Poornima M R

Talent Acquisition Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India17 yrs 6 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 17+ years in Talent Acquisition across multiple industries.
  • Expert in building high-performing recruitment functions.
  • Strong focus on diversity hiring and employer branding.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition Leader with expertise in Banking, Healthcare IT, and Retail.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionLeadership HiringCampus HiringHr CommunicationsFinancial Analysis

Other Skills

Brand ManagementBusiness AnalysisCampus RecruitmentCandidate EngagementClient CommunicationCoaching & MentoringComplete Recruitment Life CycleDirect SourcingEarly Career HiringEmployee BenefitsEmployee EngagementEmployee Referral ProgramsEmployee RelationsEmployer BrandingExternal Audit

About

Talent Acquisition Leader with 17+ years of experience across Banking, Healthcare IT, and Retail. I have 13+ years of full-cycle recruitment expertise, covering high-volume, niche, and critical hiring, along with 8+ years of campus hiring leadership and 4 years of leading recruitment teams. I am known for building high-performing, relationship-driven recruitment functions that deliver exceptional candidate and hiring-manager experiences. My work spans strategic workforce planning, process optimisation, employer branding, and strengthening direct sourcing and diversity hiring within complex enterprise environments. Beyond Talent Acquisition, I offer broad HR experience across rewards and benefits, payroll, internal communications, employee engagement, vendor management, and audit (Internal & External). I thrive in fast-paced, evolving environments and am passionate about continuous improvement, innovation, and scaling recruitment operations. Skills: Talent Acquisition | Leadership Hiring | Niche & Cross-Functional Recruitment | Campus Hiring | Employer Branding | Direct Sourcing | Employee Referral Programs | HR Communications | Rewards & Benefits | Payroll | Employee Engagement | Recruitment Audits (ISO) | Vendor Management | Project Management | Portfolio Accounting

Experience

Anz

4 roles

Associate Vice President - Talent Acquisition

Promoted

Sep 2023Present · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Managing a team of Tech recruiters and support staff to successfully and
  • strategically deliver on hiring goals and increase productivity
  • Leading Early Talent Program (Tech Campus Hiring) for ANZ India by building relationships on campus to attract and hire diverse talent.
  • Providing high-touch experience for every candidate from start to offer, that includes - Evaluating skills, level, interview process, salary recommendations, offer negotiations.
  • Ensuring team proactively builds and maintains talent pools for critical roles by leveraging available talent channels and delivering an excellent candidate experience and promoting the ANZ talent brand.
Talent AcquisitionLeadership HiringCampus HiringEmployer BrandingDirect Sourcing

Lead - Talent Acquisition

Promoted

Jun 2021Aug 2023 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Talent & Culture Consultant

Dec 2020May 2021 · 5 mos

  • Tech hiring with people management.
Tech HiringPeople ManagementTalent Acquisition

Senior Recruitment Partner

Sep 2018Nov 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Tech recruitment - End to End
Tech RecruitmentTalent Acquisition

Cerner corporation

Recruiting Partner

Apr 2013Sep 2018 · 5 yrs 5 mos · India

  • Responsible for complete recruitment life cycle - Candidates Sourcing, Candidate Assessment, Salary Negotiation, Scheduling, coordinating, Offer letter processing and candidate engagement throughout the Interview Process.
  • Serving as a primary contact for the Cerner India Recruitment team, maintaining a high-touch point interaction with candidates and managers and providing resolutions. Serving as a first point of contact for recruiting related activities.
  • Handling the campus recruitment end to end – Tech Interns hire for Cerner India from Top Targeted Colleges and Universities.
  • Initiated and implemented many process improvement plans for India recruiting team.
  • Trained and mentored new joiner's in the team, also informally managed sourcers, schedulers and junior recruiters as a senior recruiter
  • Associate Referral Program
  • Leading the entire operations of Referral Program for APAC, and the global executive referral program.
  • Leading the audit for Cerner India Recruiting internal & external(ISO) audit
Complete Recruitment Life CycleCandidate EngagementCampus RecruitmentProcess ImprovementTalent Acquisition

Tesco bengaluru

Senior Officer HRSS

Nov 2011Mar 2013 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Reward & Benefits team - ROI
  • Handled quality checks for all the processes such as Reward and Benefits, HR Administration, Employee Relations, Recruitment, Time & Attendance & Personnel Direct for TESCO Ireland.
  • Recruitment was one other basic responsibility, posting of jobs online in TESCO Ireland website through Candidate Manager tool, screening CV’s for managerial level and also for all the stores in Ireland.
  • Recording and maintaining data about the interview schedules, offered candidates, pending joiners, current open positions and status of the candidates on a day to day basis.
  • Creating contracts/agreements with benefit statements for the promoted staff and new hires.Creating communications that gets rolled out throughout TESCO Ireland regarding the benefits that we provide to the employees.
  • Worked on the launch of benefits like Long service awards, Bike to work, Commuters, Retired friends, Fleet management.Worked with audit team to stay complaint with the policies on the work permit.
  • Maintaining the Organization chart and updating the database of the WL3 and above.
  • Helping find ways to cover all risks and process gaps. Monitoring, examining and reporting on the adequacy and reliability of existing internal controls that are established to mitigate risks through detailed test of controls.
  • Report quality scores and produce trends based on performance and sending out critical SLA & KPI reports to the senior management that goes up on Tesco India HRSS steering wheel.
Reward & BenefitsHR AdministrationEmployee RelationsHR Communications

Northern trust corporation

Financial Analyst

May 2008Nov 2011 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Wealth Management - Portfolio Accounting Analyst
  • Maintaining and monitoring monthly financial statements for high net worth clients and ensuring timely reporting of significant issues to management.
  • Resolving client queries on a daily basis with high priority, and also deriving at a solution to achieve client satisfaction.Mentoring new joinees and training them about the process, application software and interaction with other partner areas and communication with Clients and Customer Service Managers.
  • Conducted regular financial analysis of the reports obtained from various departments such as Trade, Valuation reporting, Pricing etc.
  • Support Team Leader by acquiring subject matter expertise and help in resolution of complex reconciliation.Performing Accounting and Performance Audits of accounts on daily, monthly and annual basis.
  • Ensuring a thorough Quality check on all the Benefit Statements and letters that are sent out to clients.Quality checks before sending clean audited reports to clients.
  • Assist team members in solving problems and conducting knowledge share sessions and keeping abreast of all Process developments.
  • Actively participate in monthly reviews with Management team in the US. Proactively seek ways of improving the service we offer to our clients and also to respond quickly to any problems or potential problems.
Financial AnalysisPortfolio AccountingClient Communication

Education

Symbiosis Centre for Distance Learning

Post Graduation Diploma — Human Resource Management

Jan 2018Jan 2019

Mount Carmel Institute of Management

Bachelor’s Degree — Business Management

Jan 2005Jan 2008

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