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Soumya Bastia

Bengaluru

Summary

Talent Acquisition Leader with 13+ years of experience scaling organizations through top talent hiring, strategic business partnering, and people engagement. Passionate about driving growth, while continuously learning and evolving

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Manager-Talent Acquisition (India and AMESA Business)

PepsiCo Global Business Services India LLP
Hyderabad
05.2024 - 05.2025
  • Developed and executed strategic sourcing plans across permanent roles, delivering critical hires, including Sales and Marketing leaders for the India business and technology talent for the GBS hub, aligned with business growth priorities.
  • Partnered with senior stakeholders by leveraging LinkedIn Talent Insights and market intelligence to provide data-backed recommendations on talent availability, competitor benchmarking, location strategy, niche hiring, and white space hiring.
  • Collaborated cross-functionally on employer branding initiatives, enhancing visibility through social media campaigns and job ads, while adopting AI-driven recruitment tools to streamline workflows and improve the candidate experience

Manager-Talent Acquisition

Licious (Delightful Gourmet Pvt ltd.)
Bengaluru
09.2021 - 03.2024
  • Led a team of five recruiters to deliver on leadership, lateral, and high-volume hiring mandates for non-tech functions, including EBOs, and ensured scalable recruitment strategies aligned with business needs.
  • Designed and optimized recruitment processes, leveraging talent mapping, market insights, and key metrics (time-to-hire, offer acceptance, cost-per-hire) to drive data-driven hiring decisions and meet aggressive headcount demands.
  • Implemented recruitment technology and assessments, including a new ATS and competency-based evaluations, streamlining the candidate experience while successfully closing senior roles such as Finance Heads, Category Heads, Brand Leads,CX heads , Supply/Demand Planning heads

AM- Human Resources

Bigbasket (Innovative Retail Concepts Pvt ltd)
Bengaluru
08.2018 - 08.2021
  • Scaled hiring across diverse business verticals (B2B, BB Instant, BB Daily, and Contact Centre), delivering 200+ hires annually across volume and niche roles, while reducing the average time-to-hire by 25%.
  • Drove senior leadership hiring across Marketing, Category, Finance, and Supply Chain, successfully closing critical roles that strengthened business capability.
  • Enhanced sourcing effectiveness by mentoring teams, implementing innovative strategies, and building future-ready pipelines , stakeholder partnerships, and 5 campus drives, delivering a 30% increase in quality hires.

Sr. Exectuvite -Human Resources

Nowfloats Technologies Pvt ltd.
Gurgaon
09.2016 - 08.2018
  • Led GTM, Sales, and Enterprise hiring, achieving headcount targets through end-to-end bulk hiring (70+ FOS), and closing critical leadership roles, including Sales Head and Channel Partner Head.
  • Single point of contact for the North region, managing a team of three recruiters across geographies, and driving leadership hiring success in GTM while supporting Product and Engineering functions.

HR Executive

OLA CABS- (ANI Technologies Pvt ltd.)
Gurgaon
04.2014 - 09.2016
  • Joined OLA during its early stages in Bangalore, leading recruitment for new launch cities across Pan India, and managing both volume (Contact Centre and Business Development) and lateral hiring.
  • Built teams by hiring key roles such as Data Analysts, Program Managers, BD Heads, and New Initiatives, contributing to OLA's growth and expansion.
  • Managed HR induction, operations, and utilized ATS platforms like Jobvite and Oracle to hire and onboard candidates.

HR Executive

Ethnic Bazar (Mittal Ventures Pvt ltd.)
Bengaluru
04.2012 - 04.2014
  • Managed the entire recruitment cycle from sourcing to joining for junior, middle, and senior-level positions across both IT and non-IT requirements.
  • Successfully hired key roles including Merchandisers, SDE1, SDE2, and Fashion Designers, Operations Managers Etc

Process Associate

Google India Pvt ltd
Hyderabad
04.2011 - 04.2012
  • One year Contract- Google India Pvt ltd ( Google Maps and YouTube) India.

Education

Diploma - Human resources management

XLRI Jamshedpur
Jamshedpur
08.2021

B.Tech - ECE

SHIATS
Allahabad
08.2010

Skills

  • Data-driven recruitment strategy
  • Talent advisory
  • Leadership and Executive hiring
  • Team management
  • Recruitment marketing
  • Market intelligence and talent Mapping
  • Non-Tech and Tech Recruitments
  • Strategic sourcing

Certification

  • CHRMP
  • LinkedIn Recruiter
  • AIHR - Strategic Talent Acquisition

Timeline

Manager-Talent Acquisition (India and AMESA Business)

PepsiCo Global Business Services India LLP
05.2024 - 05.2025

Manager-Talent Acquisition

Licious (Delightful Gourmet Pvt ltd.)
09.2021 - 03.2024

AM- Human Resources

Bigbasket (Innovative Retail Concepts Pvt ltd)
08.2018 - 08.2021

Sr. Exectuvite -Human Resources

Nowfloats Technologies Pvt ltd.
09.2016 - 08.2018

HR Executive

OLA CABS- (ANI Technologies Pvt ltd.)
04.2014 - 09.2016

HR Executive

Ethnic Bazar (Mittal Ventures Pvt ltd.)
04.2012 - 04.2014

Process Associate

Google India Pvt ltd
04.2011 - 04.2012

Diploma - Human resources management

XLRI Jamshedpur

B.Tech - ECE

SHIATS

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