Arunima Sinha
Gurgaon
Summary
Dynamic L&D and Onboarding leader with 15+ years of experience in driving impactful learning strategies, developing future-ready leaders, optimizing processes, and creating seamless onboarding experiences across top organizations, supported by a proven track record in stakeholder management, vendor partnerships, and people development initiatives.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Head L&D and Onboarding
Times Internet
Gurgaon
11.2014 - Current
- Set up the TA Operations team from ground zero, from hiring the team to setting up processes such as re-hire, relocation and APL-outs for new joiners without any HRIMS
- Launched flagship First Time Manager learning journey in 2024 with a consistent feedback score of > 4.0 out of 5
- Championed “Learn Teach Lead” i.e. Subject Matter Experts from Business focused on identifying, training and launching internal trainers, thus saving on L&D assigned budgets
- Experienced in tailoring training needs to suit the business requirements and not falling into the mindset of “one size fits all”
- Developed a keen eye for processes in L& and onboarding that needed improvement and went at simplifying them to adapt to an agile way of working for all
- Led the successful implementation of Learning Management System (LMS) in Sep'18 and Learning Experience Platform (LXP) in Aug'21, managing a significant change management process during the migration
- Led the end-to-end process of launching e-learning within the organization, which included meticulous evaluation of e-learning providers.
- Utilized innovative digital tools and learning management systems for designing and delivering training modules in a digitized environment.
- Led various initiatives under Diversity and Inclusion over the years.
- The 'Safe Place to Work for Women' project in 2019, where Times Internet was certified as one of the top 10 safe places for women to work in India.
- Launched induction for new joiners on the Metaverse in 2024, giving every new joiner a seamless and consistent experience across locations.
- Brought up the average candidate activation time from 56% in April 2024 to 98% as of December 2024.
- Streamlined the BGV process to reduce the average TAT from 65 to 30 days.
- I increased person-hours for my onboarding team by reviewing the end-to-end onboarding process and eliminating manual intervention while not compromising on stakeholder and new joiner experience.
- Reduced exceptions in joining processes from over 50% in April 2024 to less than 10% as of December 2024.
Staffing Consultant
Microsoft India Pvt Ltd
Gurgaon
02.2011 - 06.2014
Account Manager
Optum Health
Gurgaon
10.2006 - 02.2011
Frontline Recruiter
IBM Daksh (now Concentrix)
Gurgaon
02.2003 - 10.2006
Telesales Executive
Heroites
Gurgaon
11.2001 - 02.2003
Education
Bachelor of Arts - English Hons
Delhi University
Delhi05-2001
Skills
- Multitasking
- Training & Development
- Verbal communication
- People Manager Development
- Stakeholder engagement & management
- Team development
- Process improvement
- New joiner experience
Certification
- Designing Your Life- QAI, Nov 2024
- Proficiency Certificate- Design Thinking Training Program and the Design Thinking Capability Assessment- Qglue, Jan 2024
- Certified Instructional Design Practitioners’ Course- KPMG, Dec 2023
- Certifiied Knowledge Consultant- CB5 Psychometric Assessment- CB5-Chatur Big Five Personality Assessment, Sep 2023
- GA Level 5 Certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL)- i-to-i TEFL, Nov 2021
- Certified Human Resource Professional- AON Hewitt, Oct 2018
- Certified L&D Professional- AON Hewitt, March 2019
Languages
English
First Language
Hindi
Proficient (C2)
C2
Bengali
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2
Timeline
Head L&D and Onboarding
Times Internet
11.2014 - Current
Staffing Consultant
Microsoft India Pvt Ltd
02.2011 - 06.2014
Account Manager
Optum Health
10.2006 - 02.2011
Frontline Recruiter
IBM Daksh (now Concentrix)
02.2003 - 10.2006
Telesales Executive
Heroites
11.2001 - 02.2003
Bachelor of Arts - English Hons
Delhi University
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