Oct 2020 – Dec 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Partnered with engineering team to understand the business needs, work closely with Business Unit specific hiring managers to understand the hiring projections, and strategize proactive sourcing.
• In charge of managing team of 9 members, mentoring to ensure high productivity & gain aggressive results.
• Manage the staffing process including allocation of work load among self/recruiting team, candidate sourcing, managing and screening of candidate flow, interview scheduling, candidate interviews, pre-employment screening, requisition closing, & new hire orientation and follow-up.
• Weekly calls & reports to discuss progress, provide sourcing strategies, continuous pipelining, build strong relationship with hiring managers, talent partners, human resources compensation, HR Business Partners.
• Long cycle of managing the relationship with the candidate from initial presentation of the opportunity, prepping for the interview, HR Interview, offer negotiations, relocation assistance, onboarding guidance.
• Partner with HR Business Partners, compensation & organizational development teams to deliver recruiting expertise, design hiring strategies, provide full cycle candidate management resulting in higher acceptance rates.
• Initiated Diversity, ERP rush events & participated in virtual interview to ramp up the BU’s.
• Comprehensive market mapping/skill mapping to support business in hiring external talents. Generated Market Intelligence reports from LinkedIn and SeekOut for various software & semiconductor skills, supply chain, sales and marketing & influenced business in making hiring decisions.
• Collaborate with recruitment vendors directly for closing critical positions. Involved in end-to-end vendor management.
• Collaborated with sourcing team and generated ideas for hiring (proposed new sourcing channel, methods to increase vendor engagement, identifying best channels for sourcing, engaging diversity talent during interviews)

Jun 2018 – Apr 2020 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bangalore

• Partnered with CareerNet-RPO at Siemens Healthineers.
• Conceptualizing the recruitment strategies aligned with BU goals to achieve the recruitment numbers.
• Proven experience in partnering with relevant business segments to define, plan and execute sourcing activities and assessment/selection of external candidates to meet approved headcount requirements.
• Creating a comprehensive recruiting strategy using a hybrid staffing model to accommodate the key business areas.
• Partnered with business stakeholders to embed diversity in candidate attraction and selection mechanisms.
• Managing a team of 10 members, mentoring, monitoring the performance & appraisals to ensure high productivity & efficiency for meeting individual and group targets.
• Develop KPI for recruiter to ensure, enhance & develop team to a higher level of success.
• Scheduled meetings and weekly status calls with hiring managers, BU heads & HR Business Partners.
• Managed recruitment budget and regular cost analysis of budget to actual figures.
• Supervising the process of sourcing & screening the candidates; evaluating the fitment in terms of responsibilities, compensation & notice period, scheduling the interviews and following up with stakeholders for feedback.

Mar 2015 – May 2018 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Bangalore

• Lead Executive – Talent Acquisition & Resource Management in Aricent.
• Resource Management-
• Responsible for planning resource allocation, ensuring to maximize the use of all the company resources.
• While this includes training and employee development, it also included managing additional resources such as equipment and supplies & to make sure each project stage has enough resources.
• Preparing and executing a resource capacity plan and resource schedules.
• Allocating resources to projects, including assigning the appropriate personnel to job roles within a project.
• Performance management.
• Forecasting the need for new employees for upcoming projects.
• Identifying the qualifications of employees to match the project needs.
• Addressing resource demands of all departments for the project's successful delivery
• Talent Acquisition-
• Responsible for handling End-to-End recruitment –Screening, Scouting, Offer management, candidate/stakeholder experience, Manage low cost channel mix – Direct & Social Media networking.
• Partnering closely with the business head & leadership team and support business growth by hiring quality candidates within the agreed SLA’s to ensure business adequacy.
• Reducing the dependency on vendors by applying direct sourcing methodologies.
• Promote Employee Referral Program.
• Design, plan and execute selection processes (conduct interviews and screening calls, technical tests, etc.)
• Develop and maintain a talent pool of internal and external candidates with potential for future vacancies.
• Mentoring the team to meet the deadline of recruitment process on time.
• Identifying the future manpower requirement and designing plans for acquiring the requisites skills and competencies.
• Aricent is the world’s #1 pure-play product engineering services firm. We have 25+ years experience co-creating ambitious products with the leading networking, telecom, software, semiconductor, Internet and industrial companies.

Nov 2004 – Mar 2015 · 10 yrs 4 mos · Bangalore

• Primarily responsible for managing Resource/Demand Staffing for IBM practitioners to manage & deploy such that business priorities & utilization targets are met.
• Develop & manage tactical & strategic resource plan & skill management process for organization.
• Bench reduction & check on utilization of the employees.
• Resource management in terms of relocation, transfer requests, grievance handling, leaves/ department transfer/assignment end date management & competency mapping.
• Job rotation, Forecasting, Demand Analysis, Supply Portfolio Management.
• Collaborate with demand analysts, business leaders & new/existing opportunity owners for successfully achieving the revenue & growth targets/directives.
• Manage the fill-rate, utilization & other resource & capacity management matrices.
• In charge of planning & resolution of staffing issues, coordinating Global Delivery requests, the GD channel, subcontracting requests, the subcontracting channel, the optimal deployment.
• Have been on-site for training in Denmark, Sweden & Norway on Nordic R&CM functions.
• Responsible for Strategy & Change & Supply Change Management service lines for offshore as well as onsite fulfillment / supply of resources in coordination with Deployment Managers & Practice Area Fulfillment Managers.
• Resolving issues related to PO and records of the candidates, which involves interacting with the concerned Project Teams, Procurement & Partners & Resource Deployment Manager’s (RDM).
• Involved in end-to-end team management & the process of releasing Purchase Order for the selected candidates, this involves raising of Purchase Request through online database, getting approval from the concerned Project Manager, Department Heads & Business Finance.
• Interacting with the Global Accounts Payable team in China & Accounts Payable team in India with regards to SSP Vendor related issues & clarifications.