Rajiv Balakrishnan

Talent Acquisition Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India18 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

17+ years of experience in tech recruitment
Expert in strategic sourcing and stakeholder management
Passionate about building diverse talent pipelines

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition expert in the tech industry with a focus on strategic sourcing and stakeholder engagement.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionStakeholder ManagementStrategic SourcingTechnology HiringProject HiringBusiness Intelligence HiringRecruitment

Other Skills

Key MetricsTalent MappingHeadcount ManagementCommunicationTeam ManagementTeam LeadershipTalent StrategyForecastingCoaching & MentoringRelationship BuildingGlobal Talent AcquisitionCorporate RecruitingSourcingInterviewingBusiness Process Improvement

About

Anything and everything about recruitment is what I do. I come with 17 + years of experience in the tech Industry and still surviving the grind :) :) but that's what keeps me going as I find it truly amazing how tech is changing everything around us and how recruitment is also shaping up. It's no more about just sourcing but more about understanding what your organisation really wants to achieve out of the hire, the vision and their passion to bring the change...

Experience

18 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs

Average Tenure

4 yrs 10 mos

Current Experience

Celonis

Talent Acquisition Manager

Jul 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

I lead the Talent Acquisition function in India. We are continuously ramping up our core teams in Services, Consulting, Engineering and Premium support. My job is to partner with Senior Management Executives and Heads of Business units who have big plans for India. I am responsible to design, strategise a framework which will help us fulfill our demands and also robust enough to scale
Love to he “hands on”.. work with the principle of being an essential building block to TA team and staying relevant.
My core forte:
>> Source and Engage with the talent available in the market (I love and still execute some complex sourcing for Executive roles.
>> Set Recruiting goals and inculcate best practices from the Industry
>> Partnership management (Involving Senior Management Executives and Heads of BUs)
>> Manage P&L for the function within
>> build a robust framework in TA which can scale
Since 2011, Celonis has helped thousands of the world’s biggest and best companies yield cash impact, improve customer experience, and reduce carbon emissions.
Our Process Intelligence platform uses industry-leading process mining technology and AI to present companies with a living digital twin of their end-to-end processes. Giving everyone a common language for how the business runs, visibility into where value is hiding, and the ability to capture it.

Key MetricsTalent MappingHeadcount ManagementCommunicationTeam ManagementTeam Leadership+16

Ibm

Senior Talent Acquisition Partner

Feb 2016 – Jun 2021 · 5 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

>Rajiv was associated with IBM’s Strategic Sourcing Hub team responsible for hiring senior technical/sales/Consulting leaders across the leadership bands (these range from senior architects to Associate Directors) for GBS, GTS, GTS Labs & ISL
> The focus of the hub was to build a healthy pipeline in emerging technologies across the CAMS space (Cloud, Analytics, Mobility & Security)
>The key forte has been to upskill on a regular basis in learning new sourcing methodologies and implement them
> Rajiv has gained strong foothold in sourcing through unconventional channels like Stackoverflow, GitHub, X-Ray search and many more
> Prior to taking up the above role he was the only TA Partner for all the leadership positions across Sanovi (A critical business acquisition by IBM) and focus was to ramp up the hiring for Cloud, Virtualization, Disaster Recovery, Data replication and data protection technologies
> Rajiv has the experience of owning the complete hiring process right from sourcing, scheduling, stakeholder management, offer negotiations and onboarding of all senior leaders
> Seasoned in stakeholder management. Has experience to communicate with Partners and executives like Vice Presidents, Engineering Directors, Distinguished Engineers to decide on the recruitment strategy to close positions, discuss about future plans of hiring, upcoming projects and building a passive database
> Create a robust strategy of building a pipeline of resumes by designing Employee Referral programs, Job postings (Job Boards/LinkedIn) and focus on brand management
> Promote diversity hiring across leadership roles with set targets
> His sweet spot in the entire recruitment lifecycle is the passion to hold meaningful discussions on compensation and negotiations keeping in mind the compensation philosophy of the organization and ensure accurate fitment according to the same and design negotiation strategies to sell the offer

Key MetricsCommunicationRelationship BuildingCorporate RecruitingSourcingInterviewing+3

Broadcom inc.

Associate Talent Solutions Partner

Mar 2014 – Feb 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Core technology hiring for R&D divisions of Broadcom focussed on HW and SW part of the hiring

CommunicationRelationship BuildingCorporate RecruitingSourcingInterviewingCompetitive Analysis+2

Cisco

Talent Acquisition Specialist

Jul 2012 – Mar 2014 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Joined the R&D product division of NDS which is a world leader in middleware SW development for STB (Set top boxes). Was responsible to hire for their SW business. NDS was later acquired by Cisco which led me to look after the networking business and was part of their critical project hiring to ramp up for their Reliance Jio account

CommunicationRelationship BuildingCorporate RecruitingSourcingInterviewingTalent Acquisition+1