Yash Wagh
Pune
Summary
A global leader with more than 13 years of experience in design and implementation of organizational strategy for Talent acquisition and Talent planning. Hands-on recruiter and business partner specializing in the IT, ITeS and Consulting space. A passionate HR professional who believes in implementing best practices across the candidate and employee life cycle.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Associate Director - Talent Growth
Searce Inc.
12.2023 - 09.2024
- Led the Talent Acquisition team for Software engineering, Applied AI and Data Analytics business units in India and APAC region.
- Played the role of a consultant to Business unit leaders by providing market intelligence on Talent pool availability, design and execution of resource delivery plans and by understanding their talent needs in-depth.
- Managed customer relations along with internal stakeholders by representing the TG team for customer meetings, handling grievances and recommending solutions.
- Hired for bulk as well as niche roles across levels ranging from campus to leadership.
- Built vendor and RPO relations keeping costs and budgets in control
- Designed the employee value preposition with the help of branding and marketing teams to position Searce as a preferred employer of choice.
- Drove the campus program for Tier 1 and Tier 2 institutes ( Engineering and B-Schools )
- Designed a comprehensive dashboard for BU leaders focusing on Talent Acquisition operations, effort estimations, Talent pipeline, Talent forecasts based on business projections.
Senior Vice President, People and Culture
Winjit Technologies
03.2018 - 07.2023
- Member of the global leadership team of Winjit including APAC, EMEA and USA.
- Designed the Talent Acquisition and Talent management process as Head of HR and the Resource management group(RMG)
- Worked closely with global Clients and Business leaders to forecast and deploy right resources at the right time and within budgets.
- Identified and hired global leadership roles with technology and functional expertise such as Head of sales for USA, Head of Technology Operations for South Africa
- Partnered with BU heads to define resource pricing based on Fixed price /T&M / cost plus models
- Acted as consultant to the board of directors to provide market intelligence on resource trends, compensation, competitor analysis, hiring trends and patterns.
- Mentored teams to design BI dashboards using Power BI to make data driven decisions for talent planning
- Lead RPO engagements and took decisions on allocation of open roles to internal and RPO partners.
- Made the build vs buy decisions related to investment in systems such as HRMS, ATS.
- Represented the People and Culture function at client meetings both in India and overseas.
- Partnered with legal teams to design, draft and execute statutory and non-statutory policies, SOWs, RFPs, MSAs and vendor agreement to ensure a standard of corporate governance
- Implemented and optimized applicant tracking systems (ATS) and HRMS tools to streamline processes, improve data analytics, and enhance recruitment efficiency
- Worked with the Board of directors in defining compensation bands basis revenue forecasts and external benchmarking initiatives.
- Defined organization structure, job levels, reporting mechanisms, career road-map , job descriptions across levels globally
- Designed and implemented policies with respect to internal mobility of resources based on business cycles, revenue forecasts, and potential opportunities
- Designed the competency framework of the organization.
- Designed and implemented an innovative point based PMS system to ensure career growth and transparency.
- Innovated and executed plans to promote the Centre of Excellence(Best practices) across various sub-functions of People and culture.(HRBP)
- Tracked and reported key HR performance metrics of strategic Business units, conduct training needs analysis and design a strategic training plan for respective business units.
- Conducted detailed analytics on Attrition and suggested control measures.
- Designed and implemented the employee engagement and retention strategy at Business unit levels.
- Managed performance of a team consisting of 16 HR professionals.
- Enhance focus and allocate budgets on candidate experience, employer branding, diversity, and sustainability to transform the Talent Acquisition function into a Talent Partner function
- Define metrics and benchmarks for cost optimization, ROI on systems.
Senior Associate Lead - HRD
Infosys BPM
11.2014 - 03.2018
- Responsible for volume and niche hiring across levels for business units namely Software engineering, Retail- CPG /Sourcing and Procurement /Sales and Fulfillment Analytics, Service Delivery Quality, Project Accounting, Asset Management, Revenue Assurance, Financial planning and Analysis.
- Worked with stakeholders from the business to formulate resource deployment plans and fulfillment strategy.
- Provided stakeholders with strategic data on resource pool availability , defined delivery timelines.
- Lead the Talent Acquisition team to identify leadership talent through social media channels with niche skills.
- Designed and Implemented Employee Referral programs, branding initiatives to drive internal sourcing for volume resource requirements.(Accounts Payables, Accounts Receivables, General ledger)
- Managed a team of 8 HR professionals ( TA +HRBP ) for the AI, Analytics and BFSI Vertical which includes: Conducting weekly meetings with stakeholders from Business in order to: Understand Job Description, identify technical and behavioral competencies and build resource delivery plans.
HR Manager
Alliance Constructions
07.2012 - 10.2014
- Drafted and implemented Talent Acquisition processes and company policies encompassing End to end employee life cycle.
- Identified and workEd closely with commercial vendors on deciding time of possession, commercials, details of agreement etc
- Identified and hired both onsite and corporate office personnel.
- Identified and maintained strong relations with right contractors who could help scale up/down operations as per stages/speed of project completion.
