Lead - Talent Acquisition

The individual will lead a team of recruiters while partnering closely with business leaders, HR leadership, and global stakeholders to deliver high-quality talent solutions aligned with organizational priorities.

This role requires a balance of strategic thinking, operational leadership, stakeholder management, talent intelligence, and team development.

Work Location: Mumbai, India

Work Mode: In Office

Work Hours: 12 to 9pm IST

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Talent Partnership

Partner with senior business leaders to drive workforce planning and hiring strategies aligned to business growth objectives.

Act as a trusted advisor to leadership teams on talent availability, market intelligence, hiring trends, and recruitment strategies.

Influence hiring decisions through data-driven insights and talent mapping.

Build proactive talent pipelines for current and future business needs across technical, functional, and leadership roles.

Talent Acquisition Leadership

Lead end-to-end recruitment delivery across multiple business units and geographies.

Manage recruitment priorities, hiring governance, and execution strategies to ensure delivery against hiring goals.

Drive recruitment planning discussions, hiring prioritization, and demand forecasting with stakeholders.

Ensure consistency in hiring quality, candidate experience, and process compliance.

Stakeholder Management

Act as a trusted advisor to hiring managers and leadership teams.

Provide market intelligence, talent insights, and hiring recommendations.

Drive hiring discussions, prioritization, and recruitment planning reviews with business stakeholders.

Talent Intelligence & Recruitment Analytics

Drive data-backed recruitment decision-making through dashboards, reporting, and hiring analytics.

Monitor key hiring metrics including:

Time-to-fill

Offer acceptance rates

Diversity hiring metrics

Source effectiveness

Pipeline conversion

Recruiter productivity

Present hiring insights and market intelligence to leadership teams during business reviews.

Process Excellence & Transformation

Identify opportunities to optimize recruitment workflows, stakeholder engagement, and hiring processes.

Drive standardization and scalability across TA operations.

Lead initiatives around automation, TA tools, process improvements, and operational efficiency.

Continuously improve candidate and hiring manager experience.

Team Capability Building

Lead, mentor, and develop a team of recruiters to enhance capability, ownership, and delivery effectiveness.

Establish clear performance expectations, KPIs, and development plans for the TA team.

Support onboarding and continuous learning initiatives for recruiters.

Create a high-performance, collaborative, and solution-oriented recruitment culture.

Job Qualifications:

The qualifications we are looking for are mixture of work experience and educational background.

They are split into Minimum Qualifications (must have) and Additional Qualifications (nice to have) along with soft skills (competencies) needed for the role:

Qualifications & Experience

MBA / PGDM in Human Resources or related field.

Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field.

15 years of experience in Talent Acquisition with strong exposure to strategic and leadership hiring.

Experience leading recruiters or managing recruitment functions in a fast-paced environment.

Strong expertise in technology and corporate hiring.

Demonstrated experience in stakeholder management at senior leadership levels.

Strong analytical and reporting capabilities with experience using recruitment metrics and dashboards.

Experience working with ATS platforms such as Workday or similar systems.

Skills & Competencies

Business Acumen and Strategic Thinking.

Strong consulting, influencing, and stakeholder management skills.

Analytical mindset with the ability to interpret people data for insights and decisions.

Excellent communication and change management skills.

Empathy, resilience, and a strong sense of accountability.

Why Join Us

Comprehensive Health Insurance Coverage for employees and dependents.

National and Festival Holidays, along with generous paid leave policies promoting work-life balance.

Lifestyle Rewards & Recognition Program – celebrating milestones, achievements, and contributions.

Learning and Development Opportunities through global training programs, mentorship, and leadership accelerators.

Be part of a global organization with a culture rooted in respect and continuous growth.

Work with a dynamic leadership team that values innovation and people development.

Opportunity to shape the HR function and directly impact organizational success.

Inclusive, transparent, and empowering environment with room for creativity and career advancement.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed

by people assigned to this job. It is not designed to be utilized as a comprehensive list of all duties,

responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

Working Environment:
This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines. Periods of stress may occur.

This role may occasionally encounter Protected Health Information, Personal Identifiable Information or Privacy Records, and it is essential that all employees adhere to confidentiality requirements as outlined in the Employee Handbook and Harris’ Security and Privacy policies, as well as apply the concepts learned in the annual Security Awareness training.