Consultant - HR Foundation
(2025-04)
Manager- Talent Acquisition - MERCER Consulting India Pvt Ltd
(2015-03 - 2022-06)
Mercer is a global consulting leader helping clients around the world advance the health, wealth and careers of their most vital asset — their people. Mercer is the world's largest human resources consulting firm. It is also the world's largest institutional investment advisor with over $10trn in assets under advice and more than $200bn in open architecture assets under delegated management.
Headquartered in New York City, Mercer has more than 23,000 employees, is based in more than 43 countries, and operates internationally in more than 130 countries. Mercer is a subsidiary of global professional services firm Marsh & McLennan
- Spearheaded talent acquisition initiatives for diverse accounts.
- Formulated and executed a robust TA strategy to attract top-tier talent and align with organizational goals.
- Evaluated and overhauled existing TA systems, processes, and policies to boost operational efficiency.
- Championed the successful ramp-up of key projects.
- Optimized a cost-effective recruitment model using innovative and creative techniques.
- Created and implemented TA strategy ensuring organization recruits the best talent to power organization's growth
- Review current TA related systems, processes, policies and platforms, understand how they are utilized today, assess areas for improvement, drive improvement initiatives
- Identify opportunities for improvement, make resulting recommendations and drive initiatives including tool upgrades and new tool roll-outs.
- Have successfully ramped up multiple key projects on emerging IT technologies
- Consistent execution of recruitment plan to ensure hiring the right quality.y of talent.
- Managed cost-effective recruitment model and creative recruitment techniques.
- Monitor and continuously improve key metrics that have an impact on business - lead time, conversion/decline ratios, source mix etc. Identify trends and gaps to enable quick and easy decision making across different stakeholders.
- Preparing various Reports – Hiring Dashboards, Hiring Trend Analysis, Diversity Hires.
- Plan, Execute & Manage the overall Recruitment Process within the approved Budget.
- Responsible for preparing Recruitment Strategies, guiding and mentoring team members to deliver quality manpower required to serve clients.
- Direct, Train, and Develop Recruiters in line with the Process Requirements.
- Planning, designing, strategizing and executing activities for end to end recruitments at various level by understanding the requirement, resource availability in the market, implementing time bound sourcing strategies for providing high quality resources, and also by allocating work to the team based on their competency and strength.
- Efficiently planning and implementing Recruitment Processes as per the SLA
- Mentoring junior team members, guiding them at various stages of hiring.
- Establish and implement strategies to source and attract the top qualified candidates for all positions
- Provide recruitment counsel and guidance to hiring managers and HR professionals with hiring and employment data. May develop specialized or competitive intelligence and research in regards to talent development or retention.
Assistant Manager- Talent Acquisition - GlobalLogic India Ltd.
(2013-01 - 2014-12)
GlobalLogic is a full-lifecycle product development services leader that combines deep domain expertise and cross-industry experience to connect makers with markets worldwide. Headquartered in the United States, GlobalLogic operates design and engineering centers around the world, extending the benefits of its authentic global presence to its customers in digital media, electronics, healthcare, infrastructure, finance, retail and telecom industries
- Oversaw end-to-end recruitment processes, ensuring a seamless candidate experience.
- Scrutinized and identified suitable candidates through various sourcing strategies.
- Negotiated vendor contracts and managed financial provisioning for recruitment activities.
- Managing E2E Recruitment process including sourcing, screening, searches against requisition, Short listing candidates, Taking HR interviews, selection, responding to enquiries, scheduling and conducting interviews, negotiating the salary, sending offer approvals, making Offer letter, maintaining the records and getting candidate on board.
- Identified suitable candidates for the requirements from various sources including the popular portals (Naukri, Monster), referrals, jobs posting - responses, employee referrals, company databases, social networking sites, etc.
- Planning, designing, strategizing and executing activities for end-to-end recruitments at various level by understanding the requirement, resource availability in the market, implementing time bound sourcing strategies for providing high quality resources, and also by allocating work to the team based on their competency and strength.
- Managing vendor negotiations, vendor empanelment and payments for talent acquisition and background verifications.
- Handling the complete financial provisioning for recruitment department.
- Maintaining all documents/trackers/reports for external audits for recruitment department.
- Maintains accurate and well-ordered documentation on all candidates, searches, interview feedback, managers interactions, salary approvals, compensation and designation offered.
- Prepare various hiring reports to be presented to the upper management.
- Formulate & present the weekly / Monthly / Quarterly reports (For e.g. -Recruitment Analysis, Candidate Tracker, Status Report, Offers Vs joining, weekly etc)
- Maintain the Hiring Dashboard and sending it out to the delivery leads on a weekly basis and discuss the same in a weekly status call.
- Preparing market research data for any new hiring technology that comes over.
- Being the POC for vendor contacts for various skills and sharing the requirement and making them understand the business fulfilment process for process driven culture.
- Managing and publishing the requirement to external vendors managing them in terms progress of the work, follow-ups and monthly meetings.
- Resolving Vendor queries related to the requirement, Salary Range, Level of hiring, Designation to be offered, Years of exp looking for
- Rating vendor as per the services they are providing to us.
- Managing the invoices and payments related issues.
- Propose hiring plan and designed hiring strategies, implemented plan of action for permanent and contract position, review requisitions, ageing, discuss and plan SLA, close position as per the target deadline.
Technical Recruiter - Velocis Systems Pvt. Ltd. (IBM & Microsoft Partner)
(2010-07 - 2013-01)
Velocis Systems Pvt. Ltd. is one of the leading players in networking, computing, messaging & collaboration, portals, and business process automation. Velocis is uniquely positioned to deliver end-to-end IT solutions beginning from cabling to collaboration to the market. Velocis is Microsoft Gold Certified Partner & premium partner to IBM & CISCO.
- Acted as the single point of contact for diverse business units to streamline recruitment efforts.
- Managed comprehensive recruitment processes from job fitment analysis to candidate assessments.
- Successfully filled assigned positions within stipulated timelines, enhancing team productivity.
- Partnered and worked directly with stakeholders, business unit heads and respective teams to determine the hiring demands and assist in preparing JDs.
- Manage end to end recruitment from reviewing, creating job fitment, and assessing candidates as per the open positions.
- Organize and coordinate for further levels of interviews, initiated and managed walk-ins and drives.
- Salary negotiations and benefits, and suggest compensation and other benefits.
- Extending offer letter for shortlisted candidates as per hiring managers approval after background verification.
- Successfully filled assigned positions within specified time.
- Managed employee referral campaigns periodically by creating and driving the program and providing timely feedback
