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Karāchi, Sindh, Pakistan

Karāchi, Sindh, Pakistan

Karāchi, Sindh, Pakistan

Karāchi, Sindh, Pakistan

Pakistan

Lead the Talent Acquisition team to drive strategic and operational excellence in recruitment and enable business plans. Collaborated with business leads to assess talent gaps, develop hiring strategies and talent pipelines for future needs of the business.¤ Developed sourcing strategy and coached the team, thereby reducing agency usage from 16% to 3% within two quarters.¤ Guided creation of robust talent pools through recruitment marketing, talent mapping and competitive intelligence.¤ Incorporated competency-based interviewing techniques to enhance candidate assessment and drive the quality of talent.¤ Digitalized all talent acquisition activities and facilitated change activation for transition to SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting.¤ Optimized talent acquisition process resulting in an increase of turn-around time compliance from 49% to 71% within a year.¤ Established and benchmarked KPIs for Talent Acquisition to drive accountability in team and deployed a hiring dashboard for reporting.

Normal, Illinois, United States

Promoted a positive learning experience for international students. Mentored, coached and counselled students from different countries, cultures, and backgrounds, and helped them in achieving academic success. Assisted in managing operations for international student study centre.

Managed Talent Acquisition for Transmission and Supply Chain divisions. Partnered with business to align talent acquisition with business strategy and provide consultative and transactional support during complete recruitment lifecycle (requisition, sourcing, shortlisting, interviews, offer & on-boarding etc.)¤ Proactively assessed talent gaps, developing integrated hiring strategies and talent pipelines to enable the business plans.¤ Managed end to end recruitment for technical roles related to Operations, Maintenance, Projects, Procurement and Supply Chain.¤ Leveraged talent mapping, competitive intelligence, LinkedIn, social media, referrals and job post optimization to ensure steady stream of top talent.¤ Built capability and framework for strategic analytics and optimization of talent metrics.¤ Coordinated and executed various Trainee Programs including Emerging Talent Program (KE flagship trainee program), Aspiring Talent Program (Internship program) and ACCA Trainee Program.Key Achievements: - Saved 03 Million+ PKR for head hunter cost on critical roles thru targeted sourcing. - Improved overall Turn Around Time compliance from 79% to 93%. - Implemented the idea of Candidate Relationship Management for positive brand recognition. - Cross-Border Talent Mapping Project: Performed market research and used competitive insights to identify potential talent and map them for future roles.

Looked after Network Planning and Project Development. Also served as Project Manager for Getz Pharma Substation project as an additional assignment. • Spearheaded Long Term Network Study project and prepared ten year demand forecast and transmission expansion plan worth 400 Million USD. • Conceived multiple substation and transmission projects through the stages of planning, budgeting, tendering, bidding and contract, and handed over to implementation section for execution. • Finalized contractual agreement for bulk industrial and residential supply to Bahria Town, Attock Cement and Askari VI.• Conducted feasibility studies for integration of renewable energy in system.

Completed rotations in Load Dispatch Center, Grid Protection, Grid Maintenance and Overhead & Underground Maintenance functions in Transmission business Unit. While being deputed in Project Implementation Department, looked after initiation and planning of bulk consumer projects. • Developed bulk supply interconnection projects, worth collectively around 20 Million USD, for DG Khan Cement, Indus Hospital and Getz Pharma.• Standardized the processing of bulk consumer projects thereby reducing average processing time by 40%.• Lead and trained the team for implementation of ISO 9001 QMS and represented in all internal and external audits for certification. Developed and implemented the mechanism for Training Need Analysis.

Karachi

Designed and developed a customized cloud-based platform on android to aid Computer Based Teaching through learning management system. In addition to this, being the project leader was responsible for setting the targets, planning the work schedule and ensuring the successful completion of the assigned project within given time frame.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, 4.0/4.0 Cgpa

Activities and Societies: Beta Gamma Sigma | Student Engagement Leader | Academic Coach | International Students Ambassador.

Graduate Certificate, Business Analytics

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Engineering Sciences

Activities and Societies: Marketing and Creative Head, Recruitment and Engagement Executive - American Institute of Aeronautics.