Dinesh Kumar

About Dinesh Kumar

Overall, 5 years of experience in US IT Recruitment and Talent Acquisition/ HR Ops for…

Experience

1. Senior Executive Talent Acquisition

   Photon

   Aug 2022 — Present · Chennai, IN

   Lead and manage a small team of recruiters, mentoring them on best practices in sourcing, screening, and client interaction to ensure delivery excellence.• Responsible for handling HR functions focusing on End-to-End recruitment, starting from identify/procure demands from Delivery Team/stakeholder/client till delivery.• Responsible for overall management of maintaining the Demand-Supply as per ever-changing demands for fulfillment of open positions for the highest revenue-generating account for the company. Ensure on-time delivery exploiting various options for expediting results.• Provided leadership in handling the entire Staff Augmentation/Replacement/Biding positions.• Prioritized demands based on the criticalness, addressing them with quick turnaround time (<TAT).• Hands-on sourcing for contract and Fulltime fulfillment (using various sourcing channels: Job boards, LinkedIn Recruiter Premium, Naukri, Employee referral, ATS - Oracle HCM Taleo) ensured procurement costs remain below target budgets to avoid exception margin approval.• Spearheaded adoption of Agile-based recruitment model using JIRA, driving accountability and faster delivery.• Led ripple hiring initiatives for the internal employee referral program.• Worked for the company’s most profitable account (Healthcare, Retail e-commerce, Banking) and delivered quality candidates across Digital technologies including Full stack (Web and Mobile), Cloud, e-commerce, Testing, Business Intelligence, Security etc.(Includes Architect\'s, Lead/Developer, QA, PM, PgM, Scrum/BA, DevOps, Engineering roles).• Worked on niche skills and successfully closed critical positions for high-priority accounts.• Extensive experience in vendor management/empanelment, new vendor onboarding by executing VSA/MSA. • Successfully liaised with sales/account managers for timely and successful fulfillment of demand and directly liaised with client personnel and candidates to ensure a smooth workflow.

Education

• Anna University Chennai

  Master of Business Administration - MBA, Human Resource

  2017 — 2019