Shipra Shresth

Leading the recruitment function for Flipkart India and lateral hiring for non-tech roles.

BU Manage: Category Hiring, M3 Hiring, Corporate Hiring, and B2B Hiring.

Lateral Hiring: Spearheaded the recruitment strategy and successfully hired 90 lateral hires for Category, Marketing, Legal, Commercial, Treasury, and ethics & compliance from Tier 1 & 2 institutes, meeting diversity matrix.

Talent Market Mapping: Created comprehensive talent maps and market intelligence for Commercial, Sales, and Marketing job families, reducing 'Time to Fill' by 36% and improving sourcing efficiency.

Diversity & Inclusion: Drove initiatives that increased the gender diversity mix from 24% to 41% and managed two dedicated recruiters focused on sourcing diverse talent.

Data-Driven Recruitment: Developed interactive recruitment dashboards for Weekly Business Reviews, Demand Planning.

Notable projects:

• Set up 3-4 drives at one go to fulfill the position in TAT.
• Focus on diversity hiring and able to increased the gender diversity mix from 20 to 50% in Flipkart B2B Business
• Developed 8+ comprehensive talent mapping with respect to skills and industry for targeted hiring.

Current Responsibilities:

Managed Flipkart RPO from 2018-2022 and from Jan 2024 to July 2024.

RPO Model:

- Manage the entire Recruiting cycle in compliance with the requirements of the client and maintain healthy relationships.

- Worked for Non-IT Hiring for Flipkart & Phonepe (Across Vertical ) and SAAS Base companies ie ( Interface.ai, Devtron , ATOA Payment , Refyne ) deputed from CareerNet.

- Collaborating with the internal TA team and hiring managers to understand the hiring needs and devise a plan of action.

- Working closely with the Leadership Team to understand their business.

- Guiding and driving the back-end recruitment team to source appropriate profiles and create pipelines in a given period of time.

- Planning and managing successful interview drives to close critical roles across levels.

Providing market intelligence reports, as required by the business managers.

- Involved in salary negotiation with offered candidates and assisting HR in joining formalities.

- Owning the P&L. Responsible for sourcing candidates for their entire Non-IT domain.

Coordinating with the interview panels, salary negotiations, and onboarding the candidates.

Sourcing & Screening
Working on Executive Leadership Talent Needs (Senior Management / CXO Level) for reputed clients across various Industry Verticals.
Worked for different industry verticals: Telecom (Vendors/Infrastructure/Operators), Retail , across networking, financial, sales & marketing, technical, non-telecom, techno functional requirements.
Strongly involve in the process of recruitment such as: posting jobs, sourcing and screening candidates, negotiating for compensation, performing ref. checks of the offered candidates and other related functions
Work as an individual contributor to source relevant profiles for senior/middle level positions through head hunting, job portal and social networking sites
Manage and mentor team members to help progress in their careers
Professional Recruitment software HIRECRAFT & Taleo

1. Entire Recruitment end-end life cycle process (End to end Recruitment).
2. Candidate searching through job Portal/ networking / reference
3. Maintaining Employees and Applicant records/track sheet/submission details.
4. Coordinating in joining formalities.