- Set up project specific execution teams for 3 commercial and 2 township projects for India and UAE.
- Prepared resource forecasting plans based on upcoming project inventory
- Liaise with Tier 2 and 3 engineering institutes to execute campus hiring strategy.
HR Executive
KPMG India
06.2011 - 06.2012
- Joined as Management trainee as part of campus placement.
- Shadow the talent acquisition and talent planning team to understand resourcing techniques, learn hands-on recruitment on the ground, managing stakeholders and candidate expectations.
- Headhunt /Explore Job Portals (Monster, Naukri, Indeed, LinkedIn etc.) to source an for the Tax, Audit and Advisory practice (Software engineers, CA, ICWA, CS etc.) in India
- Initiated and built strong vendor relations as part of contingency hiring plans.
- Conducted fortnightly Induction program.
- Scope of role increased when given end to end responsibility to drive the talent acquisition function for the BGV practice under the risk and compliance business.
- Hired 78 laterals and 30 freshers with 2 team members over a period of 6 months
- Maintain MIS dashboards for reporting (Excel based) on resource fulfillment to key stakeholders.
- Ideate employee engagement activities along with the business partner HR team.
- Shadow the resource management group to understand manpower forecasting and allocation methodology.
Education
Masters in business administration - Human Resources Development
Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies
Pune, India06-2010
Bachelor in Business Administration - Business Administration
Symbiosis Centre For Management Studies (UG)
Pune, India06-2008
HSC - Commerce
BYK College of Commerce
Nashik, India06-2005
SSC -
Fravashi Academy
Nashik, India06-2003
Skills
- Global talent acquisition
- Use of AI hiring tools
- Design resource fulfillment strategy
- Allocate hiring budgets
- Volume hiring
- Leadership hiring
- Campus hiring
- Team management
- Stakeholder management
- Customer relationship management
- Talent planning
- Performance management
- Employer branding
- Enhance Candidate experience
- Improve employee value preposition
- Maintain Diversity, equity and inclusion
Websites
Extracurricular Activities
- Represented Maharashtra State at 49th School National Badminton Games held at Surat and Bagged Bronze Medal in Team Event.
- Bagged Silver Medal in Boys Doubles and Bronze Medal in Boys Singles at Krishna Khaitan Memorial National Badminton tournament.
- Represented Nashik District at Maharashtra Badminton League held in Pune in January 2015.
Visa
Valid US Visa (B1/B2)
Additional Information
HR40UnderForty by Jombay 2019
Awarded as one of the top 40 HR professionals under the age of 40 in India over an in-person and virtual assessment lasting 3 months.
Mentor - HR30UnderThirty Jombay • 2023
Selected as a mentor and panelist to evaluate over 300 participants in Jombay’s initiative to identify top 30 HR professionals under the age of 30.
Acquisition by RIB Software SE.
Winjit Technologies • 2022
Spearheaded talent planning and executed the hiring plan as part of the acquisition of Winjit Technologies by RIB Software SE(Germany) - Ramped up headcount from 200 to 800 in a span of 2 months.
Established the Pune development centre. Winjit Technologies • 2019
Set up the Pune development Centre consisting of 100 FTE(Base location) within a span of 1 month
Infosys BPM • 2017
Received appreciation awards from key clients Akzo Nobel and Netapp for before time fulfillment of bulk talent needs.
Project Transcend (India, South Africa, USA)
Winjit Technologies • January 2019 - January 2020
• Designed a new and agile Talent management structure with clearly defined road map for career progression, role definitions and KRAs. • Redefined job descriptions from ground way up to make them more relevant and exciting.
• Designed and implemented a new rewards and recognition strategy - Winspire
• Designed an L&D initiative to incentivise learning initiatives taken by employees – WinFlex
TAFe (Australia)
Infosys BPM • April 2017 - June 2017
• Deployed onsite to Sydney, Australia for a hiring assignment for one of the key clients
• Hired 175+ lateral employees in skill sets ranging from AP, AR, GL and CA in a span of 3 months. • Contributed to setting up of the first F&A team for the client.
Project Winverse (India)
Winjit Technologies • March 2022 -June 2023
• Implemented an end-to-end HRMS with a specialized crack team with major module focus on Employer branding and Employee engagement
• Achieved cost optimization by redeploying 4 existing FTEs from the HR ops teams to other functions
• Achieved 22% ROI through building efficiencies across TA value chain including candidate experience, onboarding and reduction in cost per hire.
Languages
English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Hindi
Advanced (C1)
Marathi
Advanced (C1)
Timeline
Associate Director - Talent Growth
Searce Inc.
12.2023 - 09.2024
Senior Vice President, People and Culture
Winjit Technologies
03.2018 - 07.2023
Senior Associate Lead - HRD
Infosys BPM
11.2014 - 03.2018
HR Manager
Alliance Constructions
07.2012 - 10.2014
HR Executive
KPMG India
06.2011 - 06.2012
Masters in business administration - Human Resources Development
Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies
Bachelor in Business Administration - Business Administration
Symbiosis Centre For Management Studies (UG)
HSC - Commerce
BYK College of Commerce
SSC -
Fravashi Academy
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