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Inaya Salman

Head of Talent

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India14 yrs 11 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over 14 years of talent acquisition experience.
  • Expertise in hiring for niche tech roles.
  • Proven track record in improving recruitment processes.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition Leader specializing in tech recruitment for startups and corporate environments.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical HiringLeadership HiringTalent AcquisitionTechnical Recruiting

Other Skills

IT HiringRecruitingTech HiringProcess ManagementTeam BuildingScreeningSourcingInterviewsHuman ResourcesEmployee EngagementTalent ManagementEmployee RelationsHR PoliciesBenefits NegotiationHRIS

About

A results-driven Talent Acquisition Professional with over 14 years of experience in both startup and corporate environments, specializing in Lateral and Leadership Hiring for niche roles such as Data Scientist, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics, NLP Engineer, Machine Learning Expert, Product Manager, Medical Writing, Academic Editors, Transcribers, and Technical Architects. Demonstrated proficiency in Headhunting, Industry Mapping, Sourcing, and Negotiation to identify and recruit top-tier talent. Possesses excellent multitasking skills with strong communication, interpersonal, and convincing abilities, coupled with effective stakeholder management. I am enthusiastic about exploring new and challenging opportunities and take pride in facilitating the placement of exceptional talent in their dream roles.

Experience

14 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 7 mos
Average Tenure
10 mos
Current Experience

Sodexo

Senior Manager

Jul 2025Present · 10 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · Hybrid

Technical HiringLeadership hiring

Iss stoxx

Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

Nov 2021Jul 2025 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Lead the end-to-end recruitment process for various positions, from entry-level to executive roles, ensuring timely and efficient hiring.
  • Develop and implement recruitment strategies to attract top talent, including job postings, social media campaigns, and employee referrals.
  • Collaborate with hiring managers to understand their staffing needs and provide guidance on job descriptions, interview techniques, and candidate selection.
  • Utilize Applicant Tracking Systems (Workday), to track and manage candidate pipelines, ensuring compliance with company policies and legal requirements.
  • Initiating and coordinating with Colleges for Campus recruitments.
  • Conduct interviews and assessments to evaluate candidates’ qualifications, skills, and cultural fit.
  • Managing candidate offers by obtaining necessary approvals, conducting offer discussions, and consistently following up until the candidate is onboarded.
  • Build and maintain strong relationships with candidates, providing a positive candidate experience throughout the recruitment process.
  • Independently managed the entire recruitment cycle and successfully hired the Index Data Engineering, Platform Engineering, and Data Research teams for the Index Business vertical.
  • Monitor and analyze recruitment metrics to assess the effectiveness of recruitment strategies and make data-driven improvements.
  • Responsible for improving Recruitment processes.
Talent AcquisitionTechnical RecruitingIT HiringRecruitingTech HiringProcess Management+1

Trinka.ai

Talent Acquisition Lead

Jan 2018Nov 2021 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Transforming the academic publishing landscape through AI products.
  • Crimson AI is an artificial intelligence solutions company. One of our product Trinka AI is a next-gen grammar correction and language enhancement writing assistant designed for academic and technical writing. It is developed by a team of linguists, engineers, and data scientists with a deep desire to create a future with barrier-free communication. We built our writing assistant to support all kinds of people in all kinds of communication—from personal to academic to everyday conversations.
  • Trinka AI is powered by Enago and is part of the Crimson Interactive Group, a multi-national company with 15 years of global experience. Crimson has a presence in 120+ countries with 200k+ clients, 600 employees, 5000 contractors, and 10 international offices located in Tokyo, Beijing, Seoul, New Jersey, London, etc.
  • If you are passionate about Data Science, NLP, Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence.
  • Connect with me.
  • To know more about our products, please visit www.crimsoni.ai, www.trinka.ai, www.authorone.ai

Enago (crimson interactive)

