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Priyam Mehrotra

Head of Talent

Gurugram, Haryana, India11 yrs 2 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Over 10 years of talent acquisition experience.
  • Expertise in non-tech and leadership hiring.
  • Strong focus on DEI hiring practices.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition expert specializing in high-growth environments and diverse hiring strategies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent Acquisition

Other Skills

Talent ManagementRecruitingTalent MappingSalary NegotiationsHRBPlateral hiringPerformance AppraisalStakeholder ManagementTalent ScoutingVendor ManagementTechnical RecruitingSourcingExecutive SearchEmployee RelationsHR Consulting

About

Talent Acquisition professional with over 10 years of experience driving end-to-end hiring strategies across startups, high-growth environments, and leading brands like Noise, Meesho, Disney+ Hotstar, Urban Company, and more. I specialize in non-tech and leadership hiring across functions like Marketing, Design, Sales, and Supply Chain, with a strong focus on stakeholder alignment, employer branding, and DEI hiring practices. I've built TA functions from the ground up, led cross-functional hiring mandates, and contributed to fast-scaling teams with both speed and quality. What sets me apart is my blend of strategic insight and hands-on execution — from building candidate pipelines and driving talent mapping, to optimizing ATS systems and enhancing candidate experience. 🧩 Passionate about creating meaningful hiring journeys, building high-performance teams, and aligning talent to business goals. 💬 Always open to connecting, learning, and collaborating on opportunities where people and purpose come together.

Experience

11 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 3 mos
Average Tenure
7 mos
Current Experience

Adidas

Manager - Talent Acquisitoin EM - India

Oct 2025Present · 7 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

Talent AcquisitionTalent Management

Noise

Manager - Talent Acquisition

Nov 2022Oct 2025 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Gurugram

  • Led end-to-end recruitment across major business units, ensuring timely and high-quality hires.
  • Managed all aspects of employee selection and onboarding throughout the company
  • Managed stakeholder relationships across diverse business units and categories
  • Conducted talent mapping for key positions
  • Executed effective vendor management strategies
  • Set up an offline sales team across India
  • Extensive experience handling an application tracking system
  • Collaborated with leadership to drive DEI initiatives in hiring and workplace culture.
RecruitingTalent AcquisitionTalent MappingSalary NegotiationsHRBPlateral hiring+2

Meesho

Assistant Manager - Talent Acquisition

May 2021Nov 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

  • ● Handled Tech hiring ( Database Engineer SQL/NOSQL, Big Data DevOps, SRE)
  • ● Hired 40 City Demand Head requirements PAN India in a span of 3 weeks
  • ● Handled end to end Supply Chain and Demand roles for Zonal & State Head positions in the Farmiso (Within Meesho) vertical.
  • ● Have built the Demand team from scratch (Manager & above roles)
  • ● Weekly hygiene check of the stakeholder management & the Business Unit, feedback sessions &
  • strategy discussions.
  • ● Experience in stakeholder management across business units.
  • ● Hands on experience managing vendors and closing the positions.
RecruitingTalent AcquisitionTalent MappingTalent Scoutinglateral hiringStakeholder Management

Urban company

Talent Acquisition

Oct 2020May 2021 · 7 mos

  • ● Handled complete business hiring (non - tech) - Homes & Beauty.
  • ● Creating & rolling offer letters across the non tech vertical.
  • ● Managed end-to end recruitment Pan India (Mumbai, Delhi & Bangalore) from sourcing till on boarding
  • of a candidate.
  • ● Managing database (trackers) on a weekly basis.
  • ● Experience into stakeholder management across businesses/categories.
  • ● Contributed in increasing NPS for non tech recruitment as part of Employer Branding.

Disney+ hotstar

Talent Acquisition

Sep 2018Oct 2020 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Mumbai Area, India

  • Managed recruitment for Star HSI (Hotstar International), CSI (Consumer strategy
  • & incubation), Hotstar SVOD, AVOD, Ad Sales.
  • Partnering with hiring managers and internal key stakeholders of Star TV to develop a candidate-
  • centric recruiting experience.
  • Maintain high recruitment standards and continuously drive process improvement in order to hire
  • faster and better
  • Involved in developing sourcing strategies and timelines then proactively sourcing, interviewing
  • and assessing candidates, reference checking and coordination of candidate start.
  • Identify and implement new methods with the approach for sourcing of candidates and
  • generating new leads through industry mapping, headhunting and referencing.
  • Responsible for seamless Applicant Tracking Systems management and acting as one point of contact with external vendors.
RecruitingVendor ManagementTalent MappingTalent ScoutingSalary NegotiationsTalent Acquisition

