The Recruitment Lead will be responsible for overall Annalect India recruitment strategy development, implementation and administration of recruitment programs. Execute Recruitment strategy to drive business results of each internal departments and appropriate stakeholders.
The Recruitment Lead will possess and exercise exceptional skills in: problem solving, strategic thinking, and project/process management, coaching and fostering collaboration. To monitor and constantly reduces the costs of the recruitment process

Functions and Responsibilities:

40% Recruiting Strategy: Provide day to day support on the overall recruiting life cycle and building trusted relationships with hiring managers.

Overall Recruiting Strategy for Annalect
- Responsible towards the Annalect senior leadership in planning, developing, executing, and directing hiring strategies, processes, and programs for Annalect
- Lead sourcing strategies through a variety of sourcing channels across all of Annalect’s recruiting needs.
  - Manage and maintain external search agency relationships, contracts, negotiations and effectiveness.
  - Develop and manage university and external program relationships to build additional sourcing pipelines.
  - Oversight over all Annalect open roles and health of the pipelines.
  - Identifying key industry related events and coordinating participation.
- Responsible for partnering with Marketing and Design on all recruiting related activities including managing our social media brand related to hiring
- Partnering effectively with the Annalect Global recruiting team, ensuring alignment on practices, and alignment on use of external agencies.
  - Hiring Manager Relationships
- Responsible for building an understanding of our hiring needs, conducting a needs analysis and evaluation of job descriptions that best target our talent profiles.
- Responsible for providing counsel to hiring managers on approaches to recruiting and interviewing practices
- Act as a relationship manager between hiring managers and candidates, being responsible towards Annalect and balancing our needs and expectations with that of the candidate.
- Partnering with the Annalect HR team on supporting Annalect Hiring manager needs.
- Educating and enabling managers through the Annalect interview framework

30% Recruiting

Manage open job postings and candidate pipeline
Responsible for managing an active and passive pipeline search through a variety of recruiting channels.
Responsible for ensuring a positive candidate experience throughout the life cycle of the recruitment process.
Provide support on building out job descriptions
Gathering candidate feedback in a timely manner
Coordinating and scheduling candidates in a timely manner being respectful of the hiring managers’ schedules.
Ensuring alignment of communications through job postings and candidate experience align with our overall Annalect culture and brand.

20% Recruiting Operations

Reporting and Metrics:
- Ensuring the recruiting report is updated on a weekly basis and providing any further metrics or reporting needs analysis.
- Leadership level communication: Managing the Leadership and as appropriate Managers communications on the overall health of our recruitment.
Financials:
- Oversight of the budgets aligned against search agencies, external events, memberships
- Oversight of referral program partnering with Finance, including processing of any referral payments
Agency Relationships: Responsible for negotiating and managing any external agency relationships. Fiscally responsible for the costs and management of these relationships.
Responsible for the overall recruiting flow and offer approval flow:

Experience Guidelines:

To ensure that the HR Policies & Procedures on recruitment are fully complied throughout the selection process. Strong ability to communicate effectively (verbal and written), at all levels within and outside the organization
Solid understanding of on-going Technology trends. Past experience in managing and mentoring a team of at least 4-6 recruiters is a must.
About 10 years of related experience of which a minimum of 6 years should be in a similar position / responsibility, preferably in a similar Industry. HR , Recruitment , Recruitment Manager/Preferably from Analytics or IT domain company
Hands-on experience on MS Office skills

Ways of Working

Think and act strategically to resolve issues, problem solve, add business value
Approach work with a sense of urgency
Strong organizational/planning, project management, and multi-tasking skills required to deliver on time and within budget
Work independently with minimal supervision to set priorities and demonstrate excellent program /process and management skills
Demonstrate a strong attention to detail
Demonstrated experience in fostering a collaborative working environment between individuals and teams through coaching & personal example
Exceptional time and priority management skills
Use excellent communication skills to collaborate and provide transparency on all things
Be a collaborative, high-energy, proactive self-starter

The Recruitment Lead will be responsible for overall Annalect India recruitment strategy development, implementation and administration of recruitment programs. Execute Recruitment strategy to drive business results of each internal departments and appropriate stakeholders.
The Recruitment Lead will possess and exercise exceptional skills in: problem solving, strategic thinking, and project/process management, coaching and fostering collaboration. To monitor and constantly reduces the costs of the recruitment process

Functions and Responsibilities:

40% Recruiting Strategy: Provide day to day support on the overall recruiting life cycle and building trusted relationships with hiring managers.

