Amazon - Senior Recruiter - Talent Acquisition

"Many of the problems we face have no textbook solution, and so we-happily-invent new ones." - Jeff Bezos

About Amazon India:

We made our foray into the Indian market with the launch of Junglee.com, enabling retailers in India to advertise their products to millions of Indian shoppers and drive targeted traffic to their stores. In June 2013, we launched www.amazon.in for shoppers in India with an endeavor to give customers more of what they want - low prices, vast selection, fast and reliable delivery, and a trusted and convenient online shopping experience. In India we have 40+ fulfillment centers which are operational and are spread across some of the major cities, with over a total storage area of 5.5 million square feet+. Amazon India operations has distribution centers in over 250+ cities, having over 42+ sort centers and delivering to over 19000 pin codes in India.

We are proud to have some of the finest talent and strong leaders with proven experience working to make Amazon the Earth's most customer centric company.

Our Recruiters work in a fast-paced, high volume recruiting organization. Each plays an important role in managing recruiting activities and building candidate relationships -often providing candidates with their first impression of Amazon. The ideal person will be an organizational guru, work effectively with internal and external clients and candidates, possess great communication skills, have the ability to shift gears at a moment's notice and enjoy the challenges of helping to build a great organization of talented individuals. This is an amazing opportunity for someone looking to broaden their experience and work in a top recruiting organization.

The recruiter for the Operations vertical would be responsible towards delivering the critical hiring demand from the India operations business to support Amazon's aggressive growth plans. The incumbent will partner with business leaders to identify and strategize their short term and long term hiring needs. They will build effective candidate generation and sourcing strategies for volume hiring as well as niche positions, while ensuring great candidate experience. The ideal candidate should have demonstrated innovation, strategy and should be able to resolve complex business problems.

Summary of Responsibilities:

- Develop and execute recruiting plans to meet the hiring requirements

- Manage all aspects of candidate administration such as maintaining and updating applicant and offer activity, job description creation, ensuring current positions are accurately posted in all recruiting systems and job boards

- Build and maintain an active pool of candidates to meet future hiring targets in an effective manner

- Effectively manage relationships with agencies

- Design and drive employee referral programs

- Responsible for planning and coordinating of events, assessment and interviews for hiring candidates

- Review applications to evaluate if they meet the requirements of position

- Serves as liaison with candidates and communicate logistics associated with assessment and interviews

- Coordinate with background check agency to complete background checks for shortlisted candidates

- Collate documents of shortlisted candidates and share them with on boarding team

- Conduct regular follow-up meetings with hiring managers to determine the effectiveness of recruiting plans and implementation

- Provides advice and assistance to all levels of personnel on various recruiting/talent acquisition related matters

- Utilize metrics to identify and implement process improvements

- Conduct analysis and report on key recruitment metrics to appropriate business leaders

- Perform other special projects as assigned.

Basic qualifications:

- 8+ years of prior experience in managing a recruiting team in a matrixed global organization.

- Prior experience in managing high volume as well as niche hiring.

- Prior exposure in a manufacturing environment would be an added advantage.

- Must be able to interface with all levels of senior management; Competency based interview experience an advantage

- Excellent business judgment and time management skills

- Ability to Influence leaders in taking decisions for the organization.

- Ability to partner effectively with global recruiting teams and HR business partners.

- Possess strong analytical skills with ability to create and develop measures for operational efficiency

- Should be able to independently work on critical open positions

- Good spoken and written communication skills along with the ability to articulate effectively.