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title: "Dr. Yogesh Pandey (PhD) - Associate Vice President in Gurugram | Tal"
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# Dr\. Yogesh Pandey \(PhD\) on Tal

## Headline

Global Talent Acquisition Leader \| Transformation & Change Acumen \| HR & OB Scholar \| Technology\| BFSI \| Consumer \| Pharmaceutical \| Start\-ups

## About

I am a professional with 25 years of experience in Recruitment Delivery, Design, Talent Analytics, Change management, and Recruitment Process Outsourcing \(RPO\) in the India and APAC Region\. Over the years, I have hired over 40,000\+ professionals across industry functions/ levels, including hiring for Start\-ups in the Technology / Digital / Operations domain Experience in Designing & Leading large, complex Talent Acquisition \(Strategy / Design / Delivery / Analytics\) Teams and HR Transformation \(Global Process / Outsourcing \(RPO\)\) projects across Industry groups like Start\-ups and Global Integrated Shared Services \(GISS\) organizations for India, Asia Pacific, the Middle East, and Africa\. I am passionate about studying and researching emerging technologies impacting workplace changes\. I work with a view on "innovation," a cycle of experimenting, learning, applying knowledge, and evaluating success or failure to drive the next iteration\. The goal is to enable people to determine what is essential, create efficiencies at scale / right metrics, and achieve outcomes that matter to customers\. As a research scholar, I aim to build a scientific rigour mindset to solve real problems impacting organizations in a dynamic environment\. Author of Published case study in Ivey Publication on organizations adopting analytics at the workplace to manage remote workers' performance\. I am an Avid Reader \(refer to book reviews in my profile updates\) and Half Marathon runner \- Being Healthy is the key to developing an adaptive mindset\.

## Location

Gurugram

## Work experience

Associate Vice President at Syngene International Limited, Jan 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Leading TA for US Region , hiring for the Commercial and Manufacturing Site at Bayview, Baltimore \. Leading talent acquisition efforts for early career professionals and Essential functions at Syngene International Limited\. • Attract and build scientific talent through the Industry Academia connect programs\. • Drive Innovative recruitment strategies to ensure a steady pipeline of top\-tier candidates\.

Soloprenuer \- Transforming Organisations through Talent at Self\-Employed, Sep 2024 \- Jan 2025 · 5 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India, Worked with Technology start\-ups to invest, incubate, and build new market value propositions focused on Automation and artificial Intelligence products\. Pursuing Research on Emerging Technology and its Impact on Employee Experience and Well\-Being

Head of Talent Acquisition India and Global Technology and Digital at Fidelity International, Nov 2021 \- Aug 2024 · 2 yrs 10 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India, \- Lead the Tech & Digital hiring globally for GDC centres in India, Dalian \(China\), Dublin & UK, and India delivery centres\. \- Led the Digitised and automation for the function, including building assessments to hire talent \- Successfully set up the Bangalore Greenfield site for Fidelity International, which focused on Tech Talent with an equal mix of diverse talent in the location \(>40%\), highest in the Industry \- Brought down the time to fill by 50%, with better utilization of channel mix to drive cost efficiencies

Head of Talent Acquisition, India at Wolters Kluwer, Nov 2019 \- Nov 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Pune, Maharashtra, India, \- Hired Talent for the Technology and operations Development Centers in India, one of the biggest growth centers in the APAC Region for Tax and account, risk and compliance, healthcare, legal, and India Sales Operations\. \- The KRA was to drive cost efficiency for recruitment by maximising the low\-cost channel for hiring \(80% hiring through Direct/Referral\) \- Led Campus Hiring programs targeted towards Diversity Hiring; lateral executive hires from B\-School campuses \(Tier 1\) \- Led the Executive Searches for the entities in India

Vice President ,Talent Acquisition at Barclays, Sep 2015 \- Oct 2019 · 4 yrs 2 mos, India, Recruitment Delivery \( Ops,Tech,Functions\)for India & APAC Region\. \- Transitioned and Led the Recruitment Process Outsourcing \(RPO\) for India's Financial Services & Technology Operations\. Also led the Business Assurance Function for Recruitment, with a focus on Cost / Process efficiency, Compliance on recruitment delivery \- Onboarded over 8000\+ hires each year for the business verticals with a focus on cost \(reduced by 15% yoy, time to deliver \(reduced by 50% yoy\), improved onboarding experience, reduction in drop\-out rates, focus on 25% \+ diversity \(gender\) in technology external hires

## Education

Doctor of Philosophy \- PhD \(Working Professional\), Organisational Behaviour and Human Resources, Indian Institute of Management Sambalpur

EPGP, General Management, Indian Institute of Management, Indore

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