Abhishek Sharma, Senior Manager

Abhishek Sharma

Senior Manager

DAMAC Properties

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
High school or equivalent, IT
Experience
24 years, 3 Months

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Total years of experience :24 years, 3 Months

Senior Manager at DAMAC Properties
  • United Arab Emirates
  • My current job since August 2017

Executive Appointments for Chairman’s Office
(Team Size - 6 People)
• Lead, develop, and manage an ambitious high-performing team. Coach team, actively supporting their
professional growth, taking on the role of their mentor.
• Drive full-cycle recruiting processes, lead the development and execution of comprehensive recruiting
strategies that will ensure that the organisation attracts & hires top talent for hard-to-find roles.
• Devise and carry out a targeted research strategy by researching into clients’ company, competitors
and market place.
• Executive appointments at CEO/GM/SVP/VP/Director levels across technology, business & corporate
functions across regions. Assessing candidates to ensure role match, cultural fit and compatibility.
Conducting confidential interviews and checking references. Offer guidance and facilitate the negotiation
process through to its completion.
• Drive a culture of constant improvement, identifying, and implementing projects in order to increase
business-wide recruiting effectiveness and efficiency.
• Leverages key dashboard tracking analytics and impact metrics in order to grow a data-driven &
technically skilled recruiting team.
• Part of Expert Counsel advising on replacing existing ATS, attended Product Demos & gave expert
opinion.

Global Head at Reliance Communications – Global Cloud Xchange
  • United Arab Emirates
  • March 2016 to April 2017

of Talent Acquisition
(Team Size - 6 People)
• Created and implemented Global TA strategy ensuring organisation recruits the best talent to power
organisation’s’ growth worldwide. Responsible to drive transformation by creating a culture ofexcellence.
• Review existing TA related systems, processes, policies and platforms, understand how they are utilised
today, assess areas for improvement, drive improvement initiatives, in addition to determining what
insights can be derived for proactive decision-making purposes. Identify opportunities for improvement,
make resulting recommendations and drive initiatives including tool upgrades and new tool roll-outs.
Instrumental in coming up with new/revised HR polices.
• Advocate firm’s strategy, understand trends in business, and understand pain points to resolve them.
• Responsible to create strong cross-functional partnerships to understand the unique requirements of each
organisation and the talent landscape worldwide. Also, responsible to develops TA strategies in line with
business needs.
• Responsible for developing budgets for TA function and for delivering on all TA metrics (Cost,
Quality and Timeline) for all geographic locations and functional groups.
• Partner with CHRO and other HR/Business Leadership Team members to provide inputs for overall
alignment in HR strategies and assist in decision-making about organisation’s’ geographic targets.
• Conceived, conceptualized, created and executed a road map for building Campus Equity and
institutionalized the University Relations program - including new graduates and internship programs.
Instrumental in developing 3 programs and delivering them successfully.
• Instrumental in setting up IOT (Internet of Things) business, including hiring the CEO (German).
• Owned Executive Hiring globally closing senior mandates.
• Coach and mentor direct reports and other HR team members.

VP at J.P. Morgan Chase
  • United Arab Emirates
  • August 2010 to March 2016

Team Size - 14 People)
• Recruitment head managing E2E technology recruitment for 3 LOBs for Pan India (Mum, B’lore & Hyd).

