Recruitment Lead - Talent Acquisition - FMCG/Retail/Consumer Durable

Position Description: Recruitment Lead, Talent Acquisition

LOCATION Bangalore, India

Overview:

- The Talent Acquisition team is looking for a talented, smart working and result oriented recruiter with a high-level of passion.

- As a recruiter, he/she will partner closely with the hiring managers and leadership team to build and execute long-term sourcing strategy to help hire the best talent and deliver the relevant talent on time.

- The incumbent will work with business leaders, managers to identify and strategize their short term and long term hiring needs.

- They will build effective candidate generation and sourcing strategies for volume hiring as well as niche positions, while ensuring great candidate experience.

- The ideal candidate should have demonstrated innovation, strategy and should be able to resolve complex business problems.

- They will innovate and consistently enable best customer (hiring manager) experience at all times in the hiring process.

- Identifying and hiring high quality talent is the topmost prerogative for this role within the timelines agreed upon with business teams.

- Key aspects of the role include hiring top talent, provide best customer experience (candidate, interviewer & HM), constantly innovate, implement programs or projects with high standards and display high ownership at work at all times.

Core Responsibilities:

- Partner with business and hiring teams to build effective sourcing, assessment, and closing approaches with an ability to manage customer/partner expectations through a deep understanding of talent pool.

- Ability to recruit passive candidates and gauge pulse of candidates for role fitment and also knowing their aspiration.

- Build and maintain network of potential candidates through proactive market research and on-going relationship management.

- Conduct or arrange in-depth interviews of potential candidates within the framework of the position specification. Screen, interview and prepare an ideal candidate slate within an appropriate and consistent timeline and maintain high interview-to-offer ratios.

- Recommend ideas and strategies related to recruitment that will contribute to the long-term plans of the company, implementing any new processes and fine-tuning standard processes for recruiting.

- Work with the business, HR, and Compensation to determine appropriate salary ranges and negotiate compensation with candidates.

- Participate in special projects/recruiting initiatives including assessment of best practices in interviewing techniques, leveraging of internal sources of talent and identification of top performers for senior-level openings.

Basic qualifications & skills:

- Relevant degree in Human resource management or a related field

- 5 to 7 years of post-MBA experience in managing a recruiting team in a diverse/complex business environment; OR 6+ years of prior demonstrated experience in managing a recruiting team

- Prior experience in managing high volume as well as niche hiring

- Ability to interface and interact fluently with all levels of senior management

- Ability to Influence leaders in taking decisions for the organization.

- Ability to partner effectively with recruitment vendors and HR business partners.

- Possess strong analytical skills with ability to create and develop measures for operational efficiency

- Should be able to independently work on critical open positions

- Good spoken and written communication skills along with the ability to articulate effectively.