Softline International Looking for Talent Acquisition Specialist at Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Full Time

Job Description

The Main Purpose of This Job: We are looking for a highly skilled recruitment consultant, you will map, track, and engage the best talent for Softline. Manage the entire recruitment lifecycle including attraction, placement, and post-placement care. Carve a niche for yourself by developing industry knowledge and becoming the go-to recruiter for your market. This role is more than simple recruiting, you should be able to talk about the Softline strategy and articulate career opportunities that truly engages passive talent. You must thrive in the hunt and be focused on networking closely within the industry to identify the right talent and companies to target. You’ll cover the basics of recruiting, but more importantly, leverage your business knowledge to develop meaningful recruiting strategies which promote direct methods to source, evaluate, and pipeline exceptional candidates for Softline
KEY RESPONSIBILITY AREAS – Stakeholder/Vendor Management

• Understands factors relevant to the business and hiring managers’ needs (e.g., time to hire, location, budget) and uses this knowledge to develop and implement end-to-end hiring plan aligned to the needs of the business group.
• Consults a business area on talent needs and opportunities and pushes for the acceptance of differentiated and alternative types of talent (e.g., compete, diverse, nontraditional) that may not be typically considered.

Data Analysis / Hiring Plans/Branding

• Research and gather market intelligence. Map our competitors, deliver data driven insight.
• Educates and mentors other team members to provide best practice.
• Responsible for partner with business leaders and internal recruiters in defining and maintaining core and pivotal pipelines.
• Work with regional and global colleagues in creating efficiencies and capacity (including but not limited to automation).
• Planning creative solutions to increase candidate awareness for Softline (e.g., marketing, media preparation, creative contents).

Candidate Attraction

• Elicits interest in active and potential candidates by telling the business story and contributes to the development of new stories. Generates awareness through community outreach events and strategic networking.
• Shares best practices on sourcing, recruiting, and/or closing techniques and stories with their own team. Tracks candidate activity and shares with internal stakeholders.

Candidate Experience

• Gathers requirements and develops hiring plans that meet candidate needs throughout the hiring lifecycle. Owns elements of the candidate experience and prepares candidates for next phases of the process. Enhances the candidate experience at all phases of the relationship by proactively identifying factors that may adversely impact the candidate and sharing with the business to mitigate.

Talent Sourcing

• Uses an understanding of talent markets and complex candidate profiles, as well as growing relationships with new talent pools and communities with future potential, to identify and engage candidates for immediate and future talent needs.
• Develops strategies to generate differentiated talent in emerging roles or highly competitive talent pools to meet long-term business needs (e.g., industry, technical recruiting).

Candidate Assessment & Screening

• Leverages tools and assessment frameworks to assess candidates for Knowledge Skills, Competencies and Culture attributes. May contribute to the creation of assessment materials by identifying relevant competencies and job criteria.
• Executes initial screening and assessing of candidates. Verifies talent pool by assessing relevant factors such as ability to hire, relocation considerations, immigration, and compensation.

Operational Compliance & Excellence

• Uses subject matter expertise on applying internal and external staffing policies, standards, and/or regulations throughout the entire staffing lifecycle to educate vendors, stakeholders, and other staffers on policy, system, and process issues. Identifies opportunities to optimize policies, systems, and processes.
• Maintains current documentation on candidates’ qualifications and status in the appropriate staffing or tracking system, within compliance guidelines Captures relevant data in recruiting platform and leverages data to inform meaningful insights.

Candidate Onboarding

• Organize and manage Employee pre-onboarding, onboarding, Induction, buddy program, assign training in LMS

Other

• Embody our culture and values

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED FOR THIS ROLE –

• 3-6 years talent acquisition experience (e.g., recruiting, sourcing, HR experience, or industry experience related to role
• Knowledge and experience hiring technical skills and utilizing ATS
• Interest in using LinkedIn and other tools to be ambassadors and to broadcast the Softline Story.
• Advanced research/sourcing skills (use of Boolean, social media, and alternative search techniques).
• Ability to have meaningful conversations with passive talent and persuasive enough to spark interest.
• Naturally driven to deliver results with little supervision, and effectively manage and prioritize multiple projects and candidates.
• Ability to drive clarity in ambiguity, define requirements, advise/consult and negotiate when required.
• Ability to network within the industry to identify top performers and enjoying hosting both on-site and virtual meetings and events.
• Experience with campus recruitment is an added advantage
• Experience in providing analytical and well documented recruiting reports to the Reporting Manager.
• Stay active with current job boards, social networks, and platforms to find talent, and plan, create job descriptions.
• Experience in Diversity hiring is an added advantage.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, Building Relationships.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Proficient with MS Office (Excel, Word, and PowerPoint).

PREFERRED EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND FOR THIS ROLE –

• 3+ years talent acquisition experience (e.g., recruiting, sourcing), HR experience, or industry experience related to role
• OR Bachelor’s or master’s degree in or equivalent experience in industry related discipline.