SUMMARY:

Forward - thinking, results-focused talent acquisition leader with 15+ years of experience leading and managing recruiting, talent acquisition and change management functions across global organizations. Strong business partner with extensive experience managing end to end recruiting functions including developing, designing, and planning recruiting strategy to meet aggressive hiring needs for diverse opportunities. Success with leading recruiting teams to deliver exceptional candidate experience as well as managing workforce planning initiatives to achieve desired business results.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Talent Acquisition/Recruiting/Hiring Business Process Improvement Diversity/Employer Branding
• Business Transformation Management Reporting Workforce Planning
• Cross Team Collaboration Project Management Leadership/Training
• Strategy and Planning Performance Management Change Management

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), Taleo, Google Hire, LinkedIn Recruiter

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Edison, NJ

Lead Talent Acquisition / Lead Recruiter / Recruitment Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead the talent acquisition / recruiting process be accountable for designing and implementing hiring strategies to support rapid growth.
• Lead talent acquisition and recruitment during merger and acquisition process with Optum Tech. Participate in discovery and mapping process, analyze gaps, redesign to accommodate and adapt talent acquisition process at Optum Tech / UHG.
• Leverage operational and business expertise to assess and redesign recruitment and talent acquisition process to optimize sourcing strategies to meet forecasts and ensure alignment with diversity, EEOC, and OFCCP requirements.
• Partnered with key stakeholders including business heads and hiring managers to manage forecasting and hiring needs and create roadmaps to acquire required talent pool.
• Own and drive the diversity and employer brand initiatives and work with CEO, CTO and VP Marketing to drive employer branding efforts using various social media tools including Glassdoor and LinkedIn.
• Manage workforce planning initiatives including developing and implementing workforce plans, refining hiring forecasting capabilities, establishing and reporting on key recruiting metrics and providing data-driven, actionable insights.
• Evaluate, implement and ensure effectiveness of sourcing channels and data quality of ATS, using data driven sourcing and recruiting strategy.
• Define requirement request, approval, sourcing, interviewing, offer and onboarding process for whole company.
• Partner with colleges and universities for hiring college graduates, participate in job fairs and local networking events for technical and non-technical recruitment.
• Used data driven approach to sourcing and recruiting strategy, optimized spend on sourcing channels eliminated low performing sourcing tools.
• Manage ATS, Job Boards, LinkedIn, Glassdoor, Indeed and various sourcing platforms.
• Manage AAP, OFCCP, EEOC and efforts for Diversity Recruiting to meet compliance requirements.

Confidential, New York, NY

Sr. Lead Talent Acquisition / Recruitment Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead managed, developed, supported, and implemented the talent acquisition strategic plan aligned with meeting the organization’s business needs as it related to sourcing and staffing. Recruited Java, C++, Python, DevOps, BigData, Product Managers, Program Managers etc.
• Lead the recruiters, train, coach and motivate to meet demands of hiring niche skilled resources.
• Collaborated with hiring managers and business unit to understand hiring needs and built strategic recruiting plans and hiring strategies aligned with short/long-term hiring needs.
• Design and establish data driven sourcing and recruiting strategies for cost optimization, reduce time to fill and improve quality of sourcing and hires.
• Conducted requirement discovery calls with hiring manager, wrote job descriptions, validated requirements and ensured they met EEOC requirements.
• Developed innovative sourcing strategies for building talent pipeline and availability of pool for diverse opportunities including organizing local meetups and hacker competitions.
• Worked with external vendors to explore emerging trends and technologies for sourcing, recruiting and hiring talent with hard to find skills.
• Defined performance metrics for providing key insights on daily, weekly and monthly basis to management.
• Ensured compliance of both internal policies and requirements of state and federal regulation for hiring practices.
• Utilized homegrown ATS system and Google Hire for managing requirement and hiring process.

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Lead Talent Acquisition / Recruitment Manager

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with hiring managers, account managers, and delivery team and aligned recruiting strategies to meet business needs.
• Lead end to end recruitment and talent acquisition, oversaw the process, mentor and coach team of recruiters.
• Oversaw onboarding of employees and contractors and facilitated immigration process, employment certification, I-9 documentation and pre-hiring requirements including background check, drug testing, and reference checks.
• Followed data driven and process-oriented approach for requirement generation, sourcing, interviewing and hiring.
• Conducted daily team calls and published weekly dashboard to stakeholders from sales, delivery, and resource management, and generated various recruitment matrices for daily/weekly requirement and workload monitoring.
• Utilized ATS Taleo for managing requirements, candidate hiring process, managing recruiter’s workload and approval process for offer.

Confidential, Edison, NJ

Sr. Lead Technical Recruiting

Responsibilities:

• Utilized Taleo GRS to manage requisitions including posting positions linked to vendor portals, coordinate and schedule interviews, validate requirement data, initiate background and reference checks, and complete the hiring process.
• Ensured adherence to requirement generation, approval, sourcing and offer approval process.
• Mastered the data driven approach to provide key insights on cost of hiring, timelines for fulfillment of requirements and utilization of recruiting bandwidth, used performance metrics for effective recruitment.
• Met and exceeded established SLA/metrics to aligned with fulfilling client and vendor commitments.
• Onboarded the employees and contractors, completed immigration process and employment eligibility verification, and I-9 documentation using ATS Taleo.

Confidential, Folsom, CA

Lead Technical Recruiter

Responsibilities:

• Lead end to end recruitment process, develop job description, conduct discovery call with hiring managers, create job posting, screen resumes, interview candidates, match them to job, arrange interviews, negotiate offers and follow up till candidate joins.
• Hire train, mentor and coach recruiters, convene weekly meeting, conduct quarterly review, provide feedback to recruiters and relay to senior managers to keep track of quarterly goals.
• Oversaw job posting and requirements and worked collaboratively as liaison for account managers, candidates, preferred clients and HR.
• Partnered with management to address concerns with Customer regarding personnel policies and procedures, including, but not limited to, co-employment issues, risk counseling, employment laws.
• Worked with customer to process reclassifications ensuring that direct margin was maintained and/or improved.
• Managed supplier relations including requisition distribution, coordination of submittals, hires, reclassifications, as well as customer and consultant contact on behalf of the subcontract company(s).
• Responsible for quality management, data management, resource management and contract compliance communications, and support of customer mandated metrics.
• Maintained contact with contractors and employees to promote company benefits, discount programs, employee/customer referral program.
• Maintain data integrity, ensured compliance of recruiting process driven by home grown ATS systems.
• Communicated contract termination, extensions and when necessary, managed timely transition to new contract engagements and promoted long-term retention.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA/Hackensack, NJ

Recruitment Manager

Responsibilities:

• Recruited, built and managed a team of 12 recruiters and sourcers to support the technical recruitment across all the business units in US and Canada.
• Managed end to end recruitment cycle from requirement gathering to sourcing, shortlisting, interviewing, negotiation of contracts and compensation to onboarding of consultants and employees.
• Supported multiple business units working across different levels of management to define requirements and strategies for effective and efficient recruitment.
• Managed performance of onsite and offshore recruiters including training, performance appraisal, retention and compensation management, and designed and implemented performance metrics for recruiters.
• Implemented and ensured compliance of recruiting process driven by home grown ATS systems.
• Maximized the use of the ATS tools leveraging internal database of candidates as first source and successfully decreased the cost of hire.