Head of Talent Acquisition across business of Relevantz Strategic, India, and Europe hiring, Manpower Planning - Partnering with Business Heads and Talent Partners to drive their Growth Plans, Sourcing strategy, Talent Acquisition Tools & Technology, Driving Inclusion & Diversity vision of the firm, Developing, implementing & managing recruitment strategies, processes, procedures and program. Handling end to end responsibilities for delivery.Handling People Practice (Training, Swapping, PIP, Onsite recommendation, Performance appraisal)Handling critical Roll-off and escalations.

Performing end to end recruitment

• Involved in strategic, tactical planning and partnering with the stakeholders like VPs, AVPs, Senior manager’s in meeting the hiring needs for the organization within the accepted deadlines• Prioritizing the requirements, time sensitive environment to provide continuous candidate pipeline • Excellent working relationship with Delivery Units for better understanding of their current and anticipated requirements and building rapport with the business• Effectively using the database, Job portals, Employee referrals, internal Redeployment pool, Internal Job Postings.• Attending Business review meetings with Delivery Heads/Hiring Managers to plan/strategize the recruitment activities• Provided timely & accurate input for dashboard and other recruitment reports• Preparation of various MIS reports like Recrutiment Reckoner, Trackers, Offer Related reports, Recruitment metrics for the SLA's• Responsible for offer management for the selected candidatesTraining and Development• Identifying, Finalizing the consultant and Scheduling the training program.• Measuring the effectiveness of training programs & its impact on the performance, productivity of the employees.• Evaluation of training effectiveness.• Conducting Orientation on training programs

 Performing end to end recruitment (Client interaction, Requirement gathering, Screening, Scheduling, Background verification and On-boarding)  Consult with business and functional leaders to define competencies for specific roles Regularly called upon to troubleshoot difficult positions and source, identify, attract, secure and close hard-to-find candidates. SPOC – Served as a Service Point of Contact for Scope International (Bank of America, Standard Chartered Bank), Societe Generale, Capgemini account with respect to requirements gathering, delivery and escalations  Ensures that adequate number of qualified candidates is submitted for all assigned client requirements in a timely manner. Optimum utilization of resources by adhering to metrics like the Pyramids, right prioritization of requirements in consultation with Delivery and Account managers Handling end to end responsibilities for delivery. Ensuring quality and TAT are prompt level / to time. In-house talent acquisition of specialist resources for quality services to the client. Hands on experience in documentation for new joiners Developing, implementing & managing recruitment strategies, processes, procedures, system and programs. Ensuring smooth execution of Post Recruitment activities. Handling critical Roll-off, High escalations and Town Hall Meetings. Responsible for Training and Educating recruiting team to understand the JD, help them to write proper search strings, negotiating skills and questioning skills Track candidates activities (phone calls and emails) in internal applicant tracking system.such as Talentnow ®

 Technical and delivery SPOC management for BFSI & System Integrator clients. Actively participated in recruitment managers meeting. Conducted large walk-in-drives for multiple European accounts.  Participated with on-shore account managers in regular basis and understand their pain point/full filling the positions based on priority Mitigating risk of offered / final level candidates to avoid last minute issues As a part of offer management, participating and analysing selected candidates and co-ordinate with the project managers and the respective authorities for the approval for offers. Managed third party vendors to confirm, co-ordinate on the offer candidates from their end. Special emphasis and helping the recruiters to work on the priority base requirements. Morning Hurdles with team to priorities for the daily recruiting activities. Re-validating the profiles sent by recruiting team to understand candidate’s interest level before processing to the project / delivery team

 Looking after the entire cycle of recruitment that includes searching/sourcing potential candidates, shortlisting them in accordance with the client's current requirement from the various sources viz. database, portal, referrals and networking etc Interacting with candidates, giving them a preview about the firm, the interview process.  Coordinating with clients and scheduling the interviews for the short listed candidates Follow-up with clients & candidates regard to preceding procedures till the final accomplishment Track candidates activities (phone calls and emails) in internal applicant tracking system such as Hirecraft ®

 Interacting with the Directors, Program, Project managers to get clarity on the assigned RRF(Resource Request Form) Work with senior management to clearly define candidate's roles and responsibilities  Sourcing through Employee Referral, IJB(Internal Job Posting), CC (Corporate Communication) Job Portal, Social Network and Vendors Conducts initial interviews to determine experience and skill level and the candidates expectations Handling requirements for both internal and for UK region. Having hands on experience in Vendor management Interacting with the technical panel and candidates for the interviews Doing HR discussion and salary negotiation with the selected candidates Conducting Walk-In for high volume requirements Interacting with the Managers and VP - HR on offer approval Maintain the metrics for offers, selected and joining candidates Submit the back papers to the concern HR/Finance team Implement and support processes for developing a data base  Ensures that adequate number of qualified candidates is submitted for all assigned requirements in a timely manner Client interview scheduling, candidates and client follow-ups