Kuldeep Vaidya

CEO

Vadodara, Gujarat, India15 yrs 5 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in leading talent acquisition across multiple countries.
  • Strong background in ethical leadership and team development.
  • Award-winning trap shooter with a focus on precision and consistency.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Talent Acquisition Leader in the IT Services industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionSourcing StrategyClient ManagementRecruitment StrategyRecruitment ManagementTechnical Recruitment

Other Skills

Account ManagementBusiness DevelopmentClient relationship managementCoaching and up-skillingContract RecruitmentCross-functional collaborationData-driven strategyDigital capabilitiesEmployee EngagementEmployer brandingEnd-to-end recruitmentExecutive SearchHR PoliciesHRISHuman Resources Information Systems (HRIS)

About

I’m Kuldeep Vaidya, a people-first leader who believes that growth is a lifelong pursuit and empathy is the foundation of true leadership. Coming from a humble background, I’ve built my journey by breaking barriers and embracing every challenge with a warrior mindset. A Chemistry graduate turned HR professional, I hold a Master’s degree in Human Resources and am an NCC-trained C-Certificate holder. Discipline, focus, and perseverance — values instilled early through sports and leadership training — continue to shape my professional and personal ethos. Before I found my calling in talent acquisition, I represented Gujarat in Trap Shooting and earned a Gold Medal in 2007, an experience that taught me the importance of precision, consistency, and self-belief. Professionally, my story has been deeply intertwined with Collabera’s evolution — from joining as a trainee recruiter in 2010 to growing alongside the organization through its transformation into Collabera Digital, and now Ascendion, an AI-first software engineering company. Along this journey, I’ve been fortunate to lead talent acquisition across India, the UK, Poland, Romania, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, and the Philippines — helping shape diverse, high-performing teams that drive business impact. As a leader, I’m known to be a taskmaster by profession, but empathetic at core — someone who values ethical leadership, integrity, and gratitude. I owe much of my growth to the mentors and coaches who guided me through challenges, mistakes, and learning phases — and I strive to pay that forward every day. My personality type, ENTJ-T, and Gallup strengths — Strategist, Commander, Analyst, Coach, and Catalyst — reflect my natural inclination to envision the big picture, mobilize people around shared goals, and lead with both head and heart. At my core, I believe that leadership is not about authority — it’s about accountability, empathy, and continuous learning.

Experience

15 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
14 yrs
Average Tenure
1 yr 5 mos
Current Experience

Ascendion

Vice President - Talent Engine (India, Europe, APAC)

Jan 2025Present · 1 yr 5 mos · Vadodara, Gujarat, India · On-site

Collabera digital

11 roles

Global Head - Talent Acquisition

Promoted

Jun 2024Dec 2024 · 6 mos

Associate Vice President – Talent Acquisition

Apr 2023Jun 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos

Senior Delivery Director | Talent Aquisition Group | Platform Engineering, Data, AI and Cloud

Promoted

Apr 2022Mar 2023 · 11 mos

Delivery Director | Professional Services and Product Companies | Talent Acquisition

Apr 2021Mar 2022 · 11 mos

  • Responsible for overall coordination of Sourcing activities for IT projects, suppliers and delivery performance.
  • Be accountable for consistent operation and measurement of standard processes across all sourcing functions, identification of issues.
  • Drive and execute sourcing development as well as the internal relationships with stakeholders and external relationships with suppliers, consultants and clients.
  • Optimize a data-driven strategy, to identify sourcing issues and opportunities that need to be addressed.
  • Ensure integration between operational processes and sourcing strategy execution, team performance and delivery to business IT.
  • Manage day-to-day engagements with business stakeholders (including owning agenda of interactions), follow-through and track all actions and communication for full transparency, to ensure agile and seamless execution of IT sourcing models
  • This includes integrated implementation planning that not only enables strategy execution but also helps transform the organization and builds digital capabilities
  • Prepare and oversee sourcing analysis, dry-run and orchestrating stakeholders involved as well as co-creation of the commercial strategy
  • Sourcing & Supplier management roadmap including a future-ready digital sourcing strategy that aligns with both near-term and future business objectives, as well as the underlying digital and technology priorities
  • Execution of technology roadmap in collaboration with internal IT business stakeholders while considering capability and countries which are offering the best IT Specialists, i.e. where, and with whom to partner while addressing rapid technology and operating model changes to enable the digital enterprise of the future
  • Represent Sourcing in complex technology projects
  • Define and execute strategic actions plans with regards to IT resourcing
  • About Collabera:
  • We are engineering technology & talent.
  • https://www.collabera.com/about/company/
Sourcing activitiesStakeholder managementData-driven strategyTeam performanceDigital capabilitiesTalent Acquisition+1

