in sourcing and placing top-tier talent across technical and non-technical domains, including executive and leadership roles. Adept at driving strategic hiring initiatives across Fintech, IT Product, and Service-Based industries, with a proven ability to identify and secure C-suite candidates for mission-critical positions through effective stakeholder engagement and talent strategy. Expert in hiring high-billable tech squads as per SLAs and provided recruitment solutions for 1.5K+ vacancies for IT services, Cyber Security, and Banking & Fintech Companies, based in India, the U.S., Dubai, the Middle-East, and South Africa. Implemented strategic vision that resulted in substantial cost savings, averaging over 375+ million INR by reducing engagement of recruitment partners. It was my honor to work with some of the prominent clients based in MENA, AMER, and domestic regions, including ENBD, ABSA Bank, RAK Bank, Nuvama, Bajaj Finserv, NEXDIGM, Lacework, Discovery Vitality, DEEM, and companies in the IT products and Service sectors. I am proficient in working as an individual contributor, leading and mentoring teams, driving a conversion ratio of 95% as per SLAs, implementing data-driven strategies, replacing mundane layouts with Power BI-driven dashboards, performance reviews and ratings, leveraging social channels, and innovative recruitment strategies to attract top talent. I have trained more than 15 recruiters to take up new challenging assignments in their role and enhanced their skills to become "Talent Acquisition Specialists".

Experience

Career break

Personal goal pursuit

Jul 2023Jul 2025 · 2 yrs · Pune, Maharashtra

  • After delivering strategic solutions across complex recruitment landscapes for over a decade, I took a necessary career pause to address pressing family responsibilities. This phase became a real-life case study in resilience and structured problem-solving—𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐈’𝐯𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲, 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲.
  • During this time, I remained actively engaged with the industry, 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 former colleagues, staying abreast of evolving talent trends, and 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 to sharpen my expertise. Now, I return recharged, with renewed perspective and unwavering commitment to driving excellence in Talent Acquisition.

Mphatek systems

2 roles

Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist (Lead)

May 2022Jun 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo · Pune, Maharashtra, India

  • Accountable for handling 485+ mammoth requirements (technical and banking domain) of
  • MENA regions, domestic, Chicago, and Dubai locations, under strict deadlines.
  • Excelled the competencies level of 7 IT recruiters by 60-70% through a well-designed training
  • process and taking up new challenges as assignments.
  • Saved 5-6 million INR by proper cost-analysis, set constraints on the requisitions’ allocation to
  • recruitment partners, especially for high-budget requirements.
  • Unique strategies were presented with full responsibilities in the stakeholders’ weekly meeting,
  • and closed 6 out of 11 niche positions within 30-45 days.
  • Recruited and placed a team of 5 Sr. Salesforce Developers, 6 Sr. SOC Analysts, 1 Salesforce
  • Architect, and 6 ServiceNow Developers for the companies based in Chicago, Dubai, and South
  • Africa within 4 months (closed before 6 months’ timeline).
  • Initiated, coordinated with the internal IT team, and presented a flawless recruitment tool to
  • track recruitment activities.
  • Opened new accounts in South Africa, MENA regions, Dubai, and Chicago by deeply
  • negotiating, counter-offering, and placing 7 immediate joiners for the prominent clients like
  • ENBD, RAK Bank, ABSA (the leading bank of South Africa), Genasys, NEXDGIM, and BFL.
Analytical SkillsRequirements AnalysisGlobal Talent AcquisitionNiche Talent AcquisitionClient CoordinationCommunication+6

Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

May 2022Jun 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo · Pune, Maharashtra, India

Employer BrandingGlobal Talent Acquisition

Freelance (self employed)

Freelancer Recruiter

Dec 2019Apr 2022 · 2 yrs 4 mos · West Bengal, India · Remote

  • I relinquished my position at Neova Solutions to start my own business from a remote location. I started my odyssey as a “Freelancer Technical Recruiter” and assisted other “Talent Acquisition Specialists”, in closing the technical requisitions at all levels. I was supposed to come back to
  • Pune in April 2020 but the Covid outbreak had elongated my plan and had to stay back.
  • List of requisitions handled: LAMP stack, DevSecOps, Front end Developers – NodeJS, ReactJS, Sr. Dot Net – Web Services and WCF; Sr. Java Architect – Spring, AWS, and Microservices; GCP Data
  • Engineer; and Golang.

