Manager, Talent Acquisition

Overview:

Cvent is a leading meetings, events and hospitality technology provider with more than 4,800 employees and nearly 21,000 customers worldwide.

Founded in 1999, the company delivers a comprehensive event marketing and management platform for event professionals and offers software solutions to hotels, special event venues and destinations to help them grow their group/MICE and corporate travel business.

The DNA of Cvent is our people, and our culture has an emphasis on fostering intrapreneurship — a system that encourages Cventers to think and act like individual entrepreneurs and empowers them to take action, embrace risk, and make decisions as if they had founded the company themselves.

We foster an environment that promotes agility, which means we don't have the luxury to wait for perfection.

At Cvent, we value the diverse perspectives that each individual brings.

Whether working with a team of colleagues or with clients, we ensure that we foster a culture that celebrates differences and builds on shared connections.

In This Role, You Will:

Cvent India is looking for an achiever whose responsibility will be to manage our Recruitment function for Client Services.

The role is a people manager role that's based out of our Gurgaon office and will be accountable and responsible for all aspects of talent acquisition.

The role requires hands-on experience, leadership skills, operations maturity, the ability to manage teams, stakeholders and executives.

Our ideal candidate would need to have relevant and hands-on experience of 10-13 years, including at least 4-5 years as a People Manager.

The role is a position of elevated responsibility, which is primarily responsible for recruitment and talent acquisition and the successful candidate will be responsible for coordinating the full life cycle of hiring and delivering on the hiring numbers allocated to them.

Work Hours:

• 12:00 pm IST - 9:00 pm IST

What You Will Be Doing:

• End to end recruiting ownership accountability frontline/ lateral (volume hiring)
• Designs develop and maintain the recruitment process in the organization (including its description, recruitment measurement definitions, regular measurement reporting, taking proper actions to close gaps)
• Drives the recruiting team to achieve targets
• Strategize and run campus hiring program
• Conduct Market and competitor mapping
• Experience in the market and competitive mapping
• Ability to advise the recruitment team and business on recruitment, channel and branding best practices and interview techniques
• Designs the selection matrix for choosing the optimum recruitment channel and recruitment source
• Plan and coordinate mass recruiting events, for instance, campus hiring, recruiting drives, etc
• Build a quality relationship with the internal customers and external recruitment agencies
• Monitors and constantly reduces the costs of the recruitment process
• Sets the social media communication strategy for different job profiles and functions in the organization
• Conducts job interviews for the managerial job positions (or key jobs in the organization)
• Keep track of recruiting metrics (e.g. time-to-hire and cost-per-hire)
• Implement new sourcing methods (e.g. social recruiting and Boolean searches)
• Research and choose job advertising options
• Coordinate with department managers to forecast future hiring needs
• Participate in job fairs, campus career events
• Build professional network through relationships with HR professionals, colleges and other partners
• Work on enriching candidates experience

Heres What You Need:

• Bachelor's/Masters Degree and professional experience in a similar industry is essential
• Overall 10+ years of experience and 4-5 years of People Management experience
• Good knowledge of candidates sourcing methods
• Experience using online recruiting sources for job postings and resume sourcing (Monster, Naukri, LinkedIn, other social and non-social channels)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent understanding of recruitment processes
• Proficiency in using applicant tracking systems (ATS)
• Proficiency with MS Office (Outlook, Word, Excel)
• Understanding of Employer branding strategies
• Critical thinker and problem-solving skills
• Good interpersonal, presentation and interaction skills
• Team player
• Good time management skills
• Should be flexible to work on weekends and stretched hours