Airtel - Manager - Talent Acquisition & Workforce Planning

Purpose of the Job:

- Responsible for workforce planning & complete recruitment life cycle for middle-management positions for all SBU's of airtel (Mobile, DTH, Enterprise Services, Network Services, Telemedia, Shared Services) across geographies. The job requires efficient hiring with key focus on hiring metrics like TAT, Source Utilization, Requisition Vs Hired, Cost of Hire & Quality of Hire.

Key Deliverables:

- Responsible for Workforce Planning for business units

a) Identifying critical, unique/niche & mass positions for building a talent pipeline

b) Industry/Organization mapping for critical positions

- Complete recruitment life cycle management for all SBU's for middle management through I-Rec

a) Validating manpower requisition in consultation with line and business HR

b) Effective utilization of internal and external sources of recruitment like (HR Active, IJPs, consultants, employee referrals, job sites, social media, OTR etc.)

c) Mapping applicants to the position on the basis of hiring guidelines laid down with due focus on quality

d) Responsible for assessment and selection of the right talent by using relevant tools like competency based interviews, OPQ, Ability tests and the like

e) Ensure that the candidate possesses the required skills set/behavioral competence and can be aligned to the organization culture via HR round of interview

f) Salary positioning, offer negotiation & timely closure of positions involving aggressive follow up with head-hunters, line manager & candidates.

g) Managing effective and smooth on boarding of new hires in coordination with HR Active team as per defined process to ensure their acclimatization to the organization for better engagement and stability

- Maintain key hiring metrics for measuring efficiency of hiring at regular time intervals (TAT, Source Utilization, Requisition : Hired, Cost of Hire & Quality of Hire, Gender diversity); analyzing hiring gaps and designing hiring guidelines to get desired quality and cost

- Periodic analysis and improvement of talent acquisition process via various short term & long term improvement projects like TA Manual, talent market share etc.

- Organize and drive effective training for line managers on MRF creation, selection process & usage of irec tool.

- Responsible for operational projects that deal with a range of manpower related issues at PAN India level. E.g. Outplacements, Redeployment etc.

Working Experience: At least 1-3 years experience in Generalist HR/Core recruitment role

Educational Level : MBA in HR from premier B-school (2012-13) Batch