Mayank Kumar

With close to a decade of experience in recruiting and armed with a PGDM degree from a premier institute, a goal-oriented professional adept at guiding hiring managers, leading teams, and implementing comprehensive sourcing and hiring strategies. The career journey reflects a commitment to excellence in talent acquisition, where I have honed skills in coaching hiring managers, orchestrating effective team management, and devising meticulous hiring plans. My expertise lies in translating organizational objectives into actionable recruitment initiatives, ensuring the acquisition of top talent to drive business success.

Apprentice Hiring Project
KGS India — May 2024 - September 2024

• Managed the apprentice hiring program, advising on risk-adjusted approaches and ensuring compliance with government training requirements.
• Successfully registered candidates on government portals and coordinated compensation and benefits strategies with senior leadership.
• Worked with business leaders by advising on their “Resource intake” and developed individual “Training Manual” for Govt submission.
• Registration on NATS portal, liaising with Finance/procurement for documents like P/L account, company registration and building governance around systematic upload of documents, hiring and performance reports to the apprentice portal.
• Visited local colleges, explained the program to students on tenure, comp, interview process etc and hired them in July, 24. Managed the candidate registration on Govt portal ensuring we have their candidate ID mapped to Koch entity before rolling out offers.

Project Lion
KGS — May 2024 - August 2024

• Developed and executed a differential hiring strategy to transition 70 finance roles from Katowice to Bengaluru.
• Worked with EU stakeholders on setting right expectations towards language need and timeframe to fill these roles
• Achieved 90% role fulfillment through internal movements and lateral hires within 2 months.

Quantum Hiring
KGS — Jan 2023 - Jun 2023

• Led the hiring of 300 finance candidates, achieving 80% completion within 6 months, well ahead of the project timeline.
• Had onboarded consulting org to help with initial sourcing. Hiring was for Inv Pr and OTC part of finance business. Used lateral hiring learnings for candidate engagement, process enhancement to achieve faster results.

Service Desk Transition
KGS — Aug 2020 - Jan 2021

• Led the hiring of 400 service desk and IT swarm candidates, building a 24/7 support capability that enhanced global operations.

Georgia Pacific - Building Products Capability
KGS — Nov 2021 - Feb 2022

• Overcame challenges related to inflated hiring costs and ATS transitions, optimizing recruitment processes for niche skills like IoT and SAP modules.
• Build the entire GP team of “Building Products and Packaging” team in India. Overall hired 300+ resources (all Tech) within a short timeframe.