Associate Director/Director Talent Acquisition

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.

Designation: Director - Talent Acquisition

Location: Bangalore, Hybrid

Reporting Manager: Vice President Talent Acquisition (India Head of TA)

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.

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