Divya Bhat
Bangalore
Summary
Dynamic talent acquisition leader with a proven track record specializing in Talent Acquisition Strategies and Sales. Expert in recruitment analytics and stakeholder management, I drive innovative strategies that enhance candidate experience and exceed hiring benchmarks, ensuring alignment with business objectives and fostering a high-performance culture. Experienced Global Director with a remarkable history of success over a distinguished career. Adept at developing and optimizing programs in with a concerted effort to accelerate results. Seeking a fast-paced position with a progressive group offering the chance to make a lasting impact.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
Work History
Global Director - Talent Acquisition and Strategy
Career Drivers
10.2024 - Current
- Driving the full spectrum of Sales, recruiting and selection activities
- Creating and implementing talent acquisition strategies for leadership, mid-career and graduate hiring
- Designing and driving the adoption of consistent recruiting, interviewing and hiring practices that support a strong candidate experience
- Partnering with leaders within the organization to track the ongoing hiring needs of their business
- Managing end-to-end recruitment for senior roles
- Identifying and partnering with external providers as required to ensure hiring needs are met
- Defining and driving the team to meet and exceed hiring benchmarks relating to time to fill, cost per hire, diversity hiring, and hiring manager and candidate satisfaction
- Defining and leading projects focused on continuous improvement
- Staying up-to-date with industry trends, best practices, and emerging recruitment technologies, incorporating innovative approaches into our talent acquisition efforts.
Director of Leadership Hiring
THC Consulting & Advisory Services
Bangalore
07.2019 - 09.2024
- Lead and mentor the executive recruitment team, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture
- Drive recruiter optimization behaviors - simplify work, drive impactful social media behavior, sourcing tactics, tool optimization, and ensure talent advisor skills
- Work with business leaders, recruitment marketing, and recruiters to enhance and grow our talent brand across the external talent marketplace
- Provide consultant-level talent advisory services to leaders for talent acquisition excellence
- Regularly interact with senior level executives and other key stakeholders, exerting substantial influence over the business to obtain timely and accurate hiring plans
- Drive a data-driven recruiting organization by developing recruiting metrics and analytics that provide insights, drive decision making and measure team productivity and program ROI
- Develop and execute best-in-class practices for end-to-end candidate experience inclusive of sourcing, screening, interviewing, assessment, and selection of top talent
- Anticipate and strategize for unexpected turns in hiring levels - ensure on-time ramp and de-ramp implementation to achieve critical business deliverables
- Develop and execute comprehensive recruitment strategies to attract and retain top executive talent
- Collaborate with and provide guidance and insights to the HR Solutions Team, Talent Management, Compensation, other HR COEs, and the business to ensure end-to-end talent strategies are best in class
- Support overall Talent Acquisition cost control which may include difficult decision making about recruiter and sourcer talent
Head of Talent Acquisition
Sattva Consulting
Bangalore
01.2018 - 06.2019
- Develop and implement comprehensive executive search and talent acquisition strategies.
- Partner with senior business leaders to analyze business requirements and develop people strategies that drive business results.
- Provide insights to influence senior management's behavior, mindset, and people decisions for sustainable business growth.
- Translate business strategy into sector-specific HR initiatives supporting growth, and business transformation.
- Assure strategic alignment and successful collaboration with critical internal stakeholder groups in the matrix organization and externally.
- Act as the main customer contact to business leaders and managers regarding HR solutions to make their business successful
- Ensure workforce planning, talent acquisition, succession planning, and leadership development initiatives are aligned with the company's talent strategy.
- Foster robust pipeline talent development and succession planning for business-critical positions, with a focus on diversity and inclusion.
- Collaborate with Learning & Development to create training programs that foster continuous learning.
General Manager Concepts
Randstad India
09.2015 - 01.2018
Associate General Manager Concepts
Randstad India
08.2013 - 05.2015
- Drive the 30-60-90 day concept induction plan for all new joinees
- Identify training needs - Conducting development (functional/ behavioral/technical) workshops, On the job mentoring & Coaching
- Improve the operational systems, processes and policies in support of organizations mission specifically, support better management reporting, information flow and management, business process and organizational planning.
Business Manager - Executive Search
Randstad India
02.2011 - 09.2013
- Responsible for the P & L of the Executive search division
- Develop new business and Partner with them to get a clear view on their strategic and financial objectives and hiring needs along with existing client management
- Devise and carry out a targeted research strategy
- Assess candidates to ensure qualification match, cultural fit and compatibility
- Network and build long-lasting client relationships
Manager Talent Acquisition
Adecco India
Bangalore
09.2007 - 07.2008
- Drive adoption and continuous improvement of global recruitment processes and ensure their execution is in line with global requirements, with a strong focus on harmonization of global policies and processes.
- Build and strengthen the talent acquisition funnel and ensure continuous tracking through various reports and dashboards.
- Enhance and own candidate experience for the interview process. Build a mechanism to capture candidate feedback in a timely manner.
- Ensure market benchmarks and internal bands are taken care of while offering a candidate and prioritize the hiring funnel basis business requirements.
- Ensure culture fit across all final candidates. Ensure all candidates undergo culture fit assessments before being offered.
- Strategize to improve the shortlist ratio, acceptance to joining ratio, adherence to process timelines and optimization of talent acquisition budget.
- Create and lead strategic projects such as talent branding, recruitment software implementation, campus placements, expansion to new geographies, industry mapping, data analytics etc.
- Be responsible for all the technical, functional, and behavioral training required for performance and career development of the entire talent acquisition team and own the same with the Talent Development function.
Regional HR Manager
Titan Industries Ltd
Bangalore
01.2004 - 08.2007
Customer Engagement Manager
Titan Industries Ltd
Bangalore
11.2002 - 12.2003
- Develop and implement TA strategies and initiatives aligned with the overall business strategy
- Develop and monitor overall HR strategies, systems, tactics and procedures across the organization
- Assess training needs to apply and monitor training programs
- Build and promote strong, long-lasting customer relationships by partnering with them and understanding their needs
- Foster positive relationships with the customers as their primary point of contact
- Work with sales teams to generate new business and identify upselling and cross-selling various products/services.
Education
B.Com -
University of Bangalore
CBSE -
Carmel Convent
Skills
- Talent acquisition strategy
- Executive recruitment
- Recruitment analytics
- Market research
- Diversity hiring
- Stakeholder management
- Business development
- Customer engagement
- Talent Acquisition Strategy
- Talent acquisition strategies
Timeline
Global Director - Talent Acquisition and Strategy
Career Drivers
10.2024 - Current
Director of Leadership Hiring
THC Consulting & Advisory Services
07.2019 - 09.2024
Head of Talent Acquisition
Sattva Consulting
01.2018 - 06.2019
General Manager Concepts
Randstad India
09.2015 - 01.2018
Associate General Manager Concepts
Randstad India
08.2013 - 05.2015
Business Manager - Executive Search
Randstad India
02.2011 - 09.2013
Manager Talent Acquisition
Adecco India
09.2007 - 07.2008
Regional HR Manager
Titan Industries Ltd
01.2004 - 08.2007
Customer Engagement Manager
Titan Industries Ltd
11.2002 - 12.2003
B.Com -
University of Bangalore
CBSE -
Carmel Convent
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