Lakshmi Ramachandra

Key Responsibility: Total Talent Management Solution , Talent Acquisition, Talent Operations.

• The Talent /HR Specialist serving as a subject matter expert in recruitment and placement as well as serving an advisory role for HR and technical recruitment and placement actions.
• Managing teams for IT Product, Services and Federal Companies for Staffing and Recruitment needs, Vendor Management, Contract Management, Invoicing and Payrolls.
• Oversee life cycle faculty and staff recruitment.
• Working with Client Business leaders, hiring managers – understanding their talent need and fulfillment as per SLA.
• Managed & lead recruitment teams globally (onsite & offshore)
• Identify/resolve complex recruitment and placement issues.
• Proactively identify best practices and implement in team applicable as well as stay ahead of the curve with identifying areas needing improvement and taking action to advance operational excellence.
• Hands on Recruitment experience for hard to fill, senior & niche roles and conducting Video Interviews
• Excellent communication and ability to communicate with C-level executives & Advise stakeholders on HR / staffing needs.
• Develop appropriate talent acquisition and sourcing strategies, including the creation of effective job announcements and position descriptions, as well as ad placement strategies.
• Analyze and report human resources staffing data - Drive Governance Meeting – Tracking TA & recruiting activities and prepare weekly reports to business leaders as required/request on weekly and monthly.

Key Responsibility: Product & Program Management | Talent Management Solution and Talent Acquisition

• Managed multi-disciplinary IT & Talent teams both onsite and offshore
• Point of collaboration for senior leaders to align and support business goals
• Oversee divisional bidding pipeline, proposal support and Key Personnel, preparing for contract awards and transitions, and downstream impacts on recruitment workload
• Serve as a business partner with hiring managers to develop effective sourcing and recruitment strategies
• Talent acquisition: Identify future talent needs and pro-actively recruit and source; develop talent pool..

Key Responsibility: Core Talent Services Leadership Team: Talent Management Solution, Vendor Management, Contractor Management | Talent Acquisition | Contract Staffing

• As Executive Manager -Operations managed 25+ member team on Vendor Management and Contractor Management departments
• Responsible for designing the process and systems to manage all Talent related Vendor Relationships & Management
• Collaborating with Senior leadership across the organizational functions Globally and India - Talent Acquisition, HR, Procurement and Business leaders
• Vendor Management
• Vendor Strategy and Compliance Management
• Reporting, Performance Evaluation and Relationship Management
• Consolidated and managed a preferred supplier base for CTS
• Controls and Review (SLA & Productivity)
• Process Standardization & Improvement
• Contractor Management
• Manages the end-to-end contractor/Staffing fulfillment
• Duties include facilitating the Hiring & on-going management of contractors (onboarding, exits, extension, invoicing) |
• Analytics and Reporting of Contractors Costing & Saving

Key Responsibility: RPO Leadership Team, Talent Management Solution, Recruitment Processing Outsourcing, Talent Acquisition (Full Time, Staffing, Executive Search) ,P&L responsibility

• Duties included, , Business Development and Program Management in our Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) division
• Was responsible for building and driving business for the South (India) Region for Domestic and Global Clients
• Led the onsite and offsite recruitment teams to manage Talent Acquisition and Implementation
• Setup & grow the Recruitment Process outsourcing (RPO) Business for Flexability by AMS, India
• Managed the RPO business & Programs for South of India and Global clients
• Business Development | Recruitment Consulting Services Collaboration & building partnership with Alexander Mann, global RPO business partner on special projects
• Global program - Managing the RPO Program for Covidien India in Hyderabad and Gurgaon
• Successfully build the Onsite team, Implementation, Training & Transition
• Managing the Onsite & Offshore teams in Gurgaon and Hyderabad
• Handling all the operational escalation for India
• Team productivity, SLA, Process and New Initiatives

Key Responsibility: RPO Leadership Team, Talent Management Solution, Recruitment Processing Outsourcing, Talent Acquisition (Full Time , Staffing , Executive Search ) , P&L responsibility

• Established a first RPO client for Allegis Group, India (Successful in making the account a TOP and the most referenced Customer – MindTree India)
• Delivered 8000+ hires and built a Highest Revenue generating RPO account in 5 yrs (MindTree India)
• Managing the P&L (account), Stake holder management & Commercial negotiations (client & vendor)
• Chair for Monthly Governance Meeting with Customer and Internally
• Managed external partnerships with colleges, job boards and HR software vendors
• Defined Performance Metric for the team delivery based on Customer Expectation
• Forecast hiring needs based on business growth plans
• Defined and Implemented Value-based Pricing model (i.e
• Outcome based pricing based on Fulfillment, Source Mix, Conversion Ratio)
• Collaborated with Vendors partners and successfully implemented various Risk Reward delivery models
• Fulfillment as per customer SLA, 30 days for Offer Roll out and 60 days for Joining
• Implemented workflow Tools & Sub-systems, screening templates
• Defined and Introduced Post-Offer Follow-up Process to Reduce Offer drops out
• Introduced e assessment Selection process for entry level hiring
• Partnered with External Interviewer to cut in 1st Interview panel time.