Saurabh Gupta
Talent Acquisition Manager
Noida,UP
Summary
Diligent and dedicated Deputy Manager with 11+ years of experience in the industry. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Dynamic and determined with exceptional leadership qualities. Excellent working knowledge with requirement gathering, client handling and maintain client and vendor relationships. Proven record of achieving and exceeding established performance goals, along with demonstrated knowledge of team building and mentoring capabilities. An expert level of knowledge in all full Lifecycle recruiting components including, but not limited to, sourcing, qualifying, networking, assessing, job analysis, wage and salary trends, relationship & stakeholder management, and TAT management. Extensive experience with bulk hiring and recruitment drive with fulltime and contract requirement.
Special projects undertaken - Enhanced Referral Programs, Employer branding, Diversity Inclusion , Candidate experience
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Deputy Manager
Paytm Payments Bank
09.2021 - Current
- Identified and created recruitment and administrative performance metrics and data to analyze trends, drive change and assess progress
- Implemented AI-driven sourcing approach to enhance the efficiency of the recruitment process
- Revamped the employer branding, Diversity inclusion, referral policy and introduced the employee referral program to ensure a better offer-to-join ratio and lowering the overall recruitment cost per hire
- Leveraged employee referrals (30%), direct sourcing & job posting (60%), IJP applications (10%) to source candidates for positions
- Maintaining hiring SOP and compliance as per company policy under RBI guidelines
- Developed communication and marketing plan and leveraged talent acquisition tools, resources and campaigns to source and attract top talent
- SPOC for 10+ stakeholder for their 150+ requirement across all level
- Maintaining the MIS Reports and act as channel of communication across all level of management
- Handling multiple verticals like Money transfer, KYC, UPI, Wallet, Middleware, DBA, Data Science, Bank Application, DWH, CBS, Devops, Tech System Management, Common Tech, IT and Cyber Security, Finance etc
- Strong experience with vendor onboarding, vendor management, stakeholder management
- Manage and evaluate recruitment methodologies, strategies to ensure effective sourcing, interviews / evaluation, selection of resources and timely hires
- Leading a team of 5 recruiter to manage Leadership and lateral hiring throughout all the verticals on various technology and stacks like - Backend, Frontend, Developers/Tech Leads/Engineering Managers/AVP/VP/Director - Java, Node.JS/react.js, Big Data Engineers/Data Scientist, Program Manager, Mobile Developer (iOS & Android), DevOps, DBA etc
- Ensuring closure of all positions with minimum TAT.
Lead, Talent Acquisition
Paymentus Financial Services(Paxcom)
07.2019 - 09.2021
- Responsible for leading a team of 4 recruiters and Involved in hands-on end-to-end recruitment across all level positions on Tech/Non tech
- Identified and created recruitment and administrative performance metrics and data to analyze trends, drive change and assess progress
- Manage job assignment on a day-to-day basis, monitoring performance on job and Support hiring and training of new and existing associates
- Acted as brand ambassador to educate candidates on culture, career growth, benefits and advantages of working for company
- Sourced, Screened & Conducted pre-screening interviews of prospective candidates for the vacancy
- Create Pipeline for the repetitive jobs, to be ready for any Unforeseen Exigencies
- Vendor Management-handling multiple vendors and recruitment Process Outsourcing for fulltime and contract basis requirement
- Develop and implement cost effective sourcing, including the use of online, internal, direct, referrals, and agency sources
- Provide timely data report to the business and other stakeholder on Weekly and monthly basis
- Formulated and executed Campus recruitment drives in major cities with career centers and universities
- Responsible for creating and fostering relationships with diverse professional organizations to attract and recruit best talent
- Mapping the market to understand, which companies are working on that niche skill & accordingly generating reports.
Manager, Talent Acquisition
Diverselynx India Pvt Ltd.
06.2015 - 06.2019
- Manage full recruitment life cycle process for experienced and fresher's hiring
- Relationship Management with stakeholders, Vendors, TPOs and Prospective Employees
- Manage experienced/Fresher's hire interview process including: sourcing and screening resumes, selecting candidates for interview, conducting interview, selection and onboarding
- Plan, conduct and participate in post-offer pursuit activities (e.g., communications, office visits, answering questions)
- Hiring through Job Portals, LinkedIn, Social media, Vendors & Campus-Screening, Shortlisting & Coordinating with Stakeholders
- Recruitment of all levels of candidates (Developers, Tech Leads, Project Leads, and Project Managers) and Corporate level hiring (Sr
- Manager-TA, AVP- HRD, GMOperations, and Manager-Presales).
IT Technical Recruiter
Dezire TechSoft, Delhi
06.2012 - 06.2015
- Worked with multiple clients like Barclays Capitals, GE Health Care, GSK Pharmaceuticals, and Johnson & Johnson
- Working on Job boards like Naukri, Timesjob, Monster, on-line database, Job Diva, LinkedIn candidate referrals, internet and networking to identify potential candidates
- Expertise Recruitment working on Web Developers, Software Developers/Analysts, Java developer Database Developers/Administrators/Analysts/Architects, Network Administrators/Engineers, QA Testers/QA Analyst/QA Engineer, and Program/Project Managers and Administrative positions etc.
Education
BTech. In ET -
MGM Coet Noida
01.2012
12th in Science -
VBDM
01.2007
10th in Science -
CMS
01.2005
Skills
- Process and Procedure Development
- Team Leadership
- Stakeholder Management
- Volume/Bulk Hiring
- Vendor Management
- Leadership Hiring
- Performance Management
- Employer Branding
- Workload Management
- ATS Management
- Data Management
- Artificial Intelligence
Accomplishments
- Successfully completed a LinkedIn training program for LinkedIn Recruiter
- Certified Hirist Tech Recruiter
- Received "Good Captain" award for the quarter Oct 2019-Dec2019
- Twice received "Top Performer of the year" award for Jan 2017-Dec 2017, Jan 2018-Dec 2018
- Received "Rising Star" award of 2015-2016
Languages
Hindi
First Language
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
Technical Skills
Job Boards: Naukri, Times jobs, IIM Jobs, Cutshort, Monster, instahyre, Indeed
Artificial Intelligence: Chatgpt
ATS: Lever, Jobvite, Job diva, Zoho , Freshteam
OS: Windows 2000/XP/7/8/10
VMS: Field glass, GBAM, GRS
Social Media Platform: Facebook, GitHub, Stack Overflow, X-ray search
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Deputy Manager
Paytm Payments Bank
09.2021 - Current
Lead, Talent Acquisition
Paymentus Financial Services(Paxcom)
07.2019 - 09.2021
Manager, Talent Acquisition
Diverselynx India Pvt Ltd.
06.2015 - 06.2019
IT Technical Recruiter
Dezire TechSoft, Delhi
06.2012 - 06.2015
BTech. In ET -
MGM Coet Noida
12th in Science -
VBDM
10th in Science -
CMS
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