Vice President - Head of IT Recruitment

As the Vice President - Head of IT Recruitment at BNP Paribas India Solutions, you will have the overall responsibility and accountability for the IT / Technology recruitment function. This senior role is critical and involves overseeing IT recruitment delivery for all locations of BNP Paribas GCC in India. You will lead a team of high-performing senior recruiters and act as a strategic HR partner with the IT Executive Committee in forecasting, planning, and implementing the IT recruitment strategy. Your responsibilities will include owning the IT recruitment strategy in partnership with respective business and HR stakeholders, working closely with the CIO and IT Department Heads on recruitment planning and implementation, understanding IT business needs to design talent acquisition strategies, developing and maintaining strong relationships with senior business stakeholders, and ensuring the timely identification and attraction of qualified IT professionals. You will be expected to provide regular reporting of data and MIS on recruitment activities to senior management, translate high-level business objectives into operational resourcing solutions, manage the IT recruitment team efficiently by providing direction, leadership, motivation, and ensuring team development, set specific goals for team members, work closely with the early careers team, and continuously look for ways to improve the candidate experience while reducing time-to-hire and cost-per-hire. Additionally, you will partner with HR Business Partners, HR Shared Services & L&D teams, maintain up-to-date knowledge on external market trends in technology recruitment, manage and monitor senior-level hiring personally, and practice risk management within the IT recruitment function to ensure adherence to all SOPs and talent acquisition guidelines. The ideal candidate for this role will have proven experience in IT recruitment and people management, a strong understanding of IT skills, roles, technologies, and the IT job market, excellent communication and interpersonal skills, a strong customer and process orientation, experience working with local and global senior stakeholders, the ability to influence, negotiate, and adapt, comfort with working with data to make informed decisions, a result and solution-oriented mindset, and the ability to anticipate business and strategic evolution. Specific qualifications for this position include being a graduate or post-graduate with over 15 years of overall experience in talent acquisition and at least 10 years in technology hiring. Experience in hiring within a Banking GCC or BFSI domain is highly preferred and considered a significant advantage.,