About the Role:

We are hiring for a leading global engineering, infrastructure, and professional services organization with operations across multiple geographies. The organization is looking for an experienced Talent Acquisition professional with deep expertise in strategic sourcing, executive search, market mapping, and talent intelligence to support leadership and niche hiring across India and international markets.

Key Responsibilities:

- Drive strategic sourcing initiatives to support hiring across India and global regions by identifying, engaging, and attracting high-quality talent for niche, leadership, and business-critical positions.

- Partner with Talent Acquisition Business Partners, Hiring Managers, Business Leaders, and senior stakeholders to understand hiring requirements and develop proactive sourcing strategies.

- Lead executive search assignments through talent mapping, organization mapping, competitor research, market intelligence, and succession pipeline development.

- Build high-quality longlists and shortlists using research-driven sourcing methodologies.

- Develop innovative sourcing strategies utilizing LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean Search, X-Ray Search, AI-enabled sourcing tools, referrals, and professional networking platforms.

- Engage and influence passive candidates through consultative conversations and personalized outreach.

- Support confidential, executive, and difficult-to-fill hiring mandates.

- Provide market intelligence on target companies, competitor landscape, talent availability, and compensation benchmarks.

- Conduct candidate outreach, qualification discussions, and initial assessments before presenting qualified talent.

- Build sustainable talent pipelines for future hiring requirements.

- Maintain sourcing activity, talent pipelines, and recruitment data within ATS and recruitment systems.

- Track sourcing effectiveness, pipeline quality, and market intelligence while providing regular updates.

- Ensure adherence to recruitment governance, compliance, and data privacy standards.

- Continuously improve sourcing methodologies by adopting emerging executive search practices and recruitment technologies.

Desired Candidate Profile:

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Sciences, Business Administration, or a related discipline.

- 10+ years of Talent Acquisition experience with strong exposure to Executive Search, Strategic Sourcing, Talent Research, and Leadership Hiring.

- Prior experience with Executive Search firms or leadership hiring organizations will have weightage.

- Demonstrated expertise in passive candidate engagement, executive headhunting, market mapping, competitor research, and strategic sourcing.

- Experience partnering with senior business leaders and hiring managers.

- Strong research-oriented sourcing capability rather than high-volume recruitment.