UJJAL PRAMANIK
Talent Aquisition Professional
Bangalore
Summary
Results-driven management professional with extensive experience in leadership roles. Skilled in strategic planning, team collaboration, and driving operational efficiency. Adept at adapting to changing needs and ensuring consistent, high-quality outcomes. Known for strong interpersonal skills, problem-solving abilities, and focus on achieving organizational goals.
- Key Strengths:
- Leadership hiring and niche recruitment across technical and non-technical domains
- Strategic stakeholder engagement with Business Unit Heads, C-Suite Executives, and Functional Heads
- Workforce planning, market mapping, benchmarking, and employer branding
- Matrix organization navigation with seamless collaboration across Delivery, Innovation, and Business teams
- Data-driven recruitment frameworks for both volume and specialized hiring
- Vendor management, employee relations, and talent forecasting. Recognized for building high-performing teams, fostering stakeholder trust, and delivering impactful hiring solutions that align with organizational growth objectives.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
8
8
Certifications
Work History
Deputy Manager- Talent Aquisition
Aster DM Healthcare
02.2023 - 08.2025
- Led comprehensive talent acquisition across IT, non-IT, and leadership functions for Aster Clinics UAE and ADH (Aster Digital Health).
- Improved team efficiency by streamlining processes and implementing innovative management strategies.
- Identified areas for improvement within the department, implementing strategic initiatives to address gaps in performance or resources.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to drive business growth and achieve corporate objectives.
- Team Leadership: Managing and developing a team of 7-8 recruiters, implementing structured coaching programs that enhanced capabilities, improved hiring manager experience, and drove consistent performance outcomes. Reporting directly to the head of HR.
- Strategic Hiring: Directed recruitment for niche technical and engineering roles, including manufacturing tech, product engineering, and industrial IoT domains, as part of Aster’s digital transformation agenda.
- Campaign Management: Successfully executed and scaled multiple hiring initiatives, including Diversity & Inclusion programs, Talent Mobility, Bulk Hiring, Internal Job Postings, Employee Referral Programs, and comprehensive Employer Branding efforts.
- Process Optimization: Redesigned internal recruitment workflows from requisition creation to offer release, achieving streamlined processes, improved time-to-fill (TTF) metrics, and a significant reduction in escalations through systematic quality controls.
- Strategic Planning: Accountable for compensation benchmarking, workforce forecasting, and manpower budgeting to ensure alignment with business growth plans. Partnered with business leadership to align hiring strategies with organizational goals.
- Analytics & Insights: Leveraged recruitment analytics to track key metrics, including TTF, source efficiency, diversity, quality of hire, and recruiter workload management through custom dashboards.
- Inclusive Hiring: Championed inclusive hiring practices, expanding the representation of women and veteran talent within leadership and frontline roles.
- Market Intelligence: Conducted comprehensive talent and industry mapping across healthcare and adjacent sectors to support proactive pipelining and volume hiring requirements.
Manager - Talent Acquisition
CareerNet Technologies (KOCH Industries)
06.2022 - 01.2023
- Niche Technical Hiring: Directed specialized recruitment for technical and engineering roles across manufacturing tech, product engineering, and industrial IoT domains, ensuring high-quality talent acquisition aligned with critical business needs.
- Team Development: Led and developed a high-performing team of 20 recruiters, implementing structured coaching frameworks to improve recruiter experience, stakeholder management, SLA adherence, and candidate experience.
- End-to-End Accountability: Drove diverse recruitment initiatives across multiple business units, ensuring comprehensive accountability for requisition fulfillment and deploying collaborative, data-driven solutions to address complex hiring challenges.
- Process Excellence: Redesigned and streamlined recruitment workflows from requisition creation to offer rollout, resulting in improved time-to-fill, enhanced process efficiency, and reduced escalations through systematic quality controls.
Assistant Manager - Talent Acquisition
Anheuser-Busch InBev
12.2019 - 01.2022
- Full-Cycle Recruitment: Managed comprehensive recruitment for both frontline and niche roles across Sales, Marketing, and IT functions spanning multiple geographies, ensuring timely fulfillment of critical business requirements.
- Stakeholder Management: Built and maintained strong stakeholder relationships, proactively addressing concerns and identifying improvement areas to deliver effective hiring outcomes.
- Social Media Strategy: Developed and managed social media group strategies and content plans to engage, inform, and attract talent from diverse online communities, enhancing employer brand presence.
- Compensation Management: Conducted internal parity checks to ensure fair and competitive compensation decisions, successfully negotiating and closing offers with focus on cost-effective hiring aligned with budget expectations.
- End-to-End Support: Managed offer administration, onboarding follow-ups, and recruitment support across both corporate and plant locations.
- Supervised day-to-day operations to meet performance, quality and service expectations.
