Talent Management Practitioner
Richdom Consulting
Total years of experience :15 years, 8 Months
1. Led Recruitment department for Corporate and non academic positions PAN India for a leading company in Education Sector. Hired candidates across locations (Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune, Kolkata, Chennai) across levels (junior, mid and senior). Led a team of 6 members - financial and approving authority for all. Successful in hiring through low cost channels, significantly reduced the TAT. Led campus hiring for financial year 2020-21. Executed campus hiring from Premier B-Schools for various management roles in Operations, Sales, Marketing, General Management and HR (Dec 2018 - Nov 2019).
2. Also worked with a French based company and led business development efforts in the areas of sales, HR and Career Coaching.
3. Led sales efforts for a start-up - sell their online program in creating a better ecosystem for doctors, parents, pharmacists and children.
4. Also led recruitment efforts for a Bangalore based company.
5. Currently working on couple of recruiting projects and have couple of clients in pipeline for future projects.
6. Adept at handling large teams, sound planning, monitoring of teams, timely and accurate reporting and strong process orientation and adherence.
Worked with American based online media group and rendering services in setting up business operations in India and Philippines, operational execution of their HR Systems, ramping up their hiring efforts in India and Philippines markets.
Diversified Business Group. The team comprises a strong workforce. As a key member of the senior management team, responsibilities include recruitment/retention, employee relations, benefits/compensation/salary administration, Organization development, training/development, employee engagement, regulatory compliance and HRIS.
Provided overall strategic HR leadership to the company including all divisions. Served as an internal consultant to company management team, supervisors and employees on personnel issues that affected performance and business relationship
Led the talent acquisition for the group building technical and support teams from scratch. Led the lateral and campus recruitment. Devised and executed induction and new hire integration, managing their confirmation process.
Act as the facilitator during the meetings with internal clients and help to find the best way, how to develop customized strategies for optimizing the employees’ performance, development, diversity and retention to build a sustainable competitive advantage constantly.
Coach teams to facilitate organization and culture change.
Maintaining attrition through various HR activities.
Employee Engagement: achieving retention targets for the respective business unit using methods such as one-on- one meetings and informal forums to identify high attrition risk employees.
Partnered with Business to periodically review Organizational architecture keeping up with the changing face of Business
Efficiently designed and handled C&B structures for all positions including the annual performance bonus.
Competency management: Designed and completed competency mapping for training needs, employee engagement, hiring and due diligence during acquisition.
Facilitated the communication of corporate goals, delivered programs on goal setting, handling performance reviews, PIPs, performance transformation and sustaining high performance.
Employee Relations/Statutory Compliance: monitored unauthorized absence, suspension & general misconduct, framing of charge-sheet (unauthorized absence, suspension and general misconduct).
I led a team of 10 professionals where the critical job was to encourage, motivate and enable them to achieve ever increasing targets. I built capability in the recruitment function and brought more predictability in the output delivered by the team. I contributed largely towards tightening the processes, building systems, defining protocols, policies and standards and ensuring effective execution. I also ensured transparency and equal opportunity to the team and built a culture of trust, reliability and open and direct communication. I was also the head - university relations India and had a dotted reporting to Head - Global Universities Relations.
Instrumental in determining resource need identification, role definitions, budgeted numbers and project timelines
Successful deployment of sourcing model for PAN India operations for permanent and contract hiring. Was instrumental in ensuring effective utilization of available database and implementing a robust process for vendor empanellment, vendor evaluation and vendor engagement. Led the sourcing team - 7 direct reports (2 on company payroll, 5 on contract)
Created / revised recruitment policies, standards and procedures across recruitment life cycle
Campus strategy development, formulation and successful execution for entry-level and lateral hiring, hired 200 professionals from premier technical institutes majorly IITs and NITs, and premier B schools. Was Head - Campus Recruiting for 1 year
Worked closely with Head - Global University Relations in laying down the University Relationships framework for India
Successful growth and scaling of new and existing entities, hired 800+ resources in the fiscal year with significant improvement in turn around time, cost per hire and quality of hire
Led end to end delivery for 2 new entities of John Deere India namely John Deere Water India and John Deere Sirhind Works. Hired close to 100 resources put together for these entities
Successful deployment of key projects namely new employee integration, early development program, and recruitment analytics in conjunction with the global projects team
Successful migration to new applicant tracking system TALEO. Led the project as project champion in the change management process
Significantly improved the employee referral program with this channel alone contributing 32% of the total hires
Kept the turn around time below 60 days for junior positions, below 90 days for mid level positions and below 120 days for senior level positions
Built sound processes across all stages of recruitment life cycle
Provided recruitment support across all lines of business including Sales & Marketing, R&D, Manufacturing, Corporate
Developed the organization chart and budget for BFSI vertical - clearly stated the impact and contribution of each role/position. Was instrumental in minimizing the job overlap. Phased the hiring process basis the project timelines
Campus strategy development, formulation and successful execution, hired 250 campus recruits from NITs, other premier institutes and quality tier 2 Universities/Colleges
Deployment of 50 permanent mainframe professionals for banking account in less than 3 months
Deployment of 25+ contract staff for banking account in less than 2 months
Successful deployment of 100+ experienced Engineering professionals from India to a UAE based client for its middle east operations
Human Resources Leadership Program
B.E. Mechanical