Director - Talent Acquisition - IT

Responsibilities:

- Accountable for managing the Leadership/Executive level recruitment function for Product and Technology, Supply chain management, retail, Corporate function from search, selection, assessment and on boarding activities.

- Understand business needs and strategy of the organization and design talent acquisition strategies.

- Meet talent needs of business based on targets from workforce plans. Obtain timely information on business needs and convert into actions for the recruitment team

- Continuously review talent acquisition processes for efficiency and effectiveness

- Build and strengthen the market research, pipeline building activities, proactive engagement process with active and passive candidate pool

- Review and build a Recruiting framework for leadership/Executive level recruitment function.

- Drive definition and implementation of various Recruiting processes like demand forecasting & management, Sourcing strategy, negotiations, vendor management, candidate engagement processes, refinement of evaluation criteria, definition of Service level metrics etc.

- Manage relations with internal customers, partnering with them in workforce planning and execution of the Recruitment process.

- Interface and build long term and short term agreements with external agencies such as recruitment agencies, job portals, search firms, etc to source quality candidates in a timely manner

Desired Competencies:

- Demonstrated ability to work in a high growth and dynamic business environment, ability to deal with ambiguity, understand business requirements and translate those into Recruiting efforts.

- High focus on outcomes and ability to stand up to committed deliverables.

- Strong communication, interpersonal skills ability to drive consensus in decision making, especially in conflicting situations

- Sharp analytical capabilities, around data interpretation, analyzing situations and driving actions most suited to achieve high impact outcomes.