Lead - Talent Acquisition

Role Overview :

As the Lead - Talent Acquisition, you will spearhead the end-to-end executive search lifecycle, acting as a trusted advisor to both our high-profile clients and internal stakeholders. This role involves navigating complex hiring mandates, managing senior-level relationships, and ensuring the delivery of top-tier talent that aligns with the strategic objectives of our clients. You will work closely with the leadership team to refine search strategies, manage candidate pipelines, and oversee the entire assessment process, directly influencing the growth trajectory of the organizations we represent.

1. Executive - Leadership Hiring:

- End-to-end VP-and-above recruitment, confidential leadership searches, senior stakeholder engagement, candidate assessment, offer negotiation and closure.

2. Strategic - Specialist Hiring:

- Niche and business-critical hiring across corporate functions and special mandates, including emerging-domain and scarce-skill talent.

3. Talent Intelligence - Market Mapping:

- Proactive leadership pipelines, competitor mapping, passive-candidate engagement, talent availability analysis and external market intelligence to support succession planning.

4. Senior Stakeholder - Candidate Management:

- Partnering with CEOs, CHROs and functional leaders to define role requirements, calibrate candidate assessments, deliver a strong executive candidate experience and drive onboarding.

5. Search Governance - Partner Management:

- Managing executive search firms and specialist vendors, building direct-search capability, and monitoring search quality, diversity, timelines, costs and hiring analytics.

- Manage end-to-end stakeholder relationships, providing regular market insights and search progress updates to ensure alignment on hiring objectives.

- Conduct in-depth candidate assessments and interviews to evaluate cultural fit, leadership competencies, and technical expertise for senior-level roles.

- Negotiate complex compensation packages and offer terms to ensure high acceptance rates and successful onboarding for key placements.