Achappa Bheemaiah

• Lead and manage the Talent Acquisition function for the engineering and product organization at Flipkart, Leading a team of 14 recruitment professionals including Principal Recruiter, Lead Recruiters, Recruiters, Sourcers, Recruiting Coordinators
• Heading Engineering FTC Hiring ( Full time contract roles)
• Spearhead recruitment strategy development, execution, and optimization to meet business objectives.
• Managing talent acquisition priorities, workforce planning, and understanding hiring needs across eight substantial Engineering Business Units at Flipkart.
• Develop and nurture relationships with external partners, including recruitment agencies and technology platforms, to enhance the talent pipeline.
• Conduct regular training sessions for the talent acquisition team, ensuring alignment with industry best practices and the company's values

Significant Contribution's / Achievement's:

• Hosted First-ever Billion AI India Event
• Hosted First- ever ReactJS Bangalore Meet-up
• Best Team Award - 2023
• Instant Karma - 2023

• Led Global hiring efforts for 3 key engineering teams
• Lead and coach a performance-driven team of 8 members that identify and hire amazing talent within India and the APAC region
• Continuous Processes enhancement to improve the core metrics of success for talent acquisition in India and APAC region and impact on global programs
• Strategized effective recruiting practices like post-offer engagement, Time to fill metrics, data-driven recruiting trends
• Act as an advocate for both client and candidate throughout the hiring process; establishing regular touch points and providing diligent follow through resulting in a best in class candidate and client experience
• Partner with the global TA, HRBP, Finance, C&B, and HR Ops to align with the global processes
• Spearheading 'Project Hiring' TA team (RPO from Careernet)
• Responsible for Hiring leadership Roles at PayPal

Significant Contribution's / Achievement's:

• Star of the Quarter Award Q1 2021 - [one among the 7 Employees who won across India employee base at PayPal ]
• 14 -Bravo Award from Engineering Leaders - 2020-21
• 2 -Spot Award - GTA team -2021
• Social Media Rockstar - 2019 (1st Place APAC Team).

• Managed the end to end recruitment activities for the Product Engineering group of ilabs

Significant Contribution's / Achievement's:

• Built/Hired Customer Journey Analytics Product Engineering team from scratch Built/Hired Central Services team and Product Ops team from Scratch
• Supported Hiring for Sweden Location
• Promoted from Lead Recruiter to Principal Recruiter within one year of joining
• Successfully Hired Senior Architect, Architect, Sr PMTS, PMTS, VP, Sr Director, Director of Engineering and Product Managers
• The Exemplary of the Year 2017 (the most prestigious award is given yearly once per department)
• Received Above & Beyond award 2017
• Bravo for Q3 of 2017
• Received Bravo Award from Department Head of Data Platform team of iLabs for excellence in recruitment for 2017
• Successfully conducted meetups/Tech Talks - Spark, Kafka, DevOps, Java Developers in [24]7 campus
• POC for Branding for ilabs.

• Led Sourcing and Coordination team
• Trained Sourcing team and TA partners on social media tools
• SPOC for Infrastructure and Networking group of BRCM India Lead for Social Media Recruiting
• Successfully completed a Poilet Project on 'Candidate engagement model'

Significant Contribution's / Achievement's:

• Successfully onboarded over 70 candidates within the first 11 months of joining, comprising hires from competitor companies and esteemed tier 1 colleges

• TA SPOC for Server Technologies, PeopleSoft IDC, JD Edwards IDC, UX Team, Cloud Services
• Maintaining the Internal recruitment's market share at 100%, virtually no contribution from outside agencies towards Hiring
• Initiated Web 2.0 as a new avenue for Sourcing strategy
• Collaborated with the entire JAPAC team (Year 2009)

Significant Contribution's / Achievement's:

• Highest Customer survey scorer for four quarters among India Recruitment team F1 Recruiter Q1, Q2, Q4 FY14
• Identified as PropelOR- One among the top eight (8) talent of Oracle India Recruiting Team (Team Size 55 Recruiters) Certificate of Recognition for 3 consecutive Quarters and Made 'Hat-trick'
• Met the quarterly target on the first day of the quarter- Q4 FY13
• Elected for a Project of JAPAC Recruiting team - ACE(Applicant conversion to Employee)- FY14
• Built a pilot team in IDC (Peoplesoft R&D and Oracle Fusion) Oracle's 3rd Development Centre - TVM (Kerala) Hired first 30+ team size.

Senior HR Executive, Zenith Software Ltd , Bangalore
June 2005 — July 2006
• Single point of contact for IT /Non IT -Hiring
• Set up Sales and Business Development team in Australia
• Liaising with placement consultants, negotiating the placement rates.
• Successfully managed the employee queries pertaining to various HR
policies, almost played the role of Business HR

Team Lead -Tech Recruitment , The Head Hunters India Pvt Ltd ,
Bangalore
March 2003 — May 2005
• Specialized in Headhunting, Networking and Market Intelligence
• A high-pressure target-oriented role which includes- client
retention/potential billing vs Billing achieved on a monthly basis/Placement targets etc.
• Worked with Many Startup Company -( Product, Services both IT and ITES)
• Did a Target based Hiring as per client needs on leadership hiring and niche skill

Significant Contribution’s / Achievement’s:
• Been the “Top Performer” in The Head Hunters consecutively for three
months and have earned the highest Incentives.
• Made 40 offers out of which 35 joined in one month.