Director Talent Acquisition, Vice President, Recruiting, Staffing

Amit Surana

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Summary:

23+ years of Talent Acquisition/HR/Business experience in Fortune 500 and private organizations. Strategic,

collaborative and experienced leader with successful track record of building high performance teams and exceeding

goals, objectives, change initiatives, and implementing systems which delivered multimillion dollar operating

savings. Experienced in High Tech, Engineering, Medical, Financial, Corporate and niche markets/industries. Willing

to relocate and/or travel.

Senior Director Talent Acquisition – BAE Systems, Inc (LON:BAE) - 9/2011-Present

• Direct all aspects of recruiting services, operations and strategy for a team of 75 + recruiting professionals

(COE TA) supporting a global multibillion-dollar organization with 35,000+ employees. Implemented

harmonization practices companywide for a decentralized organization into a shared service. Partner with

HR and business leaders to achieve recruitment goals for all business areas and all skill sets (technology,

cyber, engineering, corporate, blue collar, niche, etc).

• Reduce time to fill by half. Responsible for 6000+ hires per year for a globally diverse, matrix and niche

company portfolio of programs, which resulted in increased revenue and operating efficiency.

• Establish strategic sourcing pipelines for all programs in the company, full life cycle-recruiting, proposal

efforts, college, military and diversity & inclusion, security clearance, and workforce plans.

• Successfully directing short/long term strategy and branding as related to optimizing hiring for company’s

varied work force requirements.

• Directed implementation of new Applicant Tracking System, Onboarding, Pre-Employment Investigation

Integration, Social Media, Referral Program and Career Site. Subject Matter Expert in optimizing applicant

tracking systems and HRIS/data, which resulted in hiring optimization for the company with advance

technology.

• Created a complete new set of TA metrics/dashboards/executive dashboard to ensure a performance

management culture for each business area and established a solid partnership between TA/HR/HM.

Implementing a data warehouse solution for TA metrics/reports.

• Cleared up legacy double digit OFCCP and DCAA audits and brought the organization into compliance,

without any fiscal penalties in collaboration with WRC. Saved company from tens of millions of potential

fines.

• Train, coach, and mentor a world class TA team: TA Managers, Lead Recruiters, Recruiters, Sourcers,

Recruiting Analyst, etc.

Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition - Northrop Grumman (NYSE:NOC) - 3/2006 – 9/2011

• Manage the staffing and proposal needs for $1 billion business area and successfully supported Health

Industry, Federal/Civilian Markets and Corporate Priority Programs. Led the strategy and recruitment for the

organic growth of the business development and leadership team for the Health Business Line to include all

health related government agencies (HHS, SSA, Medicare, Veteran, Military, etc).

• Established companywide harmonized practice for requisition writing and TA support for all bid/proposal

efforts and other process and reporting efficiencies.

• Partner with legal, compensation, security, contracts, pricing and other functional areas to support talent

acquisition function.

• Color team/gate reviews. Manage and mentor a team of recruiters.

• Develop in house staffing tool-kit to be utilized by staffing to assess, develop and facilitate proposal support,

graphics, contingent hiring, story boards, etc.

• Developed and promoted university, military, veteran and diversity hiring initiatives.

President - P2B Consulting Inc. - 1/2001 – 3/2006

• Staffing Agency providing contingent and retained services to Fortune 500 and private organizations for

financial, medical, technology and engineering skills. Managed staff of 10. Niche markets included:

security clearance requirements, CxO position, senior sales professionals, Information Security and medical

professionals.

Director – Kundan Construction and Real Estate Development – 2/1998 – 12/2000

HR, Accounting and Operations Director

• Developed the business plan and conducted due diligence studies to develop a 300 single-family housing

community and commercial unit plan overseas. Hired management team and established policy and

procedures for the company and pre-built 10 model homes. Managed over 20 FTE and 50 plus contractors.

International recruiting experience.

Vice-President - Sajan Inc - 2/1992–2/1998

HR, Sales, Accounting and Operations

• Multi-million dollar vertically integrated photographic business primarily providing services and supplies to

government contracts, high profile clients and major corporations. Managed staff of 25 FTE’s. Managed

over $3 million dollar annual procurement budget. Prepared winning multi-million dollar government bids.

Contract management, account/finance, technology (beta-testing of product prior to implementation),

business planning, negotiate agreements (Kodak, Fuji and Polaroid). Niche market photographic industry

recruiting.

Contract HR – Deloitte Consulting (DH&S) - 5/1989-8/1989

• Human resource tasks for the partners of the company.

Education

Masters of Science – University of Miami - 1996

Bachelors of Science – University of Miami - 1993

SKILLS

Recruiting: Kenexa (Brassring), Taleo (Vurv), Hodes iQ, AIRS, IQN, other ATS, HRIS and Reporting tools, MCSE

TRAVEL

Continental US, Hawaii, Europe, Asia, Middle East, Singapore, Indonesia and India.

OTHER

ReSIs Selection Committee – 2015 (Recruiting Service Innovation Awards Selection Committee)

Director – Non Profit Organization – American Physical Fitness Foundation

BAE Chairman’s Award – Process Improvement ATS

Coaching and Mentoring – Center for Creative Leadership – San Diego, CA

US Citizen – born in New Jersey

Security Clearance – Active Top Secret

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