Shambhavi (Sam) Awasthi

• Set-up internal Talent Acquisition function by centralizing sourcing and hiring, and establish recruitment functional objectives & roadmapFY24.
• Building, engaging active talent pipeline via strategic outreach, early talent cultivation programs, and localized solutions tailored to markets/functional needs as per Talent Persona.
• Develop, deploy and monitor the Talent Acquisition Transformation roadmap for Seeing Machines to drive cost effective hiring of the right skillset at the right time.
• Establish Recruitment KPIs and collaborate with key stakeholders on talent planning and forecasting to build and monitor hiring planning.
• Created effective talent acquisition training materials that supported culture and performance objectives of Seeing Machines e.g. setting DEI mandatory panel guidelines.

Achievements

• Negotiated and cleaned out vendor contracts with optimised sourcing channel packages leading to a saving of AUD 80k p.a in just 6 months.
• Successfully evaluated and replaced the legacy ATS with AI driven modern system, including automated sourcing APIs reducing time to hire by 40 days.
• Developed and delivered Hiring Manager training on "Unconscious Bias" to eliminate hiring biases that existed

• Led Talent Acquisition COE for FedEx APAC region, managing a team of 4 senior Talent Acquisition & Employer Branding consultants.
• Collaborated closely with all APAC Market recruitment teams and key business stakeholders to enhance and modernize Sourcing and Branding strategies for targeted hiring campaigns across APAC, such as Courier hiring in Australia, Executive talent attraction, South East Asia Global shared service centre hiring etc.
• Developed comprehensive process for new hires and reviewed new hire productivity, optimizing onboarding effectiveness.

Achievements:

• Led end to end successful development and launch of Employer Value Proposition for AMEA region
• Collaborated with SEA recruitment team to support hiring of 600 shared service agents in 3 months in-house, leading to a cost avoidance of 1mn USD on hiring.
• Ideated and Successfully launched Returnship Program for returning mothers within FedEx APAC workforce.

• Project lead for integration project for 7000+ team members for FedEx /TNT global acquisition across MEISA region
• Business Partnering with senior leaders in MEISA HQ at Dubai and led the HRBP team based across UAE, Egypt, Kuwait, Bahrain & Jordan, serving a regional workforce of 1300 team members
• Successfully led a cross functional team to drive HR modernization agenda in the region e.g. Workday system implementation in the region, Launch of no Performance Rating process

• Partner with global, regional, and country leaders to plan and deliver Culture transition objectives, for 7000 team members on culture value transition
• Lead implementation for workforce reorganization project to right size to achieve Right Cost to Serve for business resulting in savings of USD4.8mn for the region
• Established Organizational effectiveness interventions across Middle East and India, Job Evaluations, Job Framework governance.

• Addressed customer inquiries, requests and complaints with courtesy and professionalism.
• Consulted with customers on individual needs and offered solutions aligned with individual situations and preferences.
• Reviewed information in customer accounts and made recommendations for new products and services.

• Successfully led and won the FedEx chairman award 2011 for leading the AFL/UFL entity acquisition for FedEx in India for about 1200 team members,
• Operated under Agile and Scrum frameworks to complete releases and well-organized sprints.