Vasundhara Kumari
Gurgaon
Summary
Strategic Talent Acquisition Specialist & HRBP with 9+ years of experience in scaling teams across eCommerce/D2C, Retail, Finance, Marketing, Sales, Legal, and Plant functions. Experienced in end-to-end recruitment, org structuring, performance management, and capability-building initiatives while managing multiple high-priority mandates simultaneously. Recognized for strong stakeholder management, execution agility, and delivering talent solutions aligned to business goals.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Assistant Manager - TA & Business Partner
One Guardian Pvt Ltd
Gurgaon
06.2025 - Current
- Owning end-to-end hiring for Finance, Accounts, and Legal mandates while managing 15+ open roles concurrently with strong stakeholder partnership.
- Acting as HRBP for BellaVita India business and Finance & Legal functions, supporting talent strategy across India and US markets.
- Enabling business growth through strategic hiring across Corporate Finance, Taxation, Audit, Compliance, Legal, and commercial finance functions.
- Partnered with business leaders on organization structuring, workforce planning, and talent interventions to support business growth and team effectiveness.
- Managed end-to-end Performance Management System (PMS), including goal setting, performance reviews, and rating calibration across functions.
- Managed end-to-end HR operations including onboarding, employee lifecycle management, confirmations, transfers, exits, and full & final settlements.
- Led payroll coordination and HR compliance, ensuring timely salary processing, PF, ESIC, PT, gratuity, labour law compliance, and statutory audits.
- Streamlined HR policies, SOPs, and processes to improve operational efficiency and employee experience.
- Handled HRMS management and automation, maintaining employee records, attendance, leave management, and MIS reporting.
- Led the L&D initiative - Grow with Guardian, driving capability-building programs on AI in Excel, Design with AI, Power BI, and Design Thinking to enhance employee productivity and future readiness.
Manager - Human Resources
BigMuscles Nutrition Pvt Ltd
Faridabad
10.2023 - 06.2025
- Lead all aspects of talent acquisition throughout the recruitment life cycle including developing sourcing strategies.
- Played a pivotal role in building the organization's eCommerce/D2C, offline sales, retail, and marketing functions by successfully closing 40 strategic mandates in the last 6 months across Brand Management, Finance, Sales, Quality, and Plant Operations.
- Business Partnering for Sales (GT,MT,Ecom) and utilizing the rewards and recognition philosophy to retain and engage top performers sufficiently to derive differentiated performance around business delivery.
- Evaluate and edit recruitment processes vis-a-vis talent pipeline building, calibrating JDs, compensation benchmarking, TAT, interview matrix, and other key metrics of success.
- Ensuring on-time recruitment of field employees through multiple channels and using the cost of recruitment judiciously.
- Defining KRA for all employees, Performing Performance management.
- Ensuring Cost is defined for each function and built into the AOP. Ensuring adherence to cost for each function and sub-function, with periodic reviews with business and finance, by identifying reasons for variance and chalking out a path to control.
- Partnered with cross-functional stakeholders to resolve employee queries related to payroll, attendance, policies, insurance, and benefits.
- Drove onboarding and induction programs, ensuring seamless employee integration and improved joining experience.
- Prepared and analyzed HR dashboards/MIS on headcount, attrition, absenteeism, hiring, and employee data for leadership reporting.
Talent Acquisition Partner
More Retail Pvt Ltd
Gurgaon
11.2022 - 09.2023
- Responsible for managing the Lateral hiring for Finance, Legal, Marketing at Medium to senior level.
- Liaising with internal departments to determine recruitment needs. Determining selection criteria, hiring profiles, and job requirements for vacant positions.
- Providing hiring managers, interviewers, and candidates with enticing and compelling experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.
- Documenting processes and fostering good relationships with potential candidates and past applicants.
- Developing hiring strategies and procedures in line with industry trends, as well as keeping informed of advancements in the field.
- Calculate and remediate potential process bottlenecks, minimizing time to hire and improving forecast accuracy.
- Maintaining applicant tracking system by creating, posting, and monitoring closing job requisitions, and updating candidate statuses throughout the selection process.
- Creating and routing job offers for approval and extends verbal offers, working in an efficient manner while providing a best-in-class candidate experience.
Talent Acquisition Specialist
Shree Baidyanth Ayurved Bhavan Pvt Ltd (Riaan Wellness & Kapiva)
Gurgaon
02.2021 - 11.2022
- Managed full-cycle recruiting process for multiple roles simultaneously while maintaining high-quality standards in candidate assessment and selection.
