Talent Acquisition Lead (Lateral Hiring)

Job title: Talent Acquisition Lead (Lateral Hiring)

About the Role The role is to develop and execute recruitment plans for lateral hiring in compliance with Wipro policies, while ensuring a positive candidate experience and strong employer brand.

The role covers planning, execution of recruitment drives, candidate engagement, operations management, and team leadership to meet hiring targets.

What You'll Do

• Develop Recruitment plans to meet assigned quarterly lateral hiring targets; understand business projections and urgency; design recruitment drives calendar; create sourcing plans; design roadmaps with milestones; obtain leadership buy-in.
• Maintain and update the plan; revise plans for new requirements or changes in talent projections; communicate with business teams for deployment of recruitment drives.
• Manage Candidate Experience: conduct candidate connect and pre-hiring engagement to ensure healthy joining ratio; provide training and mentoring to recruiters on timely communication and superior candidate experience; train on adherence to guidelines, processes, SLAs, compensation structure, auditability; deliver zero valid escalation; support recruiters to resolve candidate concerns and escalations.
• Drive execution of Recruitment operations: operationalize plan with recruiters; assign drives and calendar events; allocate and monitor targets; oversee timely planning and fulfilment drives; monitor costs; conduct HR interviews for senior candidates; review dashboards daily; ensure 100% fulfillment; conduct due diligence and formal approvals in tool; guide recruiters on processes/tools for 100% compliance and end-to-end online recruitment; setup checks and balances and regular reviews of data quality; review and approve all hiring to ensure salary range adherence; monitor cycle time from initiation to offer; review MIS on background checks; publish MIS and conduct periodic meetings with WMG Heads, Practice Heads and TA Leadership.
• Team Management: resourcing forecast; hire adequate resources; talent management through onboarding, training, retention, engagement; maintain diversity; performance management with goal setting, reviews, and adherence to Performance Nxt.

What We're Looking For

• Experience in talent acquisition/recruitment planning and execution for lateral hiring; ability to design recruitment drives and sourcing plans.
• Strong candidate experience focus; ability to train recruiters and maintain SLAs, guidelines, auditability.
• Expertise in recruitment operations, dashboards, MIS, background checks, BGV, vendor coordination.
• Strong analytical and data-driven approach; ability to manage budgets and cost per hire; ensure salary range compliance.
• Leadership and people management; team development, retention, diversity.
• Stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration with business teams.