Aug 2022 – Aug 2024 · 2 yrs · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

• IMC Trading is a global leading market maker with 7+ offices globally. IMC provides liquidity to financial markets. Their relentless pursuit of innovation in technology-driven trading runs throughout the organization.
• Lateral Recruitment
• 1. As the first recruiter to join the Mumbai office, I hired 22 people across a wide mandate of roles: Trading, Technology and Business Support.
• 2. Hired first software engineers (C++/Java), trading system engineers (SRE/TRE), quant traders & research analysts.
• 3. Responsible for the full E2E recruitment lifecycle, including sourcing, screening, interviewing, and closing of top talent.
• 4. Built and strengthened key relationships with internal stakeholders which required information sourcing on role expectations, market insights and candidate feedback.
• 5. Worked with the marketing team to establish IMC’s employer brand in India.
• Provided monthly updates to the management team.
• Campus Recruitment
• 1. Successfully created and managed campus recruitment for graduates and interns.
• 2. 34 graduates and interns were hired by using effective recruitment strategies.
• 3. Coordinated Day 1 placement slots at IIT Bombay, IIT Madras and BITS Pilani.
• 4. Ran marketing events such as market-making sims, Python workshops & masterclass on target campuses for further stemming IMC’s brand.
• 5. Project Lead for Mumbai office’s first Internship Program in 2024.
• HR Generalist
• 1. Provide visa processing and logistical support to inbound & outbound visitors
• 2. Working with external labour counsel for employment contract & offer letter standardisation
• 3. Work with global teams for employee engagement surveys.

Nov 2021 – Jul 2022 · 8 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

• Founded in 1869, they are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world with annual revenues of approximately USD 60 Billion in 2021.
• I managed technology recruitment for 4 BUs - CWS, FP&A, Risk & HCM Engineering. Supporting their GCC in Bengaluru & Hyderabad. They are deep fintech hubs for the firm.
• I supervised a team of 4 sourcers and 1 recruitment coordinator.
• Achievements:
• 1. Filled 26 positions in 6 months.
• 2. Successful in increasing diversity hiring at Vice President Level from 23% to 63% in 4 months.
• Role:
• 1. Define search & sourcing strategy for all open roles post an intake call with hiring manager.
• 2. Build a focused and continued talent pipeline for open roles.
• 3. Oversight of progress on tech tests - Hackerank & CoderPad.
• 4. Maintain sanctity of processes and due diligence to validate if all hiring criteria are met.
• 5. Conduct offer expectations call with candidate and make proposal for offer to management, subsequently manage offer extension.
• 6. Independently manage senior level hiring for comp 1cr. and above.
• Hiring for skills like Strats, Java, full stack developers, Python, R, C++, C#, Quants, DevOps, SRE, Product Managers, Platform Engineers.

Apr 2018 – Nov 2021 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

• Huntsman Corporation is a publicly traded global manufacturer and marketer of differentiated and specialty chemicals with 2021 revenues of approximately $8 billion. They operate more than 70 manufacturing, R&D and operations facilities in approximately 30 countries and employ approximately 9,000 associates within their four distinct business divisions.
• Achievements:
• 1. Lead lateral recruitment for 180+ positions across levels spanning all business verticals. – for South Asia. (India, Sri – Lanka, Pakistan & Bangladesh)
• 2. Notional Savings of US $69K on hiring costs and average time to hire 53 days.
• Projects:
• 1. High Performance Organization – Hiring of 7 associates for newly formed HPO Analytics department in Supply Chain, Business Performance and Human Resources.
• 2. Candidate Experience -
• Created an email embedded survey on candidate satisfaction.
• Automated TA communications email deck via MS Outlook.
• 3. Employer Branding - Chief content creator for Huntsman's South Asia branding push. Some of the content has been featured on company's social media pages.
• Role:
• 1. Collaborate with HR Partners on recruitment strategy and talent pool.
• 2. Demonstrated record in fulfilling TA KPIs.
• 3. Recruited to form a High-Performance Organization (HPO) data science talent in Business Performance, Human Resources and Supply Chain.
• 4. Considerable experience in managing global stakeholders across Americas, EMEA and Southeast Asia.
• 5. Expertise in hiring across functions like Manufacturing, Corporate Functions, Technical Services, Research & Technology, Supply Chain, Business Performance, Sales & Marketing, EHS.
• 6. Creative brain behind majority of employer branding initiatives in South Asia. Some of my projects have been published on the company page.
• 7. Candidate experience champion.
• ATS - Workday

Mar 2017 – Mar 2018 · 1 yr · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Times Network, is part of India’s largest media conglomerate, The Times Group. It houses upscale brands including; Times Now, ET Now, Mirror Now, Movies Now, Romedy Now, Zoom, MNX. The network delivers segmented and differentiated content under one umbrella. It informs, entertains and engages over 100 million urban affluent viewers in India and is available in over 100 countries across the globe.
• Overview:
• 1. Instrumental in hiring for the digital department of Times Network for the Times NOW and ZoomTV app and website.
• 2. Hired across levels from executive to mid- senior management. Experienced hiring for various functions like Editorial/ Digital content, Software, Product, Digital Sales, Social Media, Finance & Accounts, Legal, IT, Administration, Broadcast Operations etc.
• 3. Closed around 40 positions in 1 year.