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Suhas M S

Bengaluru

Summary

As a Client-Facing Recruitment Manager with over 11+ years of experience, I specialize in building strong, lasting relationships with clients and delivering top-tier recruitment solutions tailored to their unique needs. My focus is on understanding client challenges, streamlining the recruitment process, and ensuring seamless talent acquisition. I thrive in fast-paced environments, where I can align business goals with strategic talent initiatives, helping companies secure the best candidates in the market. Whether it’s sourcing high-level executives or filling critical roles quickly, I’ve consistently exceeded client expectations by delivering timely and quality results. My mission is to connect talented IT professionals with the best opportunities in the industry, and to provide exceptional service to both clients and candidates. I have successfully managed multiple recruitment projects, delivering high-quality hires within tight deadlines and budgets. I also have strong communication skills, which enable me to build rapport and trust with stakeholders at all levels. I am passionate about IT recruitment, and I always strive to learn and grow in this dynamic field.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Talent Acquisition

Warpdrive
Bangalore
08.2025 - Current

Led the full-cycle recruitment process across all departments including Technology, Product, Sales.

  • Partnered closely with the Founder and leadership team to understand workforce planning, talent needs and organizational growth strategy.
  • Conducted regular hiring status meetings with Founders, Co-founders, and departmental managers to review progress, challenges and hiring priorities.
  • Built and maintained strong stakeholder relationships, ensuring alignment between business goals and hiring objectives.
  • Designed and implemented efficient sourcing strategies to attract top talent through LinkedIn, job portals, employee referrals and networking.
  • Managed candidate experience from screening to onboarding, ensuring a smooth and engaging hiring process.
  • Created recruitment dashboards and hiring reports to provide real time insights to leadership and enable data driven decision making.
  • Developed job descriptions, interview structures, and selection criteria in collaboration with hiring managers.
  • Drove employer branding initiatives to position Warpdrive as an attractive place to work in the technology space.
  • Streamlined recruitment operations by standardizing processes and introducing tools to improve efficiency and communication.

Team Lead

Russell Tobin
Bengaluru
08.2021 - 02.2025
  • Lead and manage a team of 10 recruiters.
  • Provide guidance, support, and mentorship to team members, ensuring that they have the necessary resources and tools to succeed.
  • Work closely and engage with stakeholders for detailed understanding of requirements and defining a recruitment plan.
  • Coordinating with SPOC to get regular updates about sourced candidates, interview request and pending work order.
  • Guide the team members in setting the search criteria/Keywords in Portals.
  • Monitoring, mentoring the junior team members and training the new joiners.
  • Maintain Reports on a Weekly & Monthly basis.
  • Ensure timely roll out of final offer to successful candidates after taking due approvals from higher management.
  • Update the candidates with feedback and maintain relationship with them for future prospects.
  • Established and maintained professional relationships with candidates.
  • Improved team morale and motivation through positive reinforcement and team-building activities.

Partner Consultant

Happiest Minds
Bengaluru
05.2021 - 08.2021
  • Working with hiring managers on recruitment planning, demand forecasting.
  • Establish strong working relationships with various stakeholders, Practice head, hiring managers & an Interface for Recruitment Consultants, Vendors and candidates.
  • Review resumes before sharing it with Hiring Mangers.
  • Assigning Requirement to vendors on Daily Basis.
  • Outpaced in managing the Talent Acquisition activities including, sourcing, screening, scheduling, interviewing the candidates, Offer Roll- outs.
  • Utilizing various methods to recruit candidates involving existing Database, Job Portals, Job Posting, Personal Network and Vendor Management.
  • Analyzing JDs received from the business for the several technical positions conducting negotiations on the salary, finalized the offer and rolled out the same to the selected candidate.

Team Lead

TeamLease Digital
Bengaluru
06.2018 - 02.2020
  • Managed the recruitment process from the scratch.
  • Attending Calibration calls with the Hiring Managers (Client) to understand Their requirements.
  • On boarding New client, Rate card negotiation, Contract (MSA) term negotiation.
  • Review resumes before submitting to the client with strong focus on quality.
  • Assigning Requirement to Team on Daily Basis.
  • Working with a team of 5 recruiters and guiding them towards achieving the daily, weekly and monthly team targets with respect to submittals, interviews and placements.
  • Mentoring, guiding the team in giving the right search & reaching the target.
  • Ensure overall productivity and efficiency within team has been met.
  • Engage the Sr. Candidates for placing the positions across the clients.
  • Provided training to new joiners and helped them work independently.
  • Focused on building pipeline for current and also the forth coming mandates Benchmark targets for recruitment process.
  • Updating and maintaining candidate database for mapping.
  • Conducting hiring drives on a large scale.
  • Expertise in understanding the Business needs, requirements and making an action plan to service the same.
  • Generating weekly, monthly & Quarterly reports & evaluating performance.

