Jun 2015 – May 2016 · 11 mos

• Headed staffing for multiple flagship brands- existing and emerging business verticals.
• Accountable for 4000+ associates from 7 regions, 150 retail branches, 20 cities and growing.
• Talent Acquisition, Continuous improvement on process and quality of hire through targeted projects & HR Analytics
• Heading 30 member HR team
• Hired 4000+ across the year by introducing rigor in the selection and screening process
• Accountable for Leadership, Niche Hiring & Lateral Hiring

Nov 2010 – Jun 2015 · 4 yrs 7 mos

• Leadership for 2 key HR verticals:
• A. Business Partner: Responsible for Business partnership to deliver on the Business needs through the 'People first' agenda. Identify and build Talent, branding and foster culture with a strong engagement in the market.
• Headed end to end recruitment delivery for volume and Leadership roles for India Region
• Recruitment strategy formulation and execution for diverse geographies
• Stake Holder Management, Collaboration with Cross- Functional Teams
• Vendor Management,Employer Branding,Specially Abled & Diversity Hiring
• Candidate Experience custodian
• People Grower/ Management Leading a Super Charged Team to hire best talent across the country.
• Engage & Galvanize the team to achieve organizational Goals & personal growth
• Forecast, identify, hire, teams that consistently to meet labor requirement utilizing right tools
• Created Bench -Identify, Train , Certify & Promote people as per Business requirement.
• Performance Management of the team
• Influence team’s to exceed customer’s expectation
• Build team’s capability to deliver on key customer matrix
• Communicating the planning, development and execution of the hiring calendar on business timelines
• B. HR Advisory:
• Provide HR Leadership and market insights to internal customers enabling organization capability and get future ready to deliver on goals.
• Periodic Engagement with AC’s & RGM’s to optimise facilitate manpower planning
• Manage & improve people metrics by analysing through daily, weekly & Monthly dashboards

Jan 2006 – Jan 2010 · 4 yrs

• Worked in varied roles leading the region for sales and corporate functions across business verticals (Agency,Bancassurance, Alliances and Health) and was responsible for driving end to end people agenda and HR service delivery.
• I had the opportunity to work extensively on managing careers; with interventions around design of assessment centers, career development programs and training, aimed towards talent Identification and succession planning
• I also anchored structure rationalization interventions across constituent geographies and managed Staff Redeployment and transition to group companies.Played the role of a HR Generalist managing multiple geographies.
• Manpower planning
• Employee Engagement
• Governance & Conflict Management,
• Liaison with Government Bodies
• Manpower Planning
• Talent Acquisition: Lateral& Campus, Consultant & Vendor Management.
• Training
• PMS
• Employee Issue resolution
• Exit Analysis

Jan 2004 – Jan 2006 · 2 yrs

• As Site Lead, working out of Chennai:
• Set up the entire Talent Function, Process and Delivery for the Chennai site. On-board and engage resources across verticals, processes, roles & bands within agreed SLAs, Budgets and Structure. Build a strong Employer Brand, Set best Talent standards, High Engagement & controlled Attrition.
• As Strategic Resourcing Leader,
• Carry out Strategic Staffing initiatives, Brand Building, Budgeting, Delivery of Strategic roles, Campus Hiring, Controls, Build new channels & assess effectiveness, SLAs, Attrition and Management Reporting.

Jan 2002 – Jan 2004 · 2 yrs

• My exposure spread across various HR genre viz.
• HR Analytics
• HRIS
• Recruitment
• MIS
• Performance.
• Was responsible for building the volume numbers for the Chennai Center.

Jan 2001 – Jan 2002 · 1 yr · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

• Handled the complete volume hiring to enable business expansion.
• Handled all managerial recruitment for the business
• Go to man for all recruitment mandates
• Headed employee engagement for the center

Jan 1999 – Jan 2001 · 2 yrs