TA Manager
AMIT SHARMA
Cadila Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (CPL)
Ahmedabad,GJ
11
Years of experience
Summary
Strategic Talent Acquisition and HR professional with 11+ years of experience across Pharma, Healthcare, Fintech, BFSI, NBFC, E-commerce, Retail and FMCG. Proven track record in end-to-end recruitment, high-volume and mass hiring, workforce planning, stakeholder management, vendor management, employee retention and HR business partnering. Experienced in leading PAN-India field-force, corporate, plant and support-function hiring, using ATS/HRIS, recruitment analytics and AI-enabled assessment tools to improve hiring efficiency, candidate experience and business outcomes.
Work History
Talent Acquisition Manager
1 Year 3 Months- Partner with hiring managers and Business HR to develop recruitment strategies for Sales & Marketing, Corporate Functions, IT, Quality, Regulatory and Supply Chain.
- Lead talent review activities for leadership positions and support succession planning for business-critical roles.
- Manage role intake, candidate screening and assessment using Thomas assessments and AI-driven assessment centers.
- Drive adoption of Phenom Scheduler and CRM workflows to streamline interview scheduling, feedback collection and candidate experience.
- Use people analytics to monitor attrition, offer-to-join ratio and hiring efficiency; present actionable insights to leadership.
Talent Acquisition Manager
1 Year 6 Months- Led end-to-end PAN-India recruitment for Field Sales, Field Staff from ground to senior levels, Head Office support functions, Formulation and API functions.
- Managed plant hiring across Production, Maintenance and Quality functions to support manpower requirements.
- Developed and executed manpower planning and sourcing strategies aligned with business hiring targets.
- Built candidate pipelines through job portals, campus recruitment, professional networks, recruitment consultants and employee referrals.
- Designed screening, aptitude testing and background verification processes to improve selection quality.
- Managed Recruitment and Onboarding teams to support manpower planning, induction and new-joiner experience.
- Built recruitment analytics dashboards tracking hiring versus attrition and supported HRBP activities including HRIS, exits, onboarding and induction.
- Reduced attrition from 49% to 35% during tenure and improved achievement against hiring targets from 70% to 90% in Apr 2025.
Talent Acquisition Specialist
4 Years 2 Months- Managed PAN-India end-to-end recruitment for FSE, Senior FSE, TSM, KAM and Senior KAM profiles, with strong focus on bulk and mass hiring.
- Created job descriptions and recruitment action plans in partnership with business teams.
- Executed multi-channel sourcing through job portals, employee referrals, recruitment vendors, walk-ins and campus recruitment.
- Identified and onboarded 300+ vendor partners to support blue-collar hiring initiatives.
- Conducted HR interviews through physical and virtual modes for candidate screening and selection.
- Supported career progression initiatives to improve candidate retention and maintained hiring trackers covering joining, mandates, attrition and pipeline data.
- Pioneered paperless onboarding and document verification processes and processed vendor payments through SAP with end-to-end reconciliation.
- Created a milestone in Paytm history by completing 7,000+ hires in a single month (Sep 2023), the highest volume hiring achievement cited in the source resume.
Senior HR Executive
4 Years 4 Months- Managed recruitment delivery and client relationships across E-commerce, BFSI, NBFC, Healthcare, Pharma, Telecom, Fintech, Retail and Manufacturing.
- Built relationships with prospective employers to understand hiring requirements and deliver recruitment solutions.
- Developed strategies to combat attrition and improve talent retention metrics.
- Coordinated campus recruitment events connecting employers with graduating students.
- Analyzed occupational, educational and economic data to optimize job placement activities.
- Designed recruitment tools and assessment methods aligned with client and business requirements.
- Synthesized current business intelligence data to produce reports and polished presentations, highlighting findings, and recommending changes.
- Implemented process improvements to automate office operations.
Education
MBA - HR
CDAC – Advanced Computing Course
B.Tech - Computer Science
Class 12th - Mathematics
Skills
Assessment: Thomas Profiling / PPA
AI-driven assessment centers
Talent management
Candidate sourcing
Collective bargaining agreements
Salary and benefits negotiations
Global recruitment
Social media recruiting
Contract negotiation
Applicant tracking systems
Compensation analysis
Facilitating auditions
Portfolio review
Recruitment
Candidate tracking
Fee collection
Accomplishments
- Best Performance – Talent Sourcing & Retention, Jan 2026 and Apr 2026.
- Certified in Data Visualization & Analytics (Power BI), Jun 2025.
- Naukri Maestro Recruiter Certification, Feb 2024; Naukri AI REX Advanced Tools Expert, Jun 2026.
- Highest Joining in Paytm History in a Single Month, Jul 2023.
- Created a Paytm hiring milestone with 7,000+ hires completed in Sep 2023.
- Certified PPA Practitioner by Thomas Profiling.
- 5/5 appraisal rating and 3 consecutive promotions at Paytm (2020–2023).
- Three consecutive appreciation letters from Paytm MD during 2020–2023.
- Excellence Performance Award – Quess Corp (2018).
- Best Platoon Award – Amazon Delivery Hiring (2017).
Timeline
Talent Acquisition Manager
Cadila Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (CPL)
07.2025 - Current
Talent Acquisition Manager
Jagsonpal Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (JPL)
01.2024 - 07.2025
Talent Acquisition Specialist
One97 Communications Ltd. (Paytm)
10.2019 - 12.2023
Senior HR Executive
Quess Corp Ltd. (IKYA Human Capital Solutions Ltd.)
06.2015 - 10.2019
Suresh Gyan Vihar University
MBA from HR
Ahmedabad Institute
CDAC – Advanced Computing Course
Rajasthan Technical University
B.Tech from Computer Science
RBSE
Class 12th from Mathematics