Neova solutions

2 roles

Lead Talent Acquisition

Apr 2015Nov 2019 · 4 yrs 7 mos

  • Professional TA with a proven track record of 10 Yrs. in the field of Recruiting, Resource Planning, Strategic Hiring of Leadership / Executive Role, Employee Engagement, Employer Branding and Exploring Social Channels.
  • Having experience with companies in Product Development, Service Based Organization and setting up RPOs for mass hiring.
  • I have got the opportunity to successfully complete the staffing set up with caliber resources for our US-based clients, led us to take over new projects.
  • Strong Control in managing Recruitment Metrics - TAT, Channel Usage, CPH, Average Resource Cost, Offer to Joinee Conversion and Closures.
  • Apart from paid portals, also worked and closed requirements through other sourcing avenues like Github, Stackoverflow, Indeed, POCC, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Twitter, MeetUp, References, Ex-Employees, Google Search and Facebook.
  • Mentored and Managed 3 members in my TA team and coordinated well with the onsite and offshore client partners and helped them in designing and executing the hiring plan.

Sr IT Recruiter

Feb 2012Apr 2015 · 3 yrs 2 mos

  • Handling end to end recruitment for IT and Non-IT positions. Taking care of both vanilla and niche skill sets.
Employer Branding

Pyxis systems

Human Resources Executive Recruitment

Oct 2009Feb 2012 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Pune Area, India

  • Pyxis Systems, acquired by Polaris Financial Technology (acquired by Intellect Design), was a company dedicated to delivering optimized solutions and services within the financial derivatives industry.
  • My prominent role was Reruitment (Mapping, Sourcing, Interview schedule, follow up) and handling other HR activities in Talent Management Team like On-Boarding program, Leave & Comp off management, PMS (Mid Year Review & Annual Review), Appraisal Program, Competency Mapping, T&D, Presentation of dasboards on hiring funnel, Metics Chart, Market Mapping, Skill metrics on pivot report and Exit Formalities too.

Svbp informatics

HR-Executive

Jun 2009Oct 2009 · 4 mos

  • based company, adopted open source technology to set up erp in manufacturing companies, based in PUNE.; Identified requirements from technical heads.
  • Sourced candidates from job portals, head hunting, referral, walk-inns and print ads.
  • Interviewed candidates and scheduling technical rounds.
  • Coordination with the candidates, once offer is accepted, for conducting pre-joining activities like Back ground check, employee forms, Medi-check.
  • Handling end to end R&R program.
  • Coordinating with the Admin during EEP (Employees' Engagement Program).
  • Sending dashboards on Pivot report and chart to vertical head and management during the strategic and monthly managerial meeting to analyze on training report, employees' turnover, attrition rate, Human Resource Planning, cost head of the company, talent pool and more such at planning level.
  • Periodically discuss with one to one on any grievances and forward the same to HR-Head to initiate further point of action.
  • Avoid any escalations to HR-Manager, handle most of the activities from my end based on authorities and decentralize.
  • Initiate F&F process and plays a lead role in handling end to end activities during the Exit process.
  • Joining formalities for new recruits, followed by Induction and Orientation Program for building trust and confidence.

Education

Bharati Vidyapeeth

MBA — Human Resource

Jan 2007Jan 2009

Allahabad Agricultural Institute

BBA — Human Resource

Jan 2002Jan 2005

Vizag Defence Academy

Senior Secondary Education

Jan 2000Jan 2002

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