Sonia Sharma Email and Phone Number

I am a dedicated recruitment leader with significant experience in crafting and executing recruitment strategies that align with business goals. Furthermore, I'm skilled at building robust partnerships with hiring teams (Based in APJ, EMEA and US), deeply understanding their unique needs and challenges, and offering them critical insights and mentorship. My day-to-day role involves:• Partner with the executive leadership team to build out the talent acquisition strategy and plan• Lead, coach and inspire the TA consultants to deliver memorable hiring experiences• Drive and facilitate transformative change initiatives that align with the ever-evolving organisational needs from a talent acquisition perspective.• Drive our D&I approach from a talent acquisition lens• Drive innovation and efficiency in the recruiting space• Provide thought leadership on the overall candidate experience • Manage external recruitment agency and vendor relationships• Lead best-practice graduate and intern recruitment programs (PDP Program at Dynatrace)• Developed new hiring manager recruitment enablement training module• Improve the talent function: Work through an ongoing list of projects focused on employer branding, candidate experience, candidate attraction and pooling.My significant contributions:• Lead APJ region in the global projects like D&I strategy, Offer to Onboarding projects, BI Dashboard Creations, Hiring Manager enablement sessions etc.

Responsible for management of full recruitment lifecycle including role definition, strategic candidate sourcing, interviewing, selection, offer, and on-boarding. Foster partnerships with hiring managers, understanding business needs and challenges to align recruitment strategy with overall business goals. Responsibilities includes: • Lead a team of recruiters to ensure staffing goals are met in a timely and cost-effective manner• Regularly review job descriptions to ensure accurate representation of role and requirements• Negotiate offers and compensation packages with successful candidates• Coordinate with third party recruiting agencies when necessary• Keep abreast of latest trends in recruitment technology and implement necessary changes• Oversee the planning and implementation of campus recruitment activities• Conduct market research to understand the competitive landscape of recruitment within the industries we recruit for• Train and guide team members in all aspects of the recruitment process• Ensure all recruitment practices comply with federal, state, and local regulations• Process improvement initiatives like streamlining background check process, psychometric assessments ,EVP, creating talent pools, LinkedIn campaigns, hiring manager & candidate experience.

I partner with the business to provide a client-centric approach and manage full recruitment life-cycle, providing consultation to hiring managers on all aspects of the hiring process. I drive end-to-end recruitment process and responsible for all stages of the recruitment process including strategic sourcing strategies/campaigns, sourcing candidates, targeted headhunting, client management, advert and PD writing, interviewing candidates, Management of ATS/HRIS, References, Offer Management etc.Specialties: Recruitment, Networking, Strategic Sourcing, Headhunting, Talent Management, Industries: Technology, Energy, Finance, Engineering, Environment, Power & Industrial, Building and Places and Corporate services

An expert at strategic sourcing and evaluating candidates against competency frameworks. Key Responsibilities:• End-to-end recruitments for all business units of Eclipx group (NSW)• Partnering with stakeholders & the broader HR community to assist with recruitment across multiple business units• Single point of contact for all recruitment including for line managers, candidates, HRBPs and external recruitment agencies• Manage the end-to-end recruitment process – Workforce Requisition, line manager briefing, drafting and posting advert managing referrals, candidate review, screening and feedback, interviews, psychometric testing and debriefing, reference checking, making a job offer, through to onboarding and induction• Launched HRIS (Ichris) and ATS (Broadbean) across different business units• Manage all recruitment via LinkedIn/Seek and other social media platforms, and intranet• Expert in using LinkedIn recruiter database and good understanding of LinkedIn pipeline builder• Proven experience in creating talent pool by using different recruitment campaigns • Assist line managers with the recruitment and selection of roles across relevant business units• Determine appropriate recruitment strategy - propose sourcing options and respective costs to recruiting line manager, in line with policy and best practice. Areas of expertise;• IT (Software Developers, Technical BA, Scrum Master, DevOps, Solution Architects, AWS Architects, Project Manager ,QA and Salesforce administrator/developers)• Finance (Credit Analyst, Settlements Officer, Transaction Manager, Finance Manager)• Fleet Leasing domain • Marketing• Business Planning & Delivery (BP&D)• Customer Experience • Human Resources (Corporate, Organisational Capability / Learning & Development, HR Shared Services, Employee Experience)• Sales

• Inspired, mentored and coached team of up to 17 talent acquisition specialists/HR Consultant• My team handled all technical and non-technical hiring at PAN India level. In addition to managing my team and our requisitions, I also recruited on our executive and hard to fill technical roles.• Designed and implemented a comprehensive training program to educate HR personnel on the new performance framework.• Liaised with various departments to ensure smooth and efficient implementation of the new performance framework.• Coordinated with senior management to ensure that the framework was in alignment with company’s goals and objectives.