DEEPAK BANSAL

Talent, People & Culture Leader

+91 9972609944 Recdeepak81@gmail.com
www.linkedin.com/in/deepak-bansal-db
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Key Highlights

# Start Up Enthusiast – Founded two organizations (Talentwiser (an HR company)), Alphafortress (Fintech Product)
# Leader with Global Exposure
# Talent Hiring Specialist – 16+ Years’ experience in creating robust hiring strategy plans for Tech. Product, Services &
Consulting based companies
# 10+ Years of Experience into Fintech/ BFSI domain

Professional Summary

 Seasoned professional with 16+ years of multicultural experience, excelling as a strategist, planner, and achiever. Proven track record
in spearheading Talent Acquisition, People & Culture, HR Operations, Compliance across diverse industries, including Tech,
software engineering, R&D, Sales, and Manufacturing.
 Spearheaded and delivered multiple projects on Talent Brand, Candidate Experience, Compliance Framework and Diversity & Inclusion.
 Recognized for driving growth, revenue, operational performance, and implementing robust risk management and controls.
Expertise extends to Global HR Shared Services Delivery, Consumer Banking, and Contact Center Operations, showcasing a consistent
commitment to excellence in Payroll, Compliance, and Data Management.
 10 + years of experience in HR Leadership and Strategy in Shared Services, Consulting, Product & Start-up Organizations.
 Implemented Talent Brand, deploy engaging content & monitor Employment Brand across social media. Been recognized as a
quick learner, mentor & coach. Strong passion & consistency in building a high-performance team.
 Competent in various TA techniques such as Shared Services, TA-AI, Headhunting, RPO, Proactive Hire, Talent Mapping etc.
also in Resource planning / RMG, Budgeting, and client. Stakeholder Management, Policy improvement & re-engineering.
 Mentored, Built & managed diverse teams and professionals. Largest span led- Team of upto 25 TA Specialists
 Have been instrumental in the implementation / Change Management of various Recruitment software tools (ATS) – Taleo,
Workday, SRS, FHRS, Greenhouse, Workable & Avature.
 Directly worked with business stakeholders- CEO/Founders, CTO’s, Head of Product, Head of Data, Head of Marketing/ Sales/
Growth, Head of legal, CHRO and other senior leaders to co-create talent strategies as per business/department priorities.
 Oversight provided for P&L, Cost Margin Control, Operational & Hiring Cost & Lateral Hiring.
 Qualified in mapping client requirements, scope management, resource allocation, RFP, risk management, effort &
cost estimation and negotiations aligned to pre-set guidelines.
 Bringing global working experience from Philippines, South Korea, Middle East, Africa, Hong Kong, Europe and USA

EDUCATION
AREA OF EXPERTISE
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MBA CGPA Operative Managerial Agile Smart
Anna University
2003-2005 Chennai, India. 7.5/10

BCA
Hiring Change Mgt. Resilient Assertive
Madras University 7.8/10
Opp. Mgt. Business Acumen Intuitive Tactful
2000-2003 Chennai, India Project/ Process Mgt. Strategic Thinker Innovator Negotiation

Achievements/ Initiatives and Accolades

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 Awarded –1 successful Shared Services at Samsung (South West Asia
& MEA)
 Best Recruiter of the Year – 2009;
 Team Order of Merit – 2015
 “Star of Quarter” - Sep 2009, Mar 2010, July 2012
 Conducted various training programs/workshops related to TA-AI,
Data analytics, new hiring techniques etc. Coaching & mentoring TA
Special Projects Initiatives  Graduation Scholarship by Indian Airforce Welfare Association
Core Competencies:

Talent Acquisition, Insights, & Sourcing Strategic Capacity Planning Candidate Experience

Cultural Competency and D&I Talent Development & Retention Process & Compliance

Stakeholder & People Management/ Employee Engagement/ R&R and Training & Development/ Employee
Change Management Performance Management Referral Programs

Employment Details
FIS Genpact UKG Apna Time HiLabs
Samsung Enterprenurship Feb'21- Tech
Headstrong Jun'23 - Oct '23
Dec'06-Oct'12 June'16-May'18 May'18-Feb'21
Oct'12-Oct'15 Apr'22 Apr'22- Jun'23

 HiLabs (TechProduct) Sr. Director HR -TA June’23-Oct’23

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Role – Dual Role : People, Culture & Talent Leader
Role Scope: Set up HR Function to streamline the Processes & build an organizational culture and Hiring Tech Engg. Team

Responsibilities:
 Managed the global Talent acquisition team for Hilabs and building multiple strategies for different countries across campus,
lateral and leadership hiring. Currently hiring for India & USA.
 Forecasting Talent Needs & Availability: Understanding workforce planning and resource forecasting by working with
the resourcing team to feed recruitment timelines.
 Established and grew the Recruitment function from scratch and enabled the team to drive the outcomes in alignment with
the business needs.
 Have done 80+ hires for tech as well as non tech roles over the 4 months through an inhouse team of recruiters.
 Build & designed the campus hiring team and executed multiple strategies across campuses for branding as well as hiring the
top talent across Tier 1 Engg. Colleges and Business schools.
 Led employer branding initiatives to ensure HiLabs is an employer of choice amongst the talent market.
 Led programs to ensure great candidate as well as employee experience.
 Process Redesign : Talent Acquisition , Onboarding, Candidate experience, Exit process & Employee Benefits
 Led multiple learning initiatives to ensure growth and learning for employees, leading to higher motivation.
 Establish and shape the organizational culture with the goal of creating an optimal workplace environment

 APNA Time Tech (HRTech Product) Director HR- TA April’22-June’23

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Role – People, Culture & Talent Leader
Role Scope: Hiring Tech & Non tech & set up HR Function to streamline the Processes & build an organizational culture.

Responsibilities:
 Stakeholder Management: Working with the Management to anticipate the organization’s future and working with senior
executives to advise on recruiting tactics that will help to sustain the company’s success.
 Coaching and Mentoring – Coached TA& HR team and business leaders to develop a growth mindset.
 Acted as Strategic Advisor to BU Heads & management. Manpower planning, budgeting, and Talent Acquisition -
tracked key metrics like time to hire, cost per hire, sourcing mix, turnover ratio, etc. for workforce planning and
estimations.
 Drive the D& I Charter for the organization, Inclusion being at the center of people and business strategy
 Shape the D& I strategy - define clear goals, metrics and actions that will enable the organization to achieve the strategy
and meet the objectives
 HR Analytics - Set up analytics practice to analyze Hiring Manager satisfaction, job satisfaction, wellness, pulse, e-NPS etc
 Employer Branding - Designed & implemented programs to promote the organization as an employer-of-choice and
represent the organization in various external branding events.
 Built strategies for talent performance and enablement to ensure a high-performance culture in the organization.
 Process Advisory: Streamlined HR Ops, Payroll & Statutory Compliance (0- 10 Journey)
 Talent Development & Succession Planning: Design and implement programs for the identification and development
of high potential talent - to build a pipeline of future leaders for the company.

 Ultimate Kronos Group- UKG (IT Product) Manager-TA (Engineering Leader) Feb’21- Apr’22
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Role - TA Leader for Ultimate Solutions
Role Scope: Setting up Engg. And R&D team in India to achieve product integration of Ultimate Solutions & Kronos
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 Established & ramped up a new Engineering Product team from 0 – 250 in 10 months.
 Maintained 90% Offer to Joining Ratio in FY 21’ – FY-22
 Alpha Frotress (Fintech Product) / TalentWiser (Talent Consulting). Founder & Director May’18 – Feb’21
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 To Build Recruitment Strategies: Identifying their organization’s needs and working with them to create and implement
an efficient talent acquisition strategy to improve recruitment and business performance.
 Market Research Data & Interpretation: Communicating with external sources, i.e. peer organizations, to acknowledge any
trends in recruitment and markets which could impact upon the business.
 Talent Attraction: Applying strategies to attract diverse candidates to all areas of the business.
 Institutional in building a product: FAZ Remit (Remittances Platform), KYC Block Chains, Bitsa (Crypto Platform)
 Institutional in growing revenue to 50 million (INR) business within 24 months from inception.
 Successful RPO establishment for, Clik.ai, Virtusa & Saviynt. Collectively ramped up a team of 500+ people in a Year across RPO
clients.
 Clients Onboarded: Product Clients: Clik.ai, Saviynt, Seimens, Biz 2 Credit, FOYR, Sign Catch (POS Product Company)
 Key Clients: Virtusa, Synechron Technologies, Saviynt, FOYR, Though Focus, Wipro, HP

 Samsung Electronics (Tech Engineering, Sales & Manufacturing) Chief Manager -TA June’16 – May’18
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Role - HR Shared Service Leader for Samsung (SWA & MEA),
Role Scope: Setting up Shared Services for Sourcing & BGC to achieve efficiency and drive process improvements.

Achievements:
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 Within 6 months, established & operations Shared Services in SWA & MEA Region (approx. 48 countries)
 Successfully completed Vendor Tail Consolidation activity globally achieving 80 vendors from an initial count of
190 vendors at the beginning of Sept 2018.
 Developed in-house ATS & later implementation experience of Work Day
 Reduced Vendor cost from 40% - 15% within 18 months of inception on Shared Services
 0% attrition in the TA team during 2 Years of tenure with Samsung

 Genpact Headstrong Capital Market (FINTECH Consulting) Sr. Manager- TA Oct’12 – Oct’15
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Role – TA Leader for Bangalore & Europe
Role Scope: Contributing to Org. Revenue by hiring right talent and to achieve efficiency and drive process improvements.
Achievements:
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 Improved offer to Joining Ratio from 58% - 82% by Introducing the POST OFFER Process & Zero Cost Branding
 Build AML / KYC Practice for Product Development – 1 of the dream projects of Leadership Team
 Reduced Vendor Cost from 30% to 10% within a year
 Employee referrals increased from 25% to 45%
 45/90/180◦ survey analysis for new hires in order to avoid early attrition – the quality of hires.
 Talent Acquisition team Retention was 99.95% for 3 Years

 Fidelity Information Services (Fintech Product.) Asst. Manager – T A Dec’06 – Oct’12

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Role – TA Leader for India & Philippines
Role Scope: Contributing to Org. Revenue by hiring right talent and to achieve efficiency and drive process improvements.
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 Grown a completely new location Centre from 0 – 150 People in Gurgaon in 12 months.
 Reduced Job Board (Naukri Cost) by 30% - Falcon Group (Unconventional hiring Team)
 Onsite Experience in the Philippines to set up a New Line of Business and BCP location in Bangalore.
 Build new Technology Business Centers at Gurgaon & Philippines. Build 300+ Technology professionals’ organization
in 14 months
 Managed mergers & acquisitions of 3 companies through Due Diligence, Policy & cultural integration and Transfer
of Undertaking and divestiture