Deputy Manager - Talent Acquisition

Strategic Talent Acquisition

• Develop and implement talent acquisition strategies aligned with business growth objectives.
• Partner with leadership teams to understand workforce requirements and create long-term hiring plans.
• Lead hiring for mid-management, senior management, leadership, and niche roles across multiple functions.
• Build talent pipelines for critical positions and future business requirements.

Business Partnering & Stakeholder Management

• Act as a strategic recruitment partner to CXOs, Functional Heads, and Business Leaders.
• Provide market intelligence, talent trends, compensation benchmarking, and competitor insights.
• Drive workforce planning discussions and hiring prioritization with business stakeholders.
• Ensure a consultative approach towards recruitment decisions and talent availability.

Recruitment Operations & Governance

• Oversee end-to-end recruitment activities from requisition creation to candidate onboarding.
• Ensure adherence to recruitment policies, hiring governance, diversity goals, and compliance requirements.
• Monitor and improve hiring metrics including TAT, offer-to-join ratio, quality of hire, and sourcing effectiveness.
• Drive process excellence through automation and continuous improvement initiatives.

Employer Branding & Talent Marketing

• Drive employer branding initiatives to strengthen Adani GCC's talent market presence.
• Lead campus recruitment, diversity hiring, leadership hiring, and strategic talent programs.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to enhance employee value proposition (EVP).
• Represent the organization at recruitment events, industry forums, and talent networking platforms.

Offer Management & Candidate Experience

• Guide compensation discussions, offer approvals, and negotiation strategies for critical hires.
• Ensure superior candidate experience throughout the recruitment lifecycle.
• Manage offer governance, approval matrices, and hiring-related escalations.
• Drive initiatives to improve candidate engagement and joining conversion rates.

Education

• MBA/PGDM in Human Resources from a reputed institute.
• Graduation in any discipline.

Experience

• 08-11 years of experience in Talent Acquisition.
• Proven experience managing large-scale hiring, leadership hiring, and strategic workforce planning.
• Experience in GCC, Shared Services, IT, Digital, Analytics, Engineering, Finance, Corporate Functions, or diversified business environments.
• Prior experience leading and managing TA teams is mandatory.