Arun Raghavan

About Arun Raghavan

Azure Cloud & DevOps Engineer with hands-on experience building and automating secure…

Experience

1. Staffing Manager

   Publicis Sapient

   Aug 2021 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   As a POD Lead, I manage one of the biggest domains wherein I am responsible for • Bench Management, Performance Management, Upskilling and Cross Skilling as well as planning pipeline Quarter on Quarter based on past trends and the Bench scenario on ground.• Bench Engagement and work towards allocating projects to people on Bench.• Planning change of project for Billable folks for various professional and personal reasons. • Understanding and analyzing the professional aspirations of employees and match them to projects which would help them grow from a skills perspective. My inter personal skills and my multi linguistic capabilities also help employees connect with more openness and trust. • Analyzing any performance gaps with the employees based on feedbacks from the projects and take corrective action in the form of Training or Counseling• Being on top of the information pertaining to the strong and weak skills specific to each employee so that it helps in mapping them to needs accordingly apart from planning the training for employees wherever there is a need. • Being the Point Of Contact for projects for fulfillment of open needs and sync up with the Project Managers and Project Leads to analyze plan for upcoming needs.• Understanding the skills required and planning the fulfillment by optimizing bench or by looking at other avenues such as training or Hiring & Contracting• Understanding the criticality of open positions from a billability point of view while applying the lens of the type of engagement (FPC \\ TnM, etc.) for prioritization.• Understanding the Line of Business of the clients to assess the leverage we have to fulfill a position.

Skills

• Bench Mapping
• Resource Mobilization
• Resource Management
• Leadership
• Onboarding
• IT Recruitment
• Vendor Management
• Temporary Placement
• Performance Management
• Crm
• Interviews
• Resource Allocation
• Management
• Resourcing
• Employee Relations
• Human Resources
• Business Development
• Recruiting
• Pre-Sales
• Data Mapping
• Business Analysis
• Technical Recruiting
• Sdlc
• Benefits Negotiation
• IT Sourcing
• Talent Acquisition
• Networking
• Screening
• Sourcing
• Team Management
• Resource Billing
• Microsoft Office
• Walk-Ins
• Analysis