- Improved customer satisfaction by addressing and resolving complaints promptly.
- Developed strong working relationships with staff, fostering a positive work environment.
- Promoted teamwork within the workplace by encouraging collaboration among staff members on various project tasks.
- Collaborated with the management team to develop strategic plans for business growth and improvement.
Manager - Talent Acquisition
In2IT Technology Pvt Ltd
12.2017 - 12.2019
- Executive Search: Directed executive hiring across three international markets (India, Singapore, South Africa), successfully closing Director to EVP-level roles across technology, business services, and sales leadership domains.
- Strategic Partnerships: Orchestrated strategic partnerships with senior stakeholders across multiple Strategic Business Units (SBUs), designing and executing targeted talent acquisition strategies and high-impact leadership hiring campaigns.
- Executive Pipeline Development: Built and maintained robust executive talent pipelines using advanced sourcing methodologies, market mapping, and intelligence tools while delivering data-driven insights to inform leadership-level hiring decisions.
Senior Consultant - Recruitment
HirePro Consulting
04.2016 - 12.2017
- Client Portfolio: ATOS India Pvt. Ltd. (Pune) & Microsoft(Hyderabad)
- Client Partnership: Fostered strategic partnerships with senior client stakeholders, consistently meeting 24-hour SLAs for profile submissions while exceeding recruitment delivery metrics and optimizing team resource allocation.
- Full-Cycle Operations: Managing comprehensive recruitment operations including sourcing strategy, candidate engagement, onboarding coordination, and revenue tracking, utilizing multi-channel sourcing to build diverse talent pipelines.
- Team Leadership: Led and mentored a geographically distributed team of 4 recruiters, implementing performance dashboards and engagement initiatives to drive efficiency across onsite and remote client locations.
- Technical Specialization: Specialized in mid-level technical hiring across SAP, Pega, Analytics, and Cloud technologies, partnering with multiple business units for critical niche skill mandates.
Team Lead - Recruitment (APAC)
Nityo Infotech
09.2014 - 04.2016
- Pipeline Development: Strategically drove a significant increase in qualified job applications by leveraging diverse recruitment channels and building strong partnerships with employment agencies and sourcing networks.
- Passive Talent Engagement: Proactively sourced and engaged passive talent through innovative outreach strategies, expanding recruitment pipelines via professional networks, online platforms, and talent communities.
- Client Management: Collaborated closely with hiring managers while serving as Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for major clients including Wipro, ATOS, HSBC, and Dimension Data, ensuring seamless communication and delivery excellence.
Resource Executive
Innomethods Corp
09.2011 - 09.2014
- Multi-Channel Sourcing: Sourced passive candidates through data mining, job boards, and social networking platforms (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Monster, CareerBuilder, ATS), ensuring alignment with client requirements.
- Process Coordination: Collaborated closely with Hiring Managers and recruiters, providing regular updates on candidate submissions, pipeline status, and addressing recruitment-related queries for process alignment.
- BFSI Expertise: Handled key BFSI & NBFC clients including SMBC Bank, RBL Bank, Goldman Sachs, India Bulls, G4S, and L&T, delivering tailored talent solutions for dynamic business needs.
- Relationship Management: Maintained consistent daily communication with key accounts, fostering long-term relationships and ensuring smooth recruitment coordination while guiding recruiters to achieve successful closures.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering -
Konark Institute of Science and Technology
OdishaSkills
Strategic recruitment
Niche skill recruitment
Talent sourcing and engagement
Diversity hiring initiatives
Market analysis for talent sourcing
Operational workforce management
Forecasting workforce needs
Change implementation skills
Process optimization
Cost analysis expertise
Effective task delegation
Process development
Accomplishments
- Standardization of processes and policies across verticals and Functions.
- Commended for achieving the timely migration of 400+ employees, ensuring successful on-time delivery in 3-month timelines.
- Designing the SOP and Standardization of IJP, Emp Referrals, and DE&I initiatives.
- Quality, Audit and Compliance
Certification
Utilizing Social Media for Talent Recruitment
Timeline
Deputy Manager- Talent Aquisition
Aster DM Healthcare
02.2023 - 08.2025
Manager - Talent Acquisition
CareerNet Technologies (KOCH Industries)
06.2022 - 01.2023
Assistant Manager - Talent Acquisition
Anheuser-Busch InBev
12.2019 - 01.2022
Manager - Talent Acquisition
In2IT Technology Pvt Ltd
12.2017 - 12.2019
Senior Consultant - Recruitment
HirePro Consulting
04.2016 - 12.2017
Team Lead - Recruitment (APAC)
Nityo Infotech
09.2014 - 04.2016
Resource Executive
Innomethods Corp
09.2011 - 09.2014
Bachelor of Engineering -
Konark Institute of Science and Technology