General Manager - Recruitment - IT

Job Description :

- Understanding the organization's talent needs and crafting an efficient talent acquisition strategy to meet the business demands.

- Lead, manage, mentor, empower and develop a highly-skilled team.

- Understanding the workforce planning and talent forecasting and collaborating with the RMG team to fulfill the talent demands.

- Ensure recruitment policies and procedures are continuously improved and meet the business requirements incorporating the best recruitment practices of the industry.

- Build a diverse sourcing strategy with vendor network and alternated modes of hiring like recruitment process outsourcing, alternate profiles, contractual staffing, and leveraging the gig workforce.

- Use alternative sourcing strategies including direct sourcing and social media.

- Ensure compliance and due diligence for Recruitment partners/ consultant selection and onboarding and define review mechanism to measure their performance.

- Responsible for managing and maintaining key recruitment metrics/analytics and presenting them at a defined frequency to all stakeholders.

- Seeks to listen, to understand the business needs, and consistently drive high levels of service and delivery, nurturing stakeholder relationships and partnering with them for forecasting and talent planning.

- Ensuring comprehensive candidate communication consistent with the organization culture, vision, projects, capabilities, strategic focus, development opportunities, and compensation and benefits.

- Constantly evaluate and improve candidate experience at all stages of the recruitment process.

- Manage cost containment and cost savings initiatives impacting recruitment contracts, agencies, and consultants.

- Bring in automation to make hiring a seamless experience for candidates and businesses. Utilizes applicant tracking system, job boards, niche sites, and recruiting process for proper tracking of recruiting metrics.

- Work with the Marketing team to build the Employer brand for the Organisation.

- Campus Relations - Devise & implement campus hiring strategy & build effective relationships across target colleges - Ensure hiring of Trainees to build talent pipeline - Own onboarding program for Interns and trainees

Expected proficiencies :

- Experience in managing accelerated ramp-up of resources in volume across Data and Digital technologies in aggressive timelines (including Just-in-time needs)

- Hands-on experience in managing the Recruitment functions in India (For both permanent hiring & contractual roles).

- Good understanding of IT business & Technology landscape.

- Hands-on experience in Technical/Functional calibration of IT requirements of Data and Digital technology stacks.

- Should be good in defining recruitment strategy.

- Gather and analyze market intelligence on candidates and competitor data for identifying key talent & headhunting of key leadership /strategic / technology roles.

- Should have experience in building team competence and confidence.

- Lead and coach team members.

- Build organization brand and position as an employer of choice for both recruitment and contracting

- Plan, organize, promote various channels of hiring

- Collation and presentation of reports and analytics to Senior leadership teams.

- Manage key relationships with Business Unit leaders for a smooth transition & timely fulfillment of the hiring requirements

Competency requirements :

Functional :

- Information Technology talent landscape in Digital and Data - sourcing strategies

- Financial acumen to manage costs & value proposition of utilization of various channels of hiring

- Good knowledge of sourcing tools and technologies including social media platforms

- Have an "Out of the Box" and innovative approach to recruitment

Behavioural :

- Strong influencing skills and an ability to operate at a higher level.

- Good communication and networking skills.

- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to challenge thinking and influence change.

- Self-driven, result-oriented structured approach.

- Ability to manage ambiguity.

- Expert in Data and Analytics.

- Execution Excellence

- Ability to work within tight deadlines.

- A collaborative approach, ability to work across organizational lines.