Aug 2022 – Feb 2025 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• Led the MPC & MILL Business Unit, overseeing recruitment teams while providing strategic leadership to enhance team performance, drive efficiency, and align hiring initiatives with business goals.
• Developed and implemented a comprehensive workforce planning strategy, ensuring talent acquisition efforts were seamlessly integrated with organizational objectives. This approach strengthened the talent pipeline for critical roles, supporting long-term business success.
• Specialized in succession planning and organizational alignment, ensuring the company remained well-prepared for growth and resource optimization across various business units.
• Expert in leadership and senior management hiring, with a strong track record in recruiting across IT, Non-IT, functional, and management roles to meet evolving business needs.

Sep 2018 – Jul 2022 · 3 yrs 10 mos

• TCS comprises a team of experts in recruitment, marketing and learning & development who work towards meeting the demands of Technicolor’s brands across visual effects, advertising, creative experience and animation. As a central hub TCS provides job opportunities, career guidance, industry insights, events, and helpful learning materials to help professionals progress in their career.

Jun 2017 – Aug 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos

• MPC have been one of the global leaders in VFX for over 25 years and counting, with industry-leading facilities in London, Vancouver, Montréal, Los Angeles, New York, Amsterdam, Paris, Shanghai and Bangalore.
• Renowned for adding visual wonder and creative expertise to the advertising, film and entertainment industries, some of our most famous projects include blockbuster movies such as The Jungle Book, Fantastic Beasts, Passengers, Suicide Squad, the Harry Potter franchise, Prometheus and Life of Pi. MPC's advertising campaigns include work for brands such as Samsung, Coca Cola, Sony, John Lewis and Channel4.
• Our broad range of skill-sets provide a multitude of creative solutions, including concept design, pre-viz, shoot supervision, 2D compositing, 3D/CG effects, animation, motion design, software development, digital & experiential production, color grading for advertising and any combination of these services.

Feb 2016 – Mar 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bangalore

• Responsible for full cycle of Recruitment Process starting from Manpower & strategy planning till Selection & On boarding.
• Proficiency in handling Permanent Staffing /Contract Staffing for IT & Non IT Recruitment.
• Day to day interaction with clients to understand & deliver the resource need in timely manner
• Recruit high quality candidates who align with our needs in consulting, quickly build rapport and engage in meaningful career discussions, and schedule next steps to get them further exposed to our clients as appropriate.
• Identify areas for hiring process improvements and drove change.
• Manage candidates through the hiring process ensuring continued mutual interest exists and timely and effective issue identification and resolution.
• Managing multiple priorities and schedules that result in the most effective use of time spent across many activities.

Dec 2014 – Jan 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Working as a Lead Recruiter, handling a team of 6 recruiters.
• The main point of contact between the client hiring manager and recruiting team.
• Takes complete job requirements from hiring manager.
• Conducting candidate searches by using the internet, job boards, user groups, passive sites, professional organizations, reference referrals and standard postings on major job boards.
• The FINAL quality check on all client submittals forwarded to the client hiring manager.
• Determines which candidates are presented to the clients.
• Stays in constant phone, email and IM communication with the client regarding recruiting life-cycle.
• Utilized creative sourcing techniques in order to target and cold call passive candidates as the firm did not have an applicant tracking database system
• Closes business with the team, Makes certain placements happen.
• Train, counsel and manage technical recruiters.
• Account knowledge capture and management through profiling of departments, projects, technologies and managers.
• Assists in development and implementation of comprehensive recruiting strategies.
• Development of account strategy and sales planning with management.
• Ensures revenue and head count goals are met.
• Assists in setting priorities and direct workflow of recruiters.
• Resolves issues with fulfilling requirements, sourcing and redeployment.
• Assess recruiter training needs and arranges training under the direction of technical recruiting manager and manager of global integration and delivery.
• First level of contact for resolving recruiter issues.
• Exercises judgment and discretion in accordance with established policies, procedures and techniques.

