Responsibilities & Key Deliverables
Role Overview
This role leads Talent Acquisition for Mahindra’s Auto sector, driving recruitment operations, governance, sourcing strategy, leadership hiring, and digitization. The incumbent will enhance hiring effectiveness through AI-enabled practices, talent pipeline development, quality-of-hire measures, and partner management, while ensuring productive, high-quality talent delivery and an improved candidate experience.

Key Responsibilities

Talent Acquisition & Sourcing Strategy

Partner with business leaders and HRBPs to deliver leadership, niche, and critical hiring needs.
Drive sourcing strategies for leadership, lateral, diversity, and specialist talent pipelines.
Utilize market intelligence, competitor insights, and sourcing analytics to improve hiring outcomes and conversions.
Improve quality of hire through effective assessments, talent calibration, and data-driven selection

TA Operations, Governance & Effectiveness

Own TA operations, including requisition management, SLA/TAT tracking, stakeholder reviews, and reporting.




Track recruitment metrics including Time to Offer, open roles, source mix, diversity, and quality of hire.
Govern RPO/vendor performance across SLA adherence, cost per hire, conversions, and hiring manager satisfaction.
Monitor hiring effectiveness through quality of hire, retention, stakeholder feedback, and assessment improvements.

Digitization & AI Intervention

Identify and implement AI/automation interventions across sourcing, screening, scheduling, and candidate experience (e.g. ATS workflows, AI screening tools, chatbots, resume parsing).
Lead digitization of TA processes end-to-end — requisition approvals, interview workflows, offer management — reducing manual touchpoints.
Evaluate and pilot TA tech stack upgrades (ATS, assessment platforms, AI sourcing tools) in partnership with HR Tech/IT.

COE & Role Approval Governance

Act as the TA Center of Excellence (COE) custodian — define hiring

📌 Head - Talent Acquisition (Mumbai)
🏢 Mahindra and Mahindra
📍 Mumbai