Talent Acquisition Business Partner

Overview

Lead end-to-end hiring for assigned businesses in India, combining stakeholder partnership, high-volume hiring capability and proactive talent pipelining.

What you'll do

• Partner closely with business leaders, hiring managers and HR stakeholders to understand workforce priorities, role requirements and hiring timelines.
• Lead structured intake discussions, challenge assumptions constructively and translate business needs into practical sourcing and selection strategies.
• Provide market intelligence, talent availability insights and data-based recommendations to support hiring decisions.
• Maintain clear governance, regular updates and transparent escalation of hiring risks, dependencies and decisions.
• Own the complete recruitment lifecycle, including intake, sourcing, screening, assessment coordination, offer management, pre-boarding and closure.
• Manage multiple requisitions and competing priorities with strong planning, follow-through and attention to detail.
• Drive timely hiring outcomes while maintaining quality, process compliance and an effective candidate experience.
• Partner with internal teams to ensure accurate approvals, documentation and smooth onboarding handoffs.
• Design and execute scalable hiring plans for high-volume and business-critical requirements.
• Build and maintain healthy, diverse talent pipelines through direct sourcing, referrals, talent communities, campaigns and targeted market mapping.
• Anticipate recurring talent needs and create proactive pipelines to reduce dependency on reactive hiring.
• Track pipeline health, conversion, ageing and bottlenecks, taking corrective action where required.
• Engage candidates consistently throughout the process, setting clear expectations and providing timely communication and feedback.
• Assess candidate motivation, capability, availability and fit while ensuring a fair and structured selection process.
• Lead offer discussions, manage competing offers and joining risks, and drive closures through strong relationship management.
• Protect the employer brand by delivering a professional, respectful and responsive candidate experience.
• Use recruitment data and dashboards to monitor time-to-fill, ageing, source effectiveness, pipeline conversion, offer acceptance and joining outcomes.
• Ensure accurate and timely updates in Workday or the applicable applicant tracking system.
• Identify opportunities to standardize, simplify and improve recruitment practices across the India TA function.
• Ensure adherence to company policies, local employment requirements and internal controls.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree.
• Minimum 10 years of progressive Talent Acquisition experience, including ownership of end-to-end recruitment in India.
• Demonstrated experience managing volume hiring as well as professional or specialist roles.
• Proven ability to build proactive pipelines and deliver through direct sourcing and multiple talent channels.
• Strong experience partnering with senior stakeholders and influencing hiring decisions through data and market insight.
• Working knowledge of applicant tracking systems.

Nice to have

• Postgraduate qualification.
• Experience in manufacturing, engineering, construction, industrial or similarly complex environments.
• Workday experience.

Details

• Location: The Corenthum, Tower B, Unit No. B-53/2, 3rd Floor, A-41, Sector-62, Noida (Uttar Pradesh); the posting also lists Bengaluru (Bangalore), India.
• Employment type: Full-time.
• Reporting to: TA Leader, India.