Lead Talent Acquisition role responsible for building and scaling the TA function aligned with business growth. Own TA strategy, infrastructure, processes, and team structure. Drive workforce planning, hiring forecasting, and recruitment across India and global markets. Implement recruitment technology including Zoho Recruit and AI tools. Improve hiring performance metrics and candidate experience. Partner with business leaders for talent requirements and act as strategic advisor. Lead critical and senior hiring mandates with direct candidate engagement. Mentor and develop TA team, define roles and performance metrics. Ensure balance of internal and external recruitment resources.
What you'll do
Own the complete Talent Acquisition function and define its overall strategy and operating model
Build and continuously improve the TA infrastructure, processes, governance and hiring framework
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Assess the existing TA setup and build the right team structure and resources based on hiring volumes, business priorities and market requirements
Establish clear hiring SLAs, accountability mechanisms and performance metrics
Drive a high-performance, ownership-driven culture within the TA function
Partner with business leaders to build workforce plans and hiring forecasts
Translate business growth plans into structured hiring requirements and recruitment plans
Plan for new positions, replacement hiring, attrition and critical talent requirements
Continuously assess hiring capacity and align TA resources with business demand
Build visibility around planned vs. actual hiring and future talent requirements
Lead and scale recruitment across India and international markets
Build scalable global sourcing strategies and talent pipelines
Develop market intelligence across talent availability, compensation and hiring trends
Establish consistent recruitment practices across geographies while adapting to local market requirements
Establish Zoho Recruit as the central recruitment platform and single source of truth for the TA function
Build recruitment dashboards and analytics to provide visibility into the complete hiring funnel
Identify and implement automation across sourcing, screening, scheduling, communication, reporting and other manual processes
Drive adoption of relevant AI tools and emerging recruitment technologies to improve TA productivity and efficiency
Improve overall hiring TAT, funnel efficiency and candidate conversion
Track position aging, source effectiveness, funnel conversion, offer acceptance and joining ratios
Identify bottlenecks and implement solutions to improve hiring outcomes
Continuously evaluate and improve the candidate experience and recruitment process
Partner with business leaders, functional heads and hiring managers to understand current and future talent requirements and translate them into effective recruitment strategies
Act as a strategic talent advisor to the business
Drive stakeholder accountability around hiring timelines, feedback and decision-making
Provide talent market insights to support business and hiring decisions
Personally lead critical, senior and leadership hiring mandates where direct engagement with senior talent is required
Build relationships with passive and senior candidates through direct sourcing and executive-level engagement
Develop targeted search strategies for difficult-to-find talent
Personally drive candidate engagement, assessment coordination, negotiations and closure for critical positions
Build strong talent networks that can support recurring leadership and niche hiring requirements
Lead, mentor and develop the Talent Acquisition team
Define recruiter roles, responsibilities, goals, productivity metrics and performance expectations
Build recruiter capability across sourcing, stakeholder management, market intelligence, negotiation, candidate engagement and modern recruitment practices
Ensure the right balance of internal resources, specialised hiring support and external recruitment partners based on business needs
Requirements
10+ years of Talent Acquisition experience, including strong team leadership experience
Proven ability to build and scale TA functions, including workforce planning and hiring strategy
Strong experience in global recruitment and handling critical, senior and niche hiring
Strong stakeholder management, negotiation and candidate closure skills
Data-driven approach with experience in hiring metrics, TAT, funnel management and recruitment analytics
Experience with ATS, recruitment automation and AI-led hiring, with ability to balance strategic leadership with hands-on involvement
Tech stack
Zoho RecruitATSrecruitment automationAI tools
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