About AkzoNobel

Since 1792, we’ve been supplying the innovative paints and coatings that help to color people’s lives and protect what matters most. Our world class portfolio of brands – including Dulux, International, Sikkens and Interpon – is trusted by customers around the globe. We’re active in more than 150 countries and use our expertise to sustain and enhance the fabric of everyday life.

Because we believe every surface is an opportunity. It’s what you’d expect from a pioneering and long-established paints company that’s dedicated to providing sustainable solutions and preserving the best of what we have today – while creating an even better tomorrow. Let’s paint the future together.

For more information please visit www.akzonobel.com

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Job Purpose

Responsible for creating and maintaining job positions and requisitions in HR systems, ensuring accurate details, appropriate approvals, and organizational alignment. Support internal recruitment activities, including job postings, candidate applications, employee transfers, and internal hiring processes. Manage external recruitment administration, including candidate profile maintenance, application processing, interview coordination, offer-related activities, and candidate communications.

Provide end-to-end Talent Acquisition administrative support, ensuring accurate recruitment records, timely processing of transactions, and adherence to established policies and service-level agreements (SLAs). Collaborate with recruiters and stakeholders to resolve system and process-related queries, maintain data integrity, and ensure efficient, consistent, and compliant execution of Talent Acquisition operations.

Key Activities

- Job Position Management: Create and maintain job positions in the HR system, ensuring accurate position details, organizational alignment, and compliance with established processes.
- Job Requisition Management: Create, process, and maintain job requisitions, ensuring accurate job details, approvals, and alignment with recruitment requirements.
- Internal Candidate Management: Support internal recruitment activities, including internal job postings, candidate applications, transfers, and coordination of internal hiring processes.
- External Candidate Management: Support external recruitment activities, including candidate profile management, application processing, interview coordination, offer-related administration, and candidate communication.
- Job Position Management: Create and maintain job positions in the HR system,



ensuring accurate position details, organizational alignment, and compliance with established processes. Job Requisition Management: Create, process, and maintain job requisitions, ensuring accurate job details, approvals, and alignment with recruitment requirements.

- Internal Candidate Management: Support internal recruitment activities, including internal job postings, candidate applications, transfers, and coordination of internal hiring processes.
- External Candidate Management: Support external recruitment activities, including candidate profile management, application processing, interview coordination, offer-related administration, and candidate communication.
- Talent Acquisition Administration and Support: Perform end-to-end TA administrative activities, maintain accurate recruitment records, resolve system and process-related queries, coordinate with recruiters and stakeholders, and ensure timely completion of recruitment transactions in accordance with defined SLAs and policies
- Execute the administrative activities related to employee life cycle changes (i.e. administering new hires, transfers, Benefit management, Vendor co-ordination, Time & Leave, promotions, terminations, organizational changes (OM) and data management
- Collaborate with TA Team and HRs globally to create recruitment data in relevant systems
- Execute the administrative activities related to employee life cycle changes (i.e. administering new hires, transfers, Benefit management, Vendor co-ordination, Time & Leave, promotions, terminations, organizational changes (OM) and data management

Experience

- Minimal 10 years of relevant working experience
- This role may require candidate to work either in afternoon or evening shift
- Job Position Management: Create and maintain job positions in the HR system, ensuring accurate position details, organizational alignment, and compliance with established processes.
- Job Requisition Management: Create, process, and maintain job requisitions, ensuring accurate job details, approvals, and alignment with recruitment requirements.
- Internal Candidate Management: Support internal recruitment activities,



including internal job postings, candidate applications, transfers, and coordination of internal hiring processes.
- External Candidate Management: Support external recruitment activities, including candidate profile management, application processing, interview coordination, offer-related administration, and candidate communication.
- Talent Acquisition Administration and Support: Perform end-to-end TA administrative activities, maintain accurate recruitment records, resolve system and process-related queries, coordinate with recruiters and stakeholders, and ensure timely completion of recruitment transactions in accordance with defined SLAs and policies
- Candidates must possess transition management experience, including successfully transitioning processes/workstreams and driving their stabilization within a delivery or shared services center.
- Exposure to techno-functional and automation capabilities, such as Power Apps, Python, and other automation tools, will be considered a strong advantage.
- Bachelors/Master’s degree preferably in HR
- Strong customer services orientation
- Ability to interpret and apply the HR policies and procedures
- Versatile and stress resistant: The ability to multitask and structure the workload
- Accurate, self-standing and with strong attention to detail
- Experience with HR supporting technology and the capability to quickly learn and adapt to new ways of working
- Eager to learn and keep pace with developments in labour relations
- Strong oral, written and interpersonal communication skills and confidence to effectively work with all levels of the organization (including external parties where necessary)
- Ability to work in an international and multicultural environment
- Fluent in English language, both written and verbally is required

At AkzoNobel we are highly committed to ensuring an inclusive and respectful workplace where all employees can be their best self. We strive to embrace diversity in a context of tolerance. Our talent acquisition process plays an integral part in this journey, as setting the foundations for a diverse environment.

For this reason we train and educate on the implications of our Unconscious Bias in order for our TA and hiring managers to be mindful of them and take corrective actions when applicable. In our organization, all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age or disability.

📌 People Services Senior Specialist (Pune)
🏢 AkzoNobel
📍 Pune