 Works with HR Directors and management to develop a recruitment strategy/ employer brand to attract the right talent. Creates communication vehicles (e.g. social media posts, webpage, Consultants, Campus Recruitment and Internal Reference etc.) to support recruitment objectives and generate candidate interest.  Oversees overall recruitment process and workload for Emerson to ensure maximum effectiveness. Manages and coaches recruitment team and provides day-to-day direction of staff. Provides guidance on how to deal with challenging searches, manage expectations of hiring managers and candidates, work with and “close” difficult applicants/searches and navigate through ambiguous situations.  Performs full scope recruitment efforts (initial sourcing, qualification of candidates, offer recommendation, negotiations and on-boarding) for specific positions and responsible for manpower budget & planning.  Develops and manages Talent Acquisition Scorecard. Reports metrics, tracks key indicators and develops plans to impact opportunity areas.  Ensure recruitment team’s efforts are consistent with the organization policies and practices. Adjudicate background checks per company guidelines and ensure on-boarding practices are followed at Emerson.

Significant Contributions:  Manage corporate relations and activities for designated business units and geographic areas to drive the recruitment strategy in order to meet the staffing needs of the firm.  Drive & execute the corporate strategic interventions; strategies to achieve business goals & operational objectives.  Lead a team of recruiters in regions with a purpose to deliver required manpower at the right price and right time and analyze recruitment & attrition trends in regions and recommend actions  Build sourcing strategy plan for manpower deployment on quarterly & monthly basis  Ensure there is an optimal resource pool is available with the right skills at all times.  Track project initiation / end dates globally and Keeping track of resource getting released to bench.  Keeping track of the percentage of non-billable man hours to ensure that this is within the planned utilization numbers  Maintain and publish all key reports Utilization, Resource Forecast, Bench Report and deployment.  Key Competencies:  Proven leadership and team motivational skills  Understanding of customer satisfaction and service industry dynamics  Team player and collaborative  Excellent interpersonal skills  Innovative and Focused on Quality aspects of recruitment  Understands manpower market dynamics

Major Contributions / Highlights:  Played a key role in attaining reduction in external agencies dependency from 45% in the year 2012 to 27% in the year 2013 which paved a way in earning annual savings of INR 10.7 million  Augmented employee referral penetration from 30% to a consistent 70% and alternate channel mix up to 10%  Significantly reduced the cost per hire by 25%, with 100% on-time hiring  Holds the merit of receiving Best Recruitment Team for year 2012 – 2013  Recorded 95% on-boarding within TAT and hiring TAT reduced from 60 days to average 45 days

Major Contributions / Highlights:  Reduced hiring cost significantly through effective negotiations with vendors on rates and terms  Diligently managed end-to-end Permanent & Contract Hiring Process (Domestic & International Recruitment) while interacting with Stakeholders for the Forecasting Project Plan & analyzing their need of resources  Planned as well as identified the resources internally (Resource Management Group - RMG) or externally (Talent Acquisition Team - TAT) based on the Project Plan  Posted positions through appropriate Internet resources including internal & external portal (Referral / Vendor / Job Portals / Social Media Recruitment / Campus Recruitment & Media Advertising)  Utilized social and professional networking media to identify and source candidates  Managed the design & development of tools to assist employees in benefits selection, and to guide managers through compensation decisions  Interfaced with hiring managers to ensure clearly articulated role details and defined selection process, assisted in identifying panelists and scheduling interactions.

Major Contributions / Highlights:  Administered the gamut of activities encompassing:  Managing manpower approval & budgets in accordance for the deliverance of best value and quality  Handling complete talent acquisition process right from sourcing, screening, interviewing, identifying sources to on-boarding of an employee in organization  Developing JDs, career graph, implementation of succession planning, joining formalities & induction process  Managing vendors viz. development and implementation of vendor management form, vendor identification, rate and quality checks, ensuring of timely services.  Defined the HR budget for recruitment of employees at various levels as well as ensured that all recruitment requirements are filled up within the agreed time frame and budget  Prepared detailed service level agreements between external sourcing channels (Job portals, Consultants, Social Media) and organization  Reviewed recruitment policies, sources and methods, practices and systems with reference to the requirements of various divisions of the organization and industry standards

Major Contributions / Highlights:  Proactively assisted and supported recruiting coordinators in developing and implementing recruitment objectives, policies and standards  Collaborated with HR staff for developing and implementing recruiting policies & strategies while identifying and implementing new selection and recruitment methods and techniques  Developed interview questions, tests, job descriptions and other necessary materials  Created, developed and posted job openings on job portals like Naukri, Monster and Times jobs  Clients hiring ( DELL, HP, IBM, Accenture, Nirvana, TCS)

Master in Science, Bioinformatics

Bachelor in Science, Environmental Science with Genetic Honors