PRIYA MEHTA

• Strategic Hiring Alignment: Partnered with senior leadership to translate hiring goals into data-driven recruiting strategies aligned with headcount and business objectives.
• Recruitment Strategy & Delivery (EMEA): Designed and executed tailored recruiting strategies to attract top-tier talent across technical, business support, and senior-level roles within product and technology teams across EMEA.
• Talent Sourcing & Pipeline Management: Built and maintained high-quality talent pipelines using diverse sourcing channels, including job boards, LinkedIn, networking events, employee referrals, and curated talent pools.
• End-to-End Recruitment Management: Managed the full recruitment lifecycle from screening through offer, ensuring strong alignment between candidate qualifications, technical requirements, and organizational values.
• Offer Management & Negotiation: Led offer negotiation and closing, ensuring competitiveness, alignment with candidate expectations, and compliance with internal compensation frameworks and approval processes.
• Compliance & Governance: Ensured full compliance with local employment laws, GDPR, and internal recruitment policies across all EMEA hiring activities.
• Recruitment Optimization & Analytics: Improved hiring outcomes by leveraging recruitment metrics, market insights, and candidate feedback to enhance quality of hire, reduce time-to-fill, and increase process efficiency.

Highlights:

Supported hiring across 10+ EMEA countries, ensuring GDPR compliance and adherence to local employment laws.
Navigated cross-border hiring challenges, including local labor laws and works councils.
Delivered 60+ hires annually across EMEA, including Ireland, while maintaining a 90% offer acceptance rate.
Delivered 100% of priority hires in Q1, including 8 hard-to-fill technical roles across EMEA.

• Cross-functional Stakeholder Management: Partnering with senior leaders across EMEA and APAC to align hiring objectives, headcount planning, and recruitment initiatives.
• Employer Branding: Drove the highest standards of company values and brand by clearly communicating the appealing prospective to candidates, emphasizing the company’s commitment to inclusive team environment & career growth.
• Strategic Sourcing: Conducted targeted and innovative sourcing strategies to find the top, passive and diverse talent aligning with the clients’ values and lead DE&I. Accomplishments:
  Delivered 100% of quarterly hiring targets for product and technology teams.
  Achieved 90%+ offer acceptance rate through competitive offer positioning and candidate engagement.
  Filled urgent roles 20% faster than regional benchmarks.
  Increased referral hiring by 25% through targeted referral initiatives.

• Managed sourcing and onboarding of diverse pool of candidates across all levels for Technical & Product teams by sourcing though various channels like References (Internal /External), existing databank, consultancies, job portals, internal job postings and ensuring effective execution of the selection process.
• Lead projects on Diversity & Inclusion to increase representation and equal opportunity for candidates.
• Built strong relationships with various external vendors and cross-functional stakeholders to identify improvement areas, assess the impact on the business, and contribute to the enhancement of the process.

Highlights:

Achieved 150% women hires target.

Achieved 124% of the target in the 1st quarter.

Significant decrease in Agency usage, almost 90%.

• Develop Recruitment Strategies: Create and implement tailored recruitment strategies to attract top talent across various European markets, considering local labour laws, cultural differences, and market trends.
• Manage Cross-Border Recruitment Processes: Oversee the end-to-end recruitment process for multiple European countries i.e. Netherlands, Germany etc. ensuring a seamless experience for candidates and compliance with regional regulations and standards.
• Build and Maintain Talent Pipelines: Establish and nurture relationships with local universities, professional networks, and industry associations to build a robust talent pipeline that meets the specific needs of the European region.