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Manikandan G Subramanian

Head of Talent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India14 yrs 7 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 14+ years of full-cycle recruitment experience.
  • Expert in technical and non-technical talent acquisition.
  • Proven track record in stakeholder management and team leadership.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition expert specializing in technical recruitment within the IT and healthcare sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionStakeholder ManagementTeam ManagementRecruitingTechnical Recruiting

Other Skills

Talent ManagementTalent ScoutingHiring CrewDiversity / PWD HiringEmployee Referral ProgramLeadership HiringSocial RecruitingWorkdayContingent Workforce ManagementFull life cycle recruitingBudget ForecastingProject PlanningCampus recruitmentSourcingQualifying

About

“Analytical, organized and detail-oriented Talent Acquisition / Recruiting Partner with expertise and experience in Full-cycle recruitment / Stakeholder Management. Collaborative team player with ownership mentality and a track record of delivering the highest quality strategic solutions to resolve challenges, propel business growth.” 14+ years of complete End2End Full life cycle of HR recruiting experience with an emphasis on Technical / Non-technical professionals. Extensive Team Management and recruiting experience, expertise in negotiation with business and strong in social recruiting with right search string. Expert- level candidate sourcing in online job boards, user groups, networking sites, university career sites, Boolean searches (Google search strings), referrals, and other creative sourcing techniques. Experience in social network sourcing using Twitter, Google Plus, Facebook and LinkedIn, experience working with a large pool of requirements and very efficient in time management, cold calling, negotiating salary with clients and candidates, an environment with competing demands, good organizational skills with attention to detail and ability to prioritize. Monitoring recruiting sources effectiveness and analyze candidate pipeline to ensure timely hiring and to forecast candidate supply to the client. Ability to negotiate, influence change, and provide strategic leadership. Hands on experience in Contingent Workforce Management(CWM), Vendor Management System (VMS), Managed Service provider (MSP), Applicant Tracking System (ATS) and "Recruitment Process Outsourcing" (RPO) recruitment platforms.

Experience

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

Global applications solution

Director Talent Acquisition

Apr 2025Present · 1 yr 1 mo · On-site

Stakeholder ManagementTalent ManagementTalent ScoutingHiring CrewTalent Acquisition

Kaygen, inc.

Sr Talent Delivery Manager / Client Partner

Nov 2020Mar 2025 · 4 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Kaygen, an award-winning technology consulting and talent firm, assists organizations to achieve digital transformation. From structuring data to the Cloud and visualization, Kaygen leads the digital transformation of global clients.
  • Kaygen, from the Japanese word, kaizen, for continuous improvement, signifies how we continuously seek to bring expert tech talent to our client engagements to create a sustainable competitive advantage. However, there is more. Our company is diverse, and minority woman owned and operated by expert data technologists who have conceived and developed the very strategic technology initiatives that we now engage in for our clients with our talent.
  • Our core belief in diversity, complemented by the principles of kaizen, ensures we bring the best expert data talent to work transparently, collaboratively, and with the flexibility to ensure client success.
  • Visit https://www.kaygen.com/ for a solutions overview

Ge healthcare

Talent Acquisition Lead

Jul 2018Jun 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Every day at GE is a new opportunity to collaborate with the best minds in the country, to develop solutions that make difference to millions of people. Ours is a company that invests in its people in a way that leadership, innovation, growth and unyielding integrity become a way of life. Join us and be a part of the GE India growth story.
  • Responsibilities:-
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Diversity / PWD Hiring
  • Employee Referral Program
  • Leadership Hiring
  • Social Recruiting
  • Workday
  • Requirement: Leadership Hiring, Contingent Workforce Hiring, Digital & Technology Hiring.
  • Sets service level agreements with hiring managers that define roles and responsibilities for controlling the hiring process. Leverages the knowledge of hiring manager when creating an effective sourcing strategy to identify and recruit top talent.
  • Establish credibility and remain engaged with hiring manager and senior management to stay abreast of hiring process, Systematic and proactive approach with hiring managers across all business lines regarding recruitment cost controls.
  • Managing Contingent Workforce processes and compliances, extending workers assignment and contract management with vendors.
  • Proactively working with hiring manager and human resources business partner regarding future organizational structure, Conducting the business Insights with the Business Leaders and Sourcing / Recruiting Team to understand the business structure.
  • Achievements: Structured new Technology team (Edison AI) with 40+ resources including Leadership Team. Improved the strength of Digital service Team from 15+ to 100+. Consistently meeting the Target hires on Quarterly basis.
Stakeholder ManagementDiversity / PWD HiringEmployee Referral ProgramLeadership HiringSocial RecruitingWorkday+1

