Gautham Hebbar

- Engaged with CEOs, CHROs, and CXOs to craft forward-looking talent acquisition strategies aligned with long-term business goals.
- Designed and implemented customized hiring strategies for clients, ensuring alignment with their business goals.
- Designed and implemented bespoke hiring frameworks, aligning workforce
- Planning with organizational transformation and scalability needs.
- Delivered market intelligence to executive leadership on talent availability,
- compensation benchmarks, and competitive hiring trends across regions
- Advised companies on optimizing their recruitment processes, streamlining policies, and implementing best practices for talent acquisition.
- Provided expertise in setting up recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) solutions and enhancing social media presence for hiring campaigns.

• Headed Talent Acquisition for India handling 13 sites across the country.
• Contributed significantly to Talent Acquisition strategy and delivery across cross-cultures aligned to the organization's vision and goals.
• Successful capability buildup of IT and GBS Captive Centre in Bangalore.
• Drove employer branding initiatives and DEI hiring initiatives.
• Developed and implemented innovative recruiting strategies and managed end-to-end recruitment processes.
• Increased talent acquisition efficiency resulting in a 15% reduction in hiring time for key roles.
• Achieved a 30% increase in candidate acceptance rate by introducing a streamlined interview process by enhancing candidate experience.
• Developed recruitment processes, resulting in a 15% decrease in time-to-hire.
• Implemented a new referral program, increasing candidate quality by 30%.
• Oversaw a team of 28 recruiters, facilitating the successful placement of 1000 candidates per year.
• Worked with CHRO to secure future capabilities by identifying talent pipeline from across India & successors for critical role.

• Led the design, implementation, and delivery of effective TA strategy to support company growth.
• Improved hiring efficiency by 25% by creating framework for aligning hiring needs with workforce planning.
• Developed staffing plans and refined hiring forecasting capabilities.

• Increased R&D talent pool by 30% by leading Talent Acquisition at Dr Reddy's Laboratories.
• Responsible for end-to-end Talent Acquisition for GMO business supporting 6000 colleagues.

• Supported as Staffing Partner to six major Business functions improving employee referral programs.
• Collaborated closely with Local and Global HRBPs on identifying and strategizing hiring needs.

• Handled recruitment for a new research facility in collaboration with Bristol-Myers Squibb.
• Led hiring efforts to scale up R&D capabilities in Bengaluru.

• Managed complete life cycle of a search engagement while maintaining effective organizational skills.

• Supported manufacturing at PET units as a Trainee Chemical Engineer.