Saurabh Ahuja

Leading Talent Acquisition Delivery & Transformation | Principal HR Leadership Team Driving end-to-end Talent Acquisition delivery and transformation across locations, with a focus on building a future-ready, data-driven, and inclusive hiring ecosystem. As part of the Principal HR leadership team, I partner with global TA Centers of Excellence to elevate the operating model, enhance candidate experience, and align talent strategies with business growth. Passionate about scaling teams, modernizing TA systems, and using insights to drive smarter, faster, and more impactful hiring decisions across the BFSI domain in India and the Philippines. Focus areas: -) Designing and executing Principal TA strategy and transformation roadmap -) Embedding data-led decision making and operational excellence in hiring -) Building scalable and diverse talent pipelines for high-growth GCC environments -) Strengthening collaboration across global HR and business leadership

Recruitment, Hiring, Staffing, Talent Acquisition, Employer Branding, Recruitment Marketing, Sourcing - Active, Passive Key focus on Cost & Quality of Hire Time taken to Offer & Time taken to Onboard Tracking & Managing Ratio on - Candidate Proposed to Interview Selects Selects to offer Offer to Joinee Ratio Team Management Performance Management Talent Attraction, Engagement and Diversity Effectiveness

Enjoying - Continuous Learning the Science of Recruitment & Talent Acquisition. Attracting right minds, Shortlisting the finest, Selecting the top, appointing the most suitable & Networking with the masterminds. Focus on Recruitment Planning, Strategy Development for fulfillment of open roles, Searching, Sourcing & Screening the apt candidates.

Working as a Strategic Recruitment Partner with the business, for all matters related to hiring . I oversee the development and execution of our talent acquisition strategy, manage stakeholders globally, manage process design and implementation, ensure compliance and manage change. My team has hired over 1700 people in the past 12 months. Managing / Driving Recruitment / Sourcing / Hiring • Technical / Non-Technical Positions • Lateral, Sub-Contracting / Contract to Hire • Billable / Non Billable positions • Bulk / Niche Hiring Managing – • Demand • Source Mix • Turn Around time with set SLA's • Selection Ratio • Offer to Joinee Ratio • Quality & Quantity of Hire • Cost Management – Compensation Negotiation • Recruitment events – Drive Weekday/ Weekend in premises or outside • Currently Working as a Recruitment Manager with Capgemini for IT Infrastructure Business • Worked in Different Roles – Recruiter / Sourcer / Recruitment Vertical Lead / Sourcing Stack Lead • Gathering & Understanding the requirement from the BU Heads, across Service lines / Verticals / Geographical Locations • Demand Management– Need Analysis, Forecast – Planning for attrition /backfill , New Projects / Initiatives, Offshoring / Rightshoring • Source Mix – IJP, Internal Database, Employee Referral , Job Portals, Social Media, Vendor • Fulfillment time lines/Time taken to Hire – Demand Raised to Offer / Demand raised to Joinee - • Conversion Ratio – Offer to Joinees – Keeping the bar over 70% • Fulfillment of demand for Bulk/Niche/Senior/Lateral/Fresher Hiring/Staffing/ Projects • CV Sourcing – Active/Passive/Social Media - Usage of Industry-related websites, corporate websites and job and resume sites for searching for suitable candidates • Schedule/Arrange/Manage the technical and Managerial round of interviews • Salary Negotiation & Offer Closure & Generation • Currently Managing a recruitment team of 15 members – PAN India Candidate Management / Experience being at the core.

• Retain all clients within the team through ‘service excellence’ and proactively ensure continuous improvement in services so as to expand service offerings and up sell Verve OS2i services • Analyze the Verve OS2i service delivery process followed for individual clients, study the clients’ recruitment cycle, identify ways to integrate the two processes for maximum utilization and continuously look for methods to enhance the process so as to achieve service excellence • Assist the ‘continuous improvement’ process through development of the ‘service delivery’ processes to client, continuously raise the service bar and enhance productivity of service delivery teams • Process Enhancement and monitor Service Levels achieved by team members in order to achieve targeted Client Retention • Enhance the service delivery process to integrate with client requirements for maximum benefit • Ensure optimum resource and skill utilization within the team • Disaster recovery when required • Identify new service offerings and methods to fully integrate Verve OS2i within clients’ recruitment cycle/ process. • Coach and develop skills of team members in order to increase productivity and assist personal development of team members Knowledge Process Outsourcing • Managed a Team involved in Market research via Web / Internet Research / Telephone research for offshore clients • Interface between the Client and the Delivery Team • Assisting with requirements capture, project scoping, estimating, planning and budgeting activities • Initiated development and implementation of process improvements to generate efficiencies, effectiveness and cost savings • Successfully managed two Computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) Projects and deliverables on time. • Verifying the Interim and status update reports, as the data are being collected

Worked with OS2i as a Trainee E recruitment Specialist - E-Recruitment Specialist -Senior e-Recruitment Specialist. Now an Account Manager . • Handled the most esteemed clients. • Client retention & Service expansion • Quality Checks to maintain quality standards • Enhancing the service delivery process to integrate with client requirements for maximum benefit. • Disaster recovery • Managed a team of Senior Recruiters & Recruiters. • Monitoring Service Levels achieved by team members • Resource allocation for maximum productivity & effective utilization of skills. • Conducting performance appraisals & IDP of team members. • Coaching new team members. Extensive practice of active searching, passive, networking, pre-qualifing, headhunting, blogs, associations, forums and other internet tools. Client retention, client serving, acting as a consultant to client, effectively and timely meeting targets. Responsible for monitoring several KPIs for the team: turnaround times, productivity, add on sales, error rates etc. utilizing best practices, building and maintaining strong client relationships, and achieving revenue/profit targets. Working as a Researcher/ Recruiter for US, Canada, UK, Middle East and Indian clients mainly IT/telecom. Worked on different search on job boards, networking, headhunting and internet using search tools for active/passive candidates for different designations; from junior level to senior level (C-level and VP level). Working on skills like C++, Java, J2EE, VB.Net, .Net, ASP.Net, XLM, SQL, CAD, CAM, AutoCAD and others.