Rashid ul Kareem

Security Consultant

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India25 yrs experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 20+ years of experience in recruitment leadership.
  • Successfully scaled Global Capability Centres across multiple geographies.
  • Awarded EY’s Golden Beam Award for Leadership.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned recruitment leader in FinTech and HealthTech sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionRecruitment TechnologyGlobal Talent AcquisitionStrategic PlanningTechnical RecruitingRecruitment TransformationEmployer Branding

Other Skills

Account ManagementAnalytical SkillsB2BBPOBusiness Process Outsourcing (BPO)Business-to-Business (B2B)COECXO level engagementCollege RecruitingExecutive Leadership hiringGlobal DeliveryKey Account ManagementLeadershipMISManagement

About

Passionate Recruitment leader with 20+ years of experience across FinTech, HealthTech, Professional Services, IT, and BPM, I have led recruitment transformation grounded in People, Process, and Technology. I specialize in scaling Global Capability Centres across geographies, including India and the Philippines, while driving exceptional candidate and hiring manager experiences anchored in a strong EVP. My impact spans designing future-ready TA CoEs, integrating acquired entities, and embedding tech innovation to meet & scale evolving business goals. Honoured with EY’s prestigious Golden Beam Award for Leadership, I am committed to shaping inclusive, high-performance cultures through data-driven, human-centric execution.

Experience

Independent consultant

Independent Consultant

Oct 2024Present · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

  • Advising on
  • 1) Talent Acquisition Strategy to set up Global Capability Centres in India
  • 2) Executive Leadership hiring, creating a blueprint for top talent attraction
  • 3) Recruitment Technology - AI-led Tech interventions to improve recruiter, hiring manager and candidate experience
  • 4) Employer Branding, DEI-focused interventions
  • 5) Building Talent Acquisition CoE Capabilities for Organisation & Recruitment Business
  • 6) Talent Acquisition Compliance and Audits
Talent Acquisition StrategyExecutive Leadership hiringRecruitment TechnologyEmployer BrandingTalent Acquisition ComplianceTalent Acquisition

Payu

VP-Head of Talent Acquisition (India, MEA & APAC) - PayU

Jun 2022Jul 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • PayU is a Full stack financial services company with the following three lines of business; Enterprise Business for Merchants for Payment gateway, Consumer business (Credit) for individuals and SME and Wibmo - Full stack PayTech company and an industry leader in Payment security and digital payments for Global banks
  • The first 12 months were a 1-10 mode with hiring fresher talent from Campus and Lateral through the market to build Engineering, Product, and Enterprise Sales teams across Lobs. Then shifted focus towards building Leadership capabilities across Finance, Audit, Marketing, Sales, Risk, and Compliance functions by mapping and hiring handpicked talent to operate like a listed Org. Augmented Sales capabilities across India, Middle East, APAC markets for deeper penetration of Wibmo products
Global Talent AcquisitionCXO level engagementTrusted Business AdvisorStrategic PlanningEmployer BrandingTeam Management

Optum

Director - Talent Acquisition, United Health Group (GCC)

Apr 2019Jun 2022 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

  • Optum is part of UHG a Fortune 4, HealthTech brand. Drove Talent Acquisition transformation by integrating acquired entities like an Advisory board company and hCentive into the OPTUM recruiting method.
  • I led Technology hiring for India and the Philippines. In addition, Analytics, Shared Services, and Operations hiring for India. It was during the Covid time, that the hiring of talent and scaling business has been very challenging with the great resignation, Tech talent demand, and supply equation posing major headwinds and successfully crafted strategy to hire 10,000+ talent across Tech and Operations.
  • India was a success story and some of the best practices have been shared to build Philippines, and Columbia delivery hubs as part of a derisk strategy for Business continuity
Technical RecruitingAnalytical SkillsCollege RecruitingCOEscaleTalent Acquisition

Ey

2 roles

Country Director (GCC) , Global lead for TA Transformation

Apr 2017Mar 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bangalore

  • I was responsible for providing strategic directions to Recruitment Transformation like driving the Global process model by standardizing the TA process, setting up a global sourcing hub, and providing Analytics for EY’s Global delivery centers, in the Philippines, China, Poland, and Argentina. Instrumental in augmenting EY GDS growth from 10,000+ to 30,000+ strong professionals across 5 countries and enhancing the employer brand with India Universum ranking moved up to 4 from 32 in the graduate category and ranked 1 within the Big 4 segment.
Global DeliveryUniversity RecruitmentTeam BuildingEmployer BrandingStrategic PlanningRecruitment Transformation

Country Leader - Talent Acquisition

Aug 2014Mar 2017 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bangalore

  • I was heading the India Talent Acquisition function of EY- Global Delivery Services. My key focus was to drive Talent acquisition strategy to attract and hire talent from staff to leadership level for different client services like Assurance, Tax, Advisory (Digital Enterprise Technology , Analytics, Product Engineering, Cyber security, ERP’s like SAP, Oracle and Risk )Transactions Advisory services and Knowledge services. In Enablement services like Finance and Accounting , Risk Management Services, Enterprise Workforce Technologies, RPA, Infosecurity, Service Excellence and support functions like Human Resources, Corporate Finance, Brand Marketing and Communications , Procurement and so on.

Infosys bpm

2 roles

Geo Lead of Talent Acquisition

Promoted

Aug 2010Jul 2014 · 3 yrs 11 mos

  • As Geo Lead of Talent acquisition, I was responsible for driving recruitment strategy of Campus, Lateral talent and successfully hired 10,000+ talent year on year across skills and locations which has helped Infosys BPM to grow to 28000+ strong organisation. I was also responsible for creating recruitment capabilities across APAC (Philippines, China) and in Europe.
  • Delivered on all recruiting metrics : Hiring targets , Source mix , CPH , TTF (Time to fill) and operational excellence .On people metric, lowest attrition and highest team satisfaction 4 years in a row

Practice Lead Lateral hiring

Feb 2007Jul 2010 · 3 yrs 5 mos

  • Joined Infosys BPM to Lead Lateral ( Experience hiring ) talent for all business vertIcals in India

Wep solutions limited

2 roles

Brand Manager

Feb 2005Jan 2007 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bangalore

  • I was leading the Corporate Transformation Initiative;B2B to B2C ,which includes Corporate Identity and market activation for a Wipro ePeripherals Ltd.

Customer Relationship Management Manager

Feb 2003Feb 2005 · 2 yrs · Bangalore

  • Corporate sales role for a innovative Print & Save - Printing Outsourcing Solutions for SME's & Large Enterprises

Ifb industries ltd

2 roles

Area Sales Manager

Jun 2000Jan 2003 · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • Responsible for channel sales role for a range of white goods in Mumbai

Management Trainee

Jun 1999May 2000 · 11 mos

  • Joined as Management Trainee from SIBM campus and was incharge of Southern Maharashtra sales

Education

Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) — Marketing Management

Doctor Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.)

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