Hi, I’m
PUNEET KATHURIA
US Staffing Professional
Noida
Summary
A staffing professional with 14+ years of Client/Portfolio Management experience across MSP/VMS Models. Worked as a Portfolio Manager for various clients and handled the responsibilities of People Management/Workforce Management, Client Analysis, Client Engagements and Account Management. Responsibilities includes of daily recruitment production, Performance Management, Capacity Management, Client Engagements, MSP Engagements/Supplier Relationship Management. Worked with Various MSP’s: AgileOne, Pontoon Solutions, ZeroChaos, Calabria Group, TAPFIN, Manpower Group, Monument Consulting and Allegis. Experience working with various VMS systems: IQ Navigator, SAP Fieldglass, iTAP, Beeline, Bullhorn, Star System etc.
Overview
14
years of professional experience
6
years of post-secondary education
4
Certifications
3
Languages
Work History
Judge Group IndiaNoida
Senior Resource Manager
08.2020 - 09.2023
Job overview
- Currently working as a Portfolio Manager specifically managing clients within domains like Information Technology, Financial Services, Manufacturing, Bio-Pharma/Life Sciences, Supply Chain, Aerospace, Real Estate, Education and State/Federal Clients
- Working on Clients like: Boeing, John Deere, Options Clearing Corporation, E-Trade, BCBS of Illinois, Amgen, American Electric Power, JP Morgan Chase, DTCC, Toyota Financial Services, Northern Trust Bank, Discover Financials, Principal Financial Group, Fidelity Investments, Realogy, GoDaddy, Siemens Robotics, NetAPP, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, State of Florida, The Vanguard Group, University of Chicago, Northwestern University, Wesco, Seven Eleven, Samsung
- Leading a team of Recruiters, Recruitment Leads and Recruitment Managers in multiple locations across PAN India
- Day to Day responsibilities includes managing the daily productivity, reporting, business forecasting, working with stakeholders
- Participate in the Supplier calls
- Working with the MSP’s like: Workforce Logic, Magnit, ProUnlimited, AgileOne, Pontoon, Calabria Group, KellyOCG, Monument Consulting for daily/weekly discussions to understand the business propositions and managing the everyday activity
- Participate in the quarterly business reviews (QBR’s) from clients for the performance reviews and responsible to understand the Client Scorecards and Business spends
- Responsible for managing the assigned targets for the team and driving it forward
- Working closely with the executive teams to upscale the deliverables and capture market share.
MindlanceNoida
Sr. Account Manager
06.2018 - 08.2020
Job overview
- Worked as a Portfolio Manager for various Implementation partners like HCL America, Infosys, CGI, Cognizant, TCS, Accenture, Hexaware and a few more.
- Working on an online / offline business model with all customers to support all different verticals/horizontals to achieve success in different domains.
- Working with client POC’s, Hiring Managers and delivery managers to understand the business needs and forecasting towards the upcoming business opportunities.
- Involved in business calls majorly based on the critical projects. Also, majorly doing telephonic conversations with all the active client POC’s (Multiple calls in a day sometimes) to see the upcoming changes in the on-going priority requirements.
- Working closely with team to understand the challenges to support the open and critical demands of the customer and try and identify some more focused approach to supply correct resume as per the need.
- Take the prep calls with the candidates to make sure their commitment and engagement for the projects.
- Generating new leads from various customers to share Mindlance competency to support diversified model with various SI companies and try and fetch some exclusive business.
- Built mapping models around the skill based technology recruitment.
- Managing reports daily, weekly, monthly, and Quarterly (Sales Activities and Team Performance)
- Acting as a SPOC for Client Leadership (Procurement, Directors, VP’s, and Managers)
- Also, be an existing participant with the placed candidates to try and identify some open business and some opportunities to fulfill in their on-going assignments and develop offline business and direct hiring manager contacts.
- Working efficiently with our internal ATS (Job Diva) to maintain a track of all sales and delivery activities. Ensuring all the defined metrics are met appropriately.
- Review the market trends of various clients how the business is going to grow in the upcoming quarters and follow the roadmaps and be prepared for the opportunities by creating a talent pool.
