Talent Acquisition Partner | Chennai, India

Hitachi Energy Ltd.; Chennai District; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Energy Ltd. is seeking an experienced HR professional in Chennai to lead end-to-end talent acquisition for a global engineering-focused organization.

You will work with HR business partners and line managers to understand talent needs, design campaigns, and build a robust candidate network while ensuring GDPR and safety compliance. The role emphasizes proactive sourcing, social media campaigns, and collaboration with external firms to fill critical roles across the manufacturing/EPC

Qualifications

• 6–10 years of HR experience in a global organization, preferably manufacturing/EPC.
• Experience with full recruitment lifecycle including job briefing, sourcing, outreach, offer and close.
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills.
• Proven ability to lead, consult, and influence stakeholders while delivering good candidate experience.

Responsibilities

• Deliver talent acquisition processes to implement global talent strategies locally.
• Manage talent sourcing, plan recruitment campaigns, and partner with talent partners.
• Build and maintain a network of potential candidates through proactive market research.
• Identify and run multiple recruiting campaigns on social media platforms.
• Coordinate with external recruitment firms when needed and brief them appropriately.
• Identify and implement improvements to recruiting practices and policies.
• Ensure compliance with local laws, GDPR, data privacy, and safety standards.

Skills

Talent sourcing

Recruitment lifecycle

Stakeholder management

English communication

Education

Bachelor's & Master's degree in HR

Tools

LinkedIn Recruiter

Social media recruiting platforms

Job description

The Hitachi Energy Indian Operations Center (INOPC) is a competence center with around 3500+ skilled engineers who focus on tendering, engineering, planning, procurement, functional system testing, installation supervision and commissioning. However, over the last decade, it has evolved to become the largest engineering hub. The India Operations Centre is a key aspect of the Power Grids business Power Up transformation program. The INOPC team at Chennai supports Hitachi Energy’s units in more than 40 countries across a wide portfolio of all the five business units. To date, the team has executed engineering and commissioning for projects in more than 80 countries.

Job Responsibilities:

• Delivering the talent acquisition processes required to implement global talent strategies on a local level, working with HR Business Partners (HRBPs) and line managers to gain insight into the business talent needs and challenges.
• Managing the Talent Sourcing in recruitment process: planning recruitment campaigns, identifying and working on sourcing solutions and working very closely with talent partner
• Responsible for actively sourcing, building and maintaining network of potential candidates through pro-active market research and on-going relationship management; conducts assessment of potential candidates, demonstrating ability to anticipate hiring manager preferences through high offer-to-interview ratios.
• Identifying, initiating and managing multiple recruiting campaign, programs on social media platforms.
• Liaising with external recruitment firms for specific positions as required, ensuring that they have been provided with appropriate job briefs, and are providing candidates who fulfilling the requirements.
• Identifying areas for improvement in current practices, processes, and policies, then contributing to the design, development, and implementation of new talent solutions.
• Ensuring personal and organizational compliance with local legislation and HR policies, GDPR and any other data privacy requirements, and adherence to OHS and compliance standards.
• Living Hitachi Energy’s core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for yourcolleagues and the business.

Your background:

• A bachelor’s & master’s degree. (Preferably in HR)
• Should have 6 - 10 years of professional HR experience in a high performing global organization- preferred in manufacturing / Energy Sector /EPC industry.
• Relevant work experience in full recruiting lifecycle including job briefing, active sourcing, developing recruitment plan, candidate outreach, offer and close.
• Demonstrated success with various recruiting strategies, techniques, and platforms, including the use of digital and social media.
• Strong end-to-end process thinking with experience in managing multiple projects.
• Proven ability to lead, consult, and influence others while maintaining a focus on customer service.
• Fluency in English with exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Self-driven, resilient, energetic, enthusiastic, and inclusive; creating or responding constructively to challenging new ideas and inputs.

We are a global leader in electrification, powering the electricity era to meet the energy demands of today, and the next 25 years. As the energy arm of Hitachi Group, over three billion people depend on our pioneering, mission-critical technologies to power their daily lives.

With over a century of innovation, we are addressing the most urgent energy challenge of our time: driving the evolution of the world’s energy system to ensure abundant, secure, affordable, and sustainable power for today’s generation and the next.

With an unparalleled installed base in over 140 countries, we are the grid ecosystem partner across the utility, industry, data center, and transportation sectors. Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ over 56,000 people in 60 countries and generate revenues of around $20 billion USD.