- Increased retention rates through thorough pre-screening of candidates and regular follow-up on new hires' satisfaction levels.
- Led the project for building up a team of seasoned Sales, Mid and senior level hiring.
- Have revamped the entire Sales force at Baidyanath matching up to the Market and Industry Standards.
- Developed strong talent pipelines by utilizing various sourcing techniques, including social media, job boards, and networking events.
- Oversaw end-to-end employee lifecycle management including offer rollout, onboarding, transfers, promotions, exits, and offboarding processes.
- Ensured 100% HR compliance adherence related to labour laws, statutory requirements, employee records, and internal audits.
- Managed attendance, leave, and shift operations for employees across locations, ensuring process accuracy and policy adherence.
- Collaborated with finance teams for payroll validation, salary reconciliations, incentives, reimbursements, and statutory deductions.
- Handled employee insurance and benefits administration, including mediclaim, GPA, reimbursements, and claim resolutions.
Senior Executive
Squareyards
Gurgaon
12.2018 - 03.2020
- Optimized resource allocation by conducting thorough budget analyses and reallocating funds as needed to ensure maximum ROI on investments.
- Revitalized company branding by spearheading a complete redesign of corporate logo, website, and marketing materials.
- Hands-on experience in hiring across level IT & non IT roles. LinkedIn Recruiter to search for potential candidates in KSA.
- Identify qualified candidate profiles using various sourcing techniques (e.g Boolean search).
- Interact with Business Heads to get the details of Quarterly/Yearly Target and strategize the Hiring Plan on mandates.
- Partners with the business in pro-actively analyzing the expected attrition in the upcoming quarter for a skill set and strategizing the hiring plan basis the expected attrition.
- Provide advice and suggestions for culture-related initiatives, such as cultural transformation.
- Implement HRM interventions on employee wellness, diversity and inclusion, or talent management.
- Collaborating with other HR team members on implementing innovative and inclusive recruitment strategies.
- Developing or assisting in developing a future-proof compensation and benefits strategy.
Assistant Manager
Amity University
Mumbai
04.2018 - 12.2018
- Responsible for handling all functions of recruitment from sourcing, interviewing, facilitating technical interviews, conducting HR interviews for various department -Marketing /Finance & Accounting.
- Managing salary negotiations and post offer regular follow up/s to ensure joining.
- Managing Lateral & Leadership hiring for PAN India location for IT & Non- IT.
Senior Executive
Onida
Mumbai
08.2015 - 03.2018
- The recruitment of Sales, IT, HR & Finance of entire Business Lines.
- Hands-on experience in lateral hiring with the help of Premium LinkedIn.
- Strong stakeholder management to ensure the business requirement is met within the timeframe.
- Daily interaction with the Hiring Manager's (HM) to get the details of requirement and providing detailed hiring plans to HM.
- Managed End to End Recruitment life cycle from sourcing of profiles to on-boarding of the candidates.
- Managed employee referral program in order to fully utilize the available human resources.
- Focusing on Diversity hiring for all senior positions by driving the D&I initiative plan.
- Involved in the rigorous background verification exercise for each yet to join and joined candidate/s in the organization.
- Mentoring newcomers for making them understand the process and help in upscaling their productivity.
Education
MBA -
Rungta College of Engineering And Technology
Bhilai, India01-2015
BBA -
GD Rungta College
Bhilai, India01-2013
Skills
- Talent Acquisition
- Sales
- HRBP
- Performance Management
- Employee Relations
- Oversight
- Hiring Trends and Analysis
Accomplishments
- Received team builder award in Baidyanath in Annual Rewards & Recognition.
- Received SPOT appreciation from CEO for Excellent Execution in Baidyanath.
- Achieved highest numbers in quarter Sales hiring in Squareyards.
Timeline
Assistant Manager - TA & Business Partner
One Guardian Pvt Ltd
06.2025 - Current
Manager - Human Resources
BigMuscles Nutrition Pvt Ltd
10.2023 - 06.2025
Talent Acquisition Partner
More Retail Pvt Ltd
11.2022 - 09.2023
Talent Acquisition Specialist
Shree Baidyanth Ayurved Bhavan Pvt Ltd (Riaan Wellness & Kapiva)
02.2021 - 11.2022
Senior Executive
Squareyards
12.2018 - 03.2020
Assistant Manager
Amity University
04.2018 - 12.2018
Senior Executive
Onida
08.2015 - 03.2018
MBA -
Rungta College of Engineering And Technology
BBA -
GD Rungta College