Net2Source INCNoida
Business Unit Head
06.2017 - 05.2018
Job overview
- Responsible for managing a team of 15 members (12 Recruiters (Associates till Sr Recruiters + 3 Account Managers/Client Engagement Managers)
- Managing the complete Portfolio, Setting up targets (Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly and Annual Basis) for the entire team following KPI Model
- Managing the Portfolio of the customers (For All Line of Business/Practices)
- Responsible for the entire team performance management (Recruiters and Managers)
- Penetrating various accounts to generate more business opportunities
- Managed a team of 30 Fresher’s beside my core team to create a sourcing business model and later get them into active recruiting for FTE Business
- Working on the scorecard reviews of the assigned customer to ensure we (As an organization) are growing and achieving better numbers than our competitors
- Responsible for end-customer mapping for our SI client’s to have a deep understanding about the platform-based skills and technologies assigned to customer in a specific zone
- Representing our organization on supplier calls or the business reviews from the customer side.
Artech Information SystemsNoida
Service Delivery Specialist/Manager
05.2015 - 10.2016
Job overview
- Requirement Generation and Requirement Qualification was an everyday practice to kick off the day.
- Worked closely with client Point of Contacts to understand the critical needs and share the same with the teams.
- Working with end client mapping model with specific projects and assign priorities accordingly depending upon the need of the hour.
- Participating in the forecasting calls with the clients being a Platinum supplier to understand the upcoming business opportunities and planning with the recruitment teams.
- Taking full ownership of all offered candidates to get the paperwork completed and get them on-board, also helping the consultants if they had any doubt during the process.
- Weekly, monthly calls with all placed candidates to see if the position is going well and if there is an opportunity that we can generate an additional requirement offline.
- Target oriented approach
- Scheduling and participating in the client meetings to rate our performance as per the expectations of our customers.
- Penetrating my account and assigned LOB to generate new and exclusive business to the team.
- Client relationship building and maintain in a long run to achieve high amount of success and gain a trust with the respective client managers.
- Maintain complete data, reports and strictly following the compliance and documenting the information in our internal ATS (Job Diva).
US Tech SolutionsNoida
Team Lead - Recruitment
05.2014 - 05.2015
Job overview
- Working with clients on VMS/MSP Model
- Working on some major clients like Unisys, SC Johnson, PSEG, PNC Bank, Abbott Labs, AbbVie, Kimberly Clark and Boston Scientific
- Mentoring a team of 5 recruiters and helping them out with the whole recruitment process from understanding the requirements till the submission of best possible candidates as per client’s expectations
- Conducting second level call for the candidates before submitting to the client portals like: Fieldglass, IQ Navigator and Beeline
- Performing the interview co-ordination with the candidates as per the requested mode of interviews and conducting prep-calls for the candidates
- If selected, taking the ownership, and helping the candidate to complete the further process and helping in getting the paperwork completed for a smooth on-boarding
- Performing a client coordinator and work with the MSP’s role for some of the major accounts ex Unisys
ETeam INCNoida
Senior Technical Recruiter
05.2013 - 05.2014
Job overview
- Working with the direct client requirements on W2 and C2C (80% and 20% respectively)
- Reviewing the job descriptions and understanding before initiating the actual recruitment for the particular position
- Accordingly run a search string to look for the best possible candidates upon the requirements by means of JOB DIVA, DICE, CAREER BUILDER, MONSTER and LINKEDIN
- Do the screening of the candidates telephonically, discussing about all the possible important factors like discussing about the requirements, job location, and reason for leaving the current job, job employment type, salary/hourly compensation and most importantly if the person is interested in applying checking the interest level of the candidate
- Submit 2-3 qualified candidates with ongoing changing priorities of job requisitions while maintaining a sense of urgency for each
- Additional responsibilities shared in the later part of my tenure were to mentor a couple of recruiters and give them an understanding about the process, kind of requirements, sourcing model etc.
HMG AMERICA LLCAmritsar
Technical Recruiter/Lead Recruiter
11.2009 - 05.2013
Job overview
- Wrote and posted technical job descriptions
- Used Boolean searches to develop applicant portfolios for expected openings.
- Onboarded new hires and set up training.
- Interviewed candidates using different interview methods and approaches.
- Sourced and selected applicants for technical positions within company.