Associate Director- Delivery

Promoted

Apr 2020Mar 2021 · 11 mos

Senior Manager - Delivery

Apr 2019Apr 2020 · 1 yr

Delivery Manager

Aug 2017Mar 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Identify, map & analyse the client's need, requirements & business potential
  • Maintain cordial relationship with the existing clients to ensure more business
  • Responsible for preserving the business within the account and generating new business.
  • Coordinating with recruitment team to to ensure that the requirements are answered
  • Team management and ensuring delivery within the TAT through team members
  • Implement strategies for fast and effective sourcing & on-boarding process.
  • Work closely with cross-functional teams' viz. Operations & Delivery etc. to achieve faster response and delivery.
  • Understand client requirements and allocate among team members
  • Meet existing clients and ensure continuous business
  • Attending Client Meetings
Client relationship managementTeam managementSourcing strategiesCross-functional collaborationClient ManagementTalent Acquisition

Delivery Director

Promoted

Apr 2016Jul 2017 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • To work closely with internal colleagues to redefine and reshape the organization’s recruitment function, focusing on the following areas
  • Refreshing the organization’s employer brand, developing initiatives and tools to ensure that the organization continues to be an employer of choice within the sector and on a wider scale
  • Improving recruitment processes and procedures to ensure maximum efficiency for internal and external customers
  • Coaching and up-skilling team on recruitment practices and procedures to ensure that the organization targets and hires the best talent
  • Make recommendations on reviewing and mandating relationships and performance with external agencies
  • Develop and implement a Talent Sourcing Strategy to increase the level of quality direct hires
  • Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders to understand their hiring and recruitment planning needs
  • Organize and conduct training for team on interviewing techniques, selection processes etc.
  • Lead the creation of a recruitment and interviewing plan for each vacancy position
  • Conduct regular follow-ups with managers to determine the effectiveness of recruitment plans
  • Build up a talent pool of candidates to drive a reduction in agency spend
  • Drive a reduction in time to hire
  • Increase use of social media in the recruitment strategy
  • Research and recommend new sources for the recruitment of active and passive candidates
Recruitment processesEmployer brandingCoaching and up-skillingRecruitment StrategyTalent Acquisition

Delivery Manager

Promoted

Oct 2013Apr 2016 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Identify, map & analyze the client's need, requirements & business potential
  • Maintain cordial relationship with the existing clients to ensure more business
  • Responsible for preserving the business within the account and generating new business.
  • Coordinating with recruitment team to to ensure that the requirements are answered
  • Team management and ensuring delivery within the TAT through team members
  • Implement strategies for fast and effective sourcing & on-boarding process.
  • Work closely with cross-functional teams' viz. Operations & Delivery etc. to achieve faster response and delivery.
  • Understand client requirements and allocate among team members
  • Meet existing clients and ensure continous business
  • Attending Client Meetings
Client relationship managementTeam managementSourcing strategiesCross-functional collaborationClient ManagementTalent Acquisition

Team Lead - Recruitment

Promoted

Feb 2011Sep 2013 · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • Managing a team of 10 resource executives
  • Hardcore IT recruitments experience in different technologies and domains up to senior and top management level positions:
  • Responsible for mentoring and providing on-going training and support for new recruiters.
  • Understanding Job Requirements , managing full cycle of recruitment ( End to end recruitment ) , sourcing the resumes from various job portals and short listing the potential candidates.
  • Liaising with clients for the requirement.
  • Prioritizing on the requirements and the distribution of requirements to the team
  • Vendor management which include, interaction with vendors, coordination with them for interviews, negotiation on rates with them for selected positions.
  • Helping the team to understand the requirements
  • Worked on both Permanent as well as Contractual Positions
  • Played a major role in convincing the candidates for contractual position.
  • Conducting the preliminary interview to understand the candidate's competencies like interest towards the job, commitment, technical skills, and qualification for determining the suitability to match the requirement.
  • Following up with prospective candidates until they complete all the rounds of interview, selection and On boarding
  • Salary negotiation before and after selection from client and releasing the offer letter and coordinating with joining formalities.
Team managementEnd-to-end recruitmentVendor managementTalent AcquisitionRecruitment Management

Technical Recruiter

May 2010Jan 2011 · 8 mos

  • Worked as a Technical Recruiter and Worked together as a team player.
  • Involved in resume searching from jobsites like www.Naukri.com , www.monster.com
  • Formatted resumes according to the client specifications and the standard of the industry.
  • Spoken to the consultants on the pay rates, relocations and the technical skills.
  • Done a step by step quality analysis of the skills according to the clients requirement.
  • Interaction with vendors.
Resume searchingQuality analysisVendor interactionTechnical Recruitment

Education

Symbiosis Centre for Distance Learning

Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration — HR

Jan 2011Jan 2013

Dale Carnegie Training

Effective Leadership — Management

Jan 2010Jan 2010

The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda

BSc — Chemistry

Jan 2007Jan 2010

LCC

Diploma in comupter Administration

Jan 2006Jan 2007

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