Wipro

Senior Talent Acquisition Partner / Product Engineering Services

Feb 2016Jul 2018 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Product Engineering Services
  • Workforce Management
  • Lateral Hiring
  • Budget Forecasting
  • Project Planning / Campus recruitment
  • Practicing in full life cycle recruiting (End2End): starting from tech screening, scheduling interviews, salary negotiations, HR interviews, releasing offers and finally on-boarding the candidates with induction / new hire orientation sessions.
  • Interacting with the onsite business team to get the requirements and coordinating with the WMG (Workforce Management Group) to creating an indent, job codes, and budget allocation.
  • Involving with the accounts/finance team to ensure the CBR (Customer Bill Rate) and CM (Contribution Margin). Targeting minimum of 25% to 40% of Margin with each hire. Managing Contingent Workers contract and involving in contract to hire extensions.
  • Managing the lateral hiring with GIMS (Global Immigration Services) to File LCA, filling application, submitting to immigration. Handling a sourcing team, approving submissions and monitoring their performance through metrics.
  • Engaged in lateral hiring function for Product Engineering Services (PES) and Manufacturing domain hiring, HLS (Healthcare and Life sciences) and BFSI domain.
Full life cycle recruitingBudget ForecastingProject PlanningCampus recruitmentTalent AcquisitionRecruiting

Collabera india

Senior Technical Recruiter

Jun 2014Oct 2015 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • > Recruiting for major Fortune IT (GAP Inc, McAfee, Amazon, Expedia, Microsoft and Starbucks) and Engineering client (GKN Aerospace)
  • > Full lifecycle recruiting: sourcing, qualifying, interviewing, extending offers, documentation and on boarding.
  • > Sourced Full time/ Contract / Contract to Hire Technical Professionals for Internal Customers, which includes Global Consumer Platform and Fulfillment teams.
  • > Partnered with the hiring managers to better understand the requirements.
  • > Sourced potential candidates from web tools and available services.
  • > Managed end to end relationship, between candidates and Amazon hiring managers, which includes setting up interviews gathering feedback and engaging candidates.
  • > Working 1:1 with hiring managers. Qualifying orders to best meet the client’s needs.
  • > Account ownership for positions at Amazon, Expedia, Starbucks and GKN,
  • > Cultivated relationships with hiring managers and contractors, creating strong relationships and commitment, worked tirelessly for candidates, creating a pool of niche resources available and pre-qualified for upcoming positions.
  • > Training fellow recruiters and co-workers, assisting in accomplishments of commitments/goals.
  • > Maximize gross margins by managing pay rates, bill rates, and markups.
  • > Developed working relationships with all members of the company, developing confidence and strength in mentoring and directing Junior Recruiters to best benefit Collabera as a whole.
  • > Strong organization, presentation, negotiation and closing skills.
Full lifecycle recruitingSourcingQualifyingInterviewingExtending offersTechnical Recruiting+1

Objectwin technology, inc.

Senior Technical Recruiter

Mar 2012May 2014 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Duties included working closely with client companies nationwide to find highly qualified candidates for positions needing filled.
  • Developed a professional client rapport with various corporate high C-level executives and management: Directors, Project Managers, IT Directors, HR Directors, HR Managers, Hiring Managers, etc.
  • Worked closely with hiring managers to find out their specific needs in order to fill job orders/positions correctly and professionally in a timely manner.
  • Strong experience with major job boards to search for qualified candidates.
  • Interviewing and screening candidates to make sure they are fully qualified for posted positions as well as testing, reference and background checks, source talent through traditional methods (e.g. Internal Database, Internet Job posting/searching, referrals, cold calling, specialty sites, social networks, etc.), creative methods.

Thoughtcreek, inc

Technical Recruiter

Oct 2010Feb 2012 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Sourced, screened, interviewed and successfully onboard the industries top talent for a variety of positions including management level positions.
  • Used advanced search techniques and sourcing skills to identify passive candidates.
  • Supported US Based Tier 1 Vendors Software resources, Columbia Consulting and Implementation partners Fujitsu, Perficient Inc.
  • Recruited Candidates on all tax terms like W2, Corp-to-Corp (C2C), 1099.

Education

Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli

Postgraduate Degree — Human Resources Management and Services

Oct 2024Feb 2026

Anna University

MCA — Computer Applications

Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya

Bachelor's degree — Computer Science

SSV School

HSC — Computer Science

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