Oct 2023 – Apr 2024 · 6 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area · On-site

• Designed and delivered an effective recruitment strategy for the India Region, resulting in a 20% increase in quality hires.
• Led engagement and motivation initiatives for the HR team, fostering a positive work culture and boosting team productivity.
• Implemented KEKA as the hire to retire HRIS platform, streamlining HR processes and improving efficiency.
• Managed a team of Recruiters, providing mentorship and guidance to drive successful talent acquisition efforts.

Jan 2022 – Oct 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Designing and delivering an effective recruitment strategy for the India Region.
• Engagement and motivation across the whole HR team as a senior India leader
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Hands on Recruitment and Sourcing for senior level hiring across the region.
• Increased joining ratio from 60% to 85%
• Reduced Vendor hiring Cost by $500,000 annually
• Increased referral hiring from 20% to 40%
• Increased Diversity hiring ration enabling India Workforce as 50% diversity ratio.
• Increased Customer Satisfaction score from 6/10 to 8/10
• Responsible for Training Interviewers and hiring manager to use Universal Competency Framework for hiring
• Responsible for creation and implementation of dedicated learning channel on Interviewing Technique.

Jul 2019 – Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

• Leading Technology Hiring for India R&D Centre for Delphix Data Virtualization
• Building India R&D Centre from Scratch.
• Building a working partnership between the India R&D Centre and US HQ.
• Leading Recruitment strategy formulation and benchmarking.
• Building Top Tier Data Virtualization Product Development Team

Dec 2017 – Dec 2018 · 1 yr · Gurgaon, India

• Hands-on with end-to-end recruitment process including sourcing, HR discussion, offer negotiation & fitment.
• Have been instrumental in setting up recruitment process in the organization by developing various process manuals and designing systems.
• Driving special initiative on promoting IJP process to enhance employee career development and increase retention.
• Designed and Implemented Internal Job postings, Employee referral and Campus Training Program Managing a team of recruiters
• Hire, train, and build the required expertise and capacity within the talent acquisition team to support the business requirements.
• Revamping Recruiting Process and Stakeholder Satisfaction.
• Leading Employer Branding and Diversity & Inclusion.
• Leading Campus relationship and Hiring Plan.
• Leading Candidate Engagement & Experience Programs.
• Hiring for Game-Changer in Online Travel Space.
• Responsible for development of Recruiting plan, managing cost. Ensuring compliance on all important matrixes of TAT and quality of hire

May 2016 – Sep 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Managing the Talent Acquisition delivery for India Development Centre, India Operations Center, and Shared Services Groups across all levels.
• Involved with Leadership Hiring (Hands on with Sourcing) and senior level Technology positions for the company.
• Hired multiple positions in Analytics, Data Scientist, Research Engineer, Machin Learning, NPL, Big Data, Software Development, SaaS Engineer, Product Managers and Campus Hiring.
• Collaborating with business leaders in driving Talent strategy and aligning it to business goals
• Preparing reports and PPT for monthly dash board-- recruitment KPI, Vendor KPI and Cost per hire. Doing various report analysis like Decline ratio, Band Mix, channel mix and hiring range mix.
• Handled the entire vendor management process and designed and implemented the agreements and evaluation forms for both permanent and contractual staffing.
• Responsible for development of TA budget, managing cost. Ensuring compliance on all important matrixes of TAT and quality of hire. Working with business leaders to formulate and execute TA strategy for the year.
• Closely part of end to end recruitment process including sourcing, HR discussion, offer negotiation & fitment. Have been instrumental in setting up recruitment process in the organization by developing various process manuals and designing systems.
• Driving special initiative on promoting IJP process to enhance employee career development and increase retention.
• Involved in HR Transformation projects and integration activities
• Designed and Implemented Internal Job postings, Employee referral and Campus Training Program
• Managing a team of recruiters and looking for team's performance, KPI, Benchmark and providing them continuous feedback and providing skill update and growth to team by training and mentoring

Sep 2014 – Apr 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Involved with Leadership Hiring and Senior level Technology positions for the company.
• Hired a team Software and Product Engineering folks for multiple product and platform within Snapdeal from scratch.
• Ensure that all aspects of Recruitment and selection process are adhered to including cost, effective sourcing and screening methods, interviewing protocol, assessment, background checks and offers.
• Translating business directions into actionable hiring needs, advising on risk and working closely with leadership team on the design and development of recruiting focus areas to deliver against business commitments.
• Developing and driving an effective Recruitment Channel Management Strategy for the business ensuring best in class talent for the organization at optimum cost. This includes articulating and implementing an effective strategy for driving performance of the Recruitment function through channels like Search firms, Referrals, Social Media, Job boards etc.
• Responsible for development of Recruiting plan, managing cost. Ensuring compliance on all important matrixes of TAT and quality of hire.
• Handling the Vendor Management process, set the deadlines/ SLAs to all the vendors/monitoring their performance on quarterly basis.
• Regular recruitment status meetings with the Hiring Managers to understand the open recruitment opportunities to work on and update them about the issues at the grass root level in terms of recruitment.
• Salary banding/Debrief discussion.
• Involved in Campus hiring for Premier Engineering Colleges.
• Driving campus recruitment activities for hiring Top Technical Talents from premier institutions like IITs, IIT- BHU, NITs, NSIT, DTU, PEC, BITS etc.

Dec 2012 – Sep 2014 · 1 yr 9 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

• Recruiting for key talent through the LinkedIn Recruitment Tool for our Business Operations & Analytics Team.
• Build a full-fledged Analytics Team from Top to Bottom (Analytics Head to Data Scientist)
• Planning & Recommendations for recruitment strategy and the use of Social Media and tools. Ensuring accurate records in our applicant tracking system (ATS).
• Designing and implementing the daily plan for the role specific hiring as per the organization needs.
• Shelling out resumes against different requirements, checking them against different specifications set by internal client.
• Responsible for target hiring and being efficient with targets. Ensure that all open positions are closed as per the pre- decided timelines viz. within 30 -60 days for junior & Senior level positions
• Partner with business at every step of the recruiting process, collaborating and achieve project specific hiring objectives.
• Driving campus recruitment activities for hiring Top Technical Talents from premier institutions like IITs, IIT- BHU, NITs, NSIT, DTU, PEC, BITS etc.

Apr 2007 – Nov 2012 · 5 yrs 7 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• Responsible for full life cycle of Recruitment process.
• Responsible for full-time placements of IT professionals for clients.
• Understanding the client's needs & processing the deliverables within a stipulated time frame.
• Shelling out resumes against different requirements, checking them against different specifications set by internal client such as skill set, salary range, relocation etc.
• Sourcing of domain expert candidates at various levels (Executive to Project Manager) from sources like Databases, Portals, referrals, and job postings.
• Pre-screening the resumes before short listing.
• Counsel the candidates on interview pattern and give tips for all interviews.
• Coordinating with clients regarding their requirements and also feedback about the candidates sent.
• Arranging telephonic and personal interviews for the short listed candidates as per the scheduling.
• Periodic follow-ups are made to ensure the candidates take the interview call.
• Giving interview feedbacks to the candidates.
• Follow up with the candidates till the offer letter is been issued, and the candidate joins.
• Maintain database of profiles to achieve a healthy recruitment turnaround time.