Location: Gurugram

Experience: 12-18 years

Industry: Any large enterprise

Employment Type: Full-time

Working days: Alternate Saturday's off

Diversity: We strongly encourage women professionals to apply as part of our commitment to building a diverse and inclusive workforce.

About the Role:

We are seeking an experienced and strategic Head - Talent Acquisition Center of Excellence (TA COE) to build and lead a world-class TA function that drives hiring excellence across the organization. This role will be responsible for designing recruitment strategy, establishing best practices, implementing data-driven hiring processes, enhancing employer branding, and enabling scalable talent acquisition capabilities. The ideal candidate combines strategic thinking with operational excellence and has a proven track record of transforming talent acquisition functions in high-growth or large-scale organizations.

Key Responsibilities:

- Define and execute the Talent Acquisition COE strategy aligned with business growth objectives.

- Design and standardize end-to-end recruitment processes, governance frameworks, and hiring policies.

- Drive recruitment transformation through technology, automation, AI, and analytics.

- Establish hiring quality metrics, dashboards, and KPIs including time-to-fill, quality of hire, cost-per-hire, candidate experience, and recruiter productivity.

- Build and optimize sourcing strategies across leadership, niche, campus, diversity, and volume hiring.

- Partner with HR Business Partners and business leaders to deliver workforce planning and hiring solutions.

- Lead employer branding initiatives to strengthen the organization's talent market positioning.

- Develop assessment frameworks, interview methodologies, and selection standards.

- Evaluate and manage recruitment vendors, RPO partners, assessment providers, and recruitment technology platforms.

- Build governance mechanisms to ensure compliance, process consistency, and continuous improvement.

- Mentor and develop the TA leadership team while fostering a culture of innovation and excellence.

- Benchmark industry best practices and introduce innovative talent acquisition initiatives.

Desired Candidate Profile:

- MBA/PGDM from a premier institute (preferred).

- 12-18 years of HR experience with at least 5-7 years in Talent Acquisition leadership or TA COE roles.

- Strong experience in designing enterprise-wide recruitment strategies and operating models.

- Proven expertise in TA analytics, recruitment technology, ATS/CRM platforms, AI-enabled hiring, and process excellence.

- Experience managing leadership hiring, campus hiring, diversity hiring, and large-scale recruitment programs.

- Strong stakeholder management and executive influencing capabilities.

- Demonstrated success in leading transformation and change management initiatives.

- Excellent analytical, communication, and leadership skills.

Preferred Experience:

- Experience in Global Capability Centers (GCCs), IT/ITES, Consulting, BFSI, Manufacturing, or large enterprise environments.

- Exposure to global hiring practices and talent intelligence.

- Experience implementing ATS, recruitment automation, or AI-powered hiring solutions.

Success Measures:

- Improved hiring quality and speed.

- Increased recruiter productivity and process efficiency.

- Enhanced candidate and hiring manager experience.

- Strong employer brand and talent pipeline.

- Adoption of data-driven hiring decisions and governance.

If you are passionate about building future-ready talent acquisition capabilities and driving enterprise-wide hiring excellence, we'd love to hear from you.