Arindam Kar

Head of Talent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India19 yrs 5 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over 15 years of IT recruitment experience
  • Expert in leadership hiring and team management
  • Proven track record in developing recruitment strategies
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned Talent Acquisition Leader in the SaaS industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionTa Leadership

Other Skills

Workforce PlanningGlobal Talent AcquisitionEnterprise SoftwareTechnical RecruitingRecruitingHuman ResourcesManagementScreeningBenefits NegotiationVendor ManagementSDLCInternet RecruitingContract RecruitmentExecutive SearchSourcing

About

A certified Recruitment Lead with more than 15 years of strong experience on IT recruitment. In depth experience of handling entire recruitment function from scratch. Has experience of starting up a centre from scratch. Has experience of managing recruitment function of multiple regions. A very hands on recruiter with right mix of experience of individual recruitment and team mangement. Strong experience of handling team and managing recruitment function. Strong Expertise of Leadership hiring. Expertise of handling lateral and campus Recruitment drives across India. Has experience of handling multiple RPOs and Recruitment Agencies. Very in depth experience of managing multiple stakeholders from different regions and has experience of directly working with different BU Heads. Possess strong experience of recruiting some of the very niche skills available in industry. Strong expertise of hiring resources with technologies like Java, .Net, Data warehousing etc. through different sources like Portals, referrals, networking sites. Possess good understanding of different technologies in IT world.

Experience

19 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 2 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 7 mos
Current Experience

Iron mountain

Head of Talent Acquisition- India, ANZ & Asia Pacific

Nov 2021Present · 4 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Heading the complete talent acquisition and staffing function for
  • India, and 13 countries in the APAC region.
  • Manage a team of 20 resources, which includes 3 managers, and supports the technical, non- technical, operations, and frontline hiring for India, ANZ, and APAC regions.
  • Develop and execute talent acquisition strategies aligned with the company's growth objectives.
  • Collaborate closely with senior management to understand hiring needs and craft effective recruitment plans.
  • Work closely with department heads and the global leaders to understand their staffing needs and provide strategic recruitment advice.
  • Quarterly review with the business leaders to discuss and review hiring progress and strategies.
  • Working closely with the global Marketing team to devise different talent branding strategies for India and APAC countries.
  • Cultivate relationships with top educational institutions and industry networks to tap into emerging talent pools.
Talent AcquisitionTA LeadershipWorkforce PlanningGlobal Talent Acquisition

Envestnet | yodlee india

Head-Talent Acquisition

May 2020Nov 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka

  • Accountable for the complete staffing cycle in India from workforce planning to on boarding.
  • Create and manage Lateral as well as Campus hiring strategy and plan
  • Create and manage Sourcing Strategy for generic as well as niche requirements.
  • Individually handling the complete leadership hiring for Yodlee. Also managing Principal to Architect level recruitment directly.
  • Devising the strategy for campus and internship hiring for India.
  • Handling the vendor management part related to recruitment.
  • Weekly follow up meetings with all the Department heads to discuss and strategize the hiring progress of their respective divisions, discuss the challenges and different hiring initiatives.
  • Building and forecasting the headcount transformation plan for different departments.

Nuance communications

3 roles

Talent Acquisition Head-India & APAC

Promoted

Dec 2017Apr 2020 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Heading the Talent Acquisition function across PAN India for Nuance.
  • Building and planning Recruitment strategy for India.
  • Build a quality relationship with the internal customers and external recruitment process.
  • Working closely with India and Global leadership on planning and execution of hiring strategy for India.
  • Explores the market best practices in the recruitment and staffing and implement appropriate best practices for Nuance.
  • Managing and monitoring sourcing strategy, recruitment costs & efficiency.

Talent Acquisition Lead, India

Apr 2015Nov 2017 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Recruitment Specialist

Aug 2012Feb 2015 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Bangalore

  • Leading and Managing the complete Recruitment function of Nuance Bangalore, Lucknow and Gurgaon office and driving the complete Recruitment activity of Nuance Pune office.
  • Almost individually handled the recruitment activity to start Nuance Pune centre from scatch and helped to build the centre fom zero to current strength of 200 employees and the count is still going on.
  • Currently managing a team of 3 recruiters sitting in 3 different locations.
  • Individually handling recruitment of multiple positions along with closely woking with the team to close as many positiins with short notice.
  • Taking care of the complete Senior level hirings of Nuance India starting from Lead/Achitect level to VP level hirings and individually hired most of the Managers and above positions across Nuance India.
  •  Very closely working with all the offshore and onsite managers to get the projections of their hirings and come up with proper Recruitment plan to handle the hiring.
  • Taking part of multiple weekly conference calls with the onsite and offshore managers to discuss the curent open positions/forecasted positions and also plans out to hie and close the positions.
  • Review Demand and Supply metrics on weekly basis. Validate demand and coming up with supply plan to fulfill resourcing in stipulated time frame.
  • Very closely woking with the India Recuitment Head to set up all the pocesses and policies specific to Recuitment Fuction like contactor hiing policies, relocation benefit policies, referral bonus policies .
  • Recently stated handling 2 RPO agencies end to end from soucing candidates to bring candidates on board and also managing all the backend activities related to these hirings.
  • Managing all the Weekly hiring reports and dashboards of Nuance India and in regular meetings with the onsite and offshore Pogram Managers to discuss and review plans and numbers.

Headstrong consulting ( a james martin company)

3 roles

Assistant Manager-Recruitment

Promoted

Jan 2010Aug 2012 · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • Was playing role of Lead-Recruiter (leading a team of 5 members) for offshore recruitment-India Operations.
  • Getting projections from Engagement Managers and come up with proper recruitment plan.
  • Setting up recruitment processes.
  • Review Demand and Supply metrics on weekly basis. Validate demand and coming up with supply plan to fulfill resourcing in stipulated time frame.
  • Setting individual targingets for the team members.
  • Supporting & driving the team members.
  • Monitoring the entire process of sourcing till the final placement including Conversion ratios as per defined SLAs.
  • Training the team on different recruitment & technical skills.
  • Presenting to the leadership team on different Source Mix for recruitments.
  • Vendor management (Liaison & coordinate with External Agencies for organizing recruitments)
  • Conducting Corporate Induction on Recruitment for new joiners.

Senior Recruiter

Promoted

Jan 2009Jan 2010 · 1 yr

Recruitment Executive

Aug 2006Dec 2007 · 1 yr 4 mos

Career graph

Recruitment Executive

Jul 2005Jul 2006 · 1 yr

Education

Indian Business Academy

Master of Business Administration (MBA) — IT & Marketing

Jan 2003Jan 2005

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