Alok kulhar

• Team Leadership: Leading Talent Acquisition and Diversity Hiring for AXA (AXAXL) Enterprise shared service centers globally APAC/EMEA (India, Poland, Singapore) Overseeing a team of recruiting managers, recruiters, diversity sourcers, and coordinators across multiple service and product lines.
• Partnering and Consulting: Collaborating with local and global landlords and heads of entities on talent acquisition strategy. This includes job posting optimization, sourcing strategy, recruitment marketing, job board procurement, and talent mapping. Developed digital assessment centers.
• Talent Marketing & Employer Branding: Leading global talent marketing and employer branding strategy for AXA ESS. Responsible for developing and deploying the EVP, promoting internal and external talent, and enhancing brand presence. Achieved a 25% increase in talent engagement and improved the talent branding index by 15%.
• Strategy/Implementation: Directing Talent Acquisition & Diversity hiring strategy for Global shared services and Tech COEs. Implemented a data-driven approach, tracking Cost-Time-Quality metrics, resulting in a 20% reduction in time to hire and a 10% increase in candidate satisfaction scores.
• TA Operations & Reporting: Managing the TA matrix for APAC/EMEA, closely monitoring time to hire and meeting hiring targets. Implemented controls to reduce time in hiring, achieving a 95% adherence to target hiring dates.
• Diversity Sourcing: Leading Diversity Sourcing & hiring strategy for the 4 DE&I buckets (LGBTQ, Disability, Returning to workforce, and Women). Increased diversity hires by 12 % year over year.
• Led cross-functional teams for the successful completion of major projects, resulting in increased efficiency and client satisfaction.
• Collaborated with senior management to develop strategic initiatives and long term goals.
• Established a culture of continuous improvement, fostering innovation and driving sustainable growth across the organization.
• Cultivated strong relationships with key stakeholders, including customers, vendors, regulators, and community leaders to promote collaboration and long-term success.

Talent Acquisition: Managed end-to-end recruitment for LinkedIn's Tech, Sales, and Product lines in APAC. Partnered with leadership on full-cycle recruiting strategies. Managed a team of 6 recruiters and 2 coordinators across APAC

• Streamlined the talent acquisition process by implementing an applicant tracking system and improving candidate experience.
• Collaborated with internal stakeholders to align talent needs with organizational growth goals, ensuring a proactive approach to workforce planning.
• Conducted comprehensive market research to benchmark against industry standards and identify areas of improvement in talent acquisition strategy.

Process Excellence: Enhanced recruitment processes, tested innovative tools, and improved campus engagement.

Reporting: Provided real-time insights on recruiting activities and challenges through regular global updates.

Diversity Hiring: Led APAC diversity initiatives, increasing diversity hires significantly by collaborating with business leaders.

• Business Partnering: Collaborated with McKinsey leadership in India, Singapore, UK, and US on recruitment delivery, talent insights, sourcing strategy, employer branding, and assessments.
• Collaborated with HR teams to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws during all stages of the hiring process.
• Developed strong relationships with hiring managers, resulting in a better understanding of their needs and more accurate candidate selections.
• Team Management: Led a team of 8 recruiters in India, Philippines and singapore, enhancing recruitment processes and efficiency.
• Key Achievements: Reduced recruitment cost-to-hire by 68% in 2 years. Integrated a new ATS for automated scheduling, assessments, feedback, and offer rollouts in APAC. Increased diversity hiring metrics (Women/LGBTQI/Disability) by 18%, 8%, and 6% YOY for 2 years.
• Diversity and Inclusion: Led diversity hiring projects in APAC, McKinsey GLAM chapter globally, and WOW hiring events across APJ.
• Recruiting Transformation: Managed large-scale projects in assessment, candidate experience, and sourcing. Launched the first screening automation lab in McKinsey, Singapore.

• Built strong relationships with internal and external candidates to ensure an excellent hiring experience.
• Managed recruitment team of 10+ recruiters and trained and mentored new advisors.
• Collaborated with internal teams to continuously improve recruitment processes and execute as efficiently as possible.
• Managed the internal referral program to encourage current employees to refer quality candidates, leading to lower recruitment costs over time.
• Collaborated with HR leadership regarding candidate salary determinations.
• Built and strengthened successful relationships with external recruiters and agencies.

• Lead Talent & Culture for USAID, India
• Worked with internal partners to design and execute strategic communications and programs to increase overall employee alignment, talent acquisition and engagement
• Worked with leadership in the US headquarters for creating Talent Management, Recruiting, ER, Performance management and succession planning stratgies for talent in India, Sri lanka, Nepal and Philippines
• Managed Hire to Re-tire HRBP partnership for on-role USAID staff of the 'Read Alliance' Project
• Developed recruiting strategies in lines with USAID global recruiting mandates
• Streamlined job posting optimization, vendor management and cost to hire.

• Collaborated with hiring managers to recruit for open Sales and Operations mandates in India and UK
• Anchored sourcing, screening, interviewing, offer processes and candidate on-boarding end to end as an individual contribution.