Ascendion - Associate Director - Talent Acquisition (12-16 yrs)

1) Job Overview:

- As Ascendion continues to grow, it faces strategic choices around markets, services, capabilities, and other aspects of its business model.

- As we continue to grow, we want to continue to operate with laser focus on our people and all our talent initiatives.

- The incumbent will be an integral part of the Ascendion India TA Leadership Team.

- This is an opportunity for a strategic talent acquisition leader to join a revolutionary, fast-growing talent organization and from the TA Function from the ground up.

- Ideal candidates have an owner's mentality, are strategic thinkers, and excited about working in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment and have extensive industry experience.

- The incumbent will work with Engineering leaders to build a talent pipeline, coordinate hiring events and provides recruiting support to fill open positions with high quality talent in a timely manner.

- The incumbent is expected to exercise a high-level of judgment, work independently in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities and draw from experience to perform advanced support.

2) Job Responsibilities:

- The role is a unique opportunity for an individual with at least 15+ years of experience.

- He/ She will get a chance to impact the future of a fast-growing exciting business in the digital arena, gets exposure to a hot growing market, lead a team of passionate and very successful leaders.

- Talent is a very key focus for the organization and will continue to make a huge impact on business though our talent initiatives.

- Engage with Business Unit Leaders to define, build and document hiring forecast

- Engage in addressing key recruitment challenges, developing the strategic approach for and leading initiatives in sourcing, branding, assessment, and other areas to support all recruiting teams

- Works closely with BU Leader to drive focus, end-to-end planning, identify key focus areas, drive execution & prioritization, resource allocation, build operational guidelines

- Drive operational excellence across the entire recruitment funnel by actively monitoring our recruiting funnel data, analysing the results, and identifying areas for improvement

- Work within pre-defined recruitment processes while assessing that process to identify, recommend areas, improve, and build Provide new methods with the approach for sourcing candidates and generating new leads

- Work in conjunction with the business head in the establishment of weekly/quarterly/yearly Global Delivery Centre goals

- Review, analyse, mentor and coach support teams to ensure recruiting goals are being met through a reciprocal approach

- Develop specialized or competitive intelligence and research pool with regards to talent acquisition, market salary trends, Campus hiring trends, etc.

3) Required Skills, Experience & Qualification

- Overall 12+ years of experience in hiring software & Digital Engineering skilled workforce

- Relevant experience required in Talent Acquisition.

- MBA would be an added advantage.

- Excellent at people management ability and must have experience of handling large teams

- Prior experience in managing diverse Talent Acquisition teams

- Good problem-solving and analytical skills

- Ability to drive team for Process adherence and identify gaps for improvement

- Business and Recruitment Acumen to understand Talent Insights and ability to work and collaborate with global teams

- Stakeholder Communication and Management

- Functional Governance review, audit and status reporting

- Experience in vendor management for Talent Acquisition