Talent Acquisition Partner - India

Job Summary: (brief 2-3 sentence overall description, detail should be in Essential Duties and Responsibilities)

The Talent Acquisition Partner provides a recruitment service to all areas of the business, specializing in finding suitable candidates from low or no cost sources.  This is achieved by developing recruiting plans, employing traditional sourcing strategies and resources as well as developing new, creative recruiting ideas.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: (Each section below should contain name of a key duty, then list the associate responsibilities.)

Recruiting Responsibilities

• Manages the full life cycle recruiting process for assigned levels of employees and assigned functional areas 
• Assists with recruiting programs such as university partnerships and outreach, hiring manager and new hire satisfaction surveys, internships, and employee referrals.
• Leverages innovative sourcing techniques to drive how positions are filled based on the needs of the business (time, cost, skill set, diversity)
• Consults with hiring managers on talent acquisition and develops accurate position requirements, sourcing strategies and timelines to ensure job requirements and expectations are clearly understood and candidates are assessed against appropriate criteria.
• Performs hands-on recruitment. 
• Takes a project management approach to the search process; conducts regular meetings with hiring managers to discuss recruiting progress and roadblocks

Candidate Management

• Effectively screens/assesses/interviews candidates to generate a qualified candidate pool for open positions.
• Acts as the primary liaison between managers and candidates.
• Prepares candidates for interviewing by providing detailed information on the company, our business strategy, department background, job descriptions, and expectation-setting.
• Organizes, leads and documents post-interview debrief/feedback with interview teams and candidates.
• Conducts follow-up calls with hiring managers and new hires.
• Maintains candidate records and records of recruitment activities to ensure compliance with government regulations relating to the recruitment and selection process.
• Professionally interacts with candidates, hiring managers, and other HR team members.
• Delivers a superior candidate experience.

Partnering/Planning

• Understands the company's goals, principles and mission.
• Maintains contact with hiring managers to proactively determine staffing needs.
• Demonstrates influencing skills by establishing professional credibility
• Develops an effective pipeline of key talent potentially available for immediate hire.
• Manages and drives selection by working closely with key decision makers
• Demonstrates business acumen by understanding the needs of each customer

Networking and Sourcing

• Develops and maintains a network of contacts to help identify and source qualified candidates.
• Develops relationships both within and outside the organization.
• Develops and maintains contacts with schools, alumni groups, user groups, industry associations, and other organizations in order to source candidates.

Offer Presentation & Negotiation

• Reviews reference checks and discusses results with hiring managers.
• Ensures consistent implementation of background checks for all prospective, external candidates before they receive a job offer.
• Makes salary recommendations to hiring managers
• Extends offers of employment to selected candidates under the direction of hiring managers and within the guidelines of the company
• Negotiates and closes offers.
• Sells the company brand

Vendor Management

• Utilizes 3rd party contingency and retained search firms as appropriate and within company guidelines

HR Recruiting System:

• Maintain a high level of skill on the applicable Recruiting Management System
• Follow all global procedures to ensure consistent application of recruiting
• Adhere to the Code of Conduct related to the Recruiting Management System

Organization and Time Management

• Maintains an organized approach to managing daily activities, requisitions, and hiring manager, and recruiting team expectations.

Other:

• This job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required for this position.  The employee may be asked to perform other duties and responsibilities, as necessary.

Essential Job Functions: (Required for US-optional for other countries)

• Must be able to come to work promptly and regularly
• Must be able to take direction and work well with others
• Must be able to work under the stress of and meet deadlines
• Must be able to concentrate and perform accurately while meeting applicable productivity measures
• Must be able to change productively and to handle other tasks as assigned

Key Contacts / Relationships:  

Internal:

Employees and managers at all levels across the organization

External:

Candidates, Vendors, Schools & Universities, User Groups & Networking Associations

Education / Knowledge / Experience: (Subject to local laws and practices)

Essential:

• High School diploma with a minimum of two years of related corporate experience in full life cycle recruiting across various disciplines.
• Prior experience with a Recruiting Management System
• Well versed in social media and online recruitment tactics.
• Capability of exercising extreme discretion and independent judgment.
• Demonstrated ability to build strong relationships with a variety of stakeholders.
• Excellent commercial English skills
• Proficient in Microsoft applications; Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook
• Ability to travel for business
• Knowledge and experience in applicable employment laws

Preferred:

• Fluency in a second major language applicable to the region supported
• Experience with high volume, full cycle recruiting and demonstrated knowledge of sourcing and mining for talent and recruiting via non-traditional/innovative methods

Essential Skills and Abilities:  (optional section if detailed above)

Physical and Mental Requirements:  (Required for US-optional for other countries)

The requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical:

• Requires an adequate range of body motion and mobility to enable the individual to perform the essential functions of the job.
• Requires ability to remain in a stationary position for prolonged periods of time throughout the workday.
• Requires ability to move about to access file cabinets, office equipment, etc.
• Requires ability to operate a computer, telecommunication’s devices and other office equipment for prolonged periods of time throughout the work day.
• Requires ability to express or exchange ideas by means of the spoken word.  Talking is important for those activities in which the employee must impart oral information to other employees, clients and customers, in person or via telephone, and in those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions and information to others accurately, clearly and quickly.
• Requires the ability to perceive the nature of sounds.  Hearing is important for those activities that require ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, in person or via telephone, and to make fine discriminations in sound.
• Requires clarity of near vision.  This factor is important when special and or minute accuracy is demanded and defective near acuity would adversely affect job performance and/or safety of self and others.
• Requires ability to work other shifts and weekends and in excess of 40 hours/week, as necessary.

Mental:

• Requires the ability to work and cooperate with other employees and clients at all levels and from diverse backgrounds to exchange ideas, information and opinions to facilitate the task at hand.

Travel: (for designated positions)

• Requires ability to travel by car, plane and train for prolonged periods of time domestically and internationally and to move and transport personal luggage.