Janakiraman S

1.Lateral Training and Upskilling 2. Resource Management Group (RMG) 3. Talent Acquisition (TA) Operations

Focus on capability building, reducing bench time, and skill gap analysis.

• Curriculum Design & Deployment: Orchestrated the end-to-end delivery of lateral training programs for mid-to-senior level professionals, ensuring alignment with emerging technology stacks (e.g., Cloud, AI/ML).
• Skill Gap Mitigation: Partnered with Business Unit heads to identify critical skill gaps, reducing external hiring costs by 10% through internal cross-skilling initiatives.
• Training ROI Tracking: Managed post-training assessments and certification tracking, achieving a 15% average improvement in billability within 30 days of program completion.

Focus on: Utilization, bench management, and internal fulfillment.

• Bench Optimization: Monitored and managed the "Bench" lifecycle, successfully deploying 81associates to billable projects, maintaining an overall utilization rate.
• Demand-Supply Forecasting: Analyzed quarterly business demands to predict resource requirements, reducing the "Time-to-Fill" for internal roles.
• Conflict Resolution: Acted as a bridge between project managers and talent pools to resolve resource contention, ensuring high-priority projects remained on schedule.

Focus on: Process efficiency, data integrity, and stakeholder management.

• Process Engineering: Streamlined the "Lead-to-Offer" workflow by implementing automated tracking tools, resulting in a 10% increase in recruiter productivity.
• Vendor & Stakeholder Management: Managed relationships with external staffing agencies and job boards, optimizing the recruitment budget, and improving candidate quality.
• Data-Driven Insights: Generated weekly TA dashboards for leadership, providing visibility into hiring funnels, offer acceptance rates, and cost-per-hire metrics.

• Handling end to end management of Learning & Development of Freshers and Laterals across CIS Unit
• Fresher Training
• Establishment of CIS Academy @ Campus business model
• Instrumental in establishing Training academy & ‘Innovative model' in Coimbatore & Bangalore
• Establishment of Faculty rotation model & Induction of CIS Academy alumni as Faculty/Mentor
• Plan, strategize, hire, train, staff, & track
• Instrumental in reducing Billing holiday from 12 months to 2 months through effective training model
• Handling bench people, connecting with delivery team and mapping the bench resources based on the project requirement and tracking them on daily basis assigning tasks to make them active, ensuring end to end commitment on the assignments.
• Freshers trained & deployed from 2019 - 2024 - 3500 associates
• Trained associates in various technologies like Windows, Linux, PowerShell, Python, Network, Virtualization & cloud.
• Product trainings – GIT & product life cycle, Java, Spring boot, Web Basics, Docker and Kubernetes, Kafka & followed by Simulation lab exercises.
• Lateral Trainings – SAID – SRE, Agile, Infra as code & Devops – Trained 3568 employees
• Azure AZ900 Program, Gen AI, AI ML.
• Trained Laterals in different technologies Automation – 5049 Trainings, Big bets (Cloud & Emerging technologies) – 10436, other trainings – 14891
• 2400 employees completed certifications in different domains
• On demand trainings, certifications, reskilling & upskilling
• Technical & Management certification; Budget compliance.
• Produced high-volume orders to effectively meet customer demand.
• Prepared timely and accurate financial reporting and analysis.
• Trained and mentored employees to maximize team performance.

• Tracking transformation project code cost and follow-up with team for queries
• Project tagging & tracking resources movement
• Recruitment SO creations and follow-ups & Interview scheduling
• Ensure document repository is updated with latest information
• Coordinate with Training team for deployment, plan and coordinate training, having track of fresher's training academy and new initiatives
• Worked with procurement team on procuring servers and its renewal
• Define and measure parameters for tracking the status of Transformation Program
• Tracking of project movement and making analysis based on business case
• Handled resources management on three projects (Transformation, SimLab & PPM)
• Ensuring project requirements delivered on time
• Streamlined operational processes through the implementation of cutting-edge technology and systems.
• Managed client portfolios, fostering strong relationships and ensuring high levels of satisfaction and retention.

• Collecting college wise data, preparing training schedule, course registration, content coverage, assessment (weekly wise), performance and monitor progress of the training
• Involvement with technical team for sessions/evaluation
• Coordinating with Tech Mahindra Program Managers, track Performance of Facilities
• Involved in support activities like Vendor management, HR management, Project code tagging, Legal team, financial team, Mentor management & Infrastructure management.

• Recruitment and payroll activities
• Trained 25-member management team on interviewing techniques and best practices, conducting workshops and one-on-one coaching sessions that contributed to sound hiring decisions
• Handling Payroll of around 800 employees
• Handle end to end payroll process.

• Played a key role in ensuring the successful launch of structured and implemented programs and policies in the areas of training, benefits packages, incentives and new-employee orientation
• Fostered a teamwork/open-door environment conducive to positive dialogue across the organization.