Garima G. Sharma

Head of Talent

India21 yrs experience

Key Highlights

  • Top 5 LinkedIn Social Recruiter in Asia Pacific 2016
  • 18+ years in talent acquisition across diverse industries
  • Expert in innovative sourcing strategies and team leadership
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition Expert with extensive experience in Healthcare and IT sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent SourcingNiche Talent AcquisitionExecutive Search

Other Skills

BiotechnologyBusiness DevelopmentBusiness IntelligenceBusiness StrategyCompetitive AnalysisCompetitive IntelligenceConsultingCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)Data AnalysisGlobal Talent AcquisitionHealthcareLife SciencesLifesciencesMedical DevicesPharmaceutical Industry

About

Featured in the TOP 5 of LinkedIn's 2016 Top Social Recruiter list for Asia Pacific. Garima has 18+ years of diverse experience in talent acquisition and sourcing across IT Products, IT Services, Engineering, Consumer Markets, Healthcare and has worked in both corporate and executive search firm setting. She is hands-on, agile, collaborative, and strategic. Garima has been instrumental in devising innovative acquisition and sourcing strategies for greenfield projects, niche skills, leadership hiring etc. Garima has set up the sourcing function from scratch twice in her career. Building and leading high-performance teams for 9+ years, her team has been credited with multi-million dollar savings. Experienced at assessment and business case for CRM tools, and other recruitment enablers.

Experience

Cisco

APJC Talent Leader - Insights & Sourcing

Oct 2025Present · 5 mos · India

Arcadis

India Head -Talent Acquisition & Leader Mobility India, Philippines, Romania

Aug 2023Nov 2025 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru · Hybrid

Amazon web services (aws)

Leadership Hiring @Amazon Web Services APJC

Jul 2022Aug 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Atkinsréalis

Leadership Hiring AP & Global Head - Talent Sourcing CoE

Mar 2020Jul 2022 · 2 yrs 4 mos · India

  • Established the global Talent team- supporting India, UK, EU, ME, North America, Canada, SEA, Australia.
  • Brought silos of sourcing pieces under one umbrella to enable focused results, load balancing, and knowledge sharing and drive strategic initiatives.
  • Brought in Beamery - a CRM tool to proactively pipeline and campaign open needs.
  • Hired and led a team of 22 Sourcers.
  • Set-up processes and KPIs for productivity, efficiency and quality.
  • Worked closely with the CXOs, regional TA Heads, Recruiting Managers, and HMs to create long and short-term goals and calibrate performance.
Niche Talent AcquisitionTeam LeadershipTalent SourcingExecutive Search

Publicis sapient

Talent Sourcing Head - India

May 2016Mar 2020 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Gurugram

  • Leading Talent Sourcing - Social Media & External Channels, Referrals, Direct Applicants, Agency
  • Define, develop and implement all talent sourcing strategy for business. Aligning the talent strategies to those of the business.
  • Partnering with the business stakeholders and acting as a strategic talent advisor.
  • Proactive Mapping - Pipelining for senior/key roles, ensuring that there is a pipe of senior executives for ready now, 1, 3 years talent needs.
  • RPO/Implants for Java/Big Data Scale-up .
  • Part of the Training Group
  • Market Intelligence report, Talent/Skill Analysis, and other Analytical Reports.
Niche Talent AcquisitionExecutive Search

Microsoft

Talent Acquisition & Recruitment - IMEA

May 2015May 2016 · 1 yr · Gurgaon, India

  • Talent Mapping and Pipelining
  • Cloud community lead - India, Middle East & Africa - Azure architect hiring across the region
  • Talent Sourcing and Acquisition
  • Candidate Engagement
  • Best Practices
Niche Talent AcquisitionExecutive Search

Heidrick & struggles - knowledge management centre

2 roles

Team Leader - Executive Search

Promoted

Oct 2012May 2015 · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • Led talent sourcing to supporting global executive-level searches for FMCG, Media, Hospitality and Consumer domains.
  • Building Long and short list of candidates; org charts, company talent mappings.
  • Managing a virtual team of 25+ Senior Research Analysts for “Quick Research” service for global consultants.
  • Negotiate, scope, design and lead projects
  • People management and development
  • Trainings and Audit
Niche Talent AcquisitionExecutive Search

Sr. Research Analyst

Jul 2008Oct 2012 · 4 yrs 3 mos

  • Cater to global clients; consultants and associates of H&S across geographies globally. Manage and lead projects.
  • Managing and executing projects—executive identification & profile analysis, Company reports, theme-based research, industry/country landscapes and thought leadership initiatives—in life-sciences/healthcare sectors (Pharma, Biotech, Hospital Services etc.) and Consumer Markets (Retail, CPG, Hospitality) for global network.
  • Part of the Audit team.
Niche Talent AcquisitionExecutive Search

Sigma-aldrich

Senior Executive

Mar 2006Jul 2008 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Providing solutions through both primary (Qualitative and Quantitative) and secondary research.
  • Web-based research using internal tools, websites, research papers and internal technical team.
  • Administration tasks in order to provide quality service to clients and maintain system data accuracy.
Niche Talent AcquisitionExecutive Search

Glg - gerson lehrman group

Associate / Analyst

Apr 2005Mar 2006 · 11 mos

  • Finding the professionals for Healthcare Industry as per client needs.
  • Research and identify the right talent.

Education

XLRI Jamshedpur

PGCHRM

Oct 2021Mar 2023

Barkatullah University, Bhopal

Master's degree

St. Joseph's Convent

10+2

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