Senior Talent Advisor

In your position within the People and Communities function, your mission will be to deliver a personal touch to the experiences of prospective and potential employees at Cisco. We serve as the pathway to what's possible, placing equal importance on the journey as well as the destination. Your duties include engaging with candidates, those referred to us, and our future team members to provide a top-tier experience before they come on board. You will collaborate closely with Sales Leaders and hiring managers to handle all facets of requisition fulfillment, from candidate sourcing and pipeline development to giving presentations and advising on talent market, compensation and the hiring process. This position involves overseeing the recruitment for senior-level positions within the Sales and Marketing function throughout India, with occasional responsibilities extending beyond these regions.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Strong Recruiting Business Partner to collaborate with and advise the sales business leaders on hiring strategies.
• Build (source new) and engage with our talent pipelines. Drive innovative resourcing solutions to attract the best talent.
• Advise hiring managers on talent market insights: talent availability, salary ranges and market trends, etc.
• Deliver exceptional customer service standards to both internal and external candidates
• Build and maintain talent pipelines within a line of business through targeted candidate relationship interactions
• Act as an SME on hiring an inclusive and diverse workforce.
• Keep up to date and in alignment with local hiring practices and laws
• Ensure candidate data privacy and work with an Applicant Tracking System to manage candidates.

Who You Are

• 8+ years of Talent Acquisition (Recruitment experience), within corporate recruiting environment with full life cycle recruiting experience.
• Experience in a senior recruitment role managing senior level roles, within Technology and/or Sales.
• Excellent business partnering skills and the ability to build relationships at senior levels.
• Executive level stakeholder management experience
• An individual with a drive to excel through execution whilst understanding communication and collaboration is key to building robust people relationships. Strong presentation and public speaking skills
• Open to learning new technologies and approaches to continually “be better"
• Preferred experience: 1-2 years of team leadership experience

Why You'll Love Cisco

#WeAreCisco, where each person is unique, but we bring our talents to work as a team and make a difference. Here’s how we do it.

We embrace digital, and help our customers implement change in their digital businesses. Some may think we’re “old” (30 years strong!) and only about hardware, but we’re also a software company. And a security company. A blockchain company. An AI/Machine Learning company. We even invented an intuitive network that adapts, predicts, learns and protects. No other company can do what we do – you can’t put us in a box!

Day to day, we focus on the give and take. We give our best, we give our egos a break and we give of ourselves (because giving back is built into our DNA.) We take accountability, we take bold steps, and we take difference to heart. Because without diversity of thought and a commitment to equality for all, there is no moving forward.

U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.

Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco’s flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco’s Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter. Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.