Sumeet Sharma
Summary
Dynamic and results-driven Talent Acquisition Leader with over 13 years of experience in designing and executing innovative recruiting strategies for high-growth organizations. Proven track record of identifying, attracting, and retaining top talent across diverse industries, including technology, finance, and healthcare. Exceptional skills in building and leading high-performing recruitment teams, optimizing hiring processes, and leveraging data-driven insights to enhance talent acquisition outcomes. Adept at fostering strong partnerships with business leaders, HR professionals, and external stakeholders to align recruitment efforts with organizational goals. Committed to promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace, and known for a strategic, proactive approach to workforce planning and talent management.
Key Competencies:
- Strategic Talent Acquisition Planning
- Recruitment Team Leadership & Development
- Data-Driven Recruitment Strategies
- Employer Branding & Candidate Experience
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Initiatives
- Workforce Planning & Talent Pipeline Development
- Stakeholder Engagement & Relationship Management
- Recruitment Process Optimization
- Technology & Tools Integration in Recruitment
Technical Skills:
- Proficient in Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) such as Workday, Avature, Success Factor, Eightfold
- Skilled in HR analytics tools and platforms like LinkedIn Recruiter, Indeed, and Glassdoor
- Strong command of Microsoft Office Suite and Google Workspace
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Manager- Talent Acquisition
Telus International
10.2021 - 4 2024
- Design, develop and maintain the recruitment process in the organization.
- Responsible for the end-to-end technology hiring & recruitment process for all levels within timelines defined.
- Making Quarter by Quarter and Annual plan for sourcing strategy & Hiring Budgets, as a whole depending upon the recruitment numbers shared by our internal Stakeholders.
- Responsible for direct Stakeholder Management and interaction with Business Unit Heads, Delivery Heads. to understand requisitions and share progress.
- Handling all the pre recruitment activities from designing the Job advertisements, Job Descriptions and Specifications as per the position required.
- Preliminary interviewing of perspective candidates assessing the candidate's Skill Matrix against preferred Skill Set. Assess soft skills and coordinate with the Operations team to get a match of Technical Skills.
- Forecasting staffing needs based on client requirements and attrition trends.
- Develop Market Mapping on competition hiring - Profiling Talent pools and drive recruitment campaigns accordingly.
- Effective utilization of internal and external sources of recruitment like (Internal Recruiting team, job sites, IJPs, consultants, employee referrals, social media etc.) Campus Hiring, Vendor Management to ensure a continuous supply of fresh pool of candidates.
- Create a “ready-to-recruit” database to reduce Turnaround Time and ensure a readily available pipeline to match business projections.
- Responsible for all aspects of managing a team of up to 19 members across locations including but not limited to performance management, hiring, coaching, development, & load balancing.
- Mentoring and Training new Team Members to comply with Best HR/ Recruitment Practices.
- Motivating and driving the team to ensure OTD – On Time Delivery within expected Turn Around Time, following excellent work ethics.
- Conduct Weekly Team reviews & Conduct “One on Ones” and Performance Appraisals for the team.
- Collaboration with key business leaders and HR partners to understand and help determine short and long term talent acquisition needs to meet business objectives.
- Develop strong and effective partnerships with business leaders, executives, HR Managers and to advance talent acquisition initiatives.
- Weekly calls and In person meetings with Hiring managers and business leaders to share hiring updates and best practices.
- Work closely and engage with stakeholders for detailed understanding of requirements and defining a recruitment plan.
- Has been responsible for promoting the employee referral policies/programs.
- Responsible for managing the database for the referrals made as well as ensuring the timely delivery of the feedback to the referee.
- Managing vendors, Periodic vendor evaluation and allocation, empanelling and dis-empanelling of vendors.
- Sourcing the requirement to the timely disbursal of payments, ensuring checks on the D.O.J to the invoicing and the updating of vendor Contracts.
- Calibrating the vendors; so as to smoothen the process of sourcing the potential candidates.
- Taking care of all the issues pertaining to the Client-Vendor relationship.
- Contract Management - Responsible for the negotiation, renewal and general oversight of all staffing related contracts. Assess existing contracts and contribute to maintain contract repositories up to date.
- Presentation of Monthly recruitment dashboards to senior management on ROI of Recruitment campaigns, Requisitions status (Open vs closed), (Within or Crossed SLA), Offered Joining Month's Cost per hire, source mix, Background Checks, Ref Check SLA Actuals and Market Mapping of competition hiring.
- Presenting and analyzing key metrics to ensure recruitment effectiveness and quality. Preparing and maintaining weekly, monthly reports, dashboard to ensure that relevant data is captured, and goals are achieved.
Assistant Manager Corporate HR
Tata Communications Transformation Services
10.2019 - 10.2021
- Key contributor in ITES hiring, Telecom & IT Recruitment, Lateral & Leadership hiring, Analytics & Big data, Robotics & AI, & high-volume recruitments.
- Adept at managing the complete recruitment life-cycle for sourcing the best talent through Cost Effective Source Mix –Job Boards, Referral Programs, Internet/Social Media Hiring, Head Hunting, Campus Hiring, Vendors.
- Excellent Team Management Experience in hiring for multiple sites, with a very good understanding of the market, the workforce availability, compensation structure and dynamic challenges.
- Expertise to hire and manage talent of various competencies like - Telecom, Cable, Wireless, IOT, OTT, IT/ITES across different levels.
- Continues efforts towards creating a diverse culture at workplace
- Testing out new approaches for talent attraction, Branding, experimenting with tools and technology and always focused on process improvements
Deputy Manager- Talent Acquisition
Concentrix
04.2018 - 10.2019
- Managing the end to end Recruitment activities at Pune location.
