The Head Talent Acquisition is responsible for owning and delivering end-to-end hiring strategy and execution across businesses and functions on a Pan-India basis for Nuvama Wealth. The role will lead a central Talent Acquisition team, work closely with Business Heads and Enterprise Leaders, and ensure timely delivery of high-quality talent aligned to manpower plans, hiring targets, and budget commitment.
Talent Acquisition Strategy & Manpower Planning
- Define and drive the overall Talent Acquisition strategy for Nuvama Wealth aligned to business growth plans, workforce requirements, and organisational priorities.
- Own manpower planning in partnership with Business Heads and manage the Talent Acquisition budget, ensuring adherence to cost targets and optimisation of spend.
- Translate annual hiring plans into clear execution roadmaps across regions, roles, and timelines.
Pan-India Hiring Delivery & Stakeholder management
- Own end-to-end hiring delivery for RM, leadership, and corporate hiring across all geographies.
- Lead and manage a team of recruiters responsible for sourcing, screening, interviewing, and closures.
- Ensure consistent achievement of hiring targets across roles, businesses, and regions.
- Build strong partnerships with Business Heads, Regional Leadership Teams and Enterprise Leaders.
- Conduct regular hiring reviews with stakeholders to track progress, risks, and outcomes.
- Ensure compliance with internal policies, approval frameworks, and ethical hiring practices.
Hiring Quality, Capability & Experience
- Own quality of hire outcomes by ensuring strong role clarity, assessment rigor, and cultural fit.
- Introduce and enforce structured assessment frameworks, interview standards, and selection governance.
- Drive continuous improvement in candidate experience, employer brand perception, and onboarding readiness..
- Actively build relationships with senior and high-impact candidates, serving as the organisation's ambassador during critical hiring conversations.
- Lead offer structuring, negotiations, and closures for senior mandates and critical hires.
- Partner closely with the CEO, Business Heads, and HR leadership to ensure seamless closure of strategic and leadership hires.
Market Intelligence, Budget Management, Technology Enablement & Dashboards
- Drive cost efficiencies through improved sourcing mix, internal capability building, and vendor rationalisation.
- Continuously track talent market trends, compensation benchmarks, and competitor hiring practices.
- Maintain strong intelligence on competitor structures, roles, talent pools, and hiring strategies.
- Use market insights to proactively advise business leaders on hiring feasibility, timelines, and trade-offs.
- Ensure hiring strategies remain competitive, relevant, and future-ready.
- Lead adoption of new hiring technologies, platforms, and tools to improve speed, quality, and transparency.
- Drive automation of recruitment workflows, candidate tracking, and reporting.
- Own and publish comprehensive hiring dashboards covering demand vs delivery, ageing, quality metrics, cost, and conversion ratios.
- Provide actionable insights to leadership through data-driven reporting and analysis.
