Sibasish Pattnaik

Reporting Structure:

• Reporting to: VP, Talent Acquisition, India
• Team Size: 10-12 (8 Lateral Recruiters, 2 Sourcers, 2 Recruitment Coordinators)

Key Responsibilities:

1. Recruitment Delivery:

• Leadership & Lateral Hiring for India & APAC across Technology & Product, Professional Services, and Sales business units.
• Delivered Leadership Hiring (60+ roles) and Lateral Hiring (600+ roles) annually, contributing to 20% faster project delivery timelines, enhanced team performance by onboarding high-caliber talent and aligning hiring outcomes with key business growth metrics by partnering with Business Leaders and Hiring Managers
• Leveraged data-driven talent insights for functional and cross-functional talent alignment, resulting in a 15% improvement in hiring efficiency and stronger alignment with strategic business goals in collaboration with HRBP, Headcount Managers, Total Rewards, and Employee Relations teams.
• Devised sourcing & screening strategies, conducted HR interviews, provided hiring recommendations, and coached the team on complex offer negotiations.
• Managed recruitment budgets, vendor relationships, manpower planning, and capacity management.
• Delivered quarterly/annual hiring goals and achieved diversity hiring targets (50% of annual hiring).

2. High-Impact Projects:

• Built exclusive talent pipelines for niche and leadership roles, enabling succession planning and addressing skill shortages.
• Introduced initiatives to reduce interview timelines (1.5 months to 20 days) and overall hiring time (120 days to 90 days).
• Standardized interviews and assessments (e.g., Hackathons, behavioral interviews, psychometric testing).
• Reduced offer dropouts from 18% to 7%, leading to faster project starts, improved candidate experience, and an estimated annual cost savings of $250,000 through reduced rework and hiring delays by conducting regular candidate engagement events.
• Managed Referral Campaigns and the Alumni Program (“Boomerang”).

3. Team Leadership:

• Managed, mentored, and inspired a high-performing team to meet SLAs and recruitment metrics, achieving an average time-to-fill of 60 days, a 20% improvement in recruiter productivity and a 95% candidate satisfaction rate.

4. Diversity Hiring:

• Championed diversity initiatives by launching programs such as “Trailblazing Women”, diversity referral campaigns, Return-to-Work programs, and panel diversity training, resulting in a 36% diverse hires(up from 28%) and 42% at Leadership roles(up from 31%)
• Drove advocacy, engagement, and structured diversity programs for women, veterans, and candidates with disabilities.

5. Employer Branding:

• Enhanced branding via LinkedIn through Leadership videos, thought leadership, events, employee testimonials, candidate connect sessions, and onboarding meet-and-greets.
• Implemented “Insiders Program" for candidate engagement.

6. Operational Excellence:

• Deployed AI tools (Eightfold, Workday, Beamery) to enhance recruiter productivity by 25% and improve talent pipeline quality, ensuring a 30% increase in high-caliber candidate placements. Using Eightfold we have 58% profile creation on our Internal Talent Market Place
• Reduced recruiter onboarding time from 3 months to 1 month using Knowledge Base and Highspot platforms.
• Initiated Unified Hiring Models, war-room sourcing sessions, and interviewer certification programs to streamline processes.

7. Analytics & Reporting:

• Built Tableau dashboards to monitor hiring metrics, achieving a 20% reduction in time-to-hire, a 15% improvement in cost-per-hire, and a 25% increase in diversity hiring rates by providing actionable insights to stakeholders..
• Conducted planning, forecasting, and NPS surveys, resulting in a 92% satisfaction score from hiring managers and enabling more accurate workforce planning with a 10% improvement in forecasting accuracy

Professional Achievements:

• Received the "Global Impact Award" for delivering transformative equality and diversity projects, including increasing diverse hires by 36%, implementing Return-to-Work programs, and launching the "Trailblazing Women" initiative, which significantly enhanced representation and inclusion at leadership levels and managing talent programs alongside recruitment delivery.

• Reporting to: Talent Acquisition Leader(Capability Network), Team Handling: 9 members ( 3 recruiters, 4 sourcers and 2 scheduling POC), managing 350+ open demands annually with support from team and 85-90 leadership positions individually
• Roles and Responsibilities: Hiring Lead for the biggest practice within capability network: Talent & Organization: 40% into Recruitment Delivery and stakeholder management , 30% into team handling, 30% into Organization level high impact projects

• Reporting to: AVP Talent Acquisition Team Handled: 5 member(3 recruiters, 1 sourcer and 1 recruitment coordinator
• Roles and Responsibilities: 80% into Talent Acquisition: both Tech and non-tech hiring, Managed overall demand of 750+ positions annually for Deloitte USI Audit & Advisory practices and 20% into employer branding and firm initiative projects
• Professional Achievements: Appreciated by US and India Leadership for successfully implementing LinkedIn Recruitment Campaign and received 'Applause Award', Received 'Spot Award' for the organizing 'VISTA'(Vision Talent Acquisition) event

• Reporting to: CHRO (Apollo Hospitals) Team handled: 5 members (3 recruiters, 2 HR executives)
• Roles and Responsibilities: Developing and Executing Talent Acquisition Strategy and Managing key stakeholders, Managed Leadership and Lateral hiring for various business units of Apollo Hospitals, Apollo Pharmacy, Apollo Tele Health Services and One Apollo Digital,
• Professional Achievements: Received 'Best Employee Award' for reducing the recruitment cost upto 70% along with 100% achievement of TAT HR

• Managed the Campus hiring across Tier 1/2/3 Engineering and Graduate Colleges, maintaining relationships with the universities, preparing the campus hiring calendar, making presentations and promoting campus branding events