Feb 2021 – Jun 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

May 2019 – May 2020 · 1 yr · Bangalore

Feb 2016 – May 2019 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Head -Recruitment function for Bankbazaar.com.
• Leadership Responsibilities – Directly manage Talent Acquisition Senior Managers and Team Assist, Direct, supervise and coordinates work activities of direct reports. Responsible for performance management of team members. Create and communicates the vision for the recruitment team and develop goals and objectives based on staffing, development, retention, and brand management.
• Lateral Hiring – Develops recruitment strategies for the business units to ensure the selection of top quality candidates. Works with business leaders to forecast recruiting needs and determine the best source of talent.
• Leadership Recruiting – Works with leadership recruiter to attract top talent to key leadership roles.
• Expense Control – Develop an annual budget and make financially sound decisions and monitors recruiting expenses to ensure expenses remain within budget.
• Internal Relations– Creates and maintains partnerships with business leaders to understand recruitment needs and develop recruitment strategies. Actively pursues knowledge of client group operations and understands key elements of Bankbazaar business and financial status.
• External Relations – Develops and maintains relationships with search firms and networking organizations.
• Analysis – Tracks analytical data regarding all facets of the hiring process and monitor ROI. Adjust recruiting strategy, as needed, based on analysis.
• Project Management – Lead and execute on top priority or complex recruiting related projects to help streamline the recruiting process or enhance the brand experience for candidates.

Sep 2013 – Jul 2015 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bangalore

• Devise approach based on demand / supply , timelines , strategic cost impact - right candidate for the role, and leveraging the various channels (social media , employee referrals and vendors) appropriately.
• Develop and coordination of Recruitment strategy, services, initiatives and programs.
• Ensure a positive candidate experience that represents the values of the company.
• Guide hiring managers in determining the appropriate requirements and competencies for the roles within the organization.
• Drive the Talent Acquisition team in coordinating the interview process and ensure timely feedback and action items.
• Develop, influence and execute sourcing strategy for passive and active candidates
• Utilize social media recruiting skills to market the open positions, attract talent and build online communities.
• Build Talent Acquisition Capability - Re-engineer selection,interview assessment process across positions/departments
• Employer Branding, University Outreach and Management, Diversity Engagement Programs
• Hands on Leadership Hiring,Source and manage recruitment cycle for Leadership Hiring.
• Program manage volume and bulk hiring. The call center and ops hiring.
• Negotiate compensation packages for selects
• Reporting-Weekly and monthly reports on recruitment status, analysis, dashboards; manage & deliver them in a timely and consistent basis.

Jan 2013 – Sep 2013 · 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Lead a team of 37 members with responsibility of offer management and other on boarding deliverables and vendor payments for North Americas region(US and Canada)
• Mentor the Team for researching, recruiting, screening, and referring qualified candidates for open positions within specific business operation
• Assist in the implementation and on-going execution of the processes and standards for the offer ,on boarding and payments team with a comprehensive knowledge
• Consult with business leaders to define and implement the recruitment strategy.
• Define and implement quantitative recruitment metrics to measure recruiter performance and hiring successes.
• Use effective communication approaches that include proactively keeping others informed, appropriately expressing ideas and thoughts verbally and in written form, and timeliness
• Maintain Daily Production and Quality Reports and in turn coming up with a improvisation
• Collaborate with Account Managers to ensure the quick coverage on their requirements
• Work with internal and external executive level stakeholders to identify and build process flow, which supports reporting on requested account metrics.