Delivery Lead – IT

Thakral one
Bengaluru
07.2014 - 03.2018
  • Full End to End Recruitment life cycle implementation for various IT Business Units.
  • Responsible for End to End Life cycle of Recruitment- Sourcing, Short listing, arranging interview & closing the position.
  • Client-interaction and team handling.
  • Working for Contract, Contract-to-hire and Permanent positions.
  • Interacting with the candidates to ensure the suitability and interest of the candidate for the requirement.
  • Account Management.
  • Mentoring the team members and helping them in making search and screening the profiles.
  • Expertise in Data basing of various skills through various sources (Social Networking, LinkedIn Recruitment, Naukri, Monster database, competency building, mapping of various skills & various industries) Sourcing & screening profiles from the job sites, company database and employee referrals.
  • Recruitment of Employees as per Client Specifications (Contract &Permanent).
  • Negotiating Salary of the selected candidates as per the company salary norms.
  • Releasing Offer letter and Appointment Letter, joining formalities and documentation process.
  • Enthusiasm for working in a quickly changing, fast-growth environment.
  • Coordinating with the Project managers and understanding the technical requirements.
  • To generate weekly reports for the Recruitment Meetings and to ensure that the relevant data is captured to give a clear picture of where we stand in terms of the goals set.
  • Making integration plan for the new hires within the team and training them with the various aspects of recruitment cycle, company processes and company culture in line.
  • Effectively delivered as an individual contributor.
  • Expertise in Lateral Hiring, Campus Hiring and Contract Hiring.

IT consultant

Magna Infotech Pvt Ltd (Quess Corp Ltd)
Bengaluru
04.2013 - 07.2014
  • Involved in complete life cycle of recruitment.
  • Worked for IT requirement for clients like HP SL,HP ,HP Domestic, Unisys, Deutsche Bank.
  • Sourcing profiles from various available portals & references.
  • Screening the profiles and conducting initial interviews.
  • Arranging and Coordinating Telephonic and F2F interview for the shortlisted candidates.
  • Keeping required Database Updated.
  • Involved in Client Meeting.
  • Strong client interaction.
  • Generating daily, weekly and monthly reports.

IT Recruiter

Bangalore Software Services
Bengaluru
12.2011 - 03.2013
  • Involved in complete life cycle of recruitment.
  • Sourcing profiles from various available portals & references.
  • Screening the profiles and conducting initial interviews.
  • Arranging and Coordinating Telephonic and F2F interview for the shortlisted candidates.
  • Keeping required Database Updated.
  • Involved in Client Meeting.
  • Strong client interaction.
  • Generating daily, weekly and monthly reports.

Technical Apprentice

Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (B.H.E.L)
Bengaluru
01.2010 - 01.2011
  • Company Overview: M/s BHEL is the largest engineering and manufacturing enterprise in India, which work in field of Power, Transmission Transportation and Renewable Energy and Defence.
  • M/s BHEL is the largest engineering and manufacturing enterprise in India, which work in field of Power, Transmission Transportation and Renewable Energy and Defence.

Education

MBA - HR And Executive Leadership

Woolf University From Upgrad
UK
12-2025

Skills

  • Talent acquisition
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Recruitment strategies
  • Project management
  • Employer branding
  • Global talent acquisition
  • Recruitment
  • Applicant tracking systems
  • Leadership
  • Team handling
  • Problem solving
  • Strategy
  • Customer relationship management

Languages

  • English
  • Kannada
  • Hindi

Personal Information

Date of Birth: 10/12/88

Key Clients

  • BNY Mellon
  • Northern Trust
  • Deutsche Bank
  • Analog Devices
  • ARRIS
  • Genpact
  • VMware
  • JPMC
  • Flipkart
  • IBM
  • Lenovo
  • HP
  • HSBC

Affiliations

Top one vendor for multiple quarters for BNYM

Certification

  • Generative AI Foundations Certificate Program by upGrad, in collaboration with Microsoft.

Languages

English
First Language
Hindi
Intermediate (B1)
B1
Kannada
Proficient (C2)
C2

Accomplishments

Highest revenue generation for 2023 and 2024

Timeline

Talent Acquisition

Warpdrive
08.2025 - Current

Team Lead

Russell Tobin
08.2021 - 02.2025

Partner Consultant

Happiest Minds
05.2021 - 08.2021

Team Lead

TeamLease Digital
06.2018 - 02.2020

Delivery Lead – IT

Thakral one
07.2014 - 03.2018

IT consultant

Magna Infotech Pvt Ltd (Quess Corp Ltd)
04.2013 - 07.2014

IT Recruiter

Bangalore Software Services
12.2011 - 03.2013

Technical Apprentice

Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (B.H.E.L)
01.2010 - 01.2011

MBA - HR And Executive Leadership

Woolf University From Upgrad
Suhas M S