Sulogna Roy
Bangalore
Summary
Experienced talent acquisition professional with a focus on executive hiring in the technology, ITES, telecom, consulting, and manufacturing sectors. Extensive expertise in talent acquisition and leadership hiring, with a background of 10.5 years at a global top-tier executive search firm. Currently leading recruitment efforts for a greenfield project with a large Indian conglomerate. Consistently honed skills in recruiting for specialized roles and establishing networks to attract passive talent for leadership positions throughout career.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
Work History
Head - Talent Acquisition, Components Business
Tata Electronics Pvt Ltd.
12.2023 - Current
- Responsible for leading end to end recruitment efforts for the business group
- Leading the leadership hiring and niche hiring efforts for the business
- Stakeholder management and driving the talent strategy for the business
Principal Consultant - Executive Search
Cielo Talent India
08.2022 - 06.2023
- Member of the APAC Executive Search team with the responsibility of managing all executive search mandates for India across all accounts spreading across industry sectors e.g
- Technology, Manufacturing, Oil & Gas
- Responsible for managing the client relationships and executing the searches end to end
- Working closely with the APAC Search Partner to front end with the clients on all open mandates
- Working closely with the regional BD teams to participate in client pitches
Program Manager - Leadership Hiring
Capgemini India
09.2018 - 07.2022
- Member of the India TA Organization, manage leadership hiring for 4 GBLs, 4 SBUs and global support functions reporting into the Senior Director Leadership Hiring
- Lead a team of 7 recruiters to drive the leadership hiring efforts
- Independently managed VP and EVP level hiring for the Business Units
- Worked closely with local and global stakeholders to drive the hiring efforts for the Business Units
- Engaged with candidates to conduct detailed assessments, compensation negotiations and seamless onboarding
- Worked as an advisor to the senior stakeholders to help make the right hiring decisions
- Focused on AMS, ADM, Custom Development, Consulting, Cloud, Digital, Data Analytics, AI, ML, Data Science, Cloud Infrastructure and other niche areas
- Partnered with retained and contingent search partners to fulfill the hiring requirements
- Responsible for team KPI’s and operational responsibilities related to the team e.g
- Performance reviews, hiring, training etc
Senior Specialist Recruitment - Leadership Hiring
Amadeus Software Labs
08.2017 - 09.2018
- Part of the leadership hiring team at Amadeus Labs reporting to the Senior Manager Recruitment
- Independently managing senior level hiring requirements for all major Business Units of Amadeus
- Responsible for managing end to end recruitment cycle
- Helped set up the Leadership Hiring CoE
- Part of the team that created Competency Assessment framework which eventually became the bible for any talent initiative
- Program Managed for the Leadership Hiring team of Amadeus Labs
- Increased the on-boards at that level from 0.6 per month to 3.2 per month within a span of 6 months
- Established the vendor ecosystem for the senior level hiring requirement
- Formulated the process of writing detailed candidate assessments for the Business
- Instrumental in setting up a proactive research team for the Labs to understand the market intelligence and current landscape
- Built strong relationships with the Business Stakeholders within a very short time span
Engagement Manager, Global Technology & Services Practice
Heidrick & Struggles
12.2006 - 07.2017
- Operated as an individual contributor to manage end to end cycle of senior leadership hiring requirements for clients along with some additional responsibilities like being a point of contact for few accounts, single point of contact for active and shortlisted candidates, managing the interview process and compiling detailed assessment reports for candidates, client reviews etc
- Reported to a Partner and participated in client meetings and pitches
Associate, Global Technology & Services Practice
Heidrick & Struggles
12.2011 - 12.2016
- Part of the core India search team within the Global Technology & Services Practice
- Worked closely with the Practice leaders in India on senior level leadership mandates across the Technology, ITeS and Telecom space
- Mostly worked on Pan India roles; also handled roles in APAC region and Germany
- Actively involved in the end to end recruitment process starting from research to reference check
- Provided research support to the search teams on live mandates, proactive assignments, business development plan, etc
- Managed client communications and review calls on active mandates
- Responsible for preparing client reports and BD reports for Consultants
Team Leader – Research/Sr. Research Analyst/Research Analyst
H&S KMC
12.2006 - 12.2011
- Was associated with the Global Captive center of H&S for 5 years starting Dec 2006
- Worked closely with Heidrick’s worldwide consultants to support their research needs through talent mapping exercises, company intelligence reports, industry reports, advanced research reports, executive analysis reports, surveys etc
- Managed 2 practices with a team strength of 7 reporting directly to Manager Research with a dotted line reporting to the Practice Global Knowledge Managers
- Responsible for market mapping exercises, preparing Org Charts and similar mapping reports using social media tools, internet research, cold calling, internal databases and industry referencing
- Mentoring, training, managing efficiency and productivity of the team members, providing feedback, capacity planning, conducting appraisals, etc
- Were some of the job responsibilities as a Team Leader
Education
PGDBA - Human Resources Management
B.Sc (Hons) -
01.2001
Skills
- Executive Hiring
- Stakeholder Management
- Account Management
- Leadership Assessment
- Vendor Management
- Team Management
Certification
- Several workshops on leading Competency Based Interviews for senior level executives conducted by H&S
- Attended a workshop on ‘Breakthrough in Personal Effectiveness’ conducted by Manford
- Training involving the Executive Search Process.
- MBTI and Hogan workshops focused on Personal Development and Self Awareness.
- Operational Personality Questionnaire, SHL
Accomplishments
- Have worked on leadership hiring mandates for niche skills e.g. Digital, Data Science, Analytics, UI/UX, Automation etc.
- Capability building specifically in leadership hiring space both at Amadeus & Capgemini. Setting up the Assessment processes, Candidate experience methods etc.
- Focussed efforts on gender diversity hiring.
- Hands on in fulfilling positions independently thus contributing to cost saving.
Timeline
Head - Talent Acquisition, Components Business - Tata Electronics Pvt Ltd.
12.2023 - Current
Principal Consultant - Executive Search - Cielo Talent India
08.2022 - 06.2023
Program Manager - Leadership Hiring - Capgemini India
09.2018 - 07.2022
Senior Specialist Recruitment - Leadership Hiring - Amadeus Software Labs
08.2017 - 09.2018
Associate, Global Technology & Services Practice - Heidrick & Struggles
12.2011 - 12.2016
Engagement Manager, Global Technology & Services Practice - Heidrick & Struggles
12.2006 - 07.2017
Team Leader – Research/Sr. Research Analyst/Research Analyst - H&S KMC
12.2006 - 12.2011
Symbiosis Pune - PGDBA, Human Resources Management
B. Barooah College - B.Sc (Hons),
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