Ninad Khatri

Nuance was acquired by Microsoft.

• Currently working as Manager, Talent Acquisition & responsible hiring talent for Microsoft ANZ & ASEAN region
• Responsible for end to end hiring for Microsoft Australia, Singapore & India
• Responsible for Engineering, IT, Data Center & Sales hiring
• Managing team of Talent Acquisition Specialists & Talent Sourcer who transitioned from Nuance to Microsoft
• Played a major role in transitioning Nuance requisitions to Microsoft during and post-acquisition & was part of Nuance core leadership team.

• Responsible for Technical & Sales hiring for APAC (India, Australia, New Zealand, Japan & Korea) and EMEA (Germany, UK, France, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Sweden & Austria) regions
• Managing a team of 8 members (4 TA partners & 4 TA sourcers), responsible for their Performance Management
• Built sourcing strategic team from scratch to support Global TA Partners (APAC, EMEA & North America) for niche, senior & challenging roles
• Source active & passive candidates, using innovative recruiting strategies & advance sourcing techniques to identify qualified and diverse range of talent (D&I) for job requisitions through local job portals, Linked in Recruiter tool, Seekout, candidate database, professional networks, employee referrals, websites, sales & marketing events, client database/portals etc
• Identify opportunities to create pipelines of candidates to meet short- and long-term needs
• Identify market trends and make recommendations in order to attract top talent
• Experience working in COE environment & partnering with cross functional teams like TA Operations, People Operations, PBP’s (Core HR), Finance and C&B
• Hands-on experience hiring for senior leadership roles within APAC & EMEA Regions
• Single point of contact for TA Audit for APAC region
• ATS – iCIMS & Workday.

• Leading Recruitment for Software R&D, Pune & APAC Sales (India, ANZ, Singapore, Japan, China, Korea & Malaysia)
• Recruited over 70% of the engineers within EXFO with a focus of on boarding the best available resources at the time
• Leverage out-of-the-box thinking & explore creative avenues to improve recruitment processes and attract promising talent
• Identify opportunities to create pipelines of candidates to meet short- and long-term needs
• Identify trends and make recommendations on actions in order to attract top talent
• Responsible for requirement gathering on a monthly basis in coordination with BU Heads
• Understanding the business requirements - by having periodic meetings with the Senior Management & finalizing the monthly Recruitment Priority positions with Managing Director/Country Head
• Actively involved in sourcing and screening resumes of professionals through recruiting tools like Naukri, Monster, Times job for India and Linked in Recruiter tool, Monster, Jobs ahead, seek & local job portals for other countries in APAC
• Independently responsible for critical, niche & senior leadership hiring
• Coordinating Recruitment Drives / Events
• Actively involved in managing vendors
• Preparing Job Offers as per legal requirement and involved in salary negotiations with candidates for APAC countries
• Supported Core HR on joining formalities, on-boarding new joiners, policies & procedures, Employee Retention, Employee Data, Exit Interviews and HR Audit.

• Hired all IT & Non-IT Skills across all levels (Junior, Mid-Level & Senior)
• Actively involved in screening resumes of professionals through Internet recruiting tools like Naukri and Monster as well as through Candidates referrals
• Client Handling
• Salary Negotiations with the candidates
• Coordinating Walk in Drives / Events
• Independently responsible for critical and senior leadership hiring needs for positions like VP, AVP, Project Managers and Delivery Managers
• Acted as a single point of contact for IT clients such as J P Morgan, Honeywell, Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Scotland, Saba Software & Saama Technologies.

• Hired all IT & Non-IT Skills across all levels (Junior, Mid-Level & Senior)
• CV/Resume searching from Job-portals such as Naukri, Monster India, Times job & Jobs ahead
• Client Handling
• Coordinating Walk in Drives / Events
• Conducting reference check
• Handholding a team of 4 members
• Maintaining and updating the daily, weekly, monthly recruitment status report.