Oct 2022 – Apr 2025 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Lead the International Stores Talent Acquisition teams in India for Non-tech Supporting the Retail Business Division. Building Program Management, Sales & Account, Business Analyst & ML Data Ops teams focusing on Candidate Experience, Employer Branding , Sourcing Strategy, Talent Delivery & Process Improvement.

Aug 2022 – Oct 2022 · 2 mos

Dec 2021 – Aug 2022 · 8 mos

Nov 2019 – Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Hired for Adtech & Martech Platform Engineering, Data Engineering & Data Science, ML teams.

Dec 2014 – Oct 2019 · 4 yrs 10 mos · Hyderabad

• Hired for NCR Financial Systems(Hw& Sw) , Retalix, Travel&hospitality, Payment systems business divisions across India org.
• Translate staffing requirements from business units into effective talent acquisition strategies, hiring targets and plans.
• Develop recruiting metrics and performance enhancement programs that align corporate targets and resources
• Ensure delivery of recruiting metrics including applicant funnel ratio, fulfillment rate, time to fill, channel mix, quality conversion and cost per hire.
• Lead team to ensure the delivery of these targets in terms of service and quality, client and candidate satisfaction, financials and continuous improvement.
• Build and develop strong sustainable relationship with key functional leaders to deliver a high degree of engagement between business and recruiting
• Build and develop a strong sustainable relationship with Vendors & RPO teams to monitor and drive vendor performance.
• Provide strategic and tactical resourcing advice to leaders and BU heads to facilitate the creation of robust and achievable recruiting plans.
• Develop market knowledge and team capability to identify and manage a pipeline of external talent.
• Work with talent and functional heads to proactively identify a pipeline of internal talent for effective internal mobility.
• Proactively identify, adhere to and report on all necessary process compliance matters, governance standards, providing business insight.
• Manage the University Relations and Recruiting strategy.
• Contribute to development of resourcing policy, framework and strategy – including assessment and selection methodologies, and sourcing channels where appropriate.
• Analyze and report recruiting metrics on a periodic basis to the stakeholders
• Enhance overall employee experience with the company
• Lead key initiatives/programs such as channels enhancement, recruitment process outsourcing activities, process standardization and improvement.

Sep 2010 – Dec 2014 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Hyderābād Area, India · On-site

• Hired for GameStudio, Game engineering, Mobile Game test Lab, Finance Shared Services & IT Engineering teams at EA.
• Advise on hiring methodology, recruitment and search procedures, candidate sourcing and management, advertising campaigns (web and press), diversity programs, internal mobility and the employee referral program.
• Build relationships with hiring managers to advise on job specifications, market conditions, competitor information and compensation.
• Promote training in selection interviewing techniques to partners and managers who interview candidates.
• Monitor recruitment performance in accordance with the worldwide recruitment dashboard and fiscal year roadmap.
• Build the recruitment process in India as per EA global processes
• Drive the Branding initiatives for India
• Build recruitment strategy for India to support the India expansion, supporting multiple BU’s.
• Evaluate the recruitment metrics
• University Relations Strategy
• Build Recruitment outsourcing
• Manage external resources to manage EA recruitment.

Jul 2008 – Sep 2010 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Hired for Westinghouse, Foxboro, Invensys Rail, APC & SCADA product lines.
• Responsible for the End to End Hiring process for business divisions catering to development of manufacturing engineering, enterprise manufacturing intelligence, advanced applications, operations management, measurement and instrumentation, safety and critical control(S&CC), supervisory control and data acquisition(SCADA), and distributed control systems (DCS) & Consulting Services.
• Participate and Consult with senior managers to establish strategic plans and objectives.
• Manage all internal and external requirements while ensuring cost effective resourcing of qualified candidates and building external alliances and partnerships as needed with the business units.
• Work in conjunction with the Quality team to collate, analyze & report recruitment metrics and propose & implement process improvements within the Hiring process.
• Establish & Manage relationships with Recruitment Partners/Vendors, Premier Engineering institutions and local colleges.
• Work closely with the APAC Recruitment leadership team in various global projects such as : Employment Branding, Evaluation, Selection & Implementation of Applicant Tracking Software product, Employee referral program re-vamp and support all other efforts as needed with the aim of streamlining and upgrading the current processes
• Providing Recruitment & Sourcing support to Engineering Product Sales and Engineering Project Management requirements in Middle East and North Africa (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt& Levant) region.
• APAC Project Lead –Taleo Implementation(Applicant Tracking System) : Representing APAC in Global Core Team in the TALEO Implementation project. Responsible for coordinating, communicating and ensuring participation from APAC region for Process, Design, Configuration, Systems Administration & Content and Prototype Testing teams.

Sep 2007 – Jul 2008 · 10 mos

• Co-ordinate with the Sales and Account Management teams from the Professional and Managed Service groups in the region on new requirements, recommend available resources to fulfill requirements originating from a variety of sources.
• Coordinate closely with Account/Program Managers to track current resource availability status and variances.
• Recommend resources based on availability, skills, location, visa status, career development goals and other HR and finance related considerations.
• Effectively coordinate deployment of available resources with Operations, HR, Finance and Immigrations team as required.
• Co-ordinate headcount addition approvals from the leadership team based on the resource availability internally.
• Build relationships with Recrutiment Teams across the region. Share the resource requirements and coordinate to ensure resources are on board as per the agreed SLA’s.
• Work in coordination with the Recruitment teams across the region (Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines & India) in identifying the right resource for the right job
• Provide proactive analysis, insights and recommendations to Recruitment, Resource Management and Operations Leadership regarding deployable resources, skills, locations to better manage the headcount and recruiting decisions.
• Analyze, review and consolidate the monthly recruitment dashboard reports, received from the regional teams, which include - Fulfillment Ratio, Cost per Hire, Budget Vs Average Salary, TAT, Sources, Skills, Strike Rate (Résumé, Interview, Offer).
• Maintain a working knowledge of the business, markets, and services.

Jul 2005 – Sep 2007 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Provide functional leadership when consulting with Leaders on staffing strategies and external staffing processes for Teradata R&D (TIES), Financial Solutions Division R&D (FSD R&D) and India Development Centre (IDC).
• Part of the NCR APAC Staffing Strategy Team.
• Work with Hiring Manager to validate identified competencies and skills needed for the opening as available in the marketplace.
• Responsible for Recruitment Branding viz., Brochures’, Billboards, Job fairs, Job mailers, Seminars, Technology contests etc.,
• Initiate and Manage relationship with premier institutions like IIIT, Indian Statistical Instt, Hyderabad Central University and various other Universities and colleges.
• Responsible for Vendor relations, identify and evaluate new vendors.
• Manage and guide the Staffing/Recruitment team on resource requirements for external hires.

Dec 2000 – Jul 2005 · 4 yrs 7 mos

• End to End Recruitment for varied skill profile both at Entry level and Middle Management level for the Security Operations, Network Operations, Server Services/ Datacentre, CRM, Data warehousing, Application Monitoring and Software Testing processes.
• Recruited over 650 people in 8 months on various skill sets.
• Identify cost effective sources of recruitment.
• Identify new Vendors at various locations around India.
• Developed a new recruitment model to maintain high quality and reduce cost, which resulted in a 60% drop in the cost of recruitment.
• Managed communication with various institutes for Campus Recruitment.
• Managed several walk-in interviews.
• Managed communication with Vendors.
• Management Information:
• Developed and implemented an effective monthly management reporting process.
• Providing various Need based reports to management.
• Provide reports on Recruitment, Voice of Employee, Performance Management and Attrition.