Media.net

Talent Acquisition

Aug 2017Jul 2018 · 11 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • To work with the internal team of hiring personnel to assist with the recruitment process.
  • Handling the recruitment cycle from sourcing, contacting candidates, interviewing, following-up with candidates, and managing candidate pipeline for database management.
  • Working closely with the Business Unit, understanding there requirement and closing the position.
  • To determine the future needs of potential talent and proactively source candidates through social
  • platforms.
  • To overlook as well as, manage the recruitment life-cycle, no matter how much time it takes.
  • To convince shortlisted candidate on corporate perks, salary package, and work culture.
  • Conducting preliminary round of HR interviews and shortlisting candidates for technical round in co-ordination with respective line managers.
  • Knowledge as well as handled Applicant Management System.
  • Maintaining reports on daily basis and recording the candidate’s status
RecruitingTalent Acquisition

Arvind limited

HR Executive

Aug 2016Feb 2017 · 6 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • Hand on experience in End to End recruitment.
  • Scheduling Interviews and issuing offer letter.
  • Screening & short-listing of resumes on the basis of skills, experience, educational background.
  • Understanding Requirements and sourcing right candidates for their manpower positions.
  • Shortlisting of resume's from various job portals and maintaining a database for further discussion
  • Conducting preliminary round ofHR interviews and shortlisting candidates for technical round in co-ordination with respective line managers.
  • Preparing Job Description for various available positions.
  • Maintaining database and candidate records.
  • Handling the Background checks for the new joiners.
  • Taleo: Creating Requisitions on Taleo for Backfills, New Transition and advance Hiring

Diebold nixdorf

Corporate HR Recruiter

Nov 2015Jun 2016 · 7 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • Develop and update job descriptions and job specifications.
  • Experience in end to end recruitments.
  • Screen candidates resumes and job applications.
  • Match Job seekers to employers.
  • Conduct interviews using various reliable personnel selection tools/methods to filter candidates.
  • Develop and implement strategic initiatives for recruiting diverse talent in a multi-site
  • Organization.
  • Work with hiring managers and interview teams to ensure job requirements and
  • expectations are clearly understood and candidates are assessed against appropriate
  • criteria.
  • Develop strong relationships and partner with hiring manager, business leaders and HR.
  • Work closely with Hiring Managers to maximize effectiveness of recruiting process.
  • Regular follow up with the respective hiring managers and candidates to ensure timeliness
  • of recruitment process.
  • Actively participate in all staffing related activities.
  • Hand on experience in grievance handling.
  • Preparing reports and maintaining database.

Universal hunt

HR- Business Co-Ordinator & Team Leader

Apr 2014Oct 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • Hardcore experience in end to end recruitments.
  • Lining up candidates as per the requirement of Clients.
  • Keeping follow up with the clients & with the candidates.
  • Maintaining Daily & Monthly Tracker.
  • Making analysis reports for total offered candidates & Joinees.
  • Making calls to Offered candidates after the interview & getting their joining done with the respective organizations.
  • End to end recruitment: Sourcing, Staffing, scoping, and on boarding candidates.
  • Screening: short listing candidates sourced through portal (Naukri, Monster, Times jobs and LinkedIn) and validating them on their experience.
  • Preparing Requisition gathering template and sending it to corresponding sourcing lead to initiate the sourcing. Short listing the profiles sourced and sending it to the respective hiring managers.
  • Managing the team and achieving the assigned target.
  • Providing training that team members need.
  • Listening to team member’s feedback.
  • Creating compiled performance report.
  • Monitoring team members participation to ensure that the training provided is being put into use, and also to see if any additional training is required.

Manipal global education services

Summer Internship

Apr 2013Jul 2013 · 3 mos · Mumbai,Andheri West

  •  Lining up of SMU as well as Non-SMU candidates for interviews in various companies according to their profile & companies requirement in placement drives through Online tools- Naukari ID, SMU-Linkedin /FBK Posts, Mass Mailers, SMS Blast etc.
  •  Made calls to Offered candidates in placement drives & getting their joining done with the respective organizations..
  •  Counseled Offered candidates to get their Joining done with the respective organizations.
  •  Recorded candidates feedback regarding recruitment drives for improvements and complaints.
  •  Made Analysis reports on recruitment drives (Talent Acquisition) of total Offers generated & Joinees.
  •  Designed the Reference forms which got filled with the candidates coming in drives for interviews so that to get reference-leads of prospect candidates seeking Employment opportunities.
  •  Set up the process for taking candidate feedback post interview to enhance the customer satisfaction and to increase numbers of prospect Joinees.
  •  Assist coordination & support to SMU-Employment Enablement Team for promotions of SMU-DE Placement service initiative & also coordinated in conducting as well managing & smooth running of Mega-Recruitment drive events with 300+ candidates & 30+ recruiters in 1 place both Pre & Post drives.

Education

International School of Business & Media

Master of Business Administration (MBA) — Human Resource and Industrial Realations

Jan 2012Jan 2014

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