- Responsible for OTD delivery of Front Line resources for the site.
- Working closely with the stakeholders to coordinate planning activities regarding hiring, trends, needs and recruiting strategies.
- Design recruitment programs, techniques and process guides to ensure accurate employee profiling.
- Managing and motivating the team to achieve individual and team goals by setting performance objectives, monitoring and evaluating.
- Ensure compliance of the team to all organizational policies, procedures, programs, and applicable law requirements.
- Leading the vendor channel for Pune location.
- Responsible for rolling out monthly incentive schemes for the partners and ensuring closures as per the assigned targets.
- Successfully managed new ramps at the location as per the timelines
Assistant Manager- Talent Acquisition
Wipro Limited
03.2016 - 04.2018
- Managing the Recruitment activities at Delhi NCR location.
- Responsible for OTD delivery of Front Line resources along with Mid-level requirements for the site.
- Design recruitment programs, techniques and process guides to ensure accurate employee profiling.
- Managing and motivating the team to achieve individual and team goals by setting performance objectives, monitoring and evaluating.
- Ensure compliance of the team to all organizational policies, procedures, programs, and applicable law requirements.
- Take overall accountability for ensuring salary recommendations and negotiations are within boundaries of the company's compensation policy.
- Leading the vendor channel for Delhi NCR location.
- Worked on various RFPs and RFIs.
Assistant Manager- Talent Acquisition
Aegis Limited
12.2014 - 03.2016
- Responsible for recruitment of all professional and managerial level positions.
- Responsible for conducting the Induction program for new hires.
- Managing a team of recruiters.
- Implementation of cost effective sourcing strategies for identifying high quality talent.
- Working closely with the senior management to coordinate planning activities regarding hiring, trends, needs and recruiting strategies.
- Responsible for Vendor Management (Sourcing & Training).
- Campus recruitment from Engineering, Graduate and B-Schools
Senior Executive- Talent Acquisition
Wipro Limited
08.2013 - 12.2014
- Effectively recruited candidates through university campuses, advertisements, internet research, internal database, cold calling, referrals, job fairs, and placement agencies.
- Independently managing recruitment/hiring from Tier 2/3 cities.
- Developing partners and maintaining effective relationships.
- Planning and execution of hiring strategies
- Represent the organization and participate in client visits.
- Campus recruitment from Engineering, Graduate and B-Schools
Process Developer- Talent Acquisition
Genpact
08.2011 - 07.2013
- Effectively recruited candidates from NCR, Madhya Pradesh Region
- Leading a team of two recruiters.
- Developing new channel partners & vendors for the company.
- Making schemes & Payout for the vendor ·
- Giving profile to different vendors to source on bases of the cost/hire
- Hiring through Campuses and Job Fairs as well.
- Successfully hired for Voice Collections & customer service roles, Accounts payable Specialists, Accounts Receivable Specialists, General Accounting, Financial Analysts, payroll Specialists, Insurance Claims Processor, Business Analyst, Credit Analyst, Order to Cash, R2R and Transaction Processing roles
Process Associate- Operations
Genpact
02.2006 - 07.2011
- Collections Expert for US Automotive Client
- Participated in regular team meetings, contributing valuable insights toward process enhancements.
- Handled high volumes of incoming calls professionally while maintaining excellent organization.
Education
Andhra University
Skills
Talent Acquisition
Lateral Hiring
Talent Sourcing
Campus Hiring
Frontline/Volume/Bulk Hiring
Leadership Hiring
Telecom Infra Hiring
BFSI Hiring
E2E Recruitment - ITES Bulk hiring
Recruitment Strategy
People Management
Recruitment management
Talent Pipeline
Vendor Management
Cost Per Hire
Interviewing
Onboarding
Forecast & Resource Planning
Internet / Social Media Hiring
Robotics Process Automation and AI
Data Analytics
Referral programs
Networking
Attrition Control
Cloud, SAP and Sales
Accomplishments
- Handled multiple locations and crucial hiring for the center and successfully delivered hiring numbers.
- Managed to be at less than 5% attrition consistently.
- Obtained highest Esat score across locations in the Recruitment function.
- Hired over 600 candidates at lowest cost per hire ever achieved by a center PAN India with the highest score achieved in audit by any center in 2 Months for Wipro.
- Brought down the vendor contribution from 87% to 25% in the Wipro
- Successfully assisted in transition of 4 key projects in Tata Communications
- Successfully set up the site at Romania remotely.
- Increased Active Employee Referral Program reducing CPH
- Implemented a new applicant tracking system (ATS), resulting in a 25% increase in hiring efficiency.
- Developed and executed a diversity recruitment strategy that increased minority hires by 40% and bagged the Leadership award for my contribution
- Spearheaded an employer branding campaign that improved candidate engagement and doubled the number of qualified applicants
Language Proficiency
English, Hindi
Personal Information
Gender: Male
Timeline
Manager- Talent Acquisition
Telus International
10.2021 - 4 2024
Assistant Manager Corporate HR
Tata Communications Transformation Services
10.2019 - 10.2021
Deputy Manager- Talent Acquisition
Concentrix
04.2018 - 10.2019
Assistant Manager- Talent Acquisition
Wipro Limited
03.2016 - 04.2018
Assistant Manager- Talent Acquisition
Aegis Limited
12.2014 - 03.2016
Senior Executive- Talent Acquisition
Wipro Limited
08.2013 - 12.2014
Process Developer- Talent Acquisition
Genpact
08.2011 - 07.2013
Process Associate- Operations
Genpact
02.2006 - 07.2011
Andhra University