Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

Role: Talent Acquisition Specialist – Senior

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3.     Post Assessment completion within 15 working days our team will reach out with opportunities

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Job Overview

We are seeking a seasoned and strategic Talent Acquisition Specialist (Senior) to lead and execute end-to-end recruitment initiatives across business units. This role involves driving hiring strategies, partnering with senior stakeholders, and ensuring the timely acquisition of high-quality talent. The ideal candidate combines operational excellence with talent advisory capabilities and can manage high-volume and niche hiring mandates with equal ease.

Key Responsibilities

1. Talent Strategy & Workforce Planning

• Partner with business leaders and HRBPs to forecast manpower requirements.
• Translate workforce planning into actionable recruitment strategies aligned with business goals.
• Support diversity, succession, and future skills hiring plans.

2. End-to-End Recruitment Leadership

• Drive the full recruitment lifecycle from sourcing to closure for mid-to-leadership roles.
• Utilize advanced sourcing techniques (Boolean, LinkedIn Recruiter, industry networks, etc.) for passive and active candidate outreach.
• Lead salary negotiations and offer rollouts, ensuring alignment with internal equity and budgets.

3. Stakeholder Management & Hiring Advisory

• Act as a hiring advisor to business heads on role structures, job descriptions, and market availability.
• Manage expectations around timelines, candidate profiles, and compensation benchmarking.
• Conduct interview training or capability sessions for hiring managers when needed.

4. Employer Branding & Talent Marketing

• Collaborate with HR and marketing teams to enhance the employer brand on social media, job platforms, and at industry events.
• Support EVP campaigns, employee testimonials, and talent engagement programs.
• Represent the company in key talent forums and career fairs.

5. Recruitment Analytics & Compliance

• Maintain and interpret key hiring metrics – cost per hire, time to fill, source effectiveness, diversity ratios.
• Ensure documentation, candidate data management, and audit-readiness of recruitment processes.
• Optimize use of ATS and recruitment tech tools for process efficiency.

6. Specialized Hiring Models

• Manage lateral hiring, leadership hiring, gig/flex models, and RPO/vendor partnerships where applicable.
• Lead strategic talent pipelines for hard-to-fill roles or new business verticals.
• Oversee campus or early-career hiring in collaboration with internal teams, where assigned.

Key Skills & Competencies:

• Adaptability across industries / subsectors
• Strategic sourcing and executive search capability
• Stakeholder engagement and consultative decision-making
• Strong market intelligence and industry mapping
• Negotiation and influencing skills
• Data analysis and recruitment forecasting
• Strong verbal, written, and visual communication
• High accountability and ethical hiring standards