Senior Talent Acquisition Manager

Role: Senior Manager Talent Acquisition

Years of Experience: (12-15 Years)

Location: Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Noida, Pune

Shifts: General

Job Summary:

The Senior TA Manager leads large-scale hiring initiatives, manages teams, and drives strategic recruitment programs aligned with business growth

Must Have Skills

• 12–15 years of hands-on recruitment experience across global markets.
• Experience in global hiring for skilled consultants across SAP, Data Analytics, Digital Integration, and MuleSoft.
• Experience in large-scale or leadership hiring
• Expertise in recruitment strategy and analytics
• Expertise in End-to-End Recruitment cycle for Full time and Contract Hires globally
• Leveraging AI for sourcing/screening, data-driven decision-making, employer branding, and skills-based hiring, all while maintaining high emotional intelligence (EQ) and adaptability in a fast-evolving, hybrid work environment.
• Data Analytics & Strategic Thinking: Analysing recruitment data to predict hiring needs, optimize hiring funnels, and align talent acquisition with overall business goals.
• Skills-Based Hiring: Shifting focus from traditional credentials to assessing candidates' specific skill sets, enabling better capability matching.
• Emotional Intelligence (EQ) & Adaptability: Building rapport with candidates and adapting quickly to shifting market dynamics or remote/hybrid hiring needs.
• Tech-Forward Sourcing: Utilizing advanced search techniques and platforms to find passive talent.

Nice to Have Skills

• High-level AI proficiency with strategic human-centric skills
• Hiring for Public sector organizations
• Employer branding leadership
• Recruitment transformation exposure
• Recruitment Metrics: Monitoring time-to-fill, quality-of-hire, and cost-per-hire
• AI-driven recruiting, SAP SuccessFactors proficiency, and strategic workforce planning.
• AI in Talent Acquisition: Implementing AI tools to identify, screen, and engage candidates (moving away from traditional, manual sourcing).
• Data Analytics: Using analytics to predict talent shortages, measure hiring quality, and identify skill gaps (e.g., in analytics, cloud integration).
• Strategic Workforce Planning, aligning hiring needs with business strategy, particularly for S/4HANA transformations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive recruitment strategy and large-scale hiring programs
• Lead and manage TA teams across functions/regions
• Partner with business leaders for talent strategy
• Monitor hiring performance and optimize processes
• Enhance employer branding and candidate experience
• Promote employee referral programs, internal opportunities for current ream members and develop relationships with alumni and friends of the Firm
• Lead cross functional recruiting projects, programs and initiatives while managing executive and measuring results
• Plan and direct activities of staff in carrying out such functions as developing sources of qualified applicants, screening applicants, scheduling and conducting interviews, administering tests, checking references and background, and evaluating applicant qualifications
• Recruit for and interview candidates for open management-level and above positions
• Participate in and occasionally lead project meetings with other divisions to develop and/or enhance Talent Acquisition strategies
• Lead discussions with business units to understand current needs, enhance recruiting strategy and propose new ideas
• Develop and maintain contacts with educational institutions, employment agencies, placement firms, and other sources of applicants directly and through subordinate staff
• Evaluate data on recruitment activities, applicant flow, interviews, hires, transfers, promotions, and terminations to set strategy for Talent Acquisition
• Analyse statistical reports and other data to monitor applicant flow, selection and turnover for compliance with legal regulations and organizational goals and policies

Business Skills

• Excellent oral and written communication skills, the ability to communicate with others clearly and concisely, understands business processes for focus areas or modules.
• Ability to do research and perform detailed tasks, strong analytical skills.
• Understands business functionality related to SAP module/application as well as can identify and understand touch points between modules.

General Qualifications & Skills/Tasks              

• Understands client’s business and technical environment.
• Keeps manager apprised of workload direction and concerns.
• Learn to analyse and develop reliable solutions that produce efficient and effective outcomes.
• Develop a deeper understanding of SAP methodologies, tools, standards, and techniques.
• Ability to strategically source candidates including fluency in LinkedIn Recruiter, CRM and ATS systems
• Results focused – able to deliver to deadlines and take accountability for work
• Collaborative – able to work with others, balance business need with personal objectives
• Experience using an Applicant Tracking System to manage recruitment
• Self-motivated & proactive – able to use initiative, identify problems, come up with solutions and deliver against these