Pavan Kumar Koduru
Summary
A Seasoned HR professional with 15+ years of experience in Talent acquisition with Internet, Global enterprise software, and FinTech Organizations. A Strategic Talent Acquisition Leader and a proactive Hiring partner for Engineering leadership roles, experienced in Leadership, Lateral, Early, Diversity hiring across Business and Geography at all Levels.
My goal is to collaborate with and ultimately lead the "All in Due Course" function within a dynamic and forward-thinking global organization. I aim to contribute to its growth and success while advancing my career in a fast-paced environment.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition
Bluevoir Inc
04.2023 - Current
- Heading Talent acquisition function as a TA business partner
- Developing and implementing strategic hiring plans in alignment with the company's goals.
- Working with CEO and Delivery head to fulfill the hiring needs
- Instrumental in building TA and HR policies for the organization
- Building Pega practice teams to serve fortune 500 MNCs
- Leading a team of 2-3 recruiters
- Weekly review with CEO and COO on the progress and strategy to deliver hiring on time
- Driving Talent branding exercise in various social media platforms.
- Lead initiatives to strengthen the diversity of talent joining our teams across the organization.
- Optimize metrics and data to drive staffing decisions in all areas of an organization. Track and plan around recruiting metrics (prospecting, interviews, hires, time to fill, Source Mix, Costing, etc.)
- Coaching and developing a team of recruiters and providing them with training and guidance as necessary to achieve excellence in best practices and performance.
- Manage and resolve escalations, meet recruitment and revenue deadlines, and be responsible for overall delivery.
Senior Principal Recruiter
Clear (ClearTax)
06.2022 - 03.2023
- Leading leadership hiring for Engineering team across the board
- Defining sourcing strategy for niche roles and leadership hiring
- Partnering with human resources COEs to ensure cohesive and effective processes and partnerships are in place to meet hiring requirements
- Participating in strategic meetings and provide talent insights and talent landscape for the stakeholders
- Identify and deliver key hiring strategy for engineering function
- Instrumental in driving the TA dashboards on (Source-mix, TAT, joining ratio, Recruiters performance, hiring cost) and publish it for Executive team (CEO, Co-founders, CXO, CHRO)
- Leading a team of 2-3 recruiters
- Weekly review with CTO, CPO and leadership team on the progress and strategy to deliver hiring on time
- Ability to source resumes through digital channels, social media hiring, and job portals
- Driving Talent branding exercise in various social media platforms
- Key member to implement new ATS (MyNextHire) system for recruiting process
- Successfully hired Staff engineer, Associate Director, Product Engineer, Director Product & Design roles.
Associate Vice President, Talent Acquisition
OakNorth India Pvt Ltd
05.2021 - 06.2022
- Heading the Talent acquisition function for OakNorth Enterprise and managing a group of professionals and recruiters to drive hiring across our fastest growing regions
- Demonstrate & delivered in setting up OakNorth R&D team (Hyderabad)
- Meeting Headcount demands of the Business teams across levels and scaling up from scratch
- Spearheading recruitment strategy, continuously identifying Talent and Managing Strategic long - short plans in sync with the BU heads to Consistently meet the hiring needs
- Strategically designing & monitoring the sourcing mix, framing comprehensive search & selection strategies for Niche, Lateral hiring needs
- Refining innovative ideas & tools to ensure scaling up the standard recruiting processes
- Regular team calibration, training, Market mapping, Social Hiring intervention to continuously improve the team performance and ensuring team KPI's are met are in line to achieve business goals
- Preparing BU presentation and reports on weekly, monthly & Quarterly basis to track MOM trends in Hiring progress
- POC for all the recruitment queries and escalations related to hiring and managing adhoc Hiring Projects across BU's
- Design & implement hiring plans and Talent attraction across ISB's, IITs, IIMs, CA's & increasing Brand Visibility via Hiring events & corporate events regionally.
Senior Manager - Talent Acquisition
Kony India Pvt Ltd
03.2015 - 04.2021
- Executive hiring partner for Kony and managing the recruitment process for the line of business - product management and Product Engineering teams
- Managed Talent acquisition strategy - Identifying the requirements, allocating, Strategic Sourcing, screening, scheduling, Interviewing and coordinating with Business to get the best suitable candidates on board
- Conducted Hackathons to hire good talent from Tier1 engineering Institutes
- Monitoring TA metrics: ROI, O/J ratio, Cost per hire, time to fill, Cost Avoidance and Pipeline creation
- Regularly interface with Business and competitive landscape within financial services & managing escalations
- Market mapping through primary research to recommend on compensation fitments and available talent pool for the critical roles to the business
- Hands on experience in recruitment automation tool launches & migrations (Jobvite, GreenHouse, Cornerstone)
- Pro-actively track the efficiency of the process internally/externally by Calibrating and continuous learning process
- Tracking recruitment Analytics & Presenting Hiring reports to the Head on a weekly/monthly/Quarterly basis
- Employer branding initiative -Glassdoor, Face book, twitter and LinkedIn updates
- Managed a team of 6 recruiters.
