Aug 2023 – Aug 2024 · 1 yr

• I led the Talent Acquisition strategy for Annalect (Omnicom), India. Responsible to build stronger capabilities in Employer Branding, DEI Programs, University Hiring, Lateral Recruiting, Executive recruiting, Capacity Planning, Operational Excellence and Analytics. Digital transformation of Talent acquisition by implementing ATS (ICIMS) and TA dashboards for better visibility to the leadership for projections & future growth..
• I also built a high-performing recruiting India team of 50 team members in the last 1 year which helped raise the bar of the recruiting team and the quality of talent we brought to Annalect (Omnicom) India.

Apr 2022 – Aug 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• I led the APAC Talent Acquisition team for Technicolor Creative Studios. Joined the organization to take care of huge surge in recruitment during 2022. There was lot of demand for artistic talent in Visual effects (VFX) and animation skills as organization signed high number of new shows. Worked with senior management in various units to ramp-up teams through multiple channels. Recruited around 3000 experienced team members across diverse artistic and technological skills during 2022. On-boarded around 1500 team members through Academy program to induct fresher talent into the organization. Started the process of publishing various dashboards and analytics, initiated governance calls with presidents of various business units and Integrated ATS (SmartRecruiters) with Workday.

Jan 2006 – Apr 2022 · 16 yrs 3 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Lead the talent function across EMEA, APAC and Japan, delivering recruitment and hiring in 23 countries and 14 sub-groups. Personally focused on Senior/Executive/VP hires.
• Manage 15 TA Specialists, implementing new recruitment policies and training. Coaching and training business leaders, hiring managers and HRBP, to improve succession planning and talent management.
• Analyze the talent acquisition process, quality of hires and time-to-fill data, to implement cost-reduction programs, building talent internally and removing costly RPO contracts.
• Using various recruiting and ATS platforms to support hiring processes.
• Drive Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DE&I) awareness events, focusing on the importance of diversity hiring.
• Main Objectives:
• Reducing hiring time and Time-to-Fill across EMEA and APJ.
• Improve candidate experience.
• Implement direct headhunting capabilities.
• Improve operational processes and efficiencies.
• Headed HRBP role for India for 5 years along with Talent acquisition; managed delivery and worked with C&B

Oct 2003 – Jan 2006 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Recruitment Manager for onsite consulting services, project-based volume hiring, campus hiring & US hiring
• Recruited for IT, Banking and Manufacturing & Services IT, Banking, Manufacturing & Services verticals
• Directed Headhunting, Web, Advertisements, Internal References; coordinated with vendors & sub-contractors
• Recruited high calibre resources (Offshore & Onsite) from
• Major markets (US, Europe, Gulf, Asia-Pacific & Africa)
• US-to-US recruitment (Corporate-to-Corporate and GC’s/US Citizens on W2 & 1099)
• Effected volume hiring for projects & initiatives
• Part of the core team that founded Pune & Hyderabad centres
• Initiated US hiring initiatives from India
• Administered campus programs
• Supervised HR Administration - Appraisals & Increments, Payroll, Tax Calculations, Leave Records, Loans Reimbursements and Conveyance & Medical

Jan 2002 – Jan 2003 · 1 yr

Jan 2001 – Sep 2002 · 1 yr 8 mos

Apr 2000 – Nov 2000 · 7 mos

Jan 1998 – Jan 2000 · 2 yrs

Jan 1993 – Jan 1998 · 5 yrs