Porvi Mahajan

Associate Partner

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India16 yrs 9 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over 15 years of recruitment experience across diverse industries.
  • Expert in building and executing hiring strategies.
  • Passionate about process design and candidate experience.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned recruitment leader in the technology and consulting sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionStakeholder Management

Other Skills

Business InsightsTeam ManagementHR PoliciesSourcingManagement ConsultingPeople ManagementLeadershipManagementRecruitingBPOEmployee EngagementTalent ManagementTechnical RecruitingPerformance ManagementExecutive Search

About

A recruitment professional with over 15 years of experience in Services and Product organizations having hired across skills in consulting, operations and for the most recent part in Technology and Product. I have been a people manager for the last 11 years; coached, mentored and grown teams. I have partnered and supported business leaders to build capability and execute hiring strategies. I am passionate about process design / re-engineering and creating differentiated experiences for candidates.

Experience

Coupang

2 roles

Director- People Programs

Mar 2025Present · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Director- India Head of Recruiting

Sep 2023Mar 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

  • I joined Coupang as their first employee in India, to build Coupang in India!
  • We are the largest marketplace in South Korea and traded on New York Stock Exchange with a revenue of ~$25Billion last year. With headcount of over 70K employees, our engineering team for ~3K employees is spread across Seoul, Beijing, Seattle, SFO, Singapore and will now be in Bangalore.

Expedia group

3 roles

Director- Head of APAC Technology Hiring

Mar 2022Sep 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Led Product and Technology hiring for the APAC region with a team of 52 people with specialized teams in sourcing, recruiting and recruitment co-ordination.
  • My role focuses on stakeholder management not limited to APAC, execution excellence, delivering TA Metrics - Diversity, Time to Fill, Velocity, Candidate Experience and Channel Mix, driving new initiatives, employer branding and people management.
Business InsightsTalent AcquisitionStakeholder Management

Senior Manager- APAC Technology Recruiting Lead

Promoted

Mar 2020Mar 2022 · 2 yrs

  • Currently lead technology hiring (Development, Product and Design) for Expedia Group for APAC with a team of 32 FTEs. We have specialized teams for Recruitment Delivery, Sourcing and Recruitment Co-ordination that support hiring for ~500 FTEs/year. There is huge focus on driving value for our business groups as well for every person on the team, on achieving ambitious targets, leading and participating in global projects for change/improvements and experiences for our candidates.

Program Manager

Oct 2018Mar 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • As a program manager, I am responsible to lead and execute TA initiatives and projects for Expedia brands in India.
  • Key projects :
  • 1. Talent Branding
  • 2. 'One Team Hiring' : Standardizing and consolidating hiring efforts for technology hiring in India. Key components of this program :
  • a. Hiring excellence : defining the 'what' to look for in the candidates, building a competency framework that helps in standardizing and defining the common talent bar for the organization.
  • b.Interviewing excellence - create a pool of interviewers who are trained and calibrated on 'how' to interview. Build programs on interviewer engagement, R&R, monitoring interviewer performance and coaching.
  • c. Recruitment delivery- with a team of three, built a strong sourcing model to reduce time to hire, agency reliance and better gender balance.
  • d. Innovation- work towards constantly evolving the hiring process, great candidate and hiring manager experience, simplify and rely on data to make better decisions.

Ge

Talent Acquisition Partner

Apr 2017Oct 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • I partnered with the sales and commercial organisations of GE Energy and GE Oil&Gas for their talent acquisition. I worked as a recruiter and a consultant for my businesses helping them understand the market better to find the best talent.
  • Led a team of sourcers and recruiters who worked on market insights, market mapping and actual role delivery while working with their respective stakeholders.
  • High focus on stakeholder and candidate experience - drove initiatives to continuously improve
  • the recruiting and interviewing experience at GE.
  • Hired ~500 resources in my first 12 months which included some very critical ramps for
  • businesses in Solar, EHS, High-voltage transformers
  • For the year 2018, took up 2 key projects : 'Sensitizing business on hiring diversity' and
  • 'Interviewing skills training' which would be run across all businesses in India
  • I was part of the 'Global New Directions Class' for 2018 which is a chosen group of TA partners across all regions. The group identified need for standardization, gave visibility to TA best practices and a platform to challenge existing TA practices.

Pwc

Manager- Talent Acquisition- Advisory

Sep 2014Jan 2017 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Led recruitment for Management Consulting and 4 other business units within Advisory.
  • With a team of eight, I was responsible for recruitment delivery and operations for Management Consulting and Government consulting businesses for PwC in India
  • The role involved extensive stakeholder management, project management and execution of hiring plans within aggressive timelines. I also worked as an individual contributor for hiring at leadership levels, campus initiatives and engagements.

Accenture

Location Lead - Talent Acquisition

Nov 2010Nov 2013 · 3 yrs · Noida

  • Nov'10 to Dec'11 - Led leadership hiring for Accenture's BPO Centres in Noida and Mumbai for skills in F&A, Procurement and SC, Analytics, Telecom.
  • Dec'11 to Jan'13- Led front line and middle level hiring for all Centres in Noida/Gurgaon for Accenture BPO with a team of 7 people.
  • Feb'13 to Nov'13 - Managed Demand Management and Supply Planning for Noida, Chennai and Hyderabad centres which included planning for ongoing and new ramps , budgeting and forecasting, vendor performance management and driving sourcing initiatives.

Naukri.com

Assistant Manager -Management Search

Jun 2008Nov 2010 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Noida Area, India

  • Executive Search for the BPO/ITES industry

Education

Panjab University

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) — Humanities

XLRI Jamshedpur

Post Graduate Certificate in Human Resource Management

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