Apr 2017 – Oct 2020 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Aug 2013 – Feb 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Talent Acquisition:
• Managing talent acquisition function for ISC, India with a team of recruiters, primarily for hiring functional/Non IT and secondarily for IT hiring.
• My role involved People management, Leadership hiring, HR projects and Global process alignment.
• Talent acquisition SPOC for lateral hiring and campus hiring - functional/Non IT and IT hiring, primarily for Hyderabad location followed by Chennai and Mumbai locations.
• Extensive direct engagement with the business leaders to understand organization vision, strategies and culture to align talent acquisition initiatives with the business objectives.
• Instrumental in instituting talent acquisition systems and procedures and streamlining operational processes.
• Instrumental in engaging with multiple business heads across locations to enhance the talent acquisition process in India to counterpart the Global hiring model.
• Hiring recruiters, direct, lead and mentor them to ensure internal business delight.
• Assign business lines to recruiters and set KRAs and targets based on their potential and ensure timely connects with the recruiters to understand and address issues aptly.
• Develop and enhance job descriptions, employee specifications application forms and other HR documents.
• Relationship management with empanelled vendors/Agency partners for permanent and contract hiring.

Nov 2012 – Aug 2013 · 9 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Talent Acquisition:
• TA SME for one major business line supported by sourcers and HR coordinator.
• Talent acquisition SPOC for the business leaders and ensure to synchronize with the business plans.
• Recruited topnotch Senior Software professionals with niche skills, primarily through Social networking models.
• Partner with HR head, HR business partners and business leadership to develop and enhance the manpower plan.
• Maintaining skill matrix of the businesses according to their core skills and domain.
• Review, develop and implement policies and guidelines.
• Organized scheduled and walk-in interviews across locations.
• Maintain, review and update human resource software applications.
• Monitor timely reports and analysis, with the business leaders.

Dec 2007 – Oct 2012 · 4 yrs 10 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Roles & Responsibilities:
• I) Talent acquisition – Dec’07 – Oct’09
• II) Global Mobility – Nov’09-Oct’12
• I) Talent Acquisition:
• Managing the TA function for various service lines with a team of recruiters.
• Design and implement End to end TA plans to meet targets based on business plan.
• Front end with the business leaders.
• Formulate and support the team in complete TA process which includes job needs identification, requisition analysis, sourcing to closure.
• Develop and maintain an effective recruiting network and relationship with external and vendors.
• Worked closely with development teams for the enhancement of the TA database, NGS – Next Generation Staffing – recruitment tool( SAP Beta Version) from the older version XPten.
• Involved in hiring new recruiters and training.
• Design and monitor the MIS Reports.
• II) Global Mobility:
• Global mobility professional with experience which includes strategic and operational mobility expertise with particular focus on the following:
• Policy recommendations/Creation.
• - Global mobility process recommendations.
• - Mobility process life cycles for new locations.
• I was leading a team and responsible for Global mobility function.
• Part of the pilot team and managed mobility across 16 loc's with a population of 250+ international assignees.
• Expert counsel pertaining to Global mobility policy, assignment compensation package, cost containment, reimbursements and relocation.
• Manage worldwide long-term and short-term Global assignments.
• Drafted and enhanced SOP, FAQs and questionnaires.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for home and host country payroll, managers and host country HR business partners.
• Responsible to ensure adherence to the company policies, local and international immigration laws and tax laws.
• Working with Mobility HO in Singapore and Microsoft Global Resources hubs across loc's, supported by the Global team to resolve complex issues.

