Apr 2022 – Dec 2022 · 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Jun 2019 – Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Heading the Recruitment function (Lateral, Leadership & Campus) for India & US geographies.
• Leading a geographically distributed team of 16 members to achieve result-oriented goals across the parameters of quantity and quality.
• Primarily responsible for attracting talent across levels with expertise in digital technologies including Cloud, Modern Data Platform, Mobility, Security, UI/UX, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning.
• Managing end to end recruitment process life cycle (sourcing, screening, coordinating interviews, facilitate offer process, post offer engagement and onboarding).
• Directly working with CXO level stakeholders across regions to strategize growth plans and facilitate target based hiring and ramp up.
• Focusing on key strategic initiative like promoting Employer brand, leveraging Employee Referral Program, attracting Leadership talent and improving Diversity hiring.

Dec 2013 – Jun 2018 · 4 yrs 6 mos

• Talent Partner Central Service Functions
• Leading hiring for SBU's like Human Resources, Strategic Marketing, Finance, Central Procurement, Legal & Compliance, Operations, CIO, CTO, GSE & ERM.
• Build Leadership Next for Wipro & enable business strategy through agile & smart hiring
• End to end recruitment including sourcing, research based talent mapping, interviews, salary negotiation and onboarding.
• Managing CXO level stakeholders and presenting a single view on Leadership hiring
• Market intelligence and Competition mapping to create a talent pool
• Track and report key metrics designed to measure and predict staffing activity.
• Heading the Global MBA Campus Hiring & Engagement
• Hiring MBA graduates from 60+ Premier and Eminent MBA campuses in India
• Hiring freshers including the Legal & CA Campus programs for India
• Hiring from Top 20 B-Schools worldwide for the new Global 100 initiative
• Engagement initiatives across MBA Campuses to improve Wipro’s brand equity
• Lead Corporate Induction program for all MBA Campus hires
• Drive post offer engagement initiatives with the new hires across campuses in the form of multi city events

Dec 2013 – Mar 2016 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Nov 2007 – Nov 2013 · 6 yrs

• Handled 4 different portfolios during this tenure:
• Organisation Effectiveness for a 1000+ people organisation spread across both national and international locations
• Hiring Lead for all Sales & Pre-sales requirements across the Client Facing Units (CFUs)
• Business HR Head handling the entire gamut of HR activities for Client Facing Units (CFUs) across national and international locations
• Head - Recruitment for OnMobile - Leading a team of 8 members catering to both Lateral & Campus hiring needs of the organisation

Apr 2005 – Oct 2007 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• Handled 2 diverse portfolios during this tenure:
• Lead Training & Development - Managing training requirements for a 1000+ people organisation and Tally Academies across India (approx. 800)
• Anchored Soft Skills training programs for in house employees
• Vendor coordination & negotiation for external training requirement
• Managing Corporate HR & OD - Leading ]a team of 6 to provide entire gamut of HR services (Employee engagement, Training & development, Performance Management and HR Operations) for an approx. 700+ people organisation (including 14 Regional Offices across India.)

May 2004 – Mar 2005 · 10 mos

• Significantly contributed in achieving CMMI level 5 for Training and Development Dept.
• Managing training requirements for a 500 people organisation across the globe
• Contribution in the rolling out and implementation of Performance Management System.
• Handling recruitment for IT and non-IT positions within the organisation. Also coordinated with the different Engineering colleges for campus recruitment.
• Organizer & facilitator of the Induction Program & Team building exercises (OBL – Outbound Learning Programs).
• Handling employee grievances by conducting one on one meeting with employees and recording and sharing feedback with their respective managers at the same time tracking for closure.

Oct 2003 – May 2004 · 7 mos

• Creating & Designing courses into the various tools, offered by Oracle globally.
• Posting the courses offered by Oracle on the web for customer registration.
• Making Course title, Duration, Price, Audience changes to courses.
• Working on various JAVA & VB based software & tools like GSIAP, WDDI, OTA and CAT.
• Handling Courseware Requests (OUCWR & SS) for customers
• Uploading and downloading files like Student & Instructor Guides, PowerPoint’s from different workspaces like OUCR, OUWCR, OURC and OFO etc.
• Setting up different accounts (Internal/Partner/Approver) on the Digital Express website (DX) for customers for Ordering & Tracking of Courseware.

Jan 2000 – Jan 2002 · 2 yrs

• Handled 3 different roles during this tenure:
• Recruitment - Fulfillment of Junior to Mid level requiremnts
• HR portfolio - Personnel Files Management, Handling Payroll & Admin issues, Recording & maintenance of Attendance & Leave records, Arranging for meetings – Skip level, group gathering, open house and feedback sessions & Generating Offer / Appointment letters for new joinees
• Event Management - Organised various National Level activities like Seminars, Conferences (e-commerce by Sugata Mitra) and Marketing activities in the benefit of the organisation.