Responsibilities
- Driving the full spectrum of recruiting and selection activities for EMEA and APAC.
- The position is accountable for leading the recruiting department and the business at large in all its recruiting functions, inclusive of team leadership; sourcing strategy development and execution, program design and implementation; and recruiting goal development and achievement.
- Creating and implementing talent acquisition strategies for leadership, mid-career, and graduate hiring.
- Additionally responsible for the development of the annual departmental budget in collaboration with senior management.
- Designing and driving the adoption of consistent recruiting, interviewing, and hiring practices that support a strong candidate experience.
- Partnering with leaders within the organization to track ongoing hiring needs of their business.
- The position also works with other departmental heads, regularly providing insights into programs that are impacting the business, inclusive of training, internal movement, career-path creation, and so forth.
- Need to have strong technical acumen and have a data-driven approach to recruitment strategy formulation and decision-making. It requires being passionate about research and data analysis as well as the insights derived from it.
- The position must be skilled at using raw data and information, analyzing it, and developing lasting solutions and effective insights.
- Identifying and partnering with external providers as required to ensure hiring needs are met.
- Defining and driving the team to meet and exceed hiring benchmarks relating to time to fill, cost per hire, diversity hiring, and hiring manager and candidate satisfaction.
- Defining and leading projects focused on continuous improvement.
- Managing a team of people.
- The position will additionally play an analytical role where he delivers ongoing reports after tracking the results, impacts, and cost-effectiveness of the current recruiting strategies.
Key Requirements
- You have strong experience in a leadership role within talent acquisition.
- Excellent interpersonal & communication skills
- Ability to build relationships with & influence stakeholders.
Experience: A candidate for this position must have had at least 18+ years of working experience in a recruiting position, preferably as a leader in a highly competitive and dynamic environment. The candidate will also have had a proven and successful experience leading a high-performing recruiting team for a business, resulting in the acquisition and retention of top talent in the market.
Interpersonal Skills: A candidate for the position will be a strategic and creative decision maker, be self-motivated working under minimal supervision, be highly adaptive and welcoming to change, have a keen eye for detail, and be highly organized. He must also have an ability to multitask, have the ability to prioritize and meet tight deadlines, have exceptional problem-solving skills, and demonstrate composure in times of uncertainty and stress, inspiring the same in his juniors.
Leadership/People Skills: The candidate must also have exceptional leadership skills and have demonstrated a passion for change leadership with an ability to transform, inspire, and align a team of professionals. The candidate must also have an ability to build strong and lasting relationships with others and inspire trust and confidence in them, which will enable him to pull in the best talents in the market into the business.