Oct 2005 – Dec 2007 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Talent Acquisition:
• Heading the talent acquisition function for Hyderabad location with a team of two recruiters.
• My role included lateral hiring, campus hiring and Intern hiring.
• Instrumental in supporting niche hiring and hiring events for other locations.
• Managed hiring through multiple sources as career portal, employee referrals, external recruitment events, etc.
• Planning, organizing and conducting campus recruitment (on-campus, consolidated campus & off-campus) across India.
• End to end talent acquisition – Leading the team, and as an Individual contributor - Source qualifying candidates, submittal to business, and arranging interviews till offers.
• Recruited topnotch Software professionals through employee referrals, recruitment consultants, walk-ins, advertisements, and Jobfair, etc.
• Conducting final HR interviews, salary negotiation, fitment, offers, etc.
• Planned target based recruitment for each recruiter with KRAs.
• Training and coaching the recruiters time to time and ensured internal customer delight.
• Ramping up big volume requirements through walk-in interviews.
• Manage data and monitor BGC for new joiners.
• Responsible to monitor the MIS reports
• Campus hiring Lead:
• Delivering the Pre-placement talk (PPT) and handling queries from students.
• Managing and conducting written test, group discussion and personal interview.
• Building relationship with various Educational institutions.

Oct 2004 – Oct 2005 · 1 yr

• Roles & Responsibilities:
• I) Talent Acquisition:
• Handled talent acquisition function as a SME for vertical – VBU Insurance, Hyderabad.
• Planning, identifying, sourcing and positioning of resources as per organization and project requirements at all levels.
• Interacting with the business leaders for the unit requirements and plan on 30-60-90 day’s model.
• Participated in campus recruitment (on-campus, consolidated campus & off-campus) across India.
• Salary negotiations, fitments and offer discussions.
• Ramping up through walk-in, off-campus for corporate recruitments.
• Reference checks for authenticity of details pertaining to previous employment/Experience etc and joining follow-up.
• Periodic status reports to business heads and talent acquisition head.
• MIS on the basis of current requirements and building a pipeline for immediate future requirements.
• II) Employee Relations:
• Conducting exit interviews, analysis and presenting the Exit Analysis report (EA) to the top management for decision making.
• Effective utilization of SAP Database for all HR processes (from offer to Joining).
• Fun @ work
• III) Performance Competency Management System:
• Facilitate the Performance Appraisal implementation through automated PCMS (Performance Competency Management System) tool
• Facilitate and provide required guidance to the delivery heads during appraisal normalization.
• Training associates both onsite & offshore on online PCMS tool.

May 2004 – Oct 2004 · 5 mos

• Talent Acquisition:
• Responsible to recruiting for the Business line – IEC, India Engineering Centre, Bangalore.
• Hired for the product development (Engineering) division.
• Specialize in finding the best of breed programmers, working in product development space- engineering managers, product managers, QA/Testing specialists, etc.
• Have had success in finding candidates from top schools and tier 1 companies.
• Handled all the activities in talent acquisition like understanding technical requirement specifications, sourcing, screening and validating resumes. This scaled from identifying resources to being effective intermediate in negotiation process and acceptance of offer.
• Salary negotiations, reference checks and joining follow-up.
• Recruitment through Jobsites, recruitment consultants, internal references and advertisements.
• Liaison between candidates and hiring managers.
• Preparing and issue of offer letters after reference checks for authenticity of details pertaining to previous employment etc.

May 2002 – May 2004 · 2 yrs

• Talent Acquisition:
• Responsible to work on the talent acquisition function for ISC, India Support Centre, Bangalore and Hyderabad.
• Have hired across levels, right from senior management for multiple business groups in Oracle, as Oracle Retail, PeopleSoft, Oracle consulting division and HR.
• Manpower requirement as per organization new prospective, tailoring manpower requirement plans, coordination and implementation of process.
• Talent acquisition through personal contacts, Jobsites, recruitment consultants, internal references and advertisements.
• Scrutinizing, short listing and scheduling interviews and all follow up action thereafter till the close of position.
• Have organized walk-in interviews in large numbers at different locations.
• Worked closely with the HR Manager-ISC in other HR related activities including talent acquisition plan, talent acquisition costing analysis, mentoring program and recreational activities.
• Handling commercial activities and maintain good relation with all the external vendors.
• MIS on the basis of current requirements and building a pipeline for immediate future requirements.