AVP - Talent Acquisition Operations

Job Description

About the Role: The Talent Acquisition Operations head will play a critical role in managing large-scale recruitment operations in a fast-paced, tech-driven environment. This role will be responsible for overseeing the entire delivery lifecycle, stakeholder management, recruitment strategy execution, and team leadership, with a focus on scalable, high impact hiring programs Key Responsibilities Act as a strategic Talent Acquisition partner to internal and external stakeholders, offering consultative guidance on hiring strategies, talent market trends, and workforce planning. Participate in leadership and workforce planning discussions to provide insights on talent availability, competitive intelligence, and effective hiring models aligned with market dynamics. Develop and implement tailored talent acquisition strategies based on business requirements, ensuring alignment with short-term and long-term talent goals Lead high-volume and agile recruitment delivery across multiple functions and levels from entry-level to executive hiring Accountable for ensuring timely and quality hiring while delivering a world-class candidate and stakeholder experience Manage high performing talent acquisition teams with a strong focus on collaboration, accountability, and delivery excellence Managing the KPIs for each engagement and reporting them on a periodic schedule to key stakeholders both internal and clients. Ensuring the in-house applicant tracking system is always used diligently and kept up to date with accurate job and candidate data. In the case of using a client system, the same level of engagement is expected. Build, train, and coach a high calibre team of recruiters who are trained in the ways of working of the start-up talent ecosystems and have strong box talent attraction skills Engaging Vendors as and when required keeping in view the overall cost of hiring and the impact it will have on the overall budget of the engagement. Required Skills More than 15 years of experience in managing end-to-end recruitment in a fast-paced, predominantly technology hiring environment. Experience in building TA delivery models in a scaling GCC’s Demonstrated experience in hiring high volumes and against tight deadlines Experience working in Global RPO’s, GCC’s, Service providers, start-up ecosystem is highly desirable and will be a key differentiator. Technical bent of mind and a flair to understand the technology hiring needs of clients and be able to advise clients on the talent landscape. Managed diverse recruitment teams that worked in different engagement models. With the ability to manage teams that are not co-located. Ability to conceptualize, manage and execute mid to large-scale assessment centres/hiring drives/weekend drives to fulfil bulk demands against stiff timelines. Show more Show less