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Pradnya Pevekar

Talent Acquisition Manager
Mumbai

Summary

Strategic Talent Acquisition Leader with ~10 years of progressive experience in driving end-to-end hiring strategy, leading high-performing recruitment teams, and delivering middle and senior management talent solutions across IT, BFSI, and enterprise functions.

Currently spearheading leadership and strategic hiring at QualityKiosk Technologies, partnering closely with CXOs and business leaders to drive workforce planning, critical hiring mandates, and talent transformation initiatives. Strong expertise in stakeholder management, recruitment analytics, and process optimization, with a proven ability to enhance hiring outcomes through data-driven decision-making and cost-effective strategies.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Manager - Leadership , Strategic & Corporate

QualityKiosk Technologies Private
Mumbai
01.2025 - Current
  • Lead strategic hiring initiatives for middle and senior management roles across business verticals including IT, Insurance, PreSales, HR, and Corporate functions.
  • Partner closely with CXOs, business heads, and senior stakeholders to understand workforce plans and drive aligned hiring strategies.
  • Manage end-to-end leadership hiring, including market mapping, talent identification, stakeholder alignment, and offer closure.
  • Led campus hiring and early talent strategy, collaborating with top institutes, executing hiring drives, and building a pipeline of high-potential talent through structured assessment frameworks and internship programs.
  • Drive data-driven recruitment decisions, focusing on key metrics such as:Turnaround Time (TAT)
    Cost optimization (Budget vs CTC alignment)
    Offer conversion ratios
  • Optimize sourcing mix by increasing direct hiring channels and reducing dependency on vendors, improving cost efficiency.
  • Anchor discussions on compensation benchmarking and negotiation strategies for senior hires.
  • Support business growth by ensuring timely closure of critical roles impacting revenue and operations.
  • Strengthen hiring processes through structured tracking, dashboards, and stakeholder reporting frameworks.

Deputy Manager

Axis Mutual Fund
10.2022 - Current
  • Driving Talent Acquisition strategies to attract diverse candidates. Utilizing various recruitment channels viz job boards, social media & Networking.
  • Streamline and standardize recruitment (technical recruitment) process to comply industry best practices.
  • Guiding team of 2-3 talent partners (freshers & interns) & ensuring optimum results from them.
  • Improved team efficiency by streamlining processes & implementing innovative recruitment strategies.
  • Increased workforce diversity by executing targeted recruiting initiatives, fostering a more Inclusive Workplace culture.
  • Collaborated with cross functional teams to drive business growth and achieve corporate objectives.
  • Introducing new methods, practices, and systems to reduce turnaround time.
  • Partnering & Liasoning with the business stakeholders to understand the requirements & supporting in planning the manpower & strategies.
  • Exposure in hiring across all departments & functions & across all grades ( Fresher upto SVP 1).

Talent Acquisition Specialist

Mastek Ltd
01.2019 - 10.2022
  • Partners closely with business leaders (Stakeholders) to understand their business strategy and talent need.
  • Collaborating with line managers in evaluating existing / future talent requirements, defining critical roles, core competencies, and finalizing acquisition plans for sourcing potential talents.
  • Trusted advisor that BU's can reach to understanding talent availability and market intelligence.
  • Leverage deep recruiting expertise in implementing a strategy that can attract top talent with required skillsets to support the organizations business and growth objectives.
  • Manage and inspire a talent acquisition unit to deliver outstanding results while effectively maintaining SLAs like cost per hire, cost of hire, source mix, offer to join ratio for the BU, talent experience.
  • Experience in hiring talent for large & critical accounts in IT sector.
  • Driving talent acquisition and job placement strategies to attract diverse candidates.
  • Strong experience in IT/ Technology hiring.
  • Currently handling team of 3 members.

Recruitment Executive

Wonderbiz Technologies
05.2018 - 11.2018
  • Communicate, persuade, and influence candidates to make the right decisions.
  • Conducts screening & setting interviews with leadership.
  • Interviewing & assessment tools.
  • Behavioral interview techniques, competency assessments, talent review data, etc.
  • Technical Recruitment/ IT Recruitment.
  • Tracked candidates and pushed for feedback on disqualifications, time-to-fill statistics and other variables.
  • Hired employees and initiated new hire paperwork process.
  • Tracked key dates and deadlines and maintained specific personnel lists.
  • Maintains & manages relationships w/ all candidates & finalist to cultivate their interest in the role & organization.

HR Executive

HCapital Business Consulting
07.2017 - 04.2018
  • Experience working as a complete life cycle recruiter right from advertising, filtering resumes, job posting, and pre-screening, background/reference checks, calling prospects and closing the requirement.
  • My prime responsibilities include sourcing, interviewing and hiring of professionals for multiple projects and assignments in the BFSI industry.
  • Database creation and maintenance Cold Calling.
  • Ability to deliver the right candidate at the right time for the right kind of a rate.
  • Use Job boards like Naukri, Monster, LinkedIn.

Recruitment Consultant

Eva HR Solutions
06.2016 - 06.2017
  • Hired employees and initiated new hire paperwork process.
  • Verified applicant references and employment details.
  • Promptly corresponded with applicants and coordinated and conducted interviews.
  • Developed lists of qualified candidates for corporate hiring managers.

Education

Master Of Business Administration - Human Resources Development

Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS)
Mumbai
06.2023

B.Com - Accounting

Mumbai University
Mumbai
04.2013

Skills

  • Recruitment Strategies

Stakeholder Management, Collaboration & Engagement

  • Negotiation & Compensation Management
  • Applicant Tracking Systems
  • Strategic Hiring & Workforce Planning
  • Stakeholder & Business Partnering

Interests

Driving diversity & inclusion hiring initiatives

Timeline

Manager - Leadership , Strategic & Corporate

QualityKiosk Technologies Private
01.2025 - Current

Deputy Manager

Axis Mutual Fund
10.2022 - Current

Talent Acquisition Specialist

Mastek Ltd
01.2019 - 10.2022

Recruitment Executive

Wonderbiz Technologies
05.2018 - 11.2018

HR Executive

HCapital Business Consulting
07.2017 - 04.2018

Recruitment Consultant

Eva HR Solutions
06.2016 - 06.2017

B.Com - Accounting

Mumbai University

Master Of Business Administration - Human Resources Development

Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS)
Pradnya PevekarTalent Acquisition Manager