Jun 2022 – Sep 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Jan 2021 – Jun 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos

Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 · 3 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Hands on leadership recruitment experience, partnered with hiring managers to develop a detailed profile of target candidates with data-driven advice on the range of logical possibilities.
• Identified trends and leveraged knowledge, data and competitive intelligence to develop creative, customized sourcing strategies
• Managed and mentored a team of seasoned recruitment consultants with a significant industry experience hiring 500+ professionals per year including executive hiring
• Proactively driven cadence with the key stakeholders to develop recruitment strategies and use recruitment analytics and reporting to provide useful data and advice to the business leaders and maintain a proactive approach to their recruitment needs.
• Developed employer branding strategy to improve direct application quality and candidate experience using AppVaulte and LinkedIn
• Lead a proactive Talent pipeline/funnel initiative with the help of Avature and LinkedIn for leadership and niche roles
• Redesigned employee referral framework and implemented Chatbots
• Implemented diversity inclusion campaign such as Hiring Manager sensitization, diverse interview panels and resume masking to reduce bias in the recruitment process

Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 · 3 yrs

• Built Cargill’s Shared Service Center in Bangalore. Coached an entirely new team of recruiters and recruitment administrators on selection framework, assessment guidelines, reference checks, compensation philosophy, salary negotiations, benchmarking and stakeholder influence along with tools like Taleo, Avature and LinkedIn
• As a member of TA COE recruited key strategic roles for APAC and EMEA along with all leadership positions and a team size of 1050+ for Bangalore within a span of two years
• Driven Recruitment for IT and Non-IT roles including SAP, Non-SAP, Trading Technologies, Finance, PMO, Procurement and HR Service Delivery, Logistics and Transportation, also had experience in hiring Sales & Marketing (FMCG, HORECA & bulk), trading, trade execution and operations across levels at Cargill.
• Driven Stakeholder Cadence and Proactive Business Leadership connects. Lead Premier School Recruitment program for Cargill for two Financial Years.
• Designed & implemented global recruitment matrices (APAC, EMEA and North America) after Taleo implementation in 2014.
• Developed and maintained global leadership dashboard with details such as time to fill, cost avoidance, diversity, submission to hire ratio, source of hire, cost per hire, requisition cancellation rate and Hiring manager satisfaction, candidate satisfaction etc.
• Established a vendor onboarding and review mechanism for recruitment partners
• HR Operations
• Designed and Delivered new employee orientation program session of all new joiners in the startup environment
• Redefined Employee policies & Implemented Leave Management System, Background Verification and Pre-Employment Medical processes for New Cargill Location in Bangalore

Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 · 3 yrs

• Supported the business units in a dual role as HR Generalist & as a recruiter with expatriate stakeholders.
• Managed the entire compensation review activities to lead an efficient year-end compensation process.
• Driven key initiatives Goal Setting, Mid-Year Review, Performance Management Plan, Employee Relation issues, Development Planning process across assigned work groups.
• Managed orientation of business managers and employees on available HR policies, procedures & framework & ensuring adherence.
• Mentored business managers on areas of talent management, career management, performance management, employee engagement & retention for the assigned business groups. Acted as an escalation point for any grievance or employee relations issue.
• Business HR role for Sales, Risk Management & Trade Execution Teams and Cargill’s internal outsourcing team in India including extensive recruitment and staffing.
• Additional responsibility as a shared service HR in driving Employee engagement and R&R initiatives
• Partnered with Regional Business Managers to understand Business Context – driven Change Management initiatives
• Defined HR policies complying employment regulations, legal provisions and laws across Cargill locations in India