POOJA SONI

**** ***** *****

Mason, OH *****

513-***-****

adiill@r.postjobfree.com

EXPERIENCE:

****- *******: Self Employed: Own an Indian Clothing business Responsibilities:

Sourcing Merchandise

Vendor Management

Sourcing new vendors

Advertising, promotions, Marketing

Client Management

Bookkeeping, Accounts Payable & Receivable.

2017-2019: Astra Consulting Services – Principal Consultant ( Part Time) Astra Consulting Services is a boutique staffing company run by team of professionals with extensive experience in executive search. Our strengths include identifying mid-to-senior level positions, globally, and across industries, through our intensive search methodology and market mapping.

Present: Self Employed: Own an Indian Clothing business Responsibilities:

Sourcing Merchandise

Vendor Management

Sourcing new vendors

Advertising, promotions, Marketing

Client Management

Bookkeeping, Accounts Payable & Receivable.

2008-2010: Part time virtual recruiter for an Indian company for their US based positions.

Team lease Services - August 2005 - December 2007

Title: Sr. Manager Sourcing (Group Leader)

Led the ITES & BFSI verticals. Overall managed the delivery of 11 Sr. Consultants and a Team Leader, whose primary mandates involved middle, Sr. Management and Search positions.

Managed a diverse portfolio of ITES (IBM, Converges, Operations positions in India), BFSI (Banking Financial Services), Travel and Media Clients. Searching candidates for financial positions and Operations positions). Managed a team that was Awarded for the “BEST CANDIDATES PRESENTED”

• Responsible for induction and training of new candidates (Process, Behavioral)

• Responsible for motivating team members

• Planning and coordinating new strategies to improve recruiting activities of the team

• Managing some of the key clients for the organization.

• Handling search positions independently for the ITES (IBM, Converges,)clients. Successfully closed strategic top Management positions in number of top five BPO Companies.

Corporate Catalysts – Recruitment Company

Title: Team Lead - Sept 2002- July 2005

Worked with Corporate Catalysts in the capacity of a Team Leader leading the ITES/BPO domain. Responsible for all of Senior and Middle Managerial level recruitment in ITES Domain along with client management and business development

Responsibilities Included:

• Responsible for the End-to-End Recruitment Life Cycle, for ITES domain.

• Researching, identifying, evaluating & inducting appropriate candidates at the right time

• Responsible for maintaining good rapport with clients, by planning client meetings, understanding business requirements, and delivering within timelines.

• Working with niche skills such as Corporate Strategy, Enterprise Quality, Client Relation Management, training, etc

• Ensuring complete follow up with prospective candidates until they complete all rounds of interviews and then following through with reference checks and salary negotiation.

Accomplished Middle Managerial to Senior Managerial level placement at EXL Service, Teletech, Vertex, Newquest BPO, Wipro BPO, Varkey Group (Dubai). Credit Solutions Associations – (Providing Credit Cards to people with Credit Issues)

Walnut Creek, CA USA - August 2001-April 2002

Designation: Underwriter

CSA is a company comprising of 37 offices Nationwide and Corporate processing center based in Florida (USA) involved with Credit building for clients through marketing and sales of CSA Visa and MasterCard offering clients an opportunity to establish credit and build credit worthiness.

Responsibilities Included:

• Processing Applications from the clients

• Underwriting and making a decision of approving the credit card.

• Making outbound calls to customers in late stage delinquency of various high profile private credit-label portfolios

• Involved in Marketing and Sales of credit cards and financial counseling.

• Responsible for Credit Card collections in Consumer Collections Global Enterprises Financial Services – Debt Consolidation -- Dec 1999-August 2001

Designation: Credit Counselor

GEFS is a Debt Consolidation firm helping people to reduce debt by restructuring and consolidating existing loans and various credit card debt into one monthly payment at a reduced rate of interest.

Responsibilities Included

• Co-coordinating with Card Service Center, Florida, USA for assistance Help- Line in the daily operations

• Managing customer base of credit card holders consisting of personal and corporate memberships.

• Personal interaction with customers through Escalated calls, handling irate customers, solving disputes and customer issues.

• Imparting process training/soft skills training to new recruits in the new offices and was handling the back office operations for the same.

• Making outbound calls to customers in late stage delinquency of various high profile private credit-label portfolios

People Staffing Inc. (Recruiting) –Basic HR Consultancy Work Designation: HR Consultant - Duration: April 1999- Dec1999 People Staffing Inc. was involved in recruiting H1B professionals from overseas to cater to the acute shortage of Information Technology industry with in the United States. The company was mainly dealing with Banks and Telecom industry. Responsibilities Included:

• Prescreening the candidates based in India, Philippines, China, Vietnam etc.

• Prescreening Adhering to the job requirement.

• Arranging for documentation through concerned consulates required for travel by the professionals.

• Single point of contact for the HR heads of the client companies.

• Placed some senior management professionals with Bank of America, Pacific Bell and Ecode.

Indo Spanish Marketing Services – India (Internship) - August 1997-Jan 1999 Designation: Production Coordinator

Indo-Spanish Marketing Services was a buying house dealing in Garments. Home furnishings, brassware etc with buyers mainly in Europe. Responsibilities Included:

• Shipments

• De-Palletisation, Pick and Pack Activity and Re-shipping. Inspections at the Exporters site.

AWARDS:

Awarded the “Partner in Growth Award for Leadership Acquisition for the year 2006” from One of the biggest BPOs in the country. The team closed 30 Leadership positions with the revenue of 60 Lacs. ( 100k dollars) Awarded the “Best Group Leader Award” for the month of January and February’07 BILINGUAL: Fluent: English, Hindi & Punjabi

EDUCATION: Bachelor Degree in Commerce through correspondence - 1997 College Diploma – 3 year Course in Fashion Design from S. Delhi Polytechnic College New Delhi 1997

COMPUTER SKILLSET: Certified Course from Tulec in Oracle, Developer 2000, MS Office and MS Access

LICENSED REAL ESTATE AGENT (OHIO) - 2016

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