Sunitha Kumar

About Sunitha Kumar

A passionate Talent Recruitment professional with over 16 years of experience demonstrating a strong working knowledge in all facets of HR functions with a primary focus on Recruitments. A visionary and a strong believer in exhibiting a high sense of commitment in handling multiple projects. Lead and manage high volume hiring through robust recruiting strategies, lead the team and maintain close working relationships with candidates, HR leaders, and business stakeholders. Domains: Banking & Financial Services, Product/Network Engineering, Infrastructure, Telecom/Media, Energy & UtilitiesSkill Focus: AWS, Kubernetes, Robotics Process Automation (RPA), Data Science, AI/ML, Big data, Cybersecurity, ERP and Network systems, Application Development - C/C++, Dotnet, Java (Front end/ Full Stack, Middleware, POS), Dotnet, Pega, Business Intelligence, ServiceNow, Product/ Project Managers, Enterprise Architecture and Global Infrastructure.

Experience

1. Talent Acquisition, Senior Manager - Technology and Product

   Verizon

   Mar 2019 — Present · Basking Ridge, NJ, US

   Lead and drive end-to-end full-cycle recruitment adopting the best practices.• Mentoring the talent team with sourcing and recruitment strategies. • Collaborate with Human Resources Business Partners (HRBP) to lead and implement hiring plans for complex roles, perform extensive data analysis to address the demand and availability of talent pool for long and short term needs. • Adhere to staffing process compliance requirements.• Act as a talent advisor and provide a premium candidate experience, influence hiring managers and other key stakeholders to ensure attraction of top talent while identifying any gaps.• Leverage cross-functional Talent Acquisition Center of Excellence (COE), DEI (Diversity Equality & Inclusion) and Military recruitment, Operations, Recruitment marketing etc. to analyze the labor trends and market intelligence/analytics to augment efforts to build a network of diverse talent. • Manage and draw different recruitment strategies to attract qualified passive candidates from social networking, open source networks and technical steering committees (TSC)• Partner with external organizations – Codility to launch online assessment test for external candidates.• Partner with senior leadership from different orgs to create and launch their success stories in career portals to create the brand awareness. • Effective use of internal and external sourcing tools - Talemetry, LinkedIn Recruiter, Hiretual (AI sourcing tool), and National partnership sites for diversity.• Build partnerships with local community organizations to diversify the candidate database.• Lead resume writing workshops for internal employees across various VP/SVP orgs.• Talent Focus: AWS, Kubernetes, Data Science, Big data, Java/ Microservices, FullStack, Cybersecurity, Network Engineering, Salesforce, ERP and Network systems, SRE, Robotics Process Automation (RPA), SDN (Opendaylight), Redhat Openshift, Cloud Computing, ServiceNow.

Education

• Dowling College

  MBA, Human Resources and Finance

  2006 — 2007

• Stella Maris College

  B.Com, Marketing/HR

  2001 — 2004