Bhawna Sood

Experience

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  TMI Network

  Mar 2008 - Jun 2009

  Sr. Executive

  TMI Network provides Integrated Talent Acquisition and Retention Solutions. We are the only End-to-End HR services provider in India with expertise in Recruitment, Recruitment Advertising / Employer Branding and HR Consulting. We pioneered Recruitment Advertising in India based on the insights that we gained through our interactions with thousands of candidates and hundreds of corporates. Responsibilities: Project Planning & ExecutionResource PlanningProcess DefinitionTeam InductionClient Relationship ManagementCoordination with the back end.Fund Management Show less

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  Nokia

  Jun 2008 - Jul 2008

  Internship - Recruitment Project
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  Deininger Management Consultants Pvt Ltd

  Apr 2012 - Mar 2014

  Sr.Research Associate

  Hiring middle level to senior level profiles. Experience of working on confidential profiles.▪ Handling entire gamut of recruitment activities (Sourcing, Screening, Scheduling interviews, Conducting HR rounds and On boarding) for experienced professionals▪ Continually uncovering "hard-to-find" talent for fulfilling the niche requirements

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  EMA Partners

  Apr 2014 - Apr 2016

  Consultant

  April 2014 – March -2016At EMA, I was part of Singapore Delivery Centre, supporting Deliveries of the Singapore branch from Indiahiring across APAC region and have also worked for Middle East and US roles. I have worked with and for, people of different nationalities.▪ Working on leadership and niche roles (APAC / Country Head roles in Finance, Sales, and Engineering etc.)▪ Mapping, head hunting candidates with extensive networking.▪ Also understand the culture and methods of talking to different nationals.▪ Sourcing, screening and short-listing candidates and preparing detailed dossier ▪ Identifying all the new start-ups finding out their funding status report and sharing BD leads. Show less

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  Not working

  May 2016 - Apr 2017

  On Leave
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  DEININGER CONSULTING Poland and CEE

  May 2017 - Sept 2018

  Consultant

  Account Management / Client Management & Business Development: Managing the relationship with existing clients, getting business, and working on the roles, negotiating the terms, closure of a mandate and follow up on the payment. ▪ End to End Recruitment – Mapping, MI Reports, Salary Benchmarking, Identification of candidates, F2F candidate meetings, Preparing candidate dossiers, Scheduling Interviews, Salary Negotiations,and candidate engagement.▪ Extensive Research Mapping – Passive mapping of the candidates.▪ Educate and help the client – Prepare JDs, Sharing Market reports (Salary Benchmarking, Talent Pool Awareness and any other challenges faced).▪ Creating a steady pipeline of work by farming the existing accounts, meeting the clients on regular basis. Show less

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  Xpheno

  Sept 2018 - Jun 2021

  Delivery Lead

  As Delivery lead, I head the RPO business along with Contingent and non-contingent DH requirements. I handle a 10–15-member team. Expert at leadership, lateral and volume roles. I am good at handling relationships –Client, candidate, and colleagues/ team. Initial one year been dedicated to hiring leaders for various start-ups.• Held job briefing sessions with global stakeholders to identify role requirements.▪ Use various sourcing methods/channels based on the requirement to find, attract, and engage the right talent. Demonstrate high-level work efficiency by increasing the pipeline of qualified candidates. ▪ Drive candidates throughout the selection process and on boarding. ▪ Worked and closed all levels of positions on a high volume of Technical, Techno-Functional, and Sales requirements across multiple disciplines.▪ Continuous training sessions for team - train and scale them up.▪ Mining the existing accounts and building strong stakeholder / client relationships.▪ Generating various business MI reports to offer the best possible advisory capability, enabling my clients to take decisions.Highlights:▪ Ensured 98% on boarding in DH business and 100% on boarding in RPO business.▪ Controlling the No Shows: brought it down to 8% in non-IT and 22 % in IT and conversion at 77% by ensuring the tight quality check.▪ Ensuring Client and Candidate satisfaction – received written and verbal appreciation several times during the Project.▪ Adhering the 100% TAT.▪ Twice in a row awarded with “Rockstar” title and one of the highest billers in the organization Show less

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  Accenture

  Jul 2021 - now

  Senior Manager

  Sep 2023 – Till Date – Exec Hiring Lead - Handling 300+ Demand per Quarter for 4 Large Businesses.July 2021 – Sep 2023 – Lateral Hiring Lead: Handling 700-3k Demands per Quarter with a team ranging from 10-25 members. Delivering to 3 Large scale businesses (Data & AI AND Manufacturing – New Business Vertical)An advisor and collaborator, managing the needs & objectives with and for key business stakeholder across multiple business units. I am responsible for Recruitment of 3 Business Unit and now one Market.Spearheading large team of recruitment professionals across India to deliver end-to-end Talent Acquisition activities across business entities & achieving growth Targets.▪ Establishing talent acquisition vision and strategies for robust organizational growth and the alignment of same with company goals: catering the demand in Data & AI and Manufacturing technologies.▪ Developing and conducting capacity building programs/ seminars for multiple stakeholders.▪ Managing end-to-end HR Operations; analyzing HR processes and streamlining systems, focusing improving processes, promoting reliability, increasing simplicity, and enabling scalable growth▪ Working towards upskilling and scaling the team towards their own growth goals.▪ Advocating and supporting Business stakeholders - on their hiring strategy and plan specially with Hard to Hire skill where the Talent Pool availability across country is very lean.Highlights: Two large scale ramp up and migration and 2 acquisitions. Show less