Reena Roy

Head of Talent

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India25 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in designing innovative recruiting programs.
Led recruitment across diverse IT domains.
Passionate about building high-performance teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition Leader in the IT industry with a focus on innovative recruiting strategies.

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RecruitingManagementTeam ManagementLeadershipTalent AcquisitionProgram ManagementTechnical RecruitingSourcingBenefits NegotiationHuman ResourcesConsultingStrategyTalent ManagementResource ManagementProject Management

About

Experienced in designing & leading best in class recruiting programs, at the intersection of data & insights, technology and people. I have led the recruitment function across domains such as Research & Development , Consulting, Product & Technology and Sales in the IT industry. Throughout this recruiting journey my constant endeavour has been building capabilities ahead of the need, designing agile recruiting models that are flexible, scalable and sustainable. What matters most to me is a culture that is honest and fosters innovation. It is my passion and endeavour to build brilliant teams and create a high-performance, high-trust culture that is open, honest and committed to excellence. I believe in #Less Process More Recruiting #People First #Identify-Attract-Nuture Talent #upskill-always Areas of expertise • Employer Branding • Strategic Sourcing • End-to-end recruitment – volume & deep Technology, Sales and University • Design and executing innovative recruiting programs; and many first at IBM India

Experience

25 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

12 yrs 9 mos

Average Tenure

19 yrs 5 mos

Current Experience

Ibm

7 roles

Global Talent Acquisition Leader - TA Technology & Agentic AI

Promoted

Mar 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos

TA Leader - Sales & Domestic Hiring India/SA

Promoted

Jan 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 4 mos

Leading the recruiting function for the India Domestic Business of IBM – across Technology & Digital Sales, Client Engineering & Expert Labs, Domestic Consulting & Security Services, Technology Life Cycle Services, Globally Integrated Enterprise Services and the CIO organisation. Mentor & Lead for the Strategic Sourcing Hub and the Employee Referral Program for India.

Lead - Sales Hiring (Global Markets & Infrastructure Services) & Strategic Sourcing

Jan 2018 – Dec 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos

Sales recruiting for Global Markets & the Infrastructure Services Business
Lead for the Strategic Sourcing Hub in India – continuous top & diverse talent outreach & engagement

Lead - Employer Branding & Social Recruiting

Promoted

Nov 2012 – Dec 2019 · 7 yrs 1 mo

Lead the Employer Branding program - Strategy , Design & Execution to build from ground up the social presence on leading social platforms , talent attraction & engagement.
Set up a Social recruitment team for proactive talent engagement via LinkedIn and other social platforms to build a continuous pipeline of engaged talent for critical roles thereby setting up an alternate reliable channel of no cost sourcing. Over the period of 5 years social recruiting became a mainstream channel.
Social Ambassador Program, Social Advocacy & Enablement – institutionalised these approaches to widen TA outreach to top & diverse talent ; and enabled the TA , HR & business leaders/ teams to build their digital eminence.

Program Leader - Candidate Experience

May 2009 – Dec 2012 · 3 yrs 7 mos

Designed & lead the execution of a program that delivered Q-on-Q on-boarding targets for the GBS Business in India. The core of this program was candidate connects & experiences. The success of the program was hinged on deep collaboration with the Hiring teams, Business Unit Leaders & the Workforce Management teams. We later scaled the program to support all IBM Business Units.

Talent Acquisition Partner -Supply Chain Management Consulting Services

Jun 2007 – May 2009 · 1 yr 11 mos

Partnered with the service line leader and RCM for demand solutioning and was responsible to manage the hiring targets for the service line. Was the recruitment process owner for the service line. Lead a team of talent recruiters to hires candidates with skills across the gamut of SCM service line - SAP & Oracle Consulting skills, Retek , Maximo, Ariba, PLM, Planning.

Talent Acquistion Partner - India Research Lab

Nov 2006 – Dec 2012 · 6 yrs 1 mo

Partnered with the Director & Senior Research Leaders to design & drive the talent strategy & hiring delivery for the India Research Labs. Lead the full lifecycle recruitment process for professional hiring (members of the research staff , members of the technical staff), Early Hires and the Blue Scholar Program . The key focus areas were - talent attraction from top global universities for professional hires , deep assessments & interviewing methodology and speed & quality of hiring. The Blue Scholar Program had an outreach to the top technical talent in India - and helped build a continuous pipeline of top talent for the Lab , while providing the talent an opportunity to build their interest in research.

Patni computer systems

Recruiting Team Lead

Sep 2000 – Oct 2006 · 6 yrs 1 mo · Mumbai Area, India

2003 – 2006 - Hiring for Business Intelligence & Database Management Services, Enterprise Application Services, Verification & Testing, Products & Technology and Key Growth Accounts.
2000-2003 - Lead for University Hiring & Relationship Management for Technology & Business Schools
Program Management - Partnered with the Global Resource Pool Leaders on candidate engagement initiatives from offers to on-boarding
Core team member on Various Global Resource Pool hiring initiatives