SLK Group - Head - Talent Management

Position: Talent Management Head

Location : Bangalore, close to Devanahalli (Bangalore International Airport)

Experience Level: 16+ Years with at least 7+ years in Staffing or Resource Management

Requirement:

- A seasoned talent management professional with the capability of build rapport and provide confidence to Business & other functions on the ability to provide the right talent at the right time at the right cost.

- Develop talent fulfillment strategy, interfacing with multiple groups in order to execute an deliver on commitments.

- Satisfy employee aspirations through providing the right opportunity, considering their progression, rotation, skilling and onsite travel aspirations & competence

EXPERTISE IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS:

1. Develop demand-supply model and talent strategy in line with Business demand

- Needs to possess the ability to absorb & appreciate inputs from business & account plans, together with forecasts & sales reviews as sources for creating a comprehensive talent fulfillment strategy for annual or quarterly talent demand.

- Experienced in arriving at internal fulfillment plan through strategic hiring, rotations, virtual pools and through planning progressions, cross-skilling, up-skilling, pyramid rationalization & fresher absorption.

- Provide timely and advance notice to recruitment teams with the correct priority to enable in-advance & on-time sourcing and minimize just-in-time hiring

2. Minimize Business Loss due to talent nonavailability

- Has executed strategic hiring to maximize internal fulfilments

- Has had the experience to set up talent processes and operational guidelines or has refined processes to enable demand fulfillment

- Experienced in planning & initiating immigration-related processes (visa applications, extensions, amendments, GC recommendations etc.) in alignment to onsite demands

3.Improve Manpower Margin and Utilization

- Assess and de-risk niche skill requirements through cross-skilling and strategic investments, thereby increasing internal fulfillment and controlling cost

- Ensure bench cost, absorption, grade mix, and latency is in line with targets

- Monitor hiring costs to ensure that the intake is in-line with the median target defined

- Apply levers to ensure that manpower P&L targets are met

- Ensure talent utilization is aligned with targets defined

- Ensure visas processed are utilized as per target

- Monitor span-of-control, average years of experience, non-billed resources, onsite-offshore ratio etc. as levers

4. Streamline talent operations

- Own talent-related processes and operations; define or refine to improve

- Data sanctity in the systems with respect to employee project, allocation, location etc. details

- On-time allocations & de-allocations in systems

- Timely routing of external requests to hire, in absence of in-house talent availability

- Ensure timely and accurate MIS & Dashboards are published and made available to all stakeholders

- Drive internal automation and innovation in the area of talent management

- Validate and ensure correct mix of new & existing resources in SEZ facilities