Assistant Vice President, Senior Recruiter - Chennai

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Shape your Career with Citi

Citi’s Human Resources (HR) team helps Citi to attract, retain and develop our employees across the globe.  The team does this through supporting key areas including recruiting, diversity, global learning and talent development, benefits, compensation, and employee relations.

We’re currently looking for a high caliber professional to join our team as Senior Recruiter. (Internal Job Title: Assistant Vice President (Hybrid - IC) - C12)

This Senior Recruiter position is responsible for the end-to-end strategy, execution, and delivery of the recruitment process in partnership with the other Human Resources team members. The overall objective of this role is to participate in various recruitment initiatives in support of the overall business strategy.

In this role, you’re expected to: 

Responsibilities:

• Work with hiring managers and Human Resource partners to manage full-cycle recruitment process, including developing job descriptions and sourcing and diversity strategies (internal/external, and agency and direct sourcing/networking methods)

• Source applicants, screen resumes, interview, and assess candidates to provide qualified candidates to hiring managers.

• Facilitate feedback to key stakeholders to ensure timely production of appropriate documentation and approval.

• Negotiate candidate offers, research markets and peer organizations, and provide stakeholders with market data and activity information.

• Ensure all hiring policies and procedures are adhered to and that “best practice” recruitment guidelines are administered throughout the recruitment process.

• Manage relationships with search firms/agencies to drive timely and thorough sourcing of high quality, diverse candidate pool as well as participate in diversity recruiting events and activities.

• Coach and train new recruits and assume informal leadership roles within team.

• Participates in Workstream to upskill & learn to deliver on challenging TA problems. 

• Use data to effectively manage ageing risk and partner with business and HR teams to drive proactive initiatives that help reduce ageing risks.

• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

As a successful candidate, you’d ideally have the following skills and exposure: 

Qualifications:

• 8-12 years of relevant experience in recruitment and/or recruitment management, selection process, with strong knowledge of local market and talents

• Working knowledge of complex compensation structures

• Understand roles, languages & tools (e.g., Python, SAS, Data Visualization, Digital Analytics, Business Risk & Control), Regulatory Risk), and trends in analytics and risk domain.

• Advance level user experience in using Workday & Eightfold, 

• Have proficiency in operateanalytics tools (MS Excel, SQL, Tableau)

• Ability to think strategically: understand workforce management concepts, promote employer branding, and research talent markets.

• Able to demonstrateProblem-Solving: Address niche talent gaps and global hiring challenges creatively.

• Strong interpersonal skills: able to build relationships and establish trust, respect, confidence, and influence effectively and quickly.

• Knowledge of search and direct hiring

• Ability to source talent through social media channels and other networking activities

• Demonstrate capability to lead complex projects, stake-holder engagement, and communication.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree