Sheikh Ommar

Providing thought leadership with the goal of adding value to the recruiting teams globally at Bain

Joined with the goal of helping Bain's Advanced Analytics Group (AAG) thrive in the space of data science, engineering, customer insights, statistics, and machine learning for the purpose of helping customers across industries solve their greatest challenges.

Centered on recruiting in Australia, New Zealand, and South Korea and the middle-east with a view to contributing to the expansion of the Greater APAC region, thus helping to fulfill Bain's vision for South Asia

• Joined Databricks as their first Talent partner in India, spearheading sales recruiting efforts for India region across levels
  Providing talent advisory on hiring best practices and partnering with leaders across levels in order to fulfill their hiring needs in a timely manner
  Focussed on building sales & customer Engagement teams in India from scratch
  Build India Enterprise sales and sales development teams from scratch
  Added new members to India Digital Native business team from direct competitions
  I worked closely with Hiring Managers across APAC region added around 50 new people to the overall sales and customer engagement teams
  Some of the notable achievements are:
  Q3 2021 - 90% (first quarter)
  Q4 2021 - 117 %
  Q1 2022 - 212%

• Part of Strategic talent attraction and sourcing team,
• Acted as brand ambassador to educate candidates on culture, career growth, benefits and advantages of working for company.
• Sourced and screened candidates for Sales & G&A roles and worked with hiring managers to coordinate interviews, offers and onboarding.
• Studied talent assessment data to determine best fit for positions across businesses.
• Developed communication and marketing plan and leveraged talent acquisition tools, resources and campaigns to source and attract top talent.
• Analyzed recruiting metrics to share reports and recommendations with stakeholders.
• Prepared talent maps and deduced org charts utilizing publicly available information about different teams

• Driving sales recruiting efforts for India/APAC/ME - Hiring top-notch sales & marketing professionals and selling event management software suite to various industry sectors
• Provided end-to-end hiring partnership for newly established Sales offices in the Middle East and APAC
• Brought down hiring cost by 50% by employing innovative sourcing methodologies - Introduced and utilized an AI-based recruiting exchange for sourcing support Vs the traditional recruiting consultants
• I oversaw full-cycle recruiting and filled around 15-20 roles each quarter across levels
• Maintained in-depth understanding of software industry trends and hiring desires.

• Generated specific candidate pool for career opportunities through strategic placement of advertisements, evaluation of applicant credentials, and conducting initial interviews and pre-screening assessments.
• Led a team of 15 tech sourcers & recruiters was responsible for their delivery & performance
• Explore Innovative means or methods as per staffing plan, to leverage various sourcing channels in order to achieve the recruitment targets
• Implement existing assessment tools and frameworks and suggest best practices to ensure quality and consistency in selection process
• Serve as a single point of contact for matters related to recruits from the time of acceptance to the time of joining in order to generate better conversion ratios and applicant delight

• Manage Full Recruitment Life cycle from Sourcing to on boarding of consultants/ Employees
• Recruiting IT Professionals of various levels for contract and permanent roles and manage them on project with effective redressal of their day to day issues or grievances
• Mentoring junior recruiters and provide them effective training to get them up to speed
• Interacting with hiring managers to understand the requirements in order to ensure delivery of quality human resources
• Coordination of interviews and feedback from clients and conveying same to the applicants
• Building pipeline of candidates with the help of social networking
• Introduced and advocated the need for revamping/replacing the existing applicant tracking system to a more user friendly and efficient ATS which led to 20-30% increase in overall productivity

• Followed up with notable applicants sourced via industry-specific pipelines, events and job fairs.
• Generated specific candidate pool for career opportunities through strategic placement of advertisements, evaluation of applicant credentials, and conducting initial interviews and pre-screening assessments.
• Led a team of recruitment professionals and mentor them to get to develop the next level of understanding within the domain.
• Performance management: Responsible for monitoring and managing the performance of all my direct reports
• Plan and organize resources for current work and forecast future needs.
• Work to attract the best talent to my team and minimize any turn-over in my team