Summary
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Work History
Education
Skills
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Current Job
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Suchita Suryamurty

Talent Acquisition Lead
Mumbai

Summary

Dynamic Talent Manager offering 17-year progressive career across diverse companies in Visual effects & Animation. Proven history of designing and implementing recruitment, training and conflict-resolution initiatives for companies up to 3000 employees. Insightful and creative with strengths in partnering with cross-functional business executives to strategize personnel-management solutions. Known for identifying improvement opportunities and spearheading projects to drive effectiveness.

Overview

24
24
years of professional experience
23
23
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Languages

Work History

Talent Acquisition Lead

DNEG
Mumbai
01.2024 - Current
  • Talent Acquisition Lead for Creative hiring.

Managing a team of recruiters - working closely with management and stakeholder to plan and forecast recruitment, find solutions for critical hiring.

Freelance Recruiter / Entrepreneur (Love Thy Strands)

SuNish Recruitments
Bengaluru
08.2023 - 12.2023

As a freelance recruiter worked with various studios across India as a helping hand for their hiring needs.

Talent Acquisition Manager

Technicolor
Montreal
08.2022 - 06.2023
  • Recruiting for top talent to join Mikros Animation
  • Networking with Candidates around Canada - USA - Mexico - France
  • Visiting School events for Outreach networking and established good connections.
  • Attended networking events to showcase the company's current work and offer job opportunities.

Head of TCS Talent Acquisition APAC

Technicolor
Bangalore Urban
12.2021 - 08.2022
  • Headed Recruitment for Technicolor Creative Studios - MPC Films, The Mill, Mikros Animation, Technicolor Games
  • Managed a team of recruiters to help grow our network as a team and hire the best talent possible for high end projects
  • Built a good relationship with the stakeholders and business
  • Worked closely with Marketing & PR team - participated in Gafx, Recruitment drives Pan India, Live events on Instagram.

Talent Acquisition Lead at The Focus (Technicolor)

Technicolor
Karnataka
11.2020 - 12.2021
  • The Focus comprises a team of experts in recruitment, marketing and learning & development who work towards meeting the demands of Technicolor's brands across visual effects, advertising, creative experience and animation
  • As a central hub The Focus provides job opportunities, career guidance, industry insights, events, and helpful learning materials to help professionals progress in their career.

Senior Recruiter

tattva - digital media recruitment
06.2020 - 10.2020

Independent Business Owner

SuNish Recruitments
Mumbai Area
03.2017 - 06.2020
  • Recruiting House for VFX, Animation, events, Media & much more.

HR Manager for YFx

Yash Raj Films
Mumbai Area
12.2015 - 02.2017

As the HR Manager helped build the team for YFX right from Leadership to artists.

YFX was a new avenue for Yashraj Films so helped managed HR & Talent Acquisition.

Also handles Vendor management for the projects being worked upon.

Assoc. VFX Producer

Reliance Mediaworks Entertainment Services Ltd.
Airoli
11.2012 - 12.2013

Talent Acquisition

DreamWorks Dedicated Unit - Bangalore, India
10.2010 - 04.2012
  • The DreamWorks Dedicated Unit (DDU) is a unit within Technicolor India, built exclusively for the DreamWorks Animation (DWA) client
  • DDU has an exclusive state of the art infrastructure which is built to DWA's spec in Bangalore, Silicon Valley of Asia
  • This unit seamlessly integrates with the DWA's other studios/campuses in California
  • The tools and technologies (production pipeline) used by DDU are proprietary to DWA
  • The quality benchmark for DDU is the quality of work being produced at the 2 other DWA studios/campuses in California
  • DDU is currently working on shows/projects based on the DWA franchise such as Madagascar & Shrek.

VFX PRoduction Manager

Reliance Media Works
06.2010 - 11.2010

VFX Production Manager

Pixion
06.2008 - 06.2010

VFX Production

PIXION. CCL
01.2008 - 01.2009

Animation Production Cood

PRANA STUDIOS
03.2007 - 06.2008

Animation Production Co-od

Prana
03.2007 - 04.2008

Backstage and Production Manager

ON CUE PRODUCTIONS
01.2000 - 01.2004

Education

Bachelor - Arts; English Literature

Mumbai University
01.1997 - 04.2001

Post Graduation Diploma; Diploma - Jewelry Business Management

EMDI - Event Management Development Institute
01.2000 - 04.2001

PD - Jewellery Business Management

Gemological Institute of America
01.2003 - 04.2004

Bachelor of Arts - English Literature

Mithibai College
01.1997 - 04.2001

SSC - undefined

St.Teresa's Convent High School
01.1986 - 04.1997

Skills

Contract Recruitment

Current Job

Talent Lead for Creative hiring, Dneg, Mumbai, Maharashtra

Interests

Singing - travelling - Food blogging

Timeline

Talent Acquisition Lead - DNEG
01.2024 - Current
Freelance Recruiter / Entrepreneur (Love Thy Strands) - SuNish Recruitments
08.2023 - 12.2023
Talent Acquisition Manager - Technicolor
08.2022 - 06.2023
Head of TCS Talent Acquisition APAC - Technicolor
12.2021 - 08.2022
Talent Acquisition Lead at The Focus (Technicolor) - Technicolor
11.2020 - 12.2021
Senior Recruiter - tattva - digital media recruitment
06.2020 - 10.2020
Independent Business Owner - SuNish Recruitments
03.2017 - 06.2020
HR Manager for YFx - Yash Raj Films
12.2015 - 02.2017
Assoc. VFX Producer - Reliance Mediaworks Entertainment Services Ltd.
11.2012 - 12.2013
Talent Acquisition - DreamWorks Dedicated Unit - Bangalore, India
10.2010 - 04.2012
VFX PRoduction Manager - Reliance Media Works
06.2010 - 11.2010
VFX Production Manager - Pixion
06.2008 - 06.2010
VFX Production - PIXION. CCL
01.2008 - 01.2009
Animation Production Cood - PRANA STUDIOS
03.2007 - 06.2008
Animation Production Co-od - Prana
03.2007 - 04.2008
Gemological Institute of America - PD, Jewellery Business Management
01.2003 - 04.2004
Backstage and Production Manager - ON CUE PRODUCTIONS
01.2000 - 01.2004
EMDI - Event Management Development Institute - Post Graduation Diploma; Diploma, Jewelry Business Management
01.2000 - 04.2001
Mumbai University - Bachelor, Arts; English Literature
01.1997 - 04.2001
Mithibai College - Bachelor of Arts, English Literature
01.1997 - 04.2001
St.Teresa's Convent High School - SSC,
01.1986 - 04.1997
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