Gaurav Mehrotra
Talent Acquisition Professional
Mumbai
Summary
Highly motivated, multi-faceted, creative recruitment research professional with over 12 years of experience in Human Capital Research & Talent Acquisition environments. Bringing new and diverse approaches to information sharing and networking.
A Talent Acquisition professional with in-depth experience developing talent acquisition strategies and introducing excellence to corporate recruiting programs. Results oriented leader with strong analytical skills who gets to the core of practical problems and delivers creative solutions and strategies.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Vice President - Leadership Hiring
Morgan Stanley
Mumbai
02.2022 - Current
- Managing the leadership hiring across ED & MD levels across all lines of Businesses.
- Creating a Market Intelligence/Insights report which entails information for Talent, Business functions, diversity ratio across competitors.
- Liaising with stakeholders on multiple initiatives.
- Established performance goals for department and provided methods for reaching milestones.
- Hired and managed employees to maximize productivity while training staff on best practices and protocols.
- Positively represent Morgan Stanley employment brand in the talent marketplace.
Recruitment Partner - Leadership Hiring
Morgan Stanley ( On payroll Of Flexability now AMS)
Mumbai
10.2019 - 02.2022
- As a member of the Talent Acquisition Leadership Team, play a pivotal role in developing a stronger, more innovative recruiting strategy and approach
- Drive a strong and efficient sourcing and assessment methodology and end to end process rigor that results in the best talent fitment.
- Create a diversity sourcing strategy for the designated business groups, this includes building strong regular interactions with diverse pool of candidates on their career aspirations.
- Positively represent Morgan Stanley employment brand in the talent marketplace
- Liaising with Senior Stakeholders on multiple recruiting strategies for leadership hiring process.
- Efficiently executed ad-hoc projects
- Monitor, analyse and communicate external business and talent market intelligence and trends and share the intel with leaders for optimal business and talent decisions
- Day to Day management of recruitment related queries; dealing with external and internal candidates, agencies, and referrals.
- Creating Leadership hiring weekly progress Dashboards for Senior Management leaders.
- Assisted with writing job postings and job descriptions for boards.
- Pre-screened resumes prior to sending to corporate hiring managers for consideration.
Research Director
Callan Research
Mumbai
05.2011 - 09.2019
- Lead, manage and co-ordinate the Global Research team to ensure client mandates are delivered on time, in-full and accurately to exceed clients expectations and to provide them with a sensational Callan Brand experience.
- Make sure all aspects of the Research Operations function happen, maintaining systems and processes, focusing on Client Relationship Management, Product Quality and delivery, Research Team Management and development and employing ICT systems effectively.
- Worked on multiple human capital research projects across IT, Telecom, BFSI, Legal, Media, EPC sectors.
- Established Internal Research Function for name generation and candidate pre-qualification on all assignment
- Led a team of 35 research consultants and interns as well as ongoing relationships management with external research consultants.
- Successfully met all goals including database accuracy improvement, new market intelligence and quality metrics of candidates presented and hired.
- Retained by diverse clients ranging from start – ups to fortune 500 companies to identify & recruit highly specialized senior executives ranging from Director to CEO.
- Conduct due diligence on marketplace, including target companies specified by client and parallel industries where appropriate talent may be found.
Online Account Manager - Candidate Services
JOBSINDUBAI.COM
Mumbai
07.2009 - 04.2011
- Interacting with Candidates over an email and Phone to create awareness about the Gulf market regarding the recruitment opportunities.
- Convincing them to register to the online portal and experience the services offering of our portal.
- Train the new employees to come up the learning curve on the product and services offered by JID.
Sr. Customer Care Officer
Convergys
New Delhi
01.2007 - 06.2009
- Interacting with the consumers in the UK market using Orange Mobile and WAP services.
- Working alongside the Team Leader to train and develop the new team member to understand the products offered by Orange service providers
Education
Foundation Course - Accounts
ICSI
Kanpur 04.2001 -
Bacherlor's of Commerce - Commerce
Christ Church College
Kanpur 04.2001 - 04.2004
Skills
Project Strategy
Additional Information
KEY CLIENTS – Callan Research KEY PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN
Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance:
- Regional and branch head Talent Mapping across 5 competitors in the Life insurance vertical (pan India)
- Heading an outsourced team of 3 researchers for the project.
- Executed a successful salary benchmarking project in the life insurance space for 5 competitors with a salary bracket of INR 4-12 lacs CTC.
- Worked closely with the CHRO of the LI business
Bajaj Allianz General Insurance
Fosun (Chinese PE Firm)
- Talent mapping of professional in the General Insurance space across 12 competitors (pan India) across all the support functions.
- Lead a team of 5 outsourced researchers for delivering the project by guiding them the methodology and creating a process and Gantt chart to deliver the project as per the clients SLA.
AIG
- Competition analysis project completed on behalf of Fosun, whilst studying a global MNC Bank identifying their Partners Selection mechanism, carried interest, co-investment mechanism, Overall Compensation philosophy.
- Talent mapping across 14 completions globally from CEO to 5 levels down with a focus on creating a succession planning long list.
- Detailed mapping across the department, Scope, and key intelligence of global heads including their Compensation, Experience summary, Background history etc.
- Lead a team of 10 research consultants and managers.
Reliance Jio
- Whilst Reliance Jio 4g was aiming to enter the market, my team was instrumental in setting up their top two layers of their Technology function. We were retained for hiring the top talent across their SON (Self optimizing networks), IDC (Integrated data centers), Regional CTO, JCP (Jio Complex program) and the entire sub set functions.
• Whilst heading the project, I was working on an implant model. I was based at Reliance Jio head office in Navi Mumbai liaisoning with the Business Heads, HR Heads and the CHRO on their day-to-day requirements
Timeline
Vice President - Leadership Hiring
Morgan Stanley
02.2022 - Current
Recruitment Partner - Leadership Hiring
Morgan Stanley ( On payroll Of Flexability now AMS)
10.2019 - 02.2022
Research Director
Callan Research
05.2011 - 09.2019
Online Account Manager - Candidate Services
JOBSINDUBAI.COM
07.2009 - 04.2011
Sr. Customer Care Officer
Convergys
01.2007 - 06.2009
Foundation Course - Accounts
ICSI
04.2001 -
Bacherlor's of Commerce - Commerce
Christ Church College
04.2001 - 04.2004
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