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Recruitment Leader

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Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Senior level
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Senior level
The Recruitment Leader will manage recruitment activities across India, focusing on permanent staffing for various functions within the Energy sector, ensuring successful talent acquisition and pipeline development. This role requires strong leadership, stakeholder management, and hands-on recruitment experience within a fast-paced environment.
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Recruitment Leader

Recruitment Leader – India

Position Description

KBR’s global business comprises two main segments – Sustainable Technology Solutions (STS) and Government Solutions (GS). KBR Sustainable Technology Solutions provides holistic and value-added solutions across the entire asset life cycle. These include world-class licensed process technologies, differentiated advisory services, deep technical domain expertise, energy transition solutions, high-end design capabilities, and smart solutions to optimize planned and operating assets.

We are looking for a talented Recruitment Leader to work on permanent staff roles across a variety of functions and locations within STS. 

You will require experience within the Energy industry, ideally with an element of knowledge of Energy Transition, and have a good network of contacts. Our ideal candidate will have developed their expertise in agency recruitment/RPO/BPO followed by in-house experience of hiring permanent staff, gained within a fast paced and complex organisation. Prior experience of recruiting for Engineering, Project Management, and Commercial positions is desirable.
Ultimately, the responsibilities of the Recruitment Leader are to ensure our company attracts, hires and retains the best employees while growing a strong talent pipeline and advising and building a close relationship with your business partners. You will managing all recruitment activities across all office location in India with the future expectation of building a sourcing COE to support global recruitment activities across KBR.
 

Job Responsibilities:

  • Lead the recruitment team in achieving operational delivery targets
  • Deliver weekly management information reporting and other ad-hoc reporting requests
  • Attend and contribute to project and wider business resource meetings
  • Act as business partner to your departments, understanding their recruitment needs and guiding them on the best course of action
  • Drive and manage the end-to-end recruitment process, from needs assessment, recommendation of attraction and sourcing strategies, direct sourcing, application screening, interviews, and offer/resignation management
  • Collaborate with the Communications & Marketing team to ensure we are using innovative and effective candidate attraction methods
  • Direct sourcing and talent pooling to actively build talent pipelines for critical/niche skill sets
  • Promoting KBR as an employer of choice
  • Build and maintain excellent working relationships with preferred suppliers, and the wider recruitment and HR team
  • Be an advocate for recruitment processes and encourage compliance whilst demonstrating knowledge of Employment Law
  • Provide regular updates to stakeholders on recruitment progress with key data and metrics to support evidence-based decision making
  • Comply with KBR’s Code of Business Conduct
  • Participate in broader recruitment/HR initiatives

Skills / Experience:

  • Successful track record recruiting for the Energy industry, oil and gas experience is highly desirable
  • Demonstrable experience of leading a recruitment team
  • Excellent stakeholder engagement and management skills
  • Adept at building trusted relationships with all levels within the business
  • Attention to detail and comfortable doing hands-on operational recruitment at pace
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office including Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint
  • Prior experience using ATS systems e.g. Workday
  • Self-starter able to utilize own initiative
  • Numerical with the ability to extract, interpret and present relevant data
  • A team player with a supportive approach
  • Creative thinker willing to contribute ideas

Beneficial Experience:

  • Fast paced agency / RPO / BPO experience
  • Global recruitment experience lead from India
  • Tangible evidence of adoption of innovative recruitment tools

Qualifications:

  • Degree in HR/Business or equivalent

KBR, Inc Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IND Office

Phase 1 - Pinnacle, Ascendas, CSIR Rd, Tharamani, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, 600113

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