Vibhuti Verma

CEO

Gurgaon, Haryana, India19 yrs 7 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • 17+ years of cross-cultural talent acquisition experience.
  • Award-winning DEI initiatives recognized at Mastercard.
  • Expert in transforming recruitment into a strategic business enabler.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition Leader specializing in Fintech and Consulting industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent Acquisition StrategyDiversity, Equity & Inclusion (dei)Talent Acquisition

Other Skills

Data & ServicesCyber & IntelligenceProduct Management & DevelopmentData EngineeringSoftware EngineeringTA Capability BuildingTrainingEmployee EngagementAdvisory and Markets Business UnitsGovernment & Public Sector ConsultingWorkforce PlanningTalent PipeliningEnd-to-End RecruitmentDatabase ManagementStakeholder Management

About

A future-ready Talent Acquisition leader with 17+ years of cross-cultural experience in building high-impact, diverse teams across Fintech, Product, Consulting, Payments, Captives, Shared Services, and Telecom. At Mastercard, I currently lead end-to-end hiring for South Asia across Data & Services, Cyber & Intelligence, Product Management & Development, Data Engineering, and Software Engineering functions—partnering closely with business to fuel innovation through the right talent. I specialize in transforming hiring into a strategic business enabler—combining strong domain expertise across technology, payments, analytics, and consulting with a sharp eye on candidate experience, DEI, and process excellence. 🏆 Known for delivering on high-volume and niche hiring mandates with agility, reduced ageing, and exceptional stakeholder feedback. 🌍 Recognized within Mastercard for award-winning DEI initiatives, including Veteran Hiring—earning consecutive wins for innovative impact. 📈 Passionate about elevating the TA function—leading recruiter training programs on negotiation, candidate engagement, and career growth. With a proven record of turning recruitment into a data-driven, advisory-led function, I’m driven by the opportunity to shape organizations through people—and excited to step into broader leadership mandates.

Experience

Mastercard

Global Talent Acquisition Leader

May 2019Present · 6 yrs 10 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • As the South Asia Talent Acquisition Lead at Mastercard, I lead end-to-end hiring strategies across Data & Services, Cyber & Intelligence, and Corporate Functions—powering teams that drive innovation and impact globally.
  • My core hiring portfolio spans:
  • Advanced Analytics
  • Artificial Intelligence & Data Science
  • Strategy Consulting
  • Data and Software Engineering &
  • Product Management & Development
  • With a strong record of delivering both high-volume and niche hiring mandates across multi-country locations, I take pride in consistently reducing ageing, achieving best-in-class candidate experience scores, and earning strong stakeholder trust.
  • 💡 What sets me apart:
  • I’ve led award-winning DEI initiatives, including pioneering Veteran Hiring in South Asia—recognized consecutively for two years within Mastercard.
  • I actively enable capability building across the recruiter community through trainings on negotiation strategies, career navigation, and impactful candidate conversations.
  • I believe in partnership-led hiring—aligning talent strategy with business outcomes while building inclusive pipelines that last.
  • Let’s connect if you're passionate about shaping talent journeys in a fast-evolving tech and data landscape, or if you want to exchange ideas on inclusive hiring, TA transformation, or leading high-impact teams.
Talent Acquisition StrategyDiversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI)Data & ServicesCyber & IntelligenceProduct Management & DevelopmentData Engineering+1

Ey

Manager, India Talent Team

Jan 2015May 2019 · 4 yrs 4 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Held a national TA Lead role in driving end-to-end talent strategy for EY’s Advisory and Markets business units across India. Partnered directly with senior business leaders, including BD and Markets heads, to shape high-impact hiring strategies and build forward-looking, revenue-generating teams across Aerospace, IT, Telecom, Mid-Market, SaaS, SAP, IBM, and Real Estate verticals.
  • Led talent acquisition for EY’s flagship Government & Public Sector (GPS) consulting practice — a critical growth engine working with national and regional governments in India, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Nepal. Played a strategic role in assembling mission-critical teams to deliver large-scale transformation projects aimed at improving citizen services and public infrastructure.
  • Key leadership highlights:
  • Built and scaled specialized teams across Digital & IoT, Healthcare, Water & Sanitation, Power & Utilities, Transport, Agriculture, and Smart Cities.
  • Aligned talent strategy with national priorities and sectoral shifts to ensure EY remained a trusted advisor to public sector clients.
  • Influenced workforce planning and talent pipelining for one of EY India’s most dynamic and high-impact business units.
Talent AcquisitionAdvisory and Markets Business UnitsGovernment & Public Sector ConsultingWorkforce PlanningTalent Pipelining

