Sai Praneeth B

• Consultant to Business on employer branding, HR technology, Talent Acquisition, HRMS
• Currently managing a team of 11 and reporting directly to CHRO of the organization
• Developed talent acquisition strategies and hiring plans
• Established consistent language and methodology for talent discussions, development, and succession.
• Promoted increased focus on internal talent mobility and emerging talent across organization.
• Introduced Competency-based Interviews across levels from free-style unstructured interviews and competency-based interview feedback capturing sheets
• Reduced Vendor usage below 10% from 27% by strengthening hiring techniques and effective tools usage
• Served as key advisor to the senior managers and decision makers regarding organizational effectiveness and performance improvement, leveraging innate understanding of key business drivers
• Promoted a learning culture within the company and ensured an integrated and holistic approach to Manpower Planning, Talent Management, and Employee Benefits that is delivered through innovative and blended learning solutions.

Stint 1- Early Careers Campus Strategy and Planning

• Designing, managing campus hiring strategy to attract and recruit top talent from tier 1institutes
• Building strategy decks and pitching various proposals to senior leadership
• Designed b-school case study competition as part of employer branding initiative
• Developing and Implementing post offer engagement programs as part of employee branding initiative
• Strategic partnership with institute leadership and senior management to ensure effectiveness in the process
• Analyzed emerging trends and industry best practices to generate new insights in campus hiring
• Transformed the Campus Hiring Process of the Organization
• Have been instrumental in successfully implementing a Campus Hiring Assessment

Stint 2- HR Digitization

• Partnered with tech team to build in-house ATS to improve efficiency and reduce manual efforts
• Implemented 12 forms of automated communications throughout the recruitment stage to improvise candidate
• Assisted in revamping career page to increase applications and engage applicants
• Aided in creating resource dashboard platform from Google sheets

Stint 3- Talent Acquisition

• Conducted extensive research to identify key gaps in recruitment process
• Responsible for hiring senior management positions across various verticals
• Designing recruitment process, working closely with Hiring managers Conducting HR discussions and salary negotiations with candidates with an objective of having right EVP and preserving the pay parity and trying to meet candidate expectations
• Validated results and performed quality assurance to assess accuracy of data
• Recommended process improvements to continually identify, analyze and fix constraints and challenges

• Assessment of data quality and completeness in preparation for analysis
• Integration of different processes and centralizing it using a common solution with SAP as medium
• Understanding business flow of the client and helping the client by providing technical support
• Worked with SAP automation team to enable RPA using Blue Prism
• Re- engineered in business process automation to reduce man hours in repetitive tasks
• Designed training sessions for fellow employees on automated operations
• Assisted Employee Engagement Team in Annual talent programs
• Worked closely with global customers spanning to troubleshoot software problems.