Suresh Kumar Tedlapu
Global Head Of Talent Acquisition
Hyderabad
Summary
Over Two decades of full-time experience in Human Resources, specializing in the areas of Technical Recruitments and Core Human Resource functions. Ability to lead diverse teams, multi-task, and work under pressure to meet aggressive targets. Driven by challenges with a strong focus on process and result orientation. Hands on leadership experience in market research, analysis, strategic planning and associated tactical implementation. A result-oriented leader and empirical decision-maker that value the development of cooperative relationships and teaming to compete in a complex business environment.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
Work History
Global Recruitment Head
CriticalRiver Technologies Private Ltd
Hyderabad
10.2021 - Current
- Responsible for leading the entire IT gamut of Recruitment COE and providing strategic direction for practice development and growth
- Developing key stakeholder relationships and driving service offerings across all verticals of business
- Representing the IT recruitment across the world as the TA - COE
- SPOC for all talent branding and candidate experience activities
- Handling the Campus & Off Campus drives
- Driving the TA transformation to the next level with a team of 30 members across all locations - creating a uniquely positive candidate experience, pursuing progressive and innovative approaches to attracting the best talent in the most efficient ways - and providing exciting career opportunities
- Developing and maintaining the strategic relationships with global HR Partners and Business Leaders
- Drive continuous improvement in the applicant/candidate experience, reporting, data and analytics, productivity, planning and forecasting of hiring
- Leading the diversity sourcing and hiring initiatives partnering with the People team, business leaders
- Core competency around change management including developing stakeholder buy in and driving successful adoption for new processes and tools within Talent Acquisition
- Developing the team and some of the key resources through effectively supervising, coaching, and mentoring them - Conduct performance reviews and contribute to performance feedback
- Being a part of HR initiatives including Recruit, Retain and Training the IT professionals
- Acting as a model for advocating the importance of sound risk management - Ability to manage practice operations and ensure practice compliance with firm-wide policies including risk management - Strategic initiatives
- Significant Achievements & Awards :
- Received MAN OF EXCELLENCE AWARD – 2022 from Indian Achievers Forum
- CHRO – Vision for People Leadership from CHRO Vision & Innovation Summits & Awards 2022
Director of HR Operations & Global Recruitment
RHYM Technologies LLP
Hyderabad
01.2020 - 09.2021
- My role is to provide strategic direction to the organization from an HR perspective
- Leading the overall
- HR with a key focus on Talent Acquisition, Employee engagement, Employer branding, manage performance, and overall help in scaling up of the organization and controlling attrition
- Recruited more than 70+ Cyber Security professionals starting from Practice Head to Analysts in
- Cyber Security Domain
- Helping two big Key accounts to fulfill their requirements as Staff Augmentation consultant
- Recruiting the Cyber Security professionals along with some Senior requirements in the
- Technologies Stream
- Articulated the vision, mission & values, and instituted processes to pioneer the alignment of HR polices & strategies
- Part of Senior Management Team on development of organizational structure, content of jobs, and established performance standards.
Director – HR
M/s.ALPHA IT PTY LTD
Hyderabad
07.2016 - 12.2019
- Responsible for Talent Acquisition, Talent Management and Talent Engagement
- Working closely with the Executive Vice President in executing business priorities & corporate mandates
- Worked with Vice Presidents, directors, managers & onsite leaders to execute several employee engagement initiatives for the employees
- Providing operational and strategic inputs to the site leadership and onsite directors and managers on different aspects of HR
- Created a senior leadership group to discuss on high level strategies
- Responsible for the India, Australia, USA, UK & Middle East site’s Hiring & Onboarding
- Provide strategic, operational guidance and direction as the single point of contact on all people matters for business Units and practices
- Initiated the training programs on performance management, KRA’s setting and collecting the feedback for Business to have a smooth process for yearly hikes/Promotion
- HR Governance at location level – Statutory compliances, Process Control, Internal and Client Audits
- Single Point of Contact for various aspects ranging from workplace violence, workplace harassment, respect & fair treatment, background verification validation process to reduce the risk of fraud at center
Senior Manager
Genpact IT services
Hyderabad
02.2015 - 06.2016
- Talent Acquisition
- Talent Acquisition for entry level to senior level management across the Enterprise Application
- Services(EAS) practice
- Initiated the Bigdata – ECU from Hyderabad location for one of the Global Client
- Part of the Taleo (online Recruitment tool) implementation team from Hyderabad location
- HR Strategies:
- Provided strategic and tactical Human Resources support to the management team to achieve profitability and business objectives as well as enhancing the organizational effectiveness
- Having meetings with the Business Heads on a weekly basis for Business forecast, Hiring,Attrition and Allocation/Bench Resources
- Conducting team briefings, team formal and informal meets with the internal client, oneto one interaction etc.
- Driving HR Compliance
- Employee Relations &Development
- Worked on strategies with direct focus on employee retention and reduction in attrition
- Monthly meetings with Business Heads to update on HR policies, employee concerns & grievances,
- Skip level meetings and One on One’s
- Creating fun at the workplace to reduce the stress among the employees, implement Reward and Recognition programs to encourage the employee motivation and control attrition
- Been a part of Designing career programs for the business teams
- Sharing best practices and collect 360-degree feedback.