Lead Consultant
CareerNet Technologies
04.2012 - 03.2015
- Getting requirements from internal customers and stakeholders i.e., the Hiring Managers & Recruiters
- Expertise in sourcing for Networking, E-Commerce, Telecom domains
- Successfully Hired SDE's/SDM's/TPM's/Business Analysts
- Updated the managers with the hiring progress and status
- Managed a team of 3 recruiters
- Presented daily/weekly/monthly/quarterly reports to Hiring Managers & Recruiters.
Senior Recruiter
Pega Systems India Pvt Ltd
02.2011 - 03.2012
- Understanding and preparing the JD with Hiring manager
- Prepared the sourcing strategy for number of open positions
- Applied 'out of the box' sourcing techniques, active & passive sourcing (professional networks, social media networks), attending technical seminars, creating talent pool for targeted skills, employee referrals & using job portals (Naukri, Monster etc) for attracting the best talent in market
- Presented the quality profiles to Hiring Managers after pre-screening the profiles
- Scheduling Telephonic /in-person interviews for short-listed candidates
- Handled requirements by coordinating with USA and UK teams as in when required
- Conducted HR rounds (behavioral interviewing, salary negotiations, collecting pay slips and all other required documents, taking references) sending the feedback to HM.
Consultant
CareerNet Technologies
05.2008 - 02.2011
- Handled the requirements of R&D Unit (Networking, Telecom & Embedded)
- Initial sourcing of the CVs from portals, referrals, HirePro AMS (internal portal), networking etc
- Interview scheduling and coordination
- Scheduling Telephonic /in-person interviews for short-listed candidates.
Education
Master's in Business Administration - Human Resource & Marketing
Indian Institute of Planning And Management
Bangalore, India04-2008
Bachelor's in computer science & Electronics -
Osmania University
Hyderabad, India06-2005
Skills
- Strategic Talent Acquisition
- Leadership/Executive Hiring
- DEI (Diversity, Equity & Inclusion)
- Innovation, Automation, Process Building and Improvement
- Vendor Management
- Stakeholder Relationship
- Problem Solving
- Employer Branding
- Metrics & Reporting
- Team Management
Certification
- Certified in Hiring, Selection and onboarding from University of Minnesota.
- Certified in Building your leadership skills from HEC, Paris
Personal Information
Date of Birth: 05/01/85
Technologieshired
- C, C++, Data Structures, Algorithms, Java, J2EE Technologies, Python, PEGA, KONY, Microservices, Machine Learning, Data Scientist, Cloud Security, UI (JavaScript, AngularJS, ReactJS, NodeJS, HTML, CSS), UI/UX, Mobility (Android, IOS), Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), Jenkins, Maven, Docker, Kubernetes, Automation (Selenium, Cucumber), Networking (SDN, Network Protocols), Telecom (VOIP, SIP), Embedded Technologies (Set-Top Box, Device Drivers, Bluetooth), CRM (SFDC), Microsoft Technologies, Database Administrator, IT Security and Compliance
Affiliations
- CEO Award: For teamwork and collaboration in Q2 FY19
- GEM Manager Award: For providing hiring strategy, business acumen in Q2 FY18
- Closed Key Leadership positions in Cloud and Machine Learning
Languages
English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Hindi
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Interests
- Networking
- News and Trends
- Podcasts and Webinars
- Health and Wellness
Timeline
Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition
Bluevoir Inc
04.2023 - Current
Senior Principal Recruiter
Clear (ClearTax)
06.2022 - 03.2023
Associate Vice President, Talent Acquisition
OakNorth India Pvt Ltd
05.2021 - 06.2022
Senior Manager - Talent Acquisition
Kony India Pvt Ltd
03.2015 - 04.2021
Lead Consultant
CareerNet Technologies
04.2012 - 03.2015
Senior Recruiter
Pega Systems India Pvt Ltd
02.2011 - 03.2012
Consultant
CareerNet Technologies
05.2008 - 02.2011
Master's in Business Administration - Human Resource & Marketing
Indian Institute of Planning And Management
Bachelor's in computer science & Electronics -
Osmania University
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