Talent Acquisition Lead

Oct 2015Nov 2021 · 6 yrs 1 mo · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Crimson Interactive is an ISO-certified organization (ISO 9001:2008) providing English language solution to customers globally. Our brands deliver services in three professional areas.
  • Editing (www.enago.com)
  • Translation (www.ulatus.com)
  • Transcription (www.voxtab.com)
  • We use the unique amalgam of pure skill coupled with trailblazing innovative techniques to always provide the best to science researchers worldwide. Our objective is to help groundbreaking scientific research get published in the most impactful journals, for the world to read the how-when-what-where-why of ideas that can change the world.Crimson provides Editorial Services to individual clients and corporate customers worldwide. It has over 40,000+ clients spanning more than 89 countries.
  • My Role:-
  • Responsible for Lateral Hiring from Mid level to senior level positions.
  • Coordinating with Team Heads or Stakeholders on manpower requirements
  • Endowed with excellent relationship management and communication skills coupled with the ability to handle stakeholders effectively.
  • Formulating recruitment strategy based on targets (Online, campus recruitment, Vendors Management, Employee references, IJP, etc).
  • Formulating the job descriptions in alignment with the business needs of the cross-functional team.
  • Actively using job portals and online platforms for meeting the hiring needs.
  • End to End recruitment including scheduling interviews, Salary approvals, offer negotiation, preparing offer annexure, offer letter till on boarding.
  • Responsible for Mapping, Documenting and overall improvement of processes and policies related to recruitment as a function.
  • Negotiate contractual agreements with new recruitment agencies and liaising for sourcing CVs
  • Conducting reference check

Eazyhire

Delivery Head

Nov 2013Sep 2015 · 1 yr 10 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Managed a Team of 5 members involved in sourcing, calling and recruiting.
  • Worked closely with the CEO / Founders / Business Unit heads / Internal Hiring Managers / Resource management group and Management, and supporting them strongly in closing all levels of resources with requisite & adequate skills within time-frames without facing any intricacy.
  • Represent organization and conduct meetings with Client.
  • Handled key accounts independently and maintaining the complete candidate database.
  • Recruited only for startups and SME companies.
  • Interface with resource management team to build recruitment strategies and refine hiring goals by delivering quality service.
  • Responsible for Individual contribution and Team Management.
  • Act as the client's single point of contact, by working closely with the relevant departments within the organization to ensure that their queries, problems, and issues are handled properly.
  • Allocation of mandates to the team members & helping in understanding the mandates & sourcing profiles.
  • Adherence to the quality standards and norms.
  • Motivate and Re-enforce team work.
  • Adhere all the Recruitment Hiring Strategies & budgeting.
  • Responsible for all pro-active and re-active recruiting efforts to ensure compliance with company norms for our established accounts.
  • Domains handled IT software and services, Retail, Manufacturing, Hospitality and Travel, Marketing, Finance, Education.
  • Ability to handle volume recruiting in a fast-paced, structured environment, adhering to strict deadlines and deliverable.

Acelinkers consultancy services pvt ltd

HR Executive

May 2011Nov 2013 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Involved in complete Recruitment lifecycle process such as sourcing, screening, selection, hiring, negotiation, and follow up.
  • Posting jobs on the Internet portals like Naukri, Monster and Times.
  • Managed recruitment through different channels, advertisement, employee referrals & Headhunting
  • Interacting with Big4 and MNC’s clients for requirements.
  • First level screening of profiles, coordinating with hiring Manager for feedback on shared profiles.
  • Following up with candidates from initial stage till their joining.
  • Maintaining Data Base and other required sheets by using Excel.
  • Lead generation for new clients
  • Scheduled candidates for walk-in interviews or Deloitte, Philips, Convergys, Vodafone, HUL etc.

Education

Welingkar Institute of Management

Post Graduation Diploma in Management — Human Resources Management and Services

Jan 2015Jan 2017

Vivek college of commerce

Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) — Marketing

Jan 2009Jan 2013

Vivek Vidyalaya Junior College

Commerce

Jan 2007Jan 2009

Vivek Vidyalaya High School

Business/Commerce — General

Jan 1998Jan 2007

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