Oct 2024 – Mar 2026 · 1 yr 5 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

• Leading India based multi RPO account portfolio; steering multi‑industry talent programmes that fuel client growth, scaling up their GCC setup, elevate recruiting excellence, and strengthen commercial performance.
• Portfolio Leadership: Oversee end to end recruiting delivery for several concurrent accounts, tailoring delivery models to each client’s culture, maturity, and hiring velocity.
• Stakeholder & Governance: Act as the senior liaison for TA Heads, CHROs, HRBPs and business leaders, chairing quarterly insight forums that convert talent data into actionable workforce plans.
• Process Excellence: Standardize and continuously refine hiring delivery and solutions to ensure consistency and compliance across all engagements.
• Capability Building: Mentor team leads, recruiters, and analysts through a proprietary academy that emphasises consultative hiring, data fluency, and tech integration; foster a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Client Expansion & Advisory: Craft go-to-market approach, talent roadmaps, diversity hiring strategies and employer branding playbooks that support clients’ growth and risk mitigation goals.
• Culture & Values: Champion Korn Ferry’s core values of inclusion, integrity and performance by promoting transparency, celebrating collective wins and modelling ethical decision making.

Jun 2022 – Sep 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

• Enterprise RPO Management: Successfully managed the Wells Fargo enterprise RPO for India
• Responsible for talent delivery, growth strategy, P&L, account performance and governance
• Successfully delivered, +2500 hires and P&L management of 30 crore revenue
• 100% SLA achievement, with zero revenue shrinkage and high operational efficiency.
• Build, maintain, and grow strategic partnership with the client and stakeholders
• Implemented data-driven recruitment strategies; enhanced decision making, efficient hiring decisions
• Utilized analytics to measure recruitment success, improving overall hiring quality
• Implemented complexity-based productivity benchmarking; driving efficiency, streamline processes
• Implemented agile approach in recruitments, fostering more flexible approach to changing business needs
• Part of RSR India Leadership Team, responsible for formulating strategies and execution

Aug 2021 – Jun 2022 · 10 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · On-site

• Led Talent Acquisition function for Global Consumer Technology vertical
• Partner with LT to understand strategic workforce plans, hiring priorities, talent bar for incoming candidates
• Implemented recruitment strategies that resulted in reducing time-to-fill or improving candidate quality
• Fostered relationships with stakeholders, collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment and delivery

Jan 2021 – Jul 2021 · 6 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Led Talent Acquisition function for hiring needs of MDS vertical
• Partner with LT to understand strategic workforce plans, hiring priorities, talent bar for incoming candidates
• Identify, implement and Lead recruitment initiatives to build proactive talent pipeline

Oct 2018 – Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Delivering Talent Acquisition solutions from Associate to VP level hiring for Barclays India sites (Chennai, Mumbai, Noida & Pune)
• Increased Direct source mix to 90% & diversity to 45% on external hires
• Ensuring compliance with Service Level Agreement (SLA) targets, handling end to end hiring process: driving healthy mix of internal & external sourcing
• Awarded Circle of Excellence ‘Best Team for year 2019’ for teamwork, collaboration, excellent client feedback, consistent positive SLA performance, up selling/service expansion
• Responsible for TA processes viz. Direct Recruitment, Recruitment Coordination, Internal Mobility, Requisition creation, Post Offer Management
• Part of the RS India Senior Leadership Team (India SLT); responsible for formulating Talent Acquisition strategies and executing them

Oct 2011 – Sep 2018 · 6 yrs 11 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Talent Acquisition PM: Global Shared Services IT
• Led hiring efforts for Sapient Global Shared Services group, including permanent and contract workforce
• Collaborated and worked closely with CIO office to understand talent demand for strategic projects
• Expertise in niche and senior level hiring, with a focus on strategic planning and innovative approaches to attract talent.
• Demonstrated leadership in managing recruitment team, ensuring alignment of hiring efforts with business objectives
• Improved hiring efficiency by stakeholders partnership, key market intel, talent advisory and data driven approach
• Instrumental in bringing innovation and conceptualizing hiring strategies for critical IT projects and business demands
• Proven track record in meeting hiring plans, reducing bench time, optimizing costs and driving recruiting processes
• Developed appropriate reporting strategies and metrics, assessing trends and taking action to improve performance
• Campus Program:
• Company’s brand building through campus mentorship, corporate campus relationship, preplacement
• Ensure pipeline for demand fulfilment through campus hiring
• Responsible for capacity planning and people sourcing strategy (interns & trainees)
• Devise strategies by evaluating metrics: people utilization, attrition, retention, performance management
• Lead Tier 1 & Tier 2 campus hiring strategy to be a preferred employer
• Manage on-campus and off-campus hiring need: candidate screening, administer test, review results, hire

Jul 2010 – Oct 2011 · 1 yr 3 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• Lead and support new offshore account establishment, establish people, processes and teams
• Single POC for offshore business operations: planned & executed service transition in a phased manner
• Manage telecom IT service operations from offshore and spearheaded various strategies
• Ensure setup of NOC operations from India thereby able to implement follow the sun strategy

Oct 2005 – Jul 2010 · 4 yrs 9 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

• Process Officer - BSCoE
• Lead and support PMO processes, create management information for use by the Leadership
• Ensure programs and projects are delivered on time, in budget and as scoped.
• Consolidation post collection of program status from project leads: update of work plans and changes
• Resource forecasting based on work order entries and timesheet information
• Bridge between Hiring team and Project Managers to get the right people
• Process Executive - Operations Management
• Learnt and practised: new offshore account establishment, people, processes and control around quality & audit
• Prepare process documents, SOPs’, business procedures, ramp-up plans, SLAs etc.
• Keeping Track of deliverables: team productivity, individual targets, work shift management