Ma foi management consultants limited ( randstad company) deployed at colt technologies

Talent Acquisition Specialist

May 2010Jan 2015 · 4 yrs 8 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • My responsibilities included end to end Recruitment, Database & Stakeholder Management & Employee Engagement
  • Hiring resources for Colt across Gurgaon & Bangalore locations
  • Pro Active interaction with various BU’s to gather upcoming requirements and create the pipeline
  • Conducting detailed Staffing Sessions with the hiring managers to understand the role requirements in depth
  • Actively posting the approved requirements on the internal & external job portals
  • Managing the internal referrals and Internal Job applications
  • Ensuring a constant flow of quality profiles to the managers till the identification of prospective candidates
  • Plan, interact and execute walk-in interviews in order to minimize the TAT’s for closure
  • Validating the CV’s to provide inputs in the Recruiter Evaluation form to ensure lower rejection rate at the CV shortlisting stage
  • Coordinating technical interviews, conducting tests & HR interviews
  • Initiating negotiations with selected candidates to ensure conversion by bringing in their compensation expectation in-line with internal parity.
  • Ensuring the closure of the positions within TAT’s and at the lowest possible cost
  • Preparing the offer letter along with the joining kit to be handed over to the selected candidate
  • Initiating the Background verification check by providing the details of candidate to the BV team
  • Actively conducting post on-boarding sessions as part of the Employee Engagement Program and provide inputs to the HR operations to address any early signs of employee attrition
  • Allotting buddies to the joiners to help them to settle well and have smooth joining experience.
  • Offline meetings with the hires to develop their comfort level & be extremely approachable
  • Conducting formal sessions with the new joiners on 5th Day, 5th week & 5th Month of their tenure to get their feedbacks and addressing their doubts at the very beginning of their employment
End-to-End RecruitmentDatabase ManagementStakeholder ManagementEmployee EngagementTalent Acquisition

Ma foi management consultants limited ( randstad company) onsite at pitney bowes

HR

Feb 2010May 2010 · 3 mos · Noida Area, India

  • Deployed at Pitney Bowes, Noida as an onsite resource from Randstad. Worked as HR Executive reporting into the Managing Director of the company
  • Role & Responsibilities:
  • Requirement gathering from various verticals within the company
  • Organized multiple hiring drives for hiring candidates at senior level as Project managers, Program managers, Testing Managers & other senior level mandates.
  • Briefed various vendors on the requirement on vacancies
  • Worked closely with the team of recruiters to prepare the dashboards & presentation on recruitment function
  • Headhunted for various senior level mandates from the target organizations.
Requirement GatheringHiring DrivesVendor ManagementTalent Acquisition

Ma foi management consultants(randstad group of company)

Consultant - CRD (IT & Telecom)

May 2007Jan 2010 · 2 yrs 8 mos

  • 1)Responsible for end-to-end recruitment process addressing bulk requirements from clients across India.
  • 2) Appointed SPOC for bulk recruitments with Top IT/ITeS clients.
  • 3) Responsible for End to End Recruitment - Understanding the requirement - Sourcing candidates through In-house database, Internet sites, Internet job postings, user groups, professional associations, professional journals, job fairs, classified ads, referrals, networking and corporate web site.
  • Source candidates through targeted hiring (Head Hunting, references, etc.)
  • 4) Making an in-depth analysis of the technical expertise required to fulfill the requirement
  • 5) Validating Communication Skills, Salary drawn and Salary expected, notice period required to join, and any legal commitment towards the present organization, willingness to relocate, etc.
  • 6) Phone screening the quality of the candidates by asking Technical Objective questions.
  • 7) Handling queries from the competency Managers and solving them with regards to Recruitment, Hiring, Joining and other Policies
  • 10) Organized Screened & scheduled Walk-ins
  • 11) Project allocation & de-allocation of resources along with timely updates of Projects & Locations of the employees.
End-to-End RecruitmentBulk RecruitmentCandidate SourcingTalent Acquisition

Moser baer india ltd

Trainee

Jan 2005Jan 2006 · 1 yr

  • Objective:Post Training Evaluation & Effectiveness
  • Key learning:Responsibility of the training department in keeping track of all trainings, making training schedules & Calendars, designing feedback forms and evaluating the feedbacks to calculate the effectiveness.

Education

Apeejay School of Management

MBA — Human Resource Development

Jan 2005Jan 2007

Kundan Vidya Mandir

XIIth — Commerce

Jan 2000Jan 2002

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