May 2010 – Apr 2012 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bangalore

• Lead a team of 7 members with End to End Responsibility from Sourcing, offers, On boarding, Vendor Management, and Metrics for IBM GTS SD
• Manage the day-to-day operations of the Recruitment Team for all off-shore project manpower resource requirements in fulfilling the timely hiring of needed resources.Managed 1400-2300 onboards a quarter.
• Assist in the overall planning, budgeting and execution of sourcing strategies. Recommend alternative sourcing strategies outside of the usual strategies
• Ensure proper distribution of requisitions within the team while providing appropriate sourcing strategies and client management approaches
• Manage sourcing channels which include university relations and vendor relations
• Support end-to-end recruitment to different business units/hiring managers
• Conduct sourcing strategies with the hiring managers and resource managers
• Manage pre-screening of candidates and their endorsement to various business units / hiring managers
• Follow-up on offer letters, extend offers and discuss pre-employment requirements to identified candidates
• Coordinate with Hiring Managers and profiled candidates for interview scheduling, job offer negotiation and reference check of candidates
• Supervise and evaluate the performance of the recruitment staff
• Organize Hiring Drives, pooling activities for volume requirements to meet the growing demands of manpower outsourcing based on client requirements
• Responsible for Recruitment Metrics, Scorecards, Cost Per hire
• Discusses strategy with Hiring Manager - clarify the job details and other relevant information not available in the requisition details, recommend best practices and ways to improve on assessment questions, etc.
• Developed sourcing strategies to find the best fit candidate in the talent pool

Feb 2009 – May 2010 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bangalore

• Lead a 45 member team with End to End Offer process management for all the Business Units at IBM
• Ensure collaboration between departments for process stability.Enured 800-1200 offers being rolled in a weeks time between all BU's
• Effective escalation matrix management
• Efficient SLA management to meet OLA goals
• Implementation of better business controls to meet compliance criteria.Meet or overachieved targets week on week for the complete tenure in this role.

Apr 2007 – Feb 2009 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bangalore

• Managing campus, off campus, internship, PPO recruitments of engineering and business schools across BU’s in IBM India
• Planning and execution of End to End recruitment (From Post event planning to on boarding of candidates
• Ownership of timely rollout of offers to candidates who have been hired through campuses
• Strategic planning and seamless execution of events at campuses
• Responsible for complete campus logistics
• Brief technical panelist and senior managers on do’s and don'ts at campuses, through campus briefing call
• Ensure completeness of necessary documents post completion of events and publishing necessary reports on weekly basis.
• Manage pre and post campus communication, through campus help desk etc
• Ensure accurate data management, necessary timely analysis
• Publish necessary metrics.

Jan 2004 – Jan 2007 · 3 yrs · Bangalore

• Partner with Business heads to focus on “Engagement, Development & Increasing Efficiency” in this high touch, people centric business
• Play a strategic/consulting role in achieving high Employee Engagement/Employee Satisfaction, retention and low attrition through proactive employee engagement
• Facilitate to achieve continuous improvement in HR drivers of Profitability like utilization, teeth-to-tail ratios (billable verses non-billable staff), etc.
• Develop, drive and executed comprehensive search strategies designed to recruit senior and niche candidates within limited candidate pools. (i.e., competitive research, industry profile development, networking, direct sourcing, etc.)
• Help create a high performance and open transparent culture, which is grounded in and wedded to Adecco values
• Support organizational growth plans through better hiring and better talent Management
• Responsible for all areas of Human Resource process improvements and initiatives viz., employee / compensation data analysis, payroll interface, Human Resource process / compliance related documentation, exit process & attrition analysis and change management
• Design and implement Human Resource programs for Orientation, Performance Management, Rewards & Recognition programs
• Develop, establish and oversee the performance management process including goal setting, deployment of dashboards and performance appraisals
• Overall responsibility for compensation and benefits function, including developing and implementing appropriate compensation and reward strategies, conducting external benchmarking exercises, recommending relevant changes to the compensation policies and practices, and administration of compensation benefits
• Lead the annual succession planning exercise, and play an active part in any organization re-structuring or design exercises to ensure consistency, fairness, and compliance with company policy

Jan 2004 – May 2004 · 4 mos · Bangalore

• Job role was to achieve Sales targets and Credit analysis, (Credit Card Division, Gold and Dinner’s)
• Sales
• Credit Analysis
• Effective Customer Relationship