Mar 2020 – Jun 2024 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India · On-site

Jan 2014 – Nov 2019 · 5 yrs 10 mos · Pune

• As a Manager, Talent Acquisition I was responsible for driving full cycle Recruitment and Selection from Screening, interview process, offer process for India & SEA region
• Develop Talent acquisition strategy to support business plans & drive talent acquisition operation excellence
• Reviewing & Redefining innovative recruitment strategies to reduce the time to hire & cost of hire (maintained agency usage below 7%),
• Lead, develop and provided direction to a team of 4 recruiters
• Defining policies for Talent Acquisition function e.g. colleague referral, intern hiring
• Launched & executed Colleague referral program successfully
• Partnering with stakeholders for strategic recruitment, pipeline development and attracting the right talent.
• Identifying, negotiating terms and conditions of Business with External recruitment agencies and headhunters.
• Review of TA policies, processes and streamlining operational processes, compensation bench marking

Nov 2013 – May 2014 · 6 mos · Pune Area, India

• Responsibilities:
• Talent acquisition strategy to support business plans & drive talent acquisition operation excellence
• Lead, develop and provided direction to a team of 6 recruiters
• Compensation benchmarking

Nov 2005 – Oct 2013 · 7 yrs 11 mos

• Lead, develop and provided direction to a team of 8 recruiters to deliver Staffing function for HAIL for PAN India offices, sourcing best talent from diverse sources
• Hands on recruiter for Key & Leadership hiring- Chief Financial Officer, Director- Finance, Project Managers, Head- Estimation
• Benchmark & adapt the recruitment best practices across the global staffing teams & influence effective decision making on recruitment related issues
• Manage relations with internal customers, partnering with them in workforce planning and execution of the Recruitment process
• Drive definition and implementation of various Recruiting processes like –Sourcing strategy, vendor management, candidate management processes, refinement of evaluation criteria, service level metrics, cycle time metrics, new hire experience, cost per hire, knowledge sharing of available talent pool in the market, trends and current pipeline
• Maintaining sourcing mix at optimum level
• Lead, develop and provided direction to a team of 8 recruiters
• Collaborate with business leaders to meet hiring needs and ensuring criticality is addressed on priority
• Policy reviews, implementing and educating stakeholders on new policies