Leadership hiring across all groups in India and additionally ANZ ( Australia & New Zealand) markets

Leadership hiring across all groups in India.

- Moved to a new role as Client aligned Executive recruiter for the India region. - As part of the Global Executive Talent Acquisition Team, I will be working more closely with our country leadership team with hiring critical leadership roles whilst partnering with HR leaders on talent scouting, succession planning, and driving the overall hiring process end to end from role identification until onboarding a new hire. - I will also be accountable for facilitating competitor targetted strategy for senior roles, identifying & targetting the top competitor talent.

- Part of the Global Executive Talent Acquisition team as a Market Aligned recruiter for the India market. Closely strategizing with Global/Area/Subsidiary leaders to bring on board top talent for the country.- Sharing with the SLT, data-driven market insights to influence hiring strategies to help make informed plus market-differentiated decisions.- Working cross-functionally with multiple stakeholders across HR, Finance, Legal, etc. during the hiring processes, harnessing the #OneMicrosoft ideology.- Coaching/guiding and ensuring the most positive experience for candidates throughout the hiring process. - Actively sharing the Microsoft transformation journey across platforms strengthening future candidate networks.- Nurturing relationships with internal talent acquisition teams to help drive diversity-centric networking events, and hackathons for unique projects and build key talent pipelines for both short and longer term.- Being part of a global team, actively involved in mobilizing relevant talent move across the globe.

- Drove hiring for middle to senior-level talent across function for the IMEA(India Middle-east Africa) region across functions.- Helped hire talent across India, UAE, Egypt, South Africa, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Morocco, and other GCC countries. - Strategized hiring plans for roles across units: technical/commercial/consumer/engineering - Ran several research-driven projects with high-level market insights that helped leaders to build units accordingly and critical to market success. - Built several talent pools for immediate/future starts in terms of talent scouting exercises. - Showed flexibility in working across borders on challenging roles ground up, being a member of the GTA team(Global Talent acquisition team)

- Key member of the MEA resourcing team and driver for overall manpower planning, recruitment and talent mapping, across the MEA (Middle East & Africa) region particularly for the MMDS(Nokia transition into Microsoft) team.- Provide support to the business units by understanding their business objective and translating it into long term talent requirements. Identify the appropriate resourcing channels and contribute in capability building and propose a sourcing strategy to the business to get buy-in/ support.- Ownership for the internal hiring tools and the careers website which includes inception of the advert, approvals and leveraging the applications received.Responsible for using different digital and online media for hiring in MEA.- Complete ownership of the vendors and their management.- Maintain Info HRM reports and HRIS systems alongside the recruitment dashboard.- Accountable for Recruitment targets / SLAs and alignment to global resourcing model.

Same role. Moved to Qatar.

Rehired in same role

Took time off. Maternity break.

- Was responsible for overall manpower planning, recruitment and talent development, across the whole MENA (Middle East & North Africa) region for NOKIA .- Worked on position across 14 countries in the MENA region on all verticals & functions. Successfully handled MENA organization restructure & reallocation.- Communicated proactively with business managers & top management on the different stages of each open position & planned on future requirements.- Was responsible for the internal hiring tools & responsible for the implementation & learning of the new tools & hiring practices in the company.- Handled all 1st line interviews, assessments, OPQ & NLP tests for selections.- Worked on salary negotiation, offer calculation, reference checks & closure of the current offers as well as induction of new joinees.- Looked at headcount tracking, metric creation & status updating of overall hirings across region- Helped with performance management, talent mapping, employee relations, and training and development.- Analyzed the various hiring channels & made suggestions to streamline, recruitment including external vendor evaluation, negotiation and selection.- Key driver in the implementation of the internal referral system.Collected and analyzed HR data from regional teams. Maintained Info HRM reports and HRIS systems alongside the recruitment dashboard.- Worked on the recruitment excellence model & partnered with Universities across the region to drive the graduate programs.- Prepared job descriptions and identified positions that require analysis, review, evaluation or revaluation.- Worked across the broader HR function as a true business partner.

- Extensive working experience as an executive search consultant - Effectively managed the overall functioning & performance of a team of 10 junior executives. I was responsible for the entire HR administration, planning of the team which includes hiring, training, fixing compensations, target setting, performance management, performance appraisals, and confirmations etc. I facilitated objective setting; ensured that individual goals are in line with the company goals ; directed a continuous focus on performance culture through regular interventions; support. - Was actively involved in client management, client interaction and business development . Was the single point of contact for key clients such as Intel, IBM Global services ; IBM-Labs, Hewlett Packard, ANZ-IT, Juniper networks, Symphony Services, Kyocera wireless, Genisys, Nvidia, Vmware; Aztec software. Was responsible for turn key recruitment processes for our clients; helped them find the right talent for their organization within the specified resource pool. Assisted the clients in their walk-in events at their venue. - Effectively handled profit center responsibilities with emphasis on collections, cash flow management ; perspective based on activity wise assignments. Successfully customized pitch, communications and presentations; ensured creation of Internal and external reports, MIS, Operational analysis. - Recruited multiple candidates working on various technologies ( Web based, Systems, Telecommunications, Embedded, Networking, ERP, Applications etc., in different verticals (management, development, coding, designing, sales, pre-sales, marketing, branding, administration, finance, support, maintenance) with specialized Middle level and Senior Level hirings. - Was a core member of the Quadrangle leadership team. Formulated long-term goals, planned HR strategies as part of the team; was actively involved in internal hiring; training the new joinees.