Aug 2023 – Jul 2024 · 11 mos · Mysuru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Talent Acquisition & Recruitment: Spearheaded full recruitment lifecycle management, including leadership hiring, campus engagement, and strategic hiring, and successfully building high-performing teams aligned with business needs.
• Strategic HR Management: Aligned HR strategies with business goals, collaborating closely with senior leadership to enhance organizational effectiveness. Provided strategic HR support across departments, ensuring that HR initiatives were in sync with the company’s overall objectives.
• HR Metrics & Reporting: Utilized HR analytics to monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and inform decision-making. Generated comprehensive reports to assess the effectiveness of HR programs and support continuous improvement.
• Employee Relations & Engagement: Developed and implemented comprehensive employee engagement strategies that enhanced job satisfaction and reduced turnover rates. Expert in fostering a positive workplace culture through proactive communication and engagement initiatives.

Jun 2018 – Aug 2023 · 5 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Talent Acquisition & Recruitment: Spearheaded full recruitment lifecycle management, including leadership hiring, campus engagement, and strategic hiring, successfully building high-performing teams aligned with business needs.
• Policy Development & Compliance: Designed and regularly updated HR policies, including onboarding, offboarding, and remote work procedures. Ensured compliance with legal requirements and industry best practices through rigorous policy management.
• Payroll & Compensation Management: Ensured accurate and timely payroll processing, including compliance with legal requirements and internal policies. Collaborated with finance teams to develop competitive compensation structures that aligned with market standards.
• Strategic HR Management: Aligned HR strategies with business goals, collaborating closely with senior leadership to enhance organizational effectiveness. Provided strategic HR support across departments, ensuring that HR initiatives were in sync with the company’s overall objectives.
• HR Metrics & Reporting: Utilized HR analytics to monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and inform decision-making. Generated comprehensive reports to assess the effectiveness of HR programs and support continuous improvement.
• HRMS Implementation & Technology Proficiency: Led the successful transition to advanced HRMS platforms, improving operational efficiency and data accuracy. Skilled in utilizing HR technologies to streamline HR operations and enhance employee experiences.

Dec 2016 – Jun 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Founded in 2016, Peopleforce is a Bangalore-headquartered offered world-class services in IT consulting, offshore software development, Testing, and User Interface design.
• Involved in Strategic Business Plans for Peopleforce.
• Responsible for the following Business units: Operations, Human Resources, Client Services, New /Existing Business coordination, and communication.
• Handling end to end Client Services, Account Management/Mining, Business Development, Vendor Management and etc.
• Responsible for end-to-end delivery, RFPs & RFQs.
• Key focus on process improvements, new initiatives and analyzing business needs and assess competency requirements of the region contributing to uplift these competencies.
• Enhance Client Relationship & Account penetration through regular Client meetings and interactions.

Jan 2016 – Dec 2016 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Roles:
• Acquiring new clients and handling the existing clients.
• Responsible for End to End recruitment.
• Responsible for RFPs and RFQs.
• Responsible for planning marketing activities to increase the companies visibility in the market.

Jan 2014 – Mar 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• Central Test is a psychometric test publisher that offers assessment solutions to one of the greatest challenges faced by organizations and individuals: "Information for decision making". We provide reliable assessment solutions to HR departments, consulting firms, schools, and institutions to help them make the right decisions and gain long-lasting competitive advantages. With a presence in over 80 countries with 5,000 assessments that are carried out on the platform every day, we deliver our expertise to more than 3500 business worldwide - www.centraltest.com
• My responsibilities include,
• Establish sales objectives by forecasting and developing annual sales estimates for regions and territories, projecting expected sales volume and revenue for existing and new products.
• Manage an assigned geographic sales area to maximize sales revenue.
• Identify business opportunities by identifying prospects and evaluating their position in the industry, researching and analyzing sales options.
• Perform sales activities on major accounts and negotiate price and discounts.
• Maintain relationships with clients by providing support, information, and guidance with regards to product features and applications.
• Keep abreast of product applications, technical services, market conditions and competition
• Feel free to contact me via Email/ Phone: pawan.tadagani@centraltest.com/ +44 208 144 4945

Apr 2013 – Dec 2013 · 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Acquiring new Clients.
• Client relations/ Account management.
• Understanding and planning the recruitment strategy.
• Recruitment and market analysis.
• Providing recruitment solutions for contract staffing.
• Test Yantra Software Solutions is an ISO 9001:2008 certified IT services company predominantly working on software testing. Test Yantra understands clients' testing needs perfectly and customizes its offerings to suit the needs. We offer a wide range of services in each area of software testing. We chant quality, reliability, flexibility, and cost efficiency every day. At Test Yantra, we not only support the system with our technical ability, we also offer our expertise in developing and tuning the essential skills to keep the system strong.
• Our services include
• Managed Testing Services
• Test Automation
• Skill Augmentation
• QA Consulting
• Apart from testing we also provide help in resource deployment into various skill set for Contract and Permanent mode.

Sep 2008 – Jan 2010 · 1 yr 4 mos

• McAfee Software servicing and trouble shooting.
• Handling a team of 13 members and monitoring their performance and quality.
• Working closely with the development team in USA and India.
• As a level 2 technical support handling escalation, reporting new issues of the product, updating level 1 technical support with the issue resolution and handling supervisor calls.
• Driving team to achieve desired goals for individuals and as Team. Marinating reports on daily basis and Reporting real time on calls delivered if any discrepancies.
• Consistently followed the creation and development of the customer relationship management system.
• Training and Recruitment of new employees and also training the team members on the new products and procedures (when needed).