Leader at Global Hiring & Vendor Managemen
  • United Arab Emirates
  • October 2008 to July 2010

Team Size- 12 People)
• Responsible for E2E requirement fulfillment & delivery for all business verticals/SLs for Software CoE
globally with key locations i

Senior Manager - Global Recruitment Leader at GE-Genpact
  • India - Delhi
  • September 2005 to July 2010

• Responsible for E2E requirement fulfillment & delivery for all business verticals/SLs for Software CoE globally with key locations i.e. US, Brazil, Mexico, UK, Canada, Romania, Italy, China, Norway, Austria, Saudi Arabia, Netherlands and PAN India across bands from MTs to VPs/SVPs. • Preparing & executing quarterly & monthly recruitment plan in line with business OP plan. • Managing HMs & team involving assigning targets, allocation of work, monitoring performance, conflict management etc. and bridging demand-supply gap. • Stakeholder management, escalation handling and BAU management for all GE/NON-GE businesses. • Handling high volume, high end critical, internal /outsourced /project /attrition /professional service based, direct /contract /CTH, ad-hoc & JIT requirements. • Campus Hiring - on & off campus recruitment. • Handling audits - SOX, quality and internal audits. • Handled 2 RPOs. • Digitization of the Recruitment process using the existing software tool. • Played a key role in E2E Vendor Management process including vendor identification, development, management and monitoring them on SLAs. Implemented various process improvements for partner empanel/evaluation/feedback etc. • Developed and implemented “Cost Plus” model. • Instrumental in developing & executing staff augmentation model. • People management activities for all DRs like career progression, succession planning, training needs, appraisals etc.
Resourcing Lead - Oracle SCM, Financials and SAP SLs (800 people SLs) Sept’05 - Oct’08 (Team Size - 3 People)
• Complete Resourcing ownership for Oracle SCM, Financials and SAP service lines. • Planning, strategising, optimisation & monitoring SL bench - focus on redeployment of resources & reduction of bench. Load balancing bench strength keeping in mind projects pipeline. • Complete ownership of onsite/offshore requirements fulfillment. Worked closely with hiring team to reduce demand supply gap. Conduct FTE/Vendor walk-ins on a regular basis. • Maintaining skill repository and working closely with training department to up skill bench resources. • Process L1/B1/Other visas for resources as per the client requirements and maintaining a healthy proactive Visa/Travel ready pool. • Partnering with HR BPs during appraisal cycles - Talent retention, career and attrition management along with program managers and SLL/SDLs.

HR at Oracle
  • United Arab Emirates
  • September 2005 to October 2008

Team Size - 3 People)
• Complete Resourcing ownership for

Head at Silicon Valley Systech, Inc
  • United Arab Emirates
  • February 2004 to August 2005

Recruitment (Team Size - 35 People)
• Instrumental in setting up India operations from scratch along with India Country Head.
• Stakeholder management with onsite sales managers/clients and ensuring quality & timely response per
SLAs and maintaining competitive billing.
Binary Semantics, Gurgaon/ ALGOL Systems

Manager at Inc.
  • United Arab Emirates
  • August 2002 to January 2004

Resources/Sales - Team Lead (Team Size- 6 People)
• Developed new client base while continuing to cultivate relationships with existing clients based out of US.
• Instrumental in setting up US-to-US staffing competency from scratch in India (night shift operations). Was
responsible for end-to-end business development, client servicing and recruitment delivery.
• Revenues generated in excess of US$ 600K over 6 months and effectively delivered on 90%+ mandates.

Associate at HCL Perot Systems
  • October 2000 to July 2002

Set-up Telecom competency for HPS - hired about 80 people.
• Overseas recruitment for US, UK, SG, Malaysia, HK, Switzerland, Germany and Pan-India.
• Catered to all US-to-US contract, CTH & permanent requirements from multiple clients; “CC Model”.
FCS Software Solutions,

Resource Executive
  • November 1999 to September 2000

Team Size- 2 People)
• Responsible for end-to-end India-to-US recruitment including H1B/L1 visa processing.

Education

High school or equivalent, IT
  • at Amity Business School
  • January 2000

– Full time

Bachelor's degree, Electronics & Telecommunication
  • at Amravati University
  • January 1997

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Specialties & Skills

CUSTOMER RELATIONS
DELIVERY
QUALITY
RECRUITING
STAFFING
ASSET MANAGEMENT
ESTIMATING
MANAGEMENT

Languages

German
Expert