Associate Director - Talent Acquisition

About the role

As Associate Director - Talent Acquisition , you will lead the hiring strategy and execution for a Global Capability Center (GCC) client in Hyderabad. You will own end-to-end recruitment across Technology, Engineering, and Corporate/Functional roles , partnering closely with senior stakeholders across global and regional teams. This role is designed for a data-driven TA leader who can scale hiring in a fast-paced environment, build strong pipelines for niche roles, run predictable operating rhythms, and drive high-quality outcomes through strong team leadership, stakeholder alignment, and process excellence.

Responsibilities

• TA Strategy & Workforce Planning
• Own the end-to-end TA strategy across Technology, Engineering, and Functional hiring for the GCC.
• Drive workforce planning in partnership with business leaders and HRBPs - demand forecasting, prioritization, and execution plans.
• Build scalable hiring playbooks to support growth across multiple role families and seniority levels.
• Niche Hiring & Pipeline Building
• Build robust talent pipelines for niche and hard-to-hire roles through proactive sourcing beyond portals.
• Strengthen channel strategy across referrals, sourcing teams, vendors, research-based mapping, and talent communities.
• Drive hiring outcomes across critical roles with speed, quality, and consistency.
• Stakeholder Management & Business Partnership
• Partner closely with senior leadership (Global / India) to understand business needs and translate them into hiring plans.
• Run structured business reviews, share market intelligence, and align on hiring trade-offs and feasibility.
• Maintain high stakeholder confidence through clarity, cadence, and transparent progress updates.
• Team Leadership & Capability Building
• Lead, mentor, and scale a high-performing TA team across recruiters, sourcers, and TA ops.
• Drive capability building on sourcing, assessment quality, role selling, tools, and candidate experience.
• Implement best practices for productivity, bandwidth allocation, and performance management.
• Process Excellence & Candidate Experience
• Own and optimize recruitment processes to improve turnaround time, quality of hires, and candidate experience.
• Ensure smooth coordination across sourcing, recruitment operations, onboarding, and HR teams.
• Drive offer management and conversion - engagement, negotiation, and offer-to-join closure discipline.
• Metrics, Reporting & TA Dashboards
• Build and run TA dashboards covering TAT, pipeline health, conversion ratios, offer-to-join, hiring forecasts, and recruiter productivity.
• Establish KPI discipline across TA teams and drive action plans based on insights.
• Present hiring trends, risks, and mitigation plans to leadership with decision-ready narratives.
• Technology, Tools & Continuous Improvement
• Leverage ATS and HR tools (e.g., Greenhouse / Workday / SuccessFactors or similar) to improve hiring efficiency.
• Advocate for automation, AI tools, and process upgrades that enhance speed and quality.
• Improve data hygiene and operational rigor to ensure reliable reporting and forecasting.
• Employer Branding & Recruitment Marketing
• Partner with branding/communications teams to strengthen the GCC's employer value proposition.
• Drive recruitment marketing initiatives for

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Additional Information

About Zinnov Zinnov is a global management consulting firm that helps organizations make decisions that actually get used - and deliver results that matter. For over two decades, we've partnered with leading enterprises, high-growth technology companies, and investors to answer some of the toughest questions they face: Where should we invest? How do we scale globally? What capabilities will win in the next decade? Our work shapes market entry strategies, global operating models, M&A decisions, and long-term growth bets. We're known for being data-led, execution-focused, and outcome-driven - not opinion-heavy slideware. At Zinnov, how you work matters as much as what you deliver. We value independent thinking, crisp communication, and early ownership. With 450+ professionals across 10 global offices, we work across industries including Digital Services, ER&D, Enterprise Software, Semiconductors, Healthcare, BFSI, Automotive, Media & Telecom, and Private Equity. Zinnov isn't for everyone. It's for people who want steep learning curves, honest feedback, and the chance to see their work influence real business decisions - not just presentations. Why Globalisation Excellence Zinnov's Globalisation Excellence (GE) practice helps enterprises build and scale Global Capability Centers (GCCs) end-to-end - from Design & Discovery to Build, Scale, and Run. In GE, you don't work in silos. You: Own complex, end-to-end client journeys Work across GCC advisory, managed services, and BOT / outsourcing models Influence leadership decisions that shape long-term talent and operating strategies This is where strategy meets execution - and where talent plays a defining role.

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