Team Lead - Sourcing - Recruitment/HR Services

FlexAbility is the RPO division of ABC Consultants which is a well-established firm with a 50-year legacy in India. FlexAbility has been delivering customized RPO and Resource Augmentation solutions to MNCs and Indian corporates for 10 years. We partner with AMS (Alexander Mann Solutions) who are global leaders in the talent outsourcing with experience in largescale implementation and strong domain expertise.

FlexAbility brings a deep understanding of the local market and we use that with the international best practices that AMS has to offer to deliver integrated solutions. We are sector-agnostic and have a diverse client base. The company has been growing rapidly and takes pride in its people centric practices.

Role: Team Lead - Sourcing

Purpose:

To support the process of hiring talent by sourcing the best candidates from multiple channels, engaging with candidates to solicit and screen applications to provide quality long-lists. Considered a specialist in one or more sectors, the Lead will be considered a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in sourcing with extensive use of social networking to identify and engage with candidates, and guide and mentor the other team members in the sourcing team.

Reports to: CSM

Location: Bangalore & Hyderabad

Experience: 6 -12 years ( with minimum 3 years of experience in Team handling in overall work experience)

Key Accountabilities:

- Lead discussions on open roles with hiring managers and document recruitment plans.

- Proactively source (identify) candidates utilizing a broad range of channels and techniques (e.g. search engines, job board databases, social networking sites) as appropriate.

- Employ innovative techniques to identify elusive talent in the market

- Develop own network of sector-specific candidates and utilize networking skills to identify and engage with candidates (i.e. referrals from referrals, cold- calling etc.)

- Engage with identified candidates to qualify suitability for the role, to sell the role and prospective Client and to encourage candidate to actively apply

- Interface between Sourcing Specialists and agencies when required, gaining necessary information to ensure both parties remain informed

- Build and develop talent pools of qualified candidates (prior to application or post application as directed), utilizing CRM (Candidate Relationship Management) technology where appropriate, managing candidate communications as directed to ensure talent pools remain relevant.

- Develop an awareness of the organizations' business and wider sector in order to communicate the key selling points to engage prospective candidates

- Maintain agreed service levels and targets

- Completely utilize the ATS (Applicant Tracking System) ensuring that activities are conducted within the ATS and/or other systems as appropriate, that data accuracy and quality is maintained through all processes and that it accurately reflects the status of all activity

- Experience in candidate selection or recruitment within at least one industry sector and knowledge of multiple hiring profiles, across multiple accounts/clients

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

- Experience of working with recruitment systems (i.e. ATS, CRM) and maintaining a high level of data integrity

- Proven experience and expertise in preparing sourcing strategies tailored to volume roles across multiple positions or markets

- Experience of and expertise in using specialist techniques to source candidates through active and passive-candidate channels (i.e. job-board databases, professional social networks)

- Expertise in using Boolean /X-ray searches will be an advantage.

- Good written and spoken English language skills plus other languages as appropriate to the client-specific requirements.

- Prior experience of team handling for at least 2+ year