Overall Recruiting Strategy for Annalect
- Responsible towards the Annalect senior leadership in planning, developing, executing, and directing hiring strategies, processes, and programs for Annalect
- Lead sourcing strategies through a variety of sourcing channels across all of Annalect’s recruiting needs.
  - Manage and maintain external search agency relationships, contracts, negotiations and effectiveness.
  - Develop and manage university and external program relationships to build additional sourcing pipelines.
  - Oversight over all Annalect open roles and health of the pipelines.
  - Identifying key industry related events and coordinating participation.
- Responsible for partnering with Marketing and Design on all recruiting related activities including managing our social media brand related to hiring
- Partnering effectively with the Annalect Global recruiting team, ensuring alignment on practices, and alignment on use of external agencies.
  - Hiring Manager Relationships
- Responsible for building an understanding of our hiring needs, conducting a needs analysis and evaluation of job descriptions that best target our talent profiles.
- Responsible for providing counsel to hiring managers on approaches to recruiting and interviewing practices
- Act as a relationship manager between hiring managers and candidates, being responsible towards Annalect and balancing our needs and expectations with that of the candidate.
- Partnering with the Annalect HR team on supporting Annalect Hiring manager needs.
- Educating and enabling managers through the Annalect interview framework

30% Recruiting

Manage open job postings and candidate pipeline
Responsible for managing an active and passive pipeline search through a variety of recruiting channels.
Responsible for ensuring a positive candidate experience throughout the life cycle of the recruitment process.
Provide support on building out job descriptions
Gathering candidate feedback in a timely manner
Coordinating and scheduling candidates in a timely manner being respectful of the hiring managers’ schedules.
Ensuring alignment of communications through job postings and candidate experience align with our overall Annalect culture and brand.

20% Recruiting Operations

Reporting and Metrics:
- Ensuring the recruiting report is updated on a weekly basis and providing any further metrics or reporting needs analysis.
- Leadership level communication: Managing the Leadership and as appropriate Managers communications on the overall health of our recruitment.
Financials:
- Oversight of the budgets aligned against search agencies, external events, memberships
- Oversight of referral program partnering with Finance, including processing of any referral payments
Agency Relationships: Responsible for negotiating and managing any external agency relationships. Fiscally responsible for the costs and management of these relationships.
Responsible for the overall recruiting flow and offer approval flow:

Experience Guidelines:

To ensure that the HR Policies & Procedures on recruitment are fully complied throughout the selection process. Strong ability to communicate effectively (verbal and written), at all levels within and outside the organization
Solid understanding of on-going Technology trends. Past experience in managing and mentoring a team of at least 4-6 recruiters is a must.
About 10 years of related experience of which a minimum of 6 years should be in a similar position / responsibility, preferably in a similar Industry. HR , Recruitment , Recruitment Manager/Preferably from Analytics or IT domain company
Hands-on experience on MS Office skills

Ways of Working

Think and act strategically to resolve issues, problem solve, add business value
Approach work with a sense of urgency
Strong organizational/planning, project management, and multi-tasking skills required to deliver on time and within budget
Work independently with minimal supervision to set priorities and demonstrate excellent program /process and management skills
Demonstrate a strong attention to detail
Demonstrated experience in fostering a collaborative working environment between individuals and teams through coaching & personal example
Exceptional time and priority management skills
Use excellent communication skills to collaborate and provide transparency on all things
Be a collaborative, high-energy, proactive self-starter

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