Lead Early Careers Recruiter - India - 12 month FTC

You will be responsible for executing a defined recruitment strategy and driving the effective and timely delivery of early careers recruitment activities for several business areas in India.

The key areas of responsibility include:

• Operational delivery and supporting the Early Careers recruitment strategy for all lines of business
• Manage the entire lifecycle of the recruiting processes from internal approval processes to candidate management, to interview process, feedback, and on-boarding of new hires by ensuring best interview and candidate experience, within a cost-effective manner, ensuring an excellent candidate experience
• Implement the strategy to attract and select top Early Careers talent, in collaboration with senior colleagues in Early Careers, HR and with business leadership to deliver a best-in-class recruiting program that attracts outstanding talent to WTW
• Serve as a subject matter expert and influence business and HR leadership to shape the Early Careers hiring strategy
• Collaborate with global employer branding and recruitment marketing team for marketing collateral, events and social media strategy. Implement the Early Careers annual calendar for a year-round engagement and brand building at various institutions and with third parties, liaising with stakeholders to ensure effective and efficient implementation of the agreed plan
• Be responsible for collecting competitive intelligence, stay up to date with the industry and the wider market, analyse the trends for Early Careers and suggest innovative and creative ways of staying ahead of the competition
• Partner with senior business leadership, and their team of hiring managers / interviewers, wider Early Careers and HR team, to define and deliver hiring commitments for all businesses. Communicate progress to hiring managers and recruiting colleagues on the status of candidates and articulate plans to adjust activity where necessary
• Effectively manage and maintain recruitment related data in the Applicant Tracking System, utilizing insight to make data driven decisions
• Champion inclusion and diversity to ensure that the very best talent, irrespective of age/sex/ethnicity etc., are recruited
• Support in proactively tracking local budget within agreed amount, taking ownership for the payment of supplier invoices and operate as a liaison between the recruitment team and finance
• Participate in recruitment projects
• Ability to support other teams when there are seasonal peaks, ensuring a more agile approach to how we support our candidates and clients.

• A graduate with 2 - 4 years experience.
• Creative and innovative thinker, who can think out of the box
• Strong business acumen and ability to grasp new concepts quickly
• Strongcommunication, presentation, interpersonal, team working and influencing skills
• Proactively build strong relationships both with local teams as well as global peers and key stakeholders
• Strong organizational abilities and flexibility to work in a performance-driven environment managing multiple deliverables
• Proven ability to multi-task, deal with ambiguity, work in a virtual team environment, recognize trends, and identify systematic approaches to solving problems
• Strong analytical skills with attention to detail, data driven and insightful
• To be proactive in generating ideas that are both conceptually and strategically positioned, while maintaining a results-driven approach to deliver winning solutions for the business
• Proficiency in MS Office and strong experience with Applicant Tracking System (Taleo or Oracle Recruiting Cloud a plus)
• Able to work proactively as part of a global team
• Ability to embrace change, show flexibility and agility when working on new or unplanned projects.