Ashwini Ramdas

· Identifying and building end to end recruiting capabilities to support ISC, China, ASEAN & EMEA business growth.

· Building out the recruiting COE in India to support cross-border hire plans.

· Defining advanced recruiting technology mechanisms to enhance customer experience.

· Playing a recruiting advisory role in firming up hire decisions, keeping in mind talent landscape, talent sentiment, cost and quality through talent mapping, passive outreach, and engagement.

· Category focused recruiting and sourcing strategies and best practices.

· Compensation and Benefits benchmarking, from identifying the comparator basket to determining the appropriate percentile positioning across functions and markets.

· In-sourcing and re-setting internal capabilities and teams, which involved shifting of core competencies across geographies, Product Technology, Manufacturing, Design.

· Managing and moving away from recruiting debt, legacy processes and policies into a move simpler and efficient model supporting close to 300,000 associates across the globe – which significantly impacted and influenced time to hire and quality of hire aside to other key matrices like attrition, internal engagement scores, internal progression.

· Heading the Talent Acquisition Team for JCPenney

· Responsible for driving org wide initiatives around Engagement, Retention, Branding, Learning and Total Rewards.

· Leading a team of 18 Recruiters and Sr Recruiters

· Strategized and developed recruitment priorities and KPI’s to result in efficiencies in Quality, Speed and Expiernce.

· Devised and executed best practices for Leadership Hiring, and creating a “Great Place to Work

· Eliminated third party recruiting fees resulting in substantial savings.

· Played a consultative role in strategizing and scoping of new teams within the company.

· Recruitment leads responsible for hiring within the CEO ‘s office. This involved leadership hiring across various verticals and working with the executive board.

· Leading the leadership-hiring piece for Tesco Bengaluru across functions.

· Transformation hiring.

· Developed and managed all recruiting activities for the company by implementing innovative company-wide recruiting strategies, processes, and procedures.

· Have been managing the Central Recruitment team which involves managing recruitment operations across Tesco Bengaluru:

· Vendor Management.

· Recruitment Subject Matter Expert: Leading full cycle of the recruitment process for mid and Senior Level roles for a leading FMCG company, covering both IT and Non-IT Requirements covering processes starting from understanding anticipated and active requirements, sourcing, screening, scheduling, offer generation, salary negotiation and longboarding.

· Craft job roles and key performance indicators, route through all talent acquisition channels and coordinate candidate sourcing.

· Involved in Procurement, Compliance and Governance processes, Vendor management and Compensation and Benefits.

· Networking through various cost-effective channels with an aim of building a healthy pipeline for anticipated requirements.

· Piloting Proactive Vs Reactive Recruitments and sharing best practices, which resulted 40% of closures with seamless turnaround time.

· Promoting Diversity: 60 % of closures are gender sensitive.