Deepa Moraparaju

About Deepa Moraparaju

Accomplished talent acquisition professional with extensive experience in managing end-to-endrecruitment processes across diverse industries, including technology and IT services. Proven expertise in developing and executing talent acquisition strategies, leveraging social mediarecruiting, and utilizing applicant tracking systems to source high-caliber candidates.Demonstrated success in leading diversity and inclusion initiatives, enhancing employer brandingstrategies, and fostering long-term relationships with stakeholders.Adept at coaching and mentoring teams, driving employee engagement, and optimizingonboarding processes. Committed to advancing leadership development and cross-cultural understanding within organizations.

Experience

1. Associate Manager Talent Acquisition

   Tech Mahindra

   Dec 2018 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

   Responsibilities• Partner with Delivery Heads to forecast and validate short-term and long-term demand.• Align talent supply (internal bench, external hiring, ELTP pipeline) to project needs.• Prioritize critical roles to reduce delivery risk and revenue slippage• Drive bench deployment and reskilling strategies to optimize internal workforce.• Maintain weekly bench reports and utilization dashboards.• Collaborate with practice units for cross-training or redeployment of critical skills.• Coordinate with Recruitment teams to track sourcing progress, offer rollouts, and onboarding status.• Escalate sourcing bottlenecks and facilitate resolution through vendor management or alternate sourcing plans.• Monitor recruitment SLAs and quality of hires.• Plan and track onboarding, training, and deployment of ELTPs aligned to business needs.• Ensure ELTPs are allocated to suitable engagements post-training.• Work with L&D to assess readiness and bridge skill gaps.• Identify fulfilment delays and talent gaps that could impact delivery or revenue.• Proactively flag risks and work with stakeholders to mitigate them.• Ensure timely backfilling to minimize billing loss.• Serve as a single point of contact between delivery, recruitment, HR, and finance for workforce topics.• Present weekly supply-demand dashboards to Delivery Heads.• Conduct monthly PSC reviews with Delivery Leadership.

Education

• Osmania University

  Bachelor's in Computer Application

  2001 — 2004