Talent Acquisition Manager

Quest Global is a global engineering services company driven by aspiration, hunger and humility, and guided by a leadership team that cares for its people, their ideas, and their well-being. We know that flexibility and openness produce the most fertile environment in which innovation, creativity, growth, and success can thrive.

We are looking for dreamers, who understand and value the ways in which engineering has the potential to solve the problems of today that stand in the way of tomorrow; believers, who long to be part of an organization that is ethical, promotes social responsibility, and is dedicated to being a force for good; doers, who seek challenges that are both meaningful to them and creates a positive impact on others.

As a diverse team of over 13,000 humble geniuses, we recognize that what we are really engineering is a brighter future for us all. If you long to contribute to meaningful work and be part of an organization that truly believes when you win, we all win, and when you fail, we all learn, then we’re eager to hear from you.

The achievers and collaborators we seek, have the following characteristics and skills:

Position executive summary:
A passionate talent acquisition manager with a strong business acumen to partner with delivery/operational leadership to scale the organization for achieving near-term tactical and long-term strategic objectives. Believes in experiential talent acquisition practices while leveraging talent branding and employee value proposition. Committed to predictive and proactive processes by data driven decision making practices. Well balanced thinking manager that enables a strong foundation for strategy and execution.

What to accomplish in this role:

• Collaborate with talent acquisition strategy and own execution plans for North America aligning with organizational growth objectives and build competent teams, scalable processes and robust tools to institutionalize strong implementation framework.
• Be a trusted advisor to the delivery/operations stakeholders to plan and implement proactive and reactive talent acquisition strategies for domain/capability based ramp up requirements. Enable and accelerate hiring to scale the organization in Mechanical/Industrial engineering services.
• Build competent teams by hiring, training and coaching them to be trusted talent acquisition solution providers to the business stakeholders. Ability to motivate and manage teams sitting in different countries and working for North America during night shift work in those countries.
• Implement agile functional processes to respond quickly to the business requirements and scale the organizational dynamic ramp up needs.
• Institutionalize advanced IT productivity tools for better stakeholder experience and data analytics for continuous improvement.
• Control talent acquisition cost by creating direct sourcing framework and leverage employee referrals. Reduce external vendors’ dependency by strong in-house sourcing capabilities.
• Leverage academia ecosystem North America to tap engineering talent at an early stage. Relationship development with colleges, attend career fairs for hiring and talent branding.
• Establish external vendor ecosystem to address quick ramp up needs and hire senior/niche skilled talent from external market.
• Hands on experience hiring talent from other countries and knowledge about different visas and regulations.
• Encourage talent acquisition culture in the organization by inspiring every employee to be a brand ambassador and leverage employee friendly referral system.
• Integrate acquired entities TA teams, system and processes. Make sure to learn from their best practices to scale new technologies and geographies.
• Collaborate with other corporate functions like HR, C&B, Finance, internal resource management (RMG) to enable the growth and drive cross functional teams to come up with specific solutions.
• Build employer talent brand by leverage social media and network platforms and coaching the technical leaders to be thought leaders to inspire talent communities.

• 12-15 years of proven track record in talent acquisition, preferably from engineering services organizations with a strong presence in Mechanical/Industrial engineering practice.
• Implemented talent acquisition strategy for achieving annual hiring of 1000 professional across North America.
• Domain rich talent acquisition for Aero, Oil & Gas, Power generation, Automotive and Rail. Technical exposure to hiring Design (CAD/CAM), Analysis (CAE/FEA/CFD), Supply chain, Manufacturing execution systems and Controls engineering skills
• Built and coached a team of 20 recruiters spread across North America and India. Managed and motivated teams from India working during night shift to cover US time zone.
• Created a framework of measures, metrics, KRAs and KPIs that drove the collaboration and performance among different teams.
• Excellent understanding about ATS, CRM, AI tools and experience in institutionalizing these systems across the globe. Integrated additional tools for better experience and predictive data analytics, like candidate relationship management and joining prediction.
• Special focus on Diversity and Inclusion to align with organizational objectives, while hiring talent across different levels. Understanding of different labour laws and statutory compliance like EEO and AAP and make sure compliance reports are submitted to the department of Labour (DOL).
• Strong network in the talent network and cultivated a proactive approach to build talent pipeline for existing and future needs.
• Leveraged social media platform like FB, Instagram, Twitter and professional networking platforms like LinkedIn to attract talent and build talent brand.
• Created functional budget and controlled actual spend Vs budgeted by having strong measures to control different cost heads.

• Bachelor or Masters degree in management or engineering.

• Humble
• Hungry
• Leadership and Executive Presence
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Entrepreneurial mind-set
• Global mind-set
• Team player
• Change management leader