AVP - Talent Acquisition - IT Services

Key Responsibilities

- Engage with business leadership in developing the strategic approach for the talent acquisition (TA) function and addressing the key recruitment challenges.

- Manage the end-to-end recruitment cycle with a team of TA leads and recruiters in sourcing, assessing and resource fulfilment of various on-going projects.

- Build and execute a strategy for fulfilling the regional hiring demands while leading and developing a passionate team of recruiters dedicated to optimizing the candidate experience and becoming an employer of choice.

- Deliver on headcount goals for India - Gather market intelligence on talent, competitor landscape, and regional recruitment trends and practices, providing guidance and support as needed to TA Leads.

- Implementing hiring dashboards and supporting analytically-driven practices to optimize performance.

- Enhance efficiencies in current and new recruiting processes and systems.

- Implement and maintain governance around structured, bias-free interviewing and partner with senior leadership to drive consistency and quality.

- Drive initiatives on employer branding to develop a compelling employee value proposition, based on specific business needs and challenges and to attract the right talent.

- Leverage data and analytics to make decisions and to influence senior business leaders.

- Defining and driving team to meet and exceed hiring benchmarks relating to time to fill, cost per hire, diversity hiring and hiring manager and candidate satisfaction

Job Requirements

- 12+ years of experience (including 6 years of leadership experience) in the talent acquisition function within the IT services space across locations.

- Experience in scaling up a team up to 1500 - 2000 resource.

- Experience in handling the end-to-end recruitment life cycle and multi-locational hiring.

- Experience in working with business leadership on building annual recruitment plans and budgets.

- Demonstrated track record of working with executive teams on capacity planning, recruiting strategy, delivery and data driven decision making.

- Track record of leading a team to strong performance and growing teams

- Exposure and understanding of the most current recruiting and sourcing tools and strategies

- Degree in Engineering and/or Business Administration.

Competencies Required:

- Agile - Ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities and show resilience in a fast-paced, complex environment.

- Strong Negotiation skills

- Strong business acumen - understanding of the IT services business environment and challenges.

- Skilled in mentoring, developing, and motivating teams.

- Exhibit a high degree of ownership required to succeed in a high growth organization.