Talent Acquisition Lead

Role Summary

The Talent Acquisition Lead is responsible for building and executing a scalable, data-driven hiring strategy that ensures the organization consistently attracts, engages, and hires high-quality talent. This role leads to employer branding, sourcing strategy, recruitment operations, and workforce planning while acting as a strategic hiring advisor to leadership.  

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement a long-term hiring strategy aligned with business growth plans.  

• Partner with leadership and hiring managers to forecast talent needs.  

• Develop talent personas and sourcing segmentation models.  

• Lead full recruitment lifecycle from attraction to offer acceptance.  

• Ensure efficient hiring funnel management and candidate experience excellence.  

• Standardize interview processes, evaluation frameworks, and decision guidelines.  

• Monitor pipeline health and proactively resolve hiring bottlenecks.  

• Build a strong employer brand presence across digital platforms.  

• Lead recruitment marketing campaigns, career content, and hiring promotions.  

• Represent company in hiring events, universities, and industry forums.  

• Develop talent communities and passive candidate pipelines.  

• Configure and optimize ATS workflows, automation, reporting, and integrations.  

• Track recruitment KPIs and deliver data-driven insights.

• Ensure accurate candidate database management and reporting integrity.

• Implement automation for communication, scheduling, and offer generation.

• Manage recruitment agencies, sourcing partners, and assessment providers.

• Negotiate contracts and service quality expectations.

• Build partnerships with universities, training institutes, and talent networks.

• Design competitive offer strategies aligned with market benchmarks.

• Support negotiation and closing strategy for critical hires.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in business administration , or related field .

• 3-5 years of experience in Talent Ac quisition or Recruitment Leadership

• Proven experience hiring across technical and specialized roles

• Experience building recruitment strategy and employer branding

• Strong negotiation, stakeholder management, and influencing skills

• Experience implementing or managing ATS platforms