General Manager
DSTWS India Pvt
Hyderabad
12.2007 - 10.2014
- Talent Acquisition & Resource Management
- Accountable for designing and management of recruitment process and formulation of sourcingstrategy for India organization as per the needs of the clients
- Accountable for strategic planning and preparation of annual goals and budget for HR
- Reduced the recruitment cost for the organization
- Successfully Implemented the Campus & Off- Campus Hiring process for DSTWS, India and successfully hired more than 300 associates in the last 5years from the Top 10Universities
- Successfully handled the US hiring with a team of 4 members from Hyderabad location
- Worked closely with Resource Management Team for Resource Allocation, Resource Tracking,
- Resource Release, Bench Management & Bench forecast
- Sharing the Market Intelligence Data to BU Heads & CRMs on different skills across India &Abroad
- Reviewing recruitment reports & metrics and sharing it to the Executive Leadership team and
- Client/Hiring managers
- Reviewing items such as Weekly New Reqs, Total Open Reqs, Aged Reqs,
- Analysis, Joiner’s Analysis, Offer Analysis,
- Responsible for empanelment and liaising with Recruitment Vendors
- Tracking the metrics and evaluation of empaneled recruitmentpartner's
- Talent Management & Employee Engagement
- Assists in implementing and managing company wide- talent management related processes, programs of talent reviews, succession planning, performance management, technical competencies, and employee satisfaction surveys
- Process Owner for all appraisals (Annual, & half yearly appraisals) within the Business Unit (IT)
- Includes liaising with the Department Heads for timely completion of appraisals & aiding promotion decisions,
- Publishing periodical HR Matrix & Dashboards to the Business Unit Management, indicating a snapshot view of the BU performance on various critical parameters
- Manage employee conflicts and recommend appropriate Disciplinary Action as per organization code of conduct
- Drive Talent management, Manager Feedback and High Potential identification process, support high potential Identification & Development of employees, Involved in Succession planning process
- Forecasting Attrition well in advance and discussing with the Department heads on precautionary measures to control it
- Analyzing trends through headcount and exit data and recommending appropriate course of action to manage it
- Design and publish of Employee Engagement Calendar, Employee Connect initiatives
- Enhance HR reach to employees by cultivating an employee friendly HR approach
- Handling internal, external and client relatedaudits
- Significant Achievements:
- Recruitment of over 2000 Professionals over a period of 5 years which included 550 professionals in 2013 alone which is a milestone in DST India
- Introduction of competency-based recruitment, low-cost talent acquisition, enhanced referral percentage by over 30% in a year’s time
- Key role as a Process owner during successful assessment of DSTWS at PCMM Level 3 (assessment for best People Practices) done by QAI as per the SEI guidelines
- The first and the only group
- Company with the said assessment
- Consulting assignment on PCMM to one of DST group company in US
Manager
Wipro Technologies
Hyderabad
04.2007 - 11.2007
- Strategic Resourcing:
- Handled two major horizontals i.e., Enterprise Solutions & ES-Enabling with a team of5members
- Interacting with all the Vertical heads, practice heads & Division Resource Manager in regular intervals for Business requirements
- Handled major campus events in Andhra Pradesh Region
- Streamlined the recruitment process for both Campus and lateral hiring
- Achievements:
- Introduced new program for evaluating & motivating technical panel
- Introduced Accreditation policy for Campus hiring
- Recruited 2 business heads for Enterprise solutions Division.
Senior Consultant
Kanbay (I) Pvt Ltd, CAP
Hyderabad
11.2006 - 04.2007
- Human Resources
- Handled the Insurance Domain with a team of 05 members across three locations
- Successfully handled the Campus drives for the major Universities.
Manager
TATA Consultancy Services Ltd
Hyderabad
04.2004 - 09.2006
- Handled the Recruitments in Deccan Park, (Major Relationships: Microsoft, Telecom, Healthcare,
- EIS, Global Governance) with a team of 10 members
- Overall, in charge of handling Recruitment consultants for Hyderabad Branch
- Responsible for hiring resources from Junior to senior management level
- Working closely with senior management in corporate strategic planning on effective recruiting techniques, improvisation of the process and delivering the best talent to them
- Generation of reports related to the entire recruitment activities and forwarding the same todifferent operation heads at various locations
- Involved in preparing and presenting realistic and cost-effective Recruitment budget
- Involved in Direct Trainees & Campus Recruitment
- Achievements:
- Got appraisal from the GLs of Microsoft, Ericcson for timely closure of critical requirements
- Best Sourcing Personnel for the year
Hyderabad
01.2005 - 01.2006
- For experienced professional’srecruitment
- Recruited 500 Experienced Associates to TCS, Hyderabad in different Technologies and levels
- Represented TCS Cricket Team.
01.2004 - 01.2005
- Bagged 3rd Best Branch
Lead
ABC Consultants Pvt. Ltd
Hyderabad
06.2002 - 03.2004
Asst. Manager
o The Headhunters (India) Pvt. Ltd
06.1999 - 05.2002
Education
Executive Development Program in Human Resource Management -
Masters - human resource management
Andhra University
Masters Diploma - Computer Sciences
DATAPRO
Timeline
Global Recruitment Head
CriticalRiver Technologies Private Ltd
10.2021 - Current
Director of HR Operations & Global Recruitment
RHYM Technologies LLP
01.2020 - 09.2021
Director – HR
M/s.ALPHA IT PTY LTD
07.2016 - 12.2019
Senior Manager
Genpact IT services
02.2015 - 06.2016
General Manager
DSTWS India Pvt
12.2007 - 10.2014
Manager
Wipro Technologies
04.2007 - 11.2007
Senior Consultant
Kanbay (I) Pvt Ltd, CAP
11.2006 - 04.2007
01.2005 - 01.2006
Manager
TATA Consultancy Services Ltd
04.2004 - 09.2006
01.2004 - 01.2005
Lead
ABC Consultants Pvt. Ltd
06.2002 - 03.2004
Asst. Manager
o The Headhunters (India) Pvt. Ltd
06.1999 - 05.2002
Executive Development Program in Human Resource Management -
Masters - human resource management
Andhra University
Masters Diploma - Computer Sciences
DATAPRO