Title:  Manager - Talent Acquisition & Campus Hiring

Manager – Talent Acquisition & Campus Hiring

About the Role: The incumbent will be part of the larger TA team at Sun Pharma. The individual will be an operations specialist who is responsible for managing the business-as-usual aspects of lateral recruitment, campus hiring, University relations and Management Trainee program. The individual helps better the lateral recruitment, campus program through delivery of best-in-class practices, operational excellence, memorable candidate and stakeholder experience and delivering on metrics that measure effectiveness of the recruitment & campus program.

Key Responsibilities:

• Identify business needs and translate them into an agreed recruitment plan, aimed at the fulfilment of the needs within time, budget and quality constraints.
• Conduct in-depth vacancy intake-discussions leading to agreement with hiring manager on proposed recruitment plan. Develop an in-depth knowledge of the job specifications to include experience, skills and behavioural competencies needed for success in each role.
• Partner with stakeholders to understand business requirements, educate them on market dynamics and constantly evolve recruitment process .
• Build and maintain network of potential candidates through pro-active sourcing / research and on-going relationship management.
• Participate in special projects/initiatives, including assessment of best practices in interviewing techniques, leveraging of internal sources of talent and identification of top performers for senior-level openings.
• Responsible for identifying and mapping the external talent pool towards critical positions within the organization for Sun Global Operations, Quality function & API Business.
• Drive the Campus Hiring process across sourcing, selection, offers, post-offer and till onboarding.
• Drive Management Trainee Program operations. Execute and report against project plan.
• Candidate and College relationships – Be the POC between placement committee/ office, the students, Sun Pharma. Manage timely communications, queries and experience.
• Execute campus engagement program and branding calendar across target colleges. Work with internal stakeholders to support the program. Track and report engagement levels and other metrics.
• Work on market intelligence at periodic intervals in order to gather trends and insights that will aid campus hiring strategy.
• Own a quarterly project end-to-end across branding/ campus engagement/ candidate experience/ interviewer experience/ process improvement.
• Responsible for all reporting and documentation of campus hiring related activities for internal audits.

Who you are:

• Overall experience of 8-10 years in recruitment.
• 3+ years of experience in campus recruitment, with a track record of driving successful outcomes.
• Managing Tier 1 MBA/ Engineering campuses is an added advantage.
• Proficient in English; written and verbal.
• Intermediate level proficiency; spreadsheets and data analysis to draw insights.
• Education: Science/Engineering undergraduate with a post-graduation in MBA-HR.

Behavioural Attributes

• Ability to organise and execute different tasks, prioritising and driving time-bound outcomes. Does not require follow-up and can maintain a cadence for updates.
• Problem solving mindset. Ability to identify the problem and come up with mitigation approach(es) proactively.
• Good relationship-building skills, with the ability to connect effectively with placement teams and internal stakeholders.
• Learning mindset to skill oneself on knowledge required for the job.
• Comfortable with an ambiguous situation/environment.

Job Details

• Work Location: Mumbai (Sun Head Office).
• Reporting structure: Reports to Campus Programs Lead. Skip level manager is Global TA Head