Talent Lead

Who We Are VML, part of WPP, is a leading creative company that combines brand experience, customer experience, and commerce, creating connected brands to drive growth. VML is celebrated for its innovative and human first, award-winning work for blue chip client partners including AstraZeneca, Colgate-Palmolive, Dell, Ford, Microsoft, Nestlé, The Coca-Cola Company, and Wendy's. The agency is recognized by the Forrester Wave™ Reports, as a Leader among Marketing Creative and Content Service Providers, Commerce Services, Global Digital Experience Services, Global Marketing Services and, most recently, Marketing Measurement & Optimization. In addition, VML’s specialist health network, VML Health, is one of the world’s largest and most awarded health agencies. VML’s global network is powered by 26,000 talented people across 55+ markets, with principal offices in Kansas City, New York, Detroit, London, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, and Sydney. About WPP WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com . Talent Lead wanted to join our team in Bangalore India. The opportunity As a Talent Acquisition Lead you will be an expert in your area, ensuring you deliver an exceptional candidate and hiring manager experience. You will partner with the business in ensuring we attract the best talent and remain a great place to work, keeping up to date with industry tech and trends. You will play an integral part in our everyday success recruiting predominantly permanent candidates across several disciplines. What you’ll be doing Own and manage pipelines ensuring delivery across all permanent and contract requirements Take ownership of ensuring requirements are delivered on according to business needs. Help drive best recruitment practice within the business, supporting operational leadership with advice and guidance, training and development, interview frameworks, tools and tactics as required Ensure we are using the best selection strategies to meet current and future business requirements, including online and offline sourcing methodologies (factoring in IR35 etc..) Use internal and external networks to maintain presence in the industry through network events such as holding or co-ordinating local meet ups of developers or other department relevant events Help define the business reputation strategy including online presence and employer rating services such as Glassdoor/Website and LinkedIn Conduct market and competitor analysis and benchmarking Develop and maintain relationships with external suppliers to source external candidates to meet the recruitment needs of our internal customers within agreed service targets Help provide comprehensive stats and reports in own business to demonstrate the performance of the service Manage full life-cycle hiring process from forecasting roles, job evaluation, benchmarking, job spec creation, advertising, interviewing and reporting. Build and maintain talent pools of pre-screened candidates Provide an exceptional candidate and hiring manager experience Create and deliver recruitment focused projects by undertaking self initiated research Serve as a subject matter expert on resourcing matters by providing advice and guidance to business leaders on best practice resourcing strategies What we want from you Proven track record in IT and Technology recruitment; preferably in-house but RPO and agency is also considered Experience working across multiple disciplines, managing multiple stakeholders across multiple countries. Demonstrated ability of the end to end recruitment lifecycle in a broa…