Jul 2022 – Feb 2025 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• o Executive Leadership Hiring: Partnered with C-Suite executives, Practice & Portfolio Delivery Heads to drive executive and leadership hiring across the United States, ensuring strategic talent alignment with business goals.
• o End-to-End Leadership Recruitment: Led the full-me hiring team supporting Delivery, Sales, and Pre-Sales leadership roles (AVP, Directors, Transition Heads) across America's Application Services, catering to Life Sciences, Retail, Banking, Finance, and Manufacturing industries.
• o Proactive Internal & Diversity Hiring: Led the proactive hiring team responsible for HCL Internal Leadership & Diversity Hiring, ensuring workforce inclusivity and long-term talent sustainability. I have led proactive hiring for Java, .Net, Salesforce and Testing practices.
• o Diversity & Inclusion Leadership: Collaborated with HR teams to drive Diversity & Inclusion hiring initiatives across the United States, focusing on building a diverse talent pipeline and ensuring fair, unbiased recruitment practices.
• o Recruitment Technology & Process Optimization: Served as a Recruitment SME, collaborating with tools and IT teams to optimize existing recruitment technologies and evaluate, test, and implement new tools for HCL's global recruitment process.
• o Employee Referral & Passive Sourcing Innovation: Lead the strategic recruiting initiatives to enhance HCL recruiting capability by designing and governing the employee referral program as a passive sourcing channel for the talent acquisition team.
• o Market Intelligence & Workforce Analytics: Developed and implemented passive hiring strategies to
• be followed by North America full me recruiting team by analyzing market trends, workforce analytics, and hiring/layoff reports to build a strong talent pipeline.

Jan 2019 – Jun 2022 · 3 yrs 5 mos

• Lead SAP & Digital Analytics Recruitment overseeing IT recruitment programs for lateral hiring within Digital Analytics and SAP portfolios and skills.
• o Head contractual hiring for Life Sciences, Telecom, SAP, Consumer Goods, Aerospace, and Transport & Logistics within Application Services recruiting Java, .Net, SQL, Salesforce, Testing, Guidewire and several other IT skills..
• o Vendor Collaboration & Fulfillment Optimization: Managed active forums with 200+ vendor partners, driving demand-sharing, collaboration, and problem-solving to improve fulfillment efficiency and hiring success rates.
• o High-Impact Recruitment Events: Organized and led onsite recruitment drives across U.S. offices, hiring professionals across diverse skill sets to support life sciences and healthcare ramp-ups. Spearheaded hackathons, onsite recruiting drives, LinkedIn campaigns, and targeted hiring events to attract talent and strategic workforce growth.
• o Recruitment Process Optimization: Led talent acquisition transformation initiatives, collaborating with the Tools & COE team to enhance recruitment processes, drive hiring culture, and maximize the use of ATS and other recruitment tools for a compliant hiring process.
• o TA Transformation During COVID: Designed and implemented Talent Acquisition Transformation Program during COVID to support onsite & offshore recruiting teams, fostering work-life balance, continuous learning, and capability building through structured forums and training initiatives.
• o Technology & Compliance Integration: Served as a liaison between recruiters and the tools team, conducting recruitment tool assessments to identify best practices, enhance efficiency, and ensure compliance across hiring processes.

Jan 2018 – Dec 2018 · 11 mos

• Lead – Special Program Hiring
• o Cost Optimization & Talent Retention: Led a TP-to-FTE Conversion Program, poisoning HCL as an Employer of Choice by converting contractors into full-me employees. This significantly reduced contractual costs and improved talent retention.
• o Strategic Hiring & Stakeholder Collaboration: Partnered with Delivery and Customer stakeholders to develop cost-efficient and me-sensive external hiring strategies that enhanced business outcomes.
• o Onsite Client Engagement: Traveled to the U.S. for customer-driven onsite meengs, collaborating closely with client and delivery teams to strengthen hiring strategies for major Healthcare, Life Sciences, and Telecom clients.
• o Embedded Hiring Support: Worked onsite at client headquarters during multiple U.S. visits to enhance client relationships and optimize HCL’s recruitment processes to be aligned with client-specific needs.
• ∙ Team Management & Reporting
• o Recruitment Team Leadership: Managed a team of onsite and offshore recruiters, providing training, mentorship, and task assignments to enhance recruitment effectiveness.
• o Data-Driven Decision Making: Led past recruiting data and market analysis for recruitment programs, tracking individual performance, hiring trends, and competitive intelligence to sourcing transformation and recruiting strategic improvements.

Oct 2016 – Dec 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos

• ● Contractual Hiring Lead – Consumer Services Industry (U.S. & Canada) ○ Strategic Talent Acquisition & Lateral Hiring: Led contractual hiring across Telecom, Healthcare, and Retail industry customers, managing end-to-end lateral hiring programs for the U.S. & Canada geography. Ensured timely workforce augmentation to meet evolving business demands.
• ○ Full-Cycle Recruitment Management: Oversaw the end recruitment life cycle, from demand gathering and workforce planning to talent sourcing, interview coordination, salary & rate negotiation, and final hiring, ensuring a seamless talent acquisition experience.
• ● Business & Delivery Stakeholder Engagement
• ○ Staff Augmentation & Talent Fulfillment: Collaborated with delivery and business leaders to manage contingent workforce hiring, ensuring the timely fulfillment of staffing needs and smooth onboarding of contractual resources.
• ○ Workforce Planning & Hiring Strategy: Partnered with stakeholders to analyze hiring trends, forecast workforce demand, and implement proactive hiring solutions, improving recruitment efficiency and reducing me-to-hire.
• ● Vendor & Partner Management
• ○ Vendor Collaboration & Cost Optimization: Managed relationships with multiple staffing vendors, ensuring efficient, cost-effective hiring solutions while maintaining quality and compliance standards.
• ○ Rate Negotiation & Cost Efficiency: Led contract negotiations with vendors to secure competitive hiring rates, optimizing resource allocation and cost-effectiveness for contractual hiring needs.

May 2015 – Sep 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Responsible for Staff Augmentation contractual hiring for different Verticals: BFSI, CSMP, HC, BAS (ETS/EAS) across North America and Canada.
• Managed, trained and defined deliverables for multiple team members.

Sep 2013 – Apr 2015 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Responsible for lateral hiring for Life Sciences & Healthcare vertical across North America and Canada.
• Worked as a Recruitment SME for Specific skills and done Proactive, Projects and Customers specific hiring, Skills : Argus Safety, LIMS, Cache Mumps, IDBS Bio Book, TrackWise.

Mar 2012 – Aug 2013 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Responsibilities:
• End to End IT Recruitment: Experienced with complete Recruiting life cycle from sourcing to On-boarding.
• Develop recruiting strategies to identify qualified candidates through various recruiting tools and have well versed knowledge working on Portals like: Dice, Monster, Career Builder, TechFetch and social recruiting channels like linked-in.
• Conceptualizing various ideas for increasing sales volume by improving services.
• Orchestrating market intelligence, new market opportunity assessment, segment analysis, client research.
• Extensively worked on Wipro Account and handled other clients like SDG, GalaxE solutions, UST Global and Birla soft.
• Well versed in working with different ATS like: Synergy, Conrep, Job Diva
• Well versed and experienced in outsourcing perfect resource for Middleware, mainframe, SAP, testing, Web Services, Sun, Microsoft Technologies Requirement of direct Clients based out in US.
• Expertise in Resume Formatting, short listing, Screening, Involved the hiring of USC, GC, EAD and H1 Transfers. Have understanding on all Tax-terms.