May 2014 – Nov 2014 · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Operate as the lead point of contact for any and all matters specific to client deliverables.
• Build and maintain strong, long-lasting customer relationships.
• Develop a trusted advisor relationship with key customer stakeholders and executive sponsors.
• Ensure the timely and successful delivery of our solutions according to customer needs and objectives.
• Communicate clearly the progress of monthly/quarterly initiatives to internal and external stakeholders.
• Identify and grow opportunities within territory and collaborate with sales teams to ensure growth attainment.

May 2011 – Apr 2014 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• End to End Recruitment. Starts with Manpower Planning, Budgeting, resource management, bench management, passive recruitment etc.
• Responsible for full cycle of Recruitment Process starting from Manpower & strategy planning till Selection & On boarding.
• Understanding different channels of Recruitment like Career Portals (Naukri, Monster, Times Job, Shine) Employee Referral Channel, Agencies & Vendors, Social Media (Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+ etc)
• Helping projects in staffing & recruitment.
• Maintain candidate database (MIS) to track information and hiring metrics.
• Monitors account abilities and due dates.
• Working with different clients & account team (e.g. AT&T, IKEA, NetApp, Barclays, BOA, HDFC, Vodafone, Idea etc.) single handy. Resource allocation as per project requirement.
• Actively involved to conduct Walk-In Interviews, Floor Walks etc across location.
• Checking Pre –joining documentation part, quality checks, salary negotiation & revision & getting the required approvals before issuing the offers.
• Vendor Management, MIS & Joining Formalities.
• Have been actively involved in different special drives like Employee Referral Specific, Diversity Drives, and PWD and create reports & charts.
• Have been the only team member who has involved in multiple skill hiring like SAP, Data Warehousing, DBMS, WDC (Java/J2EE, .Net), Testing, and Mainframes.
• Have been an Individual contributor as well as have been delivered equally working in the team. Experience in leading team of 3-4 members.
• Have good knowledge on Excel, Data Analysis, reporting etc.
• Develops project management tools using MS Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Visio, Project applications.
• Help for Internal transfer, relocation etc.
• Traveled Across location for conducting major Account Specific walk-in interviews etc.

Jun 2010 – May 2011 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Handling various Clients: BFSI, Telecom, Public Sector etc.
• Allocation of requirements and get the submissions done from the recruiters.
• Training the team on recruitment process, techniques, phone ethics and US culture.
• Recruitment and selection sourcing, screening and short-listing of applications.
• Vendor management for C2C resumes. Job Portal exp- Dice, Career Builder, Monster.
• Coordinating with C2C vendors and arranging interviews for selected candidates.
• Experience with C2C, 1099, W2 and H1B transfer.
• Maintain candidate database (MIS) to track information and hiring metrics.
• Responsible for handling full recruitment process for Direct Clients in the US
• Daily client report generation on performance.
• Make sure the team follows and maintains client policies, procedures and guidelines.
• Drive performance of the Indian Recruitment Team within agreed SLAs and timeliness Provides necessary statistics to Senior Management in the US.
• Have ability to quickly comprehend complex job requirements (IT and non-IT).

Jun 2006 – Feb 2010 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Responsible for US recruiting at present organization and maintaining their records.
• Present organization is a Recruitment Process Outsourcing (BPO) focused on providing IT, Consulting, Campus Entry, Communications and High Tech, Enterprise, Financial Services, Senior Executive Recruitment services for Accenture US and Canada aimed at reducing their operational costs and increasing revenues. Participate in recruitment, scheduling interviews for candidates of various levels.
• Roles & responsibilities:
• Assigning the Change Request to Appropriate Teams and updating the Taleo database.
• Backbone for HR Outsourcing it is a bridge between interviewer and the applicant; interview scheduling team schedules interviews.
• Verifying and uploading the paperwork's to FAC.
• Create/update positions in the MyScheduling tool as per the request.
• Respond to the queries posted in Accenture website.
• Review the Current Employment Verification status. Update SSN and invoices processed.
• Creating and verifying offer letter on Taleo database.
• Professional Training: Have been trained in Operational Excellence. OPEX is a Frame work for Process Management in an efficient way.