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Sarath Kumar

Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist | Talent Acquisition Partner | Recruitment & HR Operations | RPO Delivery | Stakeholder Management | IT, BFSI, Automotive & Manufacturing Hiring

Chennai

5+ years of work experience

Hyundai AutoEver
Jul 20251 yrPresent

Chennai

• Manage the complete HR operations and talent acquisition lifecycle — encompassing requisition intake, job profiling, sourcing strategy design, candidate screening, structured interview coordination, offer negotiation, documentation management, and seamless onboarding. • Design and execute face-to-face and virtual recruitment drives with meticulous panel scheduling, candidate flow management, documentation verification, and structured feedback consolidation. • Collaborate with business heads and hiring managers on workforce planning, headcount alignment, manpower budgeting, and hiring prioritization to meet organizational growth objectives. • Own end-to-end HR operations functions including employee lifecycle management, HR policy implementation, statutory compliance adherence, and grievance handling and resolution. • Maintain comprehensive ATS data integrity and candidate pipeline governance using Workday and SAP SuccessFactors platforms; ensure 100% process compliance and audit readiness. • Develop and publish recruitment MIS reports, workforce dashboards, manpower utilization trackers, and pipeline analytics to enable data-driven hiring decisions. • Oversee Background Verification (BGV) coordination, pre-joining engagement, onboarding documentation, and new hire orientation in alignment with HR policy standards. • Manage staffing vendor relationships, monitor vendor performance metrics, assess submission quality, and enforce SLA adherence across all recruitment channels. • Drive recruitment governance compliance, internal audits, HR process documentation, and policy alignment across all hiring and HR operations verticals. • Support employee relations, policy communication, and HR advisory functions to promote a compliant and employee-centric work environment.
Wenger & Watson (Client: Chola MS)
Mar 20254 mosJun 2025

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

• Delivered comprehensive RPO-based recruitment support, managing full-cycle hiring across enterprise technology, financial services, and business operations roles under defined RPO governance frameworks. • Executed end-to-end sourcing, multi-channel candidate engagement, competency-based screening, stakeholder management, and offer rollout within contractual SLA timelines. • Ensured rigorous compliance with client-specific governance frameworks, RPO process standards, data confidentiality protocols, and ICIMS-based ATS administration. • Conducted structured pre-joining engagement and onboarding coordination to ensure smooth candidate transitions and minimize offer-to-join attrition. • Generated performance dashboards, recruiter productivity reports, and pipeline analytics to support RPO delivery reviews and client governance meetings.
Software Pundits
Feb 20252 mosMar 2025

Remote

• Managed technical recruitment lifecycle for Cloud, DevOps, Data Engineering, and Full Stack Development roles, ensuring alignment with hiring manager expectations and project timelines. • Executed thorough technical screening, competency evaluation documentation, and structured stakeholder coordination to drive efficient offer-to-close cycles. • Maintained ATS tracking compliance and candidate data governance across Greenhouse and Zoho Recruit platforms. • Supported recruitment MIS reporting, pipeline status tracking, and structured candidate management for UST Global's active hiring mandates.
Wenger & Watson (Client: Hexaware Technologies)
Jun 20249 mosFeb 2025

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

• Led enterprise IT hiring mandates under a high-volume RPO engagement, managing complex niche and lateral roles across multiple technology domains and business units. • Coordinated and facilitated large-scale face-to-face recruitment drives and bulk hiring events — managing end-to-end logistics, panel coordination, and candidate experience. • Functioned as a senior RPO recruiter with elevated backend coordination responsibilities, mentoring and guiding a backend recruitment team of 25+ members on process adherence, quality standards, and SLA compliance. • Ensured strict SLA adherence, recruitment governance compliance, ATS process alignment, and client reporting accuracy across all active hiring pipelines.
Careernet
May 20213 yrs 2 mosJun 2024

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

• Spearheaded enterprise IT recruitment and RPO delivery across multiple industry domains, managing the full talent acquisition lifecycle from requisition intake through offer closure and onboarding. • Served as senior recruiter and RPO lead with strategic coordination responsibilities — overseeing a backend team of 25+ recruiters, ensuring process adherence, quality governance, and consistent SLA performance. • Partnered with enterprise clients to deliver structured RPO solutions, aligning recruiter capacity with client hiring calendars, workforce plans, and talent pipeline needs. • Maintained robust stakeholder relationships through proactive communication, escalation management, and timely progress reporting aligned to RPO governance frameworks. • Managed offer management workflows, interview coordination, documentation compliance, and candidate experience initiatives to drive high offer-to-join conversion rates.

Education

B.E, Computer Science

P.R. Engineering College

20144 yrs2018

Bachelor of Engineering, Computational Science

P.R. Engineering College

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Headline

Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist | Talent Acquisition Partner | Recruitment & HR Operations | RPO Delivery | Stakeholder Management | IT, BFSI, Automotive & Manufacturing Hiring

About

Talent Acquisition and HR professional with 5+ years of experience across IT Services, BFSI, Automotive, Manufacturing, Product Organizations, and Global Capability Centers. I specialize in end-to-end recruitment, talent sourcing, stakeholder management, workforce planning, candidate pipeline development, recruitment analytics, and HR operations. Throughout my career, I have successfully partnered with business leaders and hiring managers to identify talent needs, develop sourcing strategies, build talent pipelines, and deliver quality hiring outcomes within defined timelines. My experience spans enterprise hiring, RPO delivery, vendor management, recruitment governance, ATS administration, candidate experience enhancement, and recruitment reporting. I have worked with organizations including Hyundai AutoEver, Careernet, Wenger & Watson, Hexaware Technologies, Chola MS, and UST Global. Core Expertise: • Talent Acquisition • Talent Sourcing • Stakeholder Management • Recruitment Analytics • Candidate Experience • Workforce Planning • HR Operations • RPO Delivery • Vendor Management • ATS Platforms (Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Greenhouse, Zoho Recruit) Open to Talent Acquisition, Recruitment Leadership, HR Operations, RPO Management, and Talent Partner opportunities.

