General Manager - Talent Acquisition - Shared Services Unit

Our Client is a the shared services unit for a Global Leader. This is a Fortune 50 company with an exceptional reputation of taking care of its associates and culture

Summary :

The General Manager Talent Acquisition is responsible for creating a talent pipeline for the firm in India. The incumbent works with the Head Of HR for India to create the strategy- for Talent Acquisition and is accountable for the execution of this strategy through a team. Ideally suited for an Goal driven professional, who likes to back tactical and strategic decisions with data and creation of predictable processes

Key Result Areas:

HR Planning :

- Works with business leaders to understand their priorities

- Create yearly plans and back them up with quarterly updates on changes in direction and business priorities

- Relentless in defining priorities - critical roles, probable leadership risks and business as usual backfills and expansions

- Creates a plan for the above in terms of sources, timelines and resources required

Operations :

- Make sure that the organization has a predictable- supply, quality and retention of talent

- Some of the indices to measure the efficacy of the talent acquisition operations are

- Recruitment cycle time / time to hire from Requisition to onboarding

- Candidate Experience

- Hiring Manager feedback

- Cost/ Hire

- Year 1 Retention percentages

- Quality of talent acquired measured with respect to each source

- Monitor the talent pipeline constantly - create early warning processes

- Maintain relationships with external vendors and institutions

- Understands compliance redlines with respect to recruitment and selection practices

- Understand ATS Systems and extracts intelligence from them with aid of IT/ vendor

- Recruitment & Selection dashboards are published at agreed upon intervals

Employer Brand :

- Assist in the distilling of the organization EVP and positioning of the company Brand to- current employees, prospective/ target audience and alumni

- Make sure the Communication of the hiring team and its partners reflex the EVP values and Employer Brand

Campus hiring and relationship management

- Ensure firm gets early access to fresh talent in identified institutions

- Maintain an ongoing relationship with campus and courses of interest- whether its leadership interaction, sponsorships and internships

Development:

Works with his/her team to develop them

Invests and backs up his/her team to take higher responsibilities

Self development

Person Profile :

- 12-14 years of experience in Talent Acquisition

- Experience in Creating and handling a team

- Demonstrated expertise in creating a data and process driven talent acquisition organization

- Exceptional Communication and ability to manage hiring manager expectations

- Assertive, goal driven person

- Demonstrated expertise in all aspects of recruitment and understands assessment and selection processes/tools