Strategic Talent Acquisition Lead - BFSI/Consulting Firm

Develop & Execute Talent Strategy

- Develops the recruitment strategy to ensure we are able to grow and defend our position in the market

- Handling the entire recruitment cycle - candidate attraction, sourcing, intake meetings with managers, shortlisting, interviewing, offer negotiation / closure and onboarding for different functions across the organization by leveraging various cost effective and Talent aligned hiring channels; online job portals & social media

- Builds job descriptions and specifications and ensure it captures the role and organization fit brief correctly

- Coaches managers on interviewing skills and ensuring identification of the right talent for now and future of the organization

- Responsible for new joiner attrition and ensures a decline YOY in the same; deep dives into the reasons for attrition and ensures steps are taken to address the same

- Responsible for keeping all the candidates engaged during the notice period through regular touch points

- Establishes a good connect with both internal and external stakeholders (recruitment firms, relationship managers from job portals); keep the communication open and timely

- Managing & publishing regular hiring reports with meaningful metrics and insights to internal and external stakeholders

- Managing and publishing reports for internal HR team to showcase the effectiveness of the various hiring channels and turnaround time of hiring

- Ensures a - wow- experience for candidates and new joiners; responsible for the new joiner induction plan along with regular check-ins during the first year

Brand Building

- Strengthens our brand with our recruitment partner firms and works towards removing challenges / create win-win

- Works continuously on improving the brand in the market; works closely with the teams in the Center and local marketing teams

- Leverages social media like Glassdoor, Linkedin to strengthen the brand

- Shares competition insights and our standing in the market regularly; preferably with metrics and data from Glassdoor along with coordinating management responses

- Leverages HRIS like Taleo and Avature to build pipeline and connect with potential candidates

Campus

- Creates a business case for hiring interns and converting to management trainees from top campuses and ensures we have right slots to visit the campus

- Works closely with the business leads to finalize the year's plan and identifies the right premier campus to target

- Gathers market information on how the campus salaries are moving and ensures competitively placed

- Able to gather market insights on Comp & Benefits across the industry

- Watches out relevant campus branding forums and ropes in the right stakeholders

- Responsible for the onboarding and induction of interns to give the right experience in the organization

Accountability & Responsibility

- Owns accountability for TA policies, frameworks & governance; regularly updates SOPs

- Leads all TA related audits and ensures no major findings; adheres to the process throughout the recruitment cycle

- Builds networks with the center, participates in the ongoing / new TA projects and implements in the country

- Puts relevant metrics in place to measure the effectiveness of the TA function on each category of stakeholders; ensures the findings are shared with the Head of HR & Business stakeholders regularly with a focus on improvements

- Any other responsibilities as may be assigned by the Head of HR