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Nishan Thankappan

Head of Talent

Gurugram, Haryana, India24 yrs 6 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in strategic talent acquisition and team leadership.
  • Proven track record in building high-performing teams.
  • Strong focus on data-driven recruitment strategies.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS recruitment leader with extensive experience in talent acquisition and strategic planning.

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Skills

Core Skills

RecruitmentStrategic PlanningTeam Management

Other Skills

Stakeholder EngagementGTM StrategyCustomer SatisfactionNew Business DevelopmentCompetitive AnalysisProgram ManagementSAPSourcingRecruitingVendor ManagementScreeningTalent AcquisitionCustomer Management

About

Leader in the Talent Acquisition arena along with a cross-functional experience in Recruitment & Selection, Sales & Marketing, Consulting & Customer engagement. Proficient in leading the complete spectrum of the recruitment function / cycle, along with leading high performing teams to success. An in-depth exposure into strategic partnering with key business leader on Org. planning, developing GTM strategy for Talent in alignment with the demand, driving execution, monitoring metrics & recruitment analytics. I’ve personally worked on multiple Exec Level searches (across a range of business units including Product & Technology, Cloud, Sales, IT, Support & Services & HR with Senior Leaders across my stints, closely partner with them in making strategic decisions on organization structuring & GTM strategy for key talent. I see myself as an unconventional thinker, breaking the rule book, driving key initiatives, driving internal process re-engineering, and a strong believer of the quote “You are as good as your team” Expertise: Recruitment, Leading Teams, Strategic Planning, Consulting & Customer Engagement.

Experience

24 yrs 6 mos
Total Experience
5 yrs 11 mos
Average Tenure
7 mos
Current Experience

Ukg

Sr. Director Talent Acquisition

Sep 2025Present · 7 mos · India · Hybrid

  • UKG is the Workforce Operating Platform that puts workforce understanding to work. With the world's largest collection of workforce insights, and people-first AI, our ability to reveal unseen ways to build trust, amplify productivity, and empower talent, is unmatched. It's this expertise that equips our customers with the intelligence to solve any challenge in any industry — because great organizations know their workforce is their competitive edge.

Opentext

Senior Director, Talent Acquisition - APJ

Nov 2018Jul 2025 · 6 yrs 8 mos · India

  • OpenText is a global organization with 25,000 employees and operates in 180 countries worldwide. We are a global leader in information management, where innovation, creativity, and collaboration are the key components of our corporate culture. Our 30-year legacy encompasses delivering over 700 innovative products and services, with over 120,000 enterprise customers, including 98 of the Top 100 companies, and 150 million end users.
  • OpenText has received several awards for its outstanding culture like: Time Magazines World Best Companies 2024, Forbes Best Companies for Women 2023, Top Places to Work for Young People 2024, Canada’s Best Diversity Employers 2024, Canada’s Best Employers for Recent Graduates 2024, and more! As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to partner with the most highly regarded companies in the world, tackle complex issues, and contribute to projects that shape the future of digital transformation.

Kronos

Director, Talent Acquisition - APAC

Jun 2015Oct 2018 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Noida Area, India

  • Kronos is the global leader in delivering workforce management solutions in the cloud. Tens of thousands of organizations in more than 100 countries — including more than half of the Fortune 1000® — use Kronos to control labor costs, minimize compliance risk, and improve workforce productivity. Learn more about Kronos industry-specific time and attendance, scheduling, absence management, HR and payroll, hiring, and labor analytics applications at www.kronos.com. Kronos: Workforce Innovation That Works™.
  • Kronos is a privately held company and was founded in 1977. Headquartered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, Kronos employs more than 3,500 people worldwide
  • As the APAC TA Leader & as a part of the global TA leadership group our priority is to attract and hire world class talent for our already high performing teams across Product & Technology, Cloud & Support, Services & Sales and Corporate functions spread across APAC. Key areas of focus include building and driving a high impact recruiting strategy while maintaining key emphasis around data driven advisory offerings to the customer, close stakeholder engagement & partnering, driving key programs around branding, diversity & inclusion, candidate experience and university relations. My team (a highly motivated and high impact group of Talent partners) & I work & learn together through this process. Coaching & mentoring is an integral part of my role as a leader of the group.

Adobe

Global Talent Selection, India Head - World Wide Field Operations , IT & Corporate Functions

Oct 2010Jun 2015 · 4 yrs 8 mos · Noida Area, India

  • In this role, I headed the recruitment efforts for India, for the World Wide Field Operations (Sales / Global Services / Inside Sales / Sales Operations) , IT (Application & Infrastructure) & Corporate functions (HR / legal / Finance) business units.
  • Core of this role involves, strategic planning, key stakeholder engagement, aligning the GTM strategy with internal matrices of cost, efficiency and SLA & leading and driving my team of highly seasoned and talented individuals to success.
  • Some key notable High Impact / High Visibility projects I’ve driven with my team are, a few critical in house builds for AGS (Adobe Global Services), build the Adobe Consulting Team from scratch to a 100+ member organization - GDC (Global Delivery Center), key build for the Sales Operations function in India & Inside Sales organization ( 6 to 110+).
  • This effort included working with the respective business Leader right from the planning & forecast stage, to delivery commitments , execution & GTM plan, branding & on boarding.
  • I'm also closely associated with the India Sales leaders to attract and hire key talent at a leadership and Rep level, for their GTM team in India, along with some crucial Exec level searches across IT, Global Services & HR.

Genpact llc

Manager HR - Hiring

Jul 2001Sep 2010 · 9 yrs 2 mos

  • The spectrum...
  • Channel Management: Channel Development & Market penetration by appointing identifying and on boarding new partners
  • Vertical Expertise : CSO (Customer Success organization – IT / ITes) / FAO (Finance & Accounting Outsourcing), Sales & Marketing
  • Team Management: Had a set of highly skilled and motivated team reporting to me, helping me drive delivery.
  • Hiring Queue Management: Conversion driven to a 50% in terms of profiles clearing the screening & reduction of candidate wait time to below 4 hours.
  • Client Relationship Management: Consulting role in profiling the client requirement as per the demand supply right at the transition phase so as to bake in market intelligence on the available talent pool based on type of experience required and available. Pricing of the deal is being driven by understanding the cost of talent for the first time.
  • Relationship Manager (RPO initiative): Responsible for monitoring their performance and provide operation support, performance analysis.
  • Internal Referral system: Establishing a reliable and a timely channel to create a readily available talent pool to meet business demands, Stabilizing the channel attrition and maintain <10 % early attrition.
  • Satellite hiring location – (Part of the Pilot) : This role has given me immense exposure in terms of all the functions from the core functions of Hiring to Logistics, Relationship building, Vendor management, Brand building, Govt link up / procedures.

Education

Goa University

B.Com — Cost Accounting

Jan 1997Jan 2001

Peoples High School

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