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Rashmi Poojari

Mumbai

Summary

A seasoned Talent Acquisition Professional with close to 17 years of working experience in Big Four, IT product and IT service organizations, BFSI, proven expertise in technology hiring, non-tech hiring, and leadership hiring, and drafting hiring strategies. IT & Big4 Hiring: Hands-on experience in building a success story of an organization and its expansion from 20 to over 300 employees; strategized and executed a rapid talent acquisition plan for DevOps and the engineering organization. Led a recruitment practice for a fast-growing business. Was successful in planning and implementing a recruitment strategy, with the timely introduction of hiring solutions and interventions to achieve business goals. Solid experience in managing a large portfolio and stakeholders across locations. Act as a talent advisor by helping them with the data sets, market intel regarding the talent pool, skill availability, etc. End-to-End Recruitment: Strong work experience in recruiting lateral (entry to top management) roles and implementing a highly compliant and strategic hiring process for across-level hiring pan India, and developing various sourcing strategies, including referral, career board posting, and building a healthy network on social media and an internal database. Team Management: Responsible for building a team, coaching and mentoring the team, ensuring the team adopts the best recruiting practices. Managed multi-Location team. Setting up Recruitment Practice: Solid experience in setting up recruitment process & team from scratch: designing and implementing hiring processes, plan & develop strategies to achieve hiring goals.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work History

Manager (Talent Acquisition)

Deloitte India
08.2022 - Current
  • Currently leading recruitment for Corporate vertical of Deloitte, with a delivery of 400+ joiners in a FY.
  • Work closely with business leaders to formulate and execute talent acquisition strategy for the year.
  • Develop the Talent Acquisition framework by defining the talent acquisition policy and process, followed by training the entire Talent Acquisition Team and Hiring Managers for the same.
  • Develop sourcing strategy to enhance talent acquisition capability, improve efficiency, and rationalize recruitment cost.
  • Partner closely with the stakeholders to understand the future business manpower demands & work towards staffing them proactively.
  • Analyze the performance of recruitment sources, the cost per hire, time to hire and recommend changes and improvements.
  • Managing a team of 3 recruiters & 2 enabler. Create a scoreboard for recruiters to develop their plan of action / improvements.

Manager- HR

BNP Paribas
06.2022 - 08.2022

Manager- HR

National Securities Depository Limited
08.2018 - 06.2022
  • Lead the Recruitment for NSDL Group organization for NSDL, NDML & NSDL Payments Bank.
  • Responsible for handling Leadership role and Senior Management hiring for the NSDL, NDML & NSDL Payments Bank.
  • Contributed significantly towards NSDL Payments Bank in setting up the overall hiring considering it was a start-up.
  • Leading the team of 5 Associates and driving end to end recruitment within the specified TAT for all level of hiring.
  • Review the recruitment process and implement the timely changes.
  • Publish weekly and monthly MIS and Dashboard.
  • Accountable in handling internal & external HR Recruitment audit.
  • Lead Performance Management Activity for all the three organization for NSDL Group.
  • Introduced Rating system for NSDL Payments Bank and setup the PLI Bonus and promotion criteria.
  • Initiated HR Automation for Recruitment and it is in process.

HR Business Partner (Mumbai)

Cognizant Technology Solutions
05.2017 - 08.2018
  • End-to-end employee life cycle support including HR processes, Grievance & query handling, Driving of processes like appraisal, Promotion, Salary Revision and Incentive Cycle, Talent Management, HR Assimilation Program for new lateral entrants, Induction program for fresher’s and Data Management.
  • Partnering business leaders and understand the nature of business to proactively work on engagement model; acts as a single point of contact for the employees and managers.
  • Grievance & Query Resolution: - Ensure to have floor walk on daily basis and handle the grievance and concerns on real time basis.
  • Compliance Adherence: - As HR Business Partner, responsible to drive 100% compliance on the floor in respect to Work timings, Data leakage, Privacy policy, etc.
  • Misconduct & Disciplinary Cases:- Responsible to handle all MDP cases and decide on the consequence as per the policy.
  • Employee engagement activities: - Drive engagement activities like one on one connect, group connect, Skip level connect, Fun Friday, conducting Informative sessions, conducting Townhall, yearly event for respective account, etc.
  • Attrition Management: - Responsible to handle the attrition for respective account. Create attrition reports (monthly) for the respective Account, Execute Employee Satisfaction Surveys (Business Effectiveness Surveys), Support people managers to formulate and implement individual action plans, design action plan at SBU level, Review results and cross-deploy wherever applicable.
  • Performance Management: - Handle end to end Year-End Rating activities like Goal setting, Goal check-in, Normalization Curve and the final communication.
  • Drive and Implement Cognizant Career Architecture for the respective account.
  • Lead or facilitate various communication forums such as HR connect sessions, Town hall, skip level meetings meet as per schedule.
  • Plan and execute an effective communication program from top to bottom to ensure effectiveness of people processes implementation.
  • Ensuring 100% Individual Learning Plan Completion of employees within the BU.
  • Implementation of HR Process and Practices within the BU.
  • Driving People Management Framework for Entry Level Managers: 90-degree feedback from their direct reports on people management competencies.
  • Publish Monthly Dashboard for respective account highlighting Hiring trend, Headcount analysis, attrition analysis and early warning system analysis.