- Conducted phone interviews to assess applicants relevant knowledge, skills, experience and aptitudes.
- Developed and implemented strategies to identify and source technical talent for multiple industries.
- Built strong relationships with internal and external candidates to ensure an excellent hiring experience.
- Referred candidate resumes to customer account managers for evaluation and submission.
Education
Indian Institute of Management - NagpurNagpur
Executive MBA from Senior Management Program
08.2022 - 10.2023
Monad UniversityHapur, Uttar Pradesh
Bachelor’s In Commerce from Commerce
NIIT AmritsarAmritsar
Diploma from Software Engineering GNIIT
05.2009 - 06.2012
NIIT AmritsarAmritsar
Diploma from Networking And Hardware Engineering
08.2010 - 09.2012
Senior Study SchoolAmritsar, Punjab
High School from Commerce
Skills
Multitasking Abilities
Organization and Time Management
Organizational Development
Written Communication
Account management
Strategic account development
Strategic planning
New Business Development
Recruitment strategies
Applicant tracking systems proficient
Talent acquisition plans
Interviewing skills
Sales expertise
Creative problem solving
Key stakeholder relationship building
Analytical and Critical Thinking
Team Management
Decision-Making
Team Management
Budgeting and forecasting
Work flow planning
Risk analysis and management
Strategic partnerships
Sales presentations
Analytical problem solver
Active Listening
Self-Motivated
Teamwork and Collaboration
Critical Thinking
Training and Development
Performance improvement
Client account management
Operations management
Verbal and written communication
Project Management
Additional Information
- PERSONAL DETAIL:
- Father Name : Mr. Vinod Kathuria
- D.O.B : 10th August 1990
- Marital Status : Married
Certification
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
Accomplishments
- Won The Customer Hero Award for the year 2021 for displaying a customer centric approach by adhering to the company values.
- Nominated as the highest productivity Team Manager with Judge SLA Model.
- Won the spot award for over-achieving the targets and best debut in revenue circle on a non-empaneled client in 2018.
- Consecutively won the President Circle Service Delivery Specialist Award for 3 Quarters in 2015-2016
- Received appreciation for heading 44 resources team single handedly (Including Account Managers, Delivery Managers and Recruiters)
- Managed a portfolio of over $7M topline while working with Implementation Clients Portfolio in 2016.
- Won the Highest Margin Achiever award for the client Hewlett Packard in 2013
New Initiatives
Launched the Sourcing Model within Judge India Solutions for the Program known as “SourceCal” as the Head of the Program, responsibilities were as below:
- As soon as the fresher’s batch was inducted into the organization they are supposed to complete 1 Month of extensive training for the entire US Staffing process and about the organization’s compliances, metrics.
- Once completed the training, they were promoted to “SourceCal” program where I was working closely with all folks to make them understand what type of business we do and categorize them according to the expertise of the individuals.
- Getting the team to participate in how to look for relevant candidates and getting them mapped with various recruiters leads to active sourcing. Also conducting performance evaluation and getting them mapped in core teams as full-fledged recruiters experience of working across industries.
Timeline
Indian Institute of Management - Nagpur
Executive MBA from Senior Management Program
08.2022 - 10.2023
ITIL V4 Foundations
11-2021
Senior Resource Manager
Judge Group India
08.2020 - 09.2023
Sr. Account Manager
Mindlance
06.2018 - 08.2020
Business Unit Head
Net2Source INC
06.2017 - 05.2018
Service Delivery Specialist/Manager
Artech Information Systems
05.2015 - 10.2016
Team Lead - Recruitment
US Tech Solutions
05.2014 - 05.2015
Senior Technical Recruiter
ETeam INC
05.2013 - 05.2014
Microsoft Certified in Technology Servers
02-2012
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
02-2011
Microsoft Certified Professional in Windows Server
02-2011
NIIT Amritsar
Diploma from Networking And Hardware Engineering
08.2010 - 09.2012
Technical Recruiter/Lead Recruiter
HMG AMERICA LLC
11.2009 - 05.2013
NIIT Amritsar
Diploma from Software Engineering GNIIT
05.2009 - 06.2012
Monad University
Bachelor’s In Commerce from Commerce
Senior Study School
High School from Commerce