Sodexo - Region Head - Talent Acquisition - South

Sodexo Group

Founded in 1966 by Pierre Bellon in Marseilles, France, Sodexo is the worldwide leader in Quality of Life services. For over 40 years, we have developed unique expertise, backed by nearly 428,000 employees in 80 countries across the globe with consolidated revenue of 18 billion Euros. We are ranked the 18th largest employer worldwide.

Our experiences with our over 75 million customers each and every day enable us to develop Quality of Life services that reinforce the well-being of individuals, improving their effectiveness and helping companies and organizations to improve performance.

In combining the diverse talents of our teams, Sodexo is the only company to integrate a complete offer of innovative services, based on over 100 professions. We develop, manage and deliver a unique array of On -site Services, Benefits & Rewards Services and Personal and Home Services for all our clients to improve the Quality of Life.

On-site Services

Sodexo's comprehensive, integrated solutions cover a wide range of services in a variety of working and living environments. We contribute to enhancing employees- well-being, optimizing work processes and ensuring the proper functioning and safety of sites for companies, hospitals, university campuses, correctional facilities and large worksites.

Sodexo India- Onsite Services

Sodexo On-site Services has a direct link to services in India back to 1966. With over 40,000 employees, Sodexo India is recognized as a strategic partner, by providing a range of Quality of Life Services for clients, their employees and visitors in the corporate, education, healthcare and remote sites segments. Delivering more than 40 different food and facilities management solutions across 1050+ sites and 800,000 consumers, Sodexo is a market leader in India in terms of revenue, consumers served and employees retained.

Position : Region Head South - Talent Acquisition

Reports to : India Head of Talent Acquisition

Span of Control : 15

Location : Chennai

Position Purpose: Responsible for recruitment of FTC as well as Regular workforce in the Southern region of India, providing quality talent with a continuous focus on building a talent pool for the future.

Key Responsibilities :

- Design and implement the recruitment strategy for the region and ensure consistency in the same

- Manage and motivate the regional WPD team members to be productive and deliver results as per the business needs

- Ensure implementation of Resource Planning tool (RPT) across all sites in the region

- Identify bottle necks and develop action plans in collaboration with business to deliver results within TAT

- Develop and implement novel ideas to build pipeline of people for key and critical categories and have a talent pool ready during mass outage of people or during any other exigencies

- Build a repository of profiles for niche positions within different business segments, by exploring different avenues of sourcing

- Gather market intelligence and maintain data to further strategize and tap suitable talent

- Scoping and validating manpower cost by gathering market data, during the bid stage of new site mobilization

- Prepare appropriate strategies for campus recruitment by coordinating and maintaining relationships with Principals/ placement officers/ department heads, alumni and staff of various colleges/universities

- Conduct weekly and monthly reviews with team to track progress and put action plans for better result delivery

- Develop and promote sourcing strategies in line with the diversity and inclusion policy of the organization

- Ensure effective management of all new joiner documentation and onboarding process

- Monitor and ensure compliance with all national and state regulations.

Key Competencies/ Experience:

- Experience in leading a large team with focus on mass field hiring.

- Proven reporting and recruiting analytics experience, including an ability to leverage and interpret data to inform recruiting strategy

- Ability to collaborate with different business functions, have a Business acumen for recruiting, including the ability to understand how the position s/he is recruiting for fits into the business and department

- Understanding of assessments and tools

- Adept at workforce planning, forecasting and developing talent pipeline strategies

- Needs to be a strategic thinker with high resilience to work in a competitive and rapidly changing environment.

- An exceptional communicator who inspires confidence, builds relationships readily, and is able to influence in a consultative manner

- Needs to be innovative and proactive in his approach