Location

Chennai

Work experience

People & Business Support - HR at Hyundai AutoEver, Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr, Chennai, • Manage the complete HR operations and talent acquisition lifecycle — encompassing requisition intake, job profiling, sourcing strategy design, candidate screening, structured interview coordination, offer negotiation, documentation management, and seamless onboarding. • Design and execute face-to-face and virtual recruitment drives with meticulous panel scheduling, candidate flow management, documentation verification, and structured feedback consolidation. • Collaborate with business heads and hiring managers on workforce planning, headcount alignment, manpower budgeting, and hiring prioritization to meet organizational growth objectives. • Own end-to-end HR operations functions including employee lifecycle management, HR policy implementation, statutory compliance adherence, and grievance handling and resolution. • Maintain comprehensive ATS data integrity and candidate pipeline governance using Workday and SAP SuccessFactors platforms; ensure 100% process compliance and audit readiness. • Develop and publish recruitment MIS reports, workforce dashboards, manpower utilization trackers, and pipeline analytics to enable data-driven hiring decisions. • Oversee Background Verification (BGV) coordination, pre-joining engagement, onboarding documentation, and new hire orientation in alignment with HR policy standards. • Manage staffing vendor relationships, monitor vendor performance metrics, assess submission quality, and enforce SLA adherence across all recruitment channels. • Drive recruitment governance compliance, internal audits, HR process documentation, and policy alignment across all hiring and HR operations verticals. • Support employee relations, policy communication, and HR advisory functions to promote a compliant and employee-centric work environment.

Consultant at Wenger & Watson (Client: Chola MS), Mar 2025 - Jun 2025 · 4 mos, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, • Delivered comprehensive RPO-based recruitment support, managing full-cycle hiring across enterprise technology, financial services, and business operations roles under defined RPO governance frameworks. • Executed end-to-end sourcing, multi-channel candidate engagement, competency-based screening, stakeholder management, and offer rollout within contractual SLA timelines. • Ensured rigorous compliance with client-specific governance frameworks, RPO process standards, data confidentiality protocols, and ICIMS-based ATS administration. • Conducted structured pre-joining engagement and onboarding coordination to ensure smooth candidate transitions and minimize offer-to-join attrition. • Generated performance dashboards, recruiter productivity reports, and pipeline analytics to support RPO delivery reviews and client governance meetings.

IT Recruiter at Software Pundits, Feb 2025 - Mar 2025 · 2 mos, Remote, • Managed technical recruitment lifecycle for Cloud, DevOps, Data Engineering, and Full Stack Development roles, ensuring alignment with hiring manager expectations and project timelines. • Executed thorough technical screening, competency evaluation documentation, and structured stakeholder coordination to drive efficient offer-to-close cycles. • Maintained ATS tracking compliance and candidate data governance across Greenhouse and Zoho Recruit platforms. • Supported recruitment MIS reporting, pipeline status tracking, and structured candidate management for UST Global's active hiring mandates.

Consultant at Wenger & Watson (Client: Hexaware Technologies), Jun 2024 - Feb 2025 · 9 mos, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, • Led enterprise IT hiring mandates under a high-volume RPO engagement, managing complex niche and lateral roles across multiple technology domains and business units. • Coordinated and facilitated large-scale face-to-face recruitment drives and bulk hiring events — managing end-to-end logistics, panel coordination, and candidate experience. • Functioned as a senior RPO recruiter with elevated backend coordination responsibilities, mentoring and guiding a backend recruitment team of 25+ members on process adherence, quality standards, and SLA compliance. • Ensured strict SLA adherence, recruitment governance compliance, ATS process alignment, and client reporting accuracy across all active hiring pipelines.

Associate Consultant at Careernet, May 2021 - Jun 2024 · 3 yrs 2 mos, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, • Spearheaded enterprise IT recruitment and RPO delivery across multiple industry domains, managing the full talent acquisition lifecycle from requisition intake through offer closure and onboarding. • Served as senior recruiter and RPO lead with strategic coordination responsibilities — overseeing a backend team of 25+ recruiters, ensuring process adherence, quality governance, and consistent SLA performance. • Partnered with enterprise clients to deliver structured RPO solutions, aligning recruiter capacity with client hiring calendars, workforce plans, and talent pipeline needs. • Maintained robust stakeholder relationships through proactive communication, escalation management, and timely progress reporting aligned to RPO governance frameworks. • Managed offer management workflows, interview coordination, documentation compliance, and candidate experience initiatives to drive high offer-to-join conversion rates.

Education

B.E, Computer Science, P.R. Engineering College

Bachelor of Engineering, Computational Science, P.R. Engineering College