Vikrant Rupani

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My key responsibility areas were driving Native’s foray across other sectors of interest. Also I was responsible for Building Native’s credentials across FMCG, FMCD, Consumer Services, and Retail Sector. Major Assignments: CEO – Alco Bev, CHRO – Agri Tech, Head International Sales – FMCG, AVP Marketing – Retail, Head Ecommerce – Footwear Brand, Head Supply Chain, CMO – Retail , Head Sales- FMCG.

Native connects people and organisations so that they grow effortlessly. We understand the lay of the land through a unique blend of instinct and data. And we use this to help people and organizations make smart decisions about where and with whom they work. We call this the Power of Informed Intuition. With a reach across 14 industries, our 75+ consultants across our 3 offices - Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore have helped over 2500+ business leaders find companies Native to them. (www.nativeworld.com)

Handling Mid to Senior Roles in the FMCG industry across UAE, KSA, and Nigeria

Mindfield is an HR Solutions company based in Dubai servicing the MENA region. I handled the end to end recruitment of Mid - Senior Level professionals through all stages of the process from receiving a requisition from a client, sourcing/headhunting, interviewing, co-coordinating interviews, negotiating offers, and reference checks up until facilitating joining formalities and following up for invoices. My area of expertise includes but is not limited to Sales & Marketing, Supply Chain, Manufacturing & Human Resources. Key Areas Worked For: ☑ Excellent Social networker/Headhunter with a widespread network. ☑ Cross Border talent-hiring from Asia, Africa, Europe, USA & Mexico to the Middle East at mid & leadership level for multinationals and large local groups in the last 6 years. ☑ Successfully ran a Talent Mapping project for an FMCG multinational client across Nigeria for Sales ☑ Director, Trade Marketing & Modern trade Head for 3 months, resulting in creating a pipeline of 40 potential candidates post interviewing 400 + candidates. ☑ Single Point of contact to coordinate with all external vendors - LinkedIn and Bayt. Also responsible to manage job advertisements on LinkedIn, Company website and other social networks. ☑ Successfully led the Gender Diversity & Saudization agenda for all my clients across various industries in Saudi. Major Achievements 2014: Overachieved annual target by 15% in the 1st year of joining. 2015: Top performer for 2015 hitting the highest profitability. 2016: First employee to cross AED 500k in a quarter, since the inception of Mindfield. 2017: Achieved 88% of my annual target 2018: Achieved 93% of my annual target 2019: Achieved 100% of my annual target with an addition of 25 new clients which generated a revenue of AED 450k. Generated revenue worth AED 1.32 million in the last 6 years from new clients.

𝐒𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥: 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 & 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐀𝐜𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 ☑ Managing a team of 30 executives and 2 managers. ☑ Managed the entire life cycle of recruitment for all top clients. ☑ Finding qualified applicants by sourcing, recommendations, job portals, etc. ☑ Coordinate with the business development team to ensure there is enough business. ☑ Conducting a preliminary round of screening to gauge a candidate's aptitude for the position. 𝐒𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥: 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 ☑ Relationship building, increasing business from existing clients ☑ Maintaining client relationships in order to retain and expand business. ☑ Ensuring the satisfaction of management, candidate & client within TAT / SLA 𝐒𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥: 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 ☑ Gathered and analyzed training feedback. ☑ Performed a post-training effectiveness evaluation. ☑ Created excellent induction programs for new employees. ☑ Created a training calendar depending on the needs of the individual. ☑ Coordinated training programs in accordance with the Training Calendar. 𝐀𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬: ☑ Promoted thrice within a year's time ☑ Generated revenue of 20 lakhs in a span of a year ☑ Won hampers like I-phone, Digital Camera, Trip to Dubai.

Client Handling • Taking care of the clients once in India, taking them to various other locations for interview purpose, playing the role of mediator. Managing the Team • Handling 2 teams, one who used to train candidates on semi skilled and other who used to handle professional candidates or managerial level. Accounting • Looking after the payments and receipts from the companies and responsible for office accounts. Recruitment • Short listing suitable resumes from existing databank according to clients requirement. • Using leading job Portals for searching resumes. • Strategically developed searching techniques depending upon the job profile • Arranging candidates from advertisements through Local Newspapers, Weekly editions, Magazines, etc Documentation • Procedures relating to recruitment • Procedures relating to Medical, Attestation, Ticketing & Visa Submission.