Talent Sourcing Consultant
Company : Walchand TalentFirst Limited Industry : Consultancy Services
Requisition ID :   Position : Full Time Regular
Job Type : Experienced Base Pay : N/A
Manages Others: No Functional Area : Human Resources
Open Date : February 5, 2008 Required travel : Cover Indian geographies
Close Date : February 29, 2008 Relocation covered : No
Reporting to : Vice President Strategic Management,
Business Development and Group HR
Contact : Not Available
Mobility : Across Lines of Business and Functions Phone : Not Available
Location : Mumbai – Maharashtra – India Facsimile : Not Available

Company Links :  

www.walchandpeoplefirst.com
www.shrm-india.com
www.performanse.fr
   
Required degrees / qualifications
  • Post graduation in business administration with a specialization in HR or relevant degree, with minimum of 5 years to a maximum of 14 years, of consultancy / service industry experience
  • Professional Human Resources / Senior Professional Human Resource from Society for Human Resources Management / Dale Carnegie Training Certificate
  • Developing and implementing sourcing strategies across multiple Lines of Business and Corporate Affairs
  • Possess knowledge of local and global employment laws and Human Resources processes
  • Possess a detailed knowledge of the internal and external sourcing market, including experience in diversity sourcing
  • Demonstrated ability to work with Senior Management Team by guiding them into sourcing skills, processes and laws
  • Strong business acumen
  • Ability to think strategically and deliver bottom line results
  • Excellent oral / written communications, inter personal , presentation, problem solving , coaching and consulting skills
  • Innovating processes to deliver cost savings, including managing large scale sourcing campaigns
  • Systems and systems development knowledge – contact management systems, internet search tools
  • Positioning the company and the people – employer and employee branding
  • Assertive, self driven , ability to prioritize and result oriented
Description

Our business environment

We have on board quality people, who constantly strive to offer talent management solutions to our customers, in different business environments.

Our Human Resources Department engages itself by creating a business value proposition. We create an environment to spot talent who think strategically and are a part of our business decisions.

We believe that people are sufficiently empowered to influence issues, share knowledge, and have competent people at the right positions to deliver enhanced performance. Working with ambiguity and creating a ‘will to make it happen’ culture ensures that all at WTFL thrive.

Objective of the role To ensure return on investment by
  • Having on board people who have the right ethical value and self orientation for a consultancy service
  • Having on board talent that aligns to business needs through proper identification, attraction , engagement of candidates
  • Setting in motion the processes that will have people who practice the ‘will to make it happen’ culture
  • Being a business partner to consult and develop cost effective sourcing strategies and attract the right talent at the right time and cost

Key Competencies

  • Understanding Business
  • Making Complex Decisions
  • Creating New and Different
  • Keeping on Point
  • Managing Work Processes
  • Making touch people calls
  • Energy and Drive
  • Organizational savvy
  • Interpersonal savvy
  • Managing Diverse relationships
  • Acting with Honor and Character
  • Being open, receptive and flexible

Responsibilities

  • · Do a talent need analysis for effective business partnership with multiple Lines of Business Heads and Vice President Strategic Management and Group HR
  • Proactive basis identifies, presents and recommends sourcing solutions applicable to line of business resource strategy
  • Identify trends and expertise in the internal and external marketplace for attracting the ‘Best’ Talent by keeping up to date with articles, joining news groups, on-line communities, attending conferences and training.
  • Independently source active and passive talent through the effective and creative utilization of the internet and personal contacts by building active networks, referrals, speculative CV/Resumes, partnership with third party suppliers and innovative use of outsourcing.
  • Drive down overall cost to source and ultimately cost per hire through the recognition of market characteristics and variables when developing sourcing strategies
  • Provide key project management for implementation of next generation of sourcing solutions
  • Ability to make independent decisions around day-to-day occurrences while considering the wider impact of decisions and plans on other areas.
  • Possess a detailed working knowledge of business area that support potential candidates
  • Drives process improvement initiatives
  • Identify and follow up on leads, through cold-calling and direct sourcing, within ethical boundaries
  • Screen candidates for qualifications, interest and capabilities
  • Work with cross business sourcing to develop a network and database of talent across all lines of business
  • Support business diversity aspirations
  • Assist with the development of key performance indicators that help drive the sourcing process by using measures to ensure the attraction of the best and brightest candidates in a cost effective/time efficient manner..
  • Ensures high quality candidate care, which may necessitate out of office hours working

Accountability

  • To ensure that the specified objectives are met with quantifiable measurements
  • To ensure that the responsibilities offered, with the autonomy are honored
  • To develop an annual operating plan for the function, which will merge into the overall Line of Business and Human Resources Annual Operating Plans respectively
  • To acquire talent which partakes in the ‘will to make it happen’ culture