Associate Vice President - Talent Acquisition (16-17 yrs)

About the job:

Designation: AVP - HR & Talent Acquisition

Job Location: Hybrid working (Minimum 3 days per week in office).

Experience: Min 16+ Years

Global Presence:

Employees: Over 3,000 employees.

Clients: More than 400 customers.

Locations: Headquartered in London, UK, with multiple delivery centers across India and Latin America.

Sectors: Recruitment, property management, accounting and audit, manufacturing, retail, CPG, public sector, and higher education.

Job Summary:

The AVP Talent Acquisition will be responsible for determining staffing needs, developing hiring strategies through understanding the market & identifying clear opportunities, leading employment branding initiatives, sourcing candidates, conducting recruitment processes and ensuring positive candidate experiences. An ideal candidate is eager to learn, highly adaptable, and can build interpersonal relationships with senior leadership.

The right candidate is proficient in recruitment process, market mapping, targeted sourcing and has the ability to quickly distill complex information into succinct insights and recommendations.

Cross-functional exposure and previous experience of working in a fast-paced growth stage organizations is a must.

Responsibilities:

- Lead strategy and execution related to the acquisition global talent.

- Drive a world-class candidate experience and cultivate a true partnership with executives, hiring managers and EX to develop and execute optimal recruiting strategies for each team and the Company overall.

- Provide leadership to the team by creating a culture of accountability that delivers repeatable, measurable results in support of the Company's high-performance culture.

- Build a system of increased accountability concerning retention around the quality of hire during the first two years of an employee's life cycle.

- Own the execution of the Company's formal compensation program, assessing market data and internal equity.

- Continuously follow market trends and employee retention details to evolve and adjust the program to acquire and cultivate talent growth.

- Advise company leaders and finance business partners on job pricing to ensure budget alignment.

- Spearhead the execution of strategic plans and monitors results.

- Devise organizational strategy and high-level implementation plan with metrics.

- Manage compensation to balance external pressures from candidates with internal pay equity, maintaining a compensation program that allows the Company to both attract and retain top talent.

- Develop and use data and talent analytics to understand trends, establish strategic practices that enhance quality of hire, build compelling business cases, and drive sound decision-making around talent acquisition and movement.

- Create talent acquisition programs that drive focused efforts on diversity and inclusion, and cultivate organizational accountability to support diversity goals and strategies worldwide.

- Stay apprised of compensation and employment trends in each of the Company's geographic areas, analysing and applying this information to develop strategies for staying ahead of potential hiring or retention challenges.

- Drive the development and delivery of internal resources that foster a talent mind-set across all employees and provide hiring managers with tools to aid in optimal hiring decisions.

- Oversee vendor and agency relationships, contract terms, contract negotiations, and fulfilment of service-level agreements.

- Leverage company branding to ensure powerful employment branding that reflects the Company's commitment to diversity, inclusion and innovation.

Ideal Candidate:

- 16+ years of talent acquisition work coupled with people leadership experience and depth in leading talent acquisition and compensation strategies in complex, global organizations (BPO's preferably).

- Experience directing talent acquisition in a growing global organization of at least 3000 FTEs, with specific experience in UK & USA.

- HR leader able to demonstrate deep knowledge of company business operations and build Strategic-level partnerships with senior leaders.

- Demonstrated leadership experience leading and scaling a global corporate TA team through periods of exponential growth.

- Proven passion for and experience with building diversity and inclusion programs.

- Strategic thinker with the ability to balance conflicting tactical issues with long-range strategy.

- Possess character traits of resiliency and grit along with exceptional critical thinking and problem-solving competencies.

- Ability to communicate proactively and clearly in a highly responsive manner.

- Flexible to travel as needed (approximately 20%).

Rewards & Benefits:

- Hybrid working (minimum 3 days per week in office).

- Learning & Development support.

- Retirement programs.

- Group Medical insurance.

- Appreciation & Recognition program.