Executive HR- Recruitment

Cognizant Technology Solutions
12.2013 - 05.2017
  • Accountable to handle Recruitment for IT Vertical. The prime responsibility is to act as a Business Partner to understand the Resourcing requirement and to fulfill timely demand for different Accounts.
  • Liaise with the Hiring Managers for the Resourcing understanding and driving the entire recruitment process from Demand understanding, sourcing allocation, Compliance Check, Refining and negotiating on the JD, HR discussion, Offer negotiation, BGV/onboarding documentation and follow-up until candidate join.
  • Review the position requirements/job description, the candidate profile and salary/level benchmarks.
  • Develop a recruiting strategy (where and how to find the right talent).
  • Coordinate with the sourcing team and relevant sources for suitable Profiles.
  • Engaging with Business for requirements. Closing all positions as per the plan quarter to Quarter with the right souring mix using job portals, vendors, employee reference.
  • Adherence to the turnaround time for getting the candidates onboard.
  • Ensure closure of offers, salary negotiations of the candidates selected.
  • Monitor the Manpower budgets, ensure that the recruitment costs are within the prescribed budgets.
  • Handling 150-200 openings on an average per month(3years- 14 years’ experience range).

Staffing Specialist

IBM India Private Limited
07.2012 - 12.2013
  • Understanding the Requirements of different business units of IT Sales & Distribution(S&D).
  • Sourcing from various Job Portals viz. Naukri, Monster etc and through Social Networking sites.
  • Screening of resumes and short listing of candidates as per requirements.
  • Conducting the initial screening round over the phone.
  • Evaluating the requirements of the Business units / groups and strategizing on the hiring front.
  • Handling MIS and status reports for the entire process of recruitments.
  • Co-ordination for Walk-ins and scheduling interviews of selected candidates.

Recruitment (IT & Non-IT hiring)

Convate consultancy Private Limited
01.2011 - 06.2012
  • Sourcing, identifying, screening and recruiting passive high caliber executive talent for IT and Non-IT.
  • Prescreen candidates with detailed phone screen; evaluate candidates’ compatibility with specific job requirements, ensuring a right fit prior to submission to client.
  • Getting updates about the candidates from the client and follow up on regular basis.
  • Coordinating for interview and follow up for the documents for shortlisted candidates.
  • Post offer follow-up with the offered candidates and checking on their joining dates and ensure the candidates join the organization.
  • Follow up with the candidates after accepting the offer till the time candidate join the organization.
  • Mentoring and training new joiners.

HR Business Partner

AEGON Religare Life Insurance Co Ltd
06.2008 - 11.2010
  • End-to-end Recruitment for ARLI corporate & branch offices.
  • Understanding the Requirements of different business units and driving the fulfillment accordingly.
  • Partner with respective business leaders and understand the nature of business to proactively work on engagement model.
  • Proactive Retention strategies analyze the attrition trend and work on the solutions.
  • To drive Talent Management activities – Engagement, retention, Connect, Employee Satisfaction Survey, R&R, Metrics and Dashboard, Goal Setting Specific to respective Account.
  • Lead or facilitate various communication forums such as HR connect sessions, Town hall, skip meetings meet as per schedule.

Education

PDGHRM -

Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies
Mumbai
12.2018

Bachelor of Management Studies - Management

Mumbai University
Mumbai
12.2008

Certified Talent Acquisition Professional -

AON Hewitt

Skills

  • Talent acquisition
  • Recruitment strategy
  • Data analysis
  • Performance management
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Process improvement

Accomplishments

Deloitte India

  • Live the Dot award – Jan 2024.
  • Move The Dot award- June 2023.

Cognizant Technology Solutions

  • Spotlight Award- 2018
  • Certificate of Appreciation- 2017
  • The Icon Gem Award – 2016
  • The Icon Team Award- 2015
  • Spot Award for efficiently handling the ramp up project for one of major account
  • Awarded- Rising Star Award- Q4
  • Best Enabling function award- 2014

CONVATE CONSULTANCY SERVICES PVT LTD:-

  • Handling Amazon Client independently within 6months of joining
  • Employee of the month-2nd Runner Up-August 2011
  • Longest Joiner Award August 2011
  • Longest Joiner Award July 2011
  • Highest Billing award for Dec 2011
  • Shortest Joiner award April 2012

AEGON RELIGARE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY LTD:-

  • Joined as on Off-roll employee in June 2008 with ARLI and was absorbed on the rolls of the Company on September 09.
  • Certificate of Appreciation for achieving 89% of the recruitment target in August 2010
  • Won LG Refrigerator in the contest “HR Premier League” in Aug 2010
  • Appreciation mail from Head-talent as the one of the best recruiter within team to ramp up the employee strength of East Zone-ARLI from 100 to 300 within three months of span (east zone had seven branches)

Timeline

Manager (Talent Acquisition)

Deloitte India
08.2022 - Current

Manager- HR

BNP Paribas
06.2022 - 08.2022

Manager- HR

National Securities Depository Limited
08.2018 - 06.2022

HR Business Partner (Mumbai)

Cognizant Technology Solutions
05.2017 - 08.2018

Executive HR- Recruitment

Cognizant Technology Solutions
12.2013 - 05.2017

Staffing Specialist

IBM India Private Limited
07.2012 - 12.2013

Recruitment (IT & Non-IT hiring)

Convate consultancy Private Limited
01.2011 - 06.2012

HR Business Partner

AEGON Religare Life Insurance Co Ltd
06.2008 - 11.2010

PDGHRM -

Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies

Bachelor of Management Studies - Management

Mumbai University

Certified Talent Acquisition Professional -

AON Hewitt

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