Head - Talent Acquisition - Media

Job Summary: Own and scale company's talent acquisition strategy to fuel business growth across Creative, Technology, Digital, Sales, Marketing, and corporate functions. Build a high-performing TA function that delivers on speed, quality, and employer brand while championing candidate and hiring manager experience.

Key Responsibilities

1. TA Strategy & Leadership

- Design and execute company's talent acquisition strategy aligned to business plans, including annual manpower planning and budgeting signed off in the AOP

- Build, mentor, and lead a team of recruiters across level of hiring.

- Establish TA metrics: time-to-hire, source mix, offer acceptance rate, quality of hire, and diversity targets.

- Drive data-led decisions

2. Business Partnership & Stakeholder Management

- Partner with CXOs and BU Heads to forecast talent needs and create proactive pipelines for critical/niche roles.

- Act as advisor to hiring managers on market trends, comp benchmarks, talent availability, and assessment design.

- Drive hiring manager enablement to improve interview quality and reduce cycle time.

3. Employer Branding & Talent Attraction

- Own company's employer brand across LinkedIn and industry forums. Position company as an employer of choice in Media & Tech

- Build differentiated sourcing channels: passive talent networks, employee referrals, agencies, campus, and digital platforms.

4. Process Excellence & Innovation

- Drive adoption of AI/tools for sourcing, screening, and candidate engagement

- Implement structured interviewing, scorecards, and bar-raiser programs to ensure hiring quality

5. Niche & Leadership Hiring

- Personally drive CXO, P&L, and business-critical leadership mandates

- Build talent mapping and succession pipelines for creative, digital, and tech leadership roles

- Present monthly/quarterly dashboards to CHRO and leadership on TA performance

Qualifications:

- Master's degree in HR, Business administration, or a related field

- 12-15 years of progressive experience in Talent Acquisition (media and entertainment background preferred)

- Excellent project management, analytical, and problem-solving skills

- Ability to build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

- Strong leadership and management skills, with the ability to motivate and develop a team of HR professionals.

- Experience with ATS and process transformation

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization.