Purpose: Lead the development and execution of the recruitment strategy in the India Market for corporate functions to achieve both strategic and operational goals.

Key Recruiting Responsibilities

• Drive strategic and operational goals for the India Market organization across all aspects of recruitment including strategies and practices to support future trends and business growth through recruitment excellence.
• Drive high quality talent management practices within the India market.
• Plan and execute Recruitment programs and initiatives
• Responsible for end to end recruitment of all roles in corporate functions
• Drive effective recruitment process that provides high quality experiences for candidates and hiring managers.
• Manage and influence business and functional leaders on recruitment priorities to ensure that organizational needs are met.
• Establish and maintain market and industry expertise including a comprehensive view of trends and competitors to help identify opportunities to improve recruitment results.
• Drive the implementation of global and EM initiatives through collaborative partnerships within the overall talent function.
• Management of recruitment systems and reports and sharing of regular dashboards with all stakeholders concerned.

Knowledge & Skill Abilities

• Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Strong interpersonal, relationship building and executive level stakeholder management skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong project management skills and proven success achieving goals and standards.
• Ability to manage change, problem solve and influence hiring behaviour.
• Ability to set clear goals and deliver into key objectives.
• Strong level of expertise within the market and across multiple functions.

• Demonstrates excellent collaboration skills including the ability to set clear goals, involve others in decision making and building productive relationships.
• Constantly seeks new and innovative solutions, creates an environment that fosters creativity and risk taking and has the ability to turn ideas into actions.
• Strong stakeholder management and stakeholder engagement experience including influencing senior leaders.

Experience Requirements:

• Undergraduate
• Minimum of 8-10 years’ experience in recruiting
• Knowledge of the footwear and apparel industry, direct experience having worked on searches in the consumer goods industry is preferred
• Strong knowledge of the India talent landscape and market recruiting trends.
• Fluent in both Hindi and English