Akbar Sadik

Critic
DISC Type : C

HR Manager at Cognizant

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Overview

Akbar Sadik is an HR Manager at Cognizant with a focus on talent management, succession planning, and employee retention. He has progressed through several roles within the company, leveraging people analytics and interactive dashboards to guide talent decisions. He holds a Bachelor of Business Management from NSAM First Grade College Nitte.

He has demonstrated significant career loyalty and growth, advancing from a Subject Matter Expert to HR Manager entirely within Cognizant.

Personality Overview

Negotiator

ROI Driven

Critic

Unless the value is proven by data, they are unlikely to value fancy features.  They prefer to do logical analysis and value evidence over emotions. It is very likely that they will negotiate pricing or other important terms.

Topics They Care About

Talent Management
His role centers on performance management, succession planning, employee engagement, and developing effective employee retention strategies.
People Analytics
He is involved in creating interactive dashboards and presenting people analytics to support important talent decisions within the organization.
Campus Recruitment
He actively shares and promotes Cognizant's off-campus and fresher hiring drives, indicating a focus on attracting new talent.

Media Appearances

Akbar has no verified media appearances

Work History

9-2025
HR Manager at Cognizant
8-2023 - 8-2025
Sr. Executive - HR at Cognizant
7-2021 - 8-2023
HR Executive at Cognizant
5-2019 - 8-2021
HR, Jr-Executive at Cognizant
4-2017 - 5-2019
Subject Matter Expert at Cognizant

Education

2008 - 2011
Bachelor of Business Management from NSAM First Grade College Nitte

More Information

Social Presence :

Prographics :

Exp : 13 Location : Hyderabad, Telangana, India Job Level : Middle Designation : HR Manager at Cognizant
URL has been copied!

Insights For Selling To Akbar

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Tell them what ROI they can expect
  • Use phrases like ‘expect X% improvement’, ‘data clearly shows’ etc.
  • Leverage facts and figures wherever possible; use percentages, numbers etc.

DONT's

  • Make extra effort to not seem pushy or confrontational
  • Don’t try to give too many examples of other users, they like to make their own decisions
  • Don’t try too hard to build a relationship with them

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Akbar is

  • Strong evidence of ROI, effective pricing, and proven data points matter the most to them.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Akbar

  • It is not very hard for them to say no if they are not convinced about the decision.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Akbar move?

  • Their decision-making is neither very fast nor very slow, they are somewhere in between.
  • Can Akbar take some risk or not?

  • They can take risks if their analysis shows that it would be worth it.

You And Akbar

Personality Compatibility


Other Cognizant Employees

Explore more public profiles from related professionals at the same organization.

More Profiles

Discover additional public profiles from our index.

Search more profiles

Looking for someone else? Search here for anyone.

Or visit Humantic AI to know more.