Overview: At PepsiCo, our Talent Acquisition team is committed to hiring exceptional talent that fuels business growth and innovation. As a Talent Acquisition Sr Analyst - Professional Hiring, you will serve as a trusted talent advisor to business leaders, driving end-to-end recruitment strategies for corporate and professional functions across Finance, HR, IT, Marketing, R&D;, Supply Chain, and other business areas.

Responsibilities : Your Impact

As a TA, you will play a critical role in enabling business success by identifying, attracting, and hiring top talent while shaping best-in-class recruitment practices.

Strategic Talent Partnership

- Serve as a trusted advisor to Hiring Managers and HR Business Partners by translating business priorities into effective recruitment strategies.
- Conduct strategic intake and workforce planning discussions to understand business needs, hiring challenges, organizational design, and critical capability requirements.
- Provide market intelligence, talent availability insights, salary benchmarking, competitor analysis, and hiring trends to influence recruitment strategies and business decisions.
- Challenge hiring assumptions and recommend innovative sourcing and assessment approaches to improve hiring outcomes.
- Build strong partnerships with business leaders through proactive communication, transparency, and consultative guidance throughout the hiring lifecycle.

End-to-End Talent Acquisition

- Lead the complete recruitment lifecycle from requisition creation through offer acceptance and handoff for onboarding.
- Build and maintain proactive talent communities for critical and recurring skill sets to reduce time-to-hire and strengthen future hiring readiness.




- Conduct structured behavioral interviews using competency-based interviewing methodologies to assess technical capability, leadership behaviors, and culture add.
- Facilitate calibration and debrief discussions with interview panels, providing objective assessments and hiring recommendations.
- Act as a brand ambassador for PepsiCo by effectively communicating our Employee Value Proposition (EVP), culture, career opportunities, and purpose.
- Create compelling job advertisements and recruitment marketing content that attracts diverse talent.

Talent Intelligence & Data-Driven Recruitment

- Utilize recruitment analytics, talent insights, and external labor market intelligence to continuously optimize sourcing strategies and hiring outcomes.
- Identify trends, bottlenecks, and opportunities for continuous process improvement through data analysis and reporting.
- Support workforce planning initiatives by providing talent market insights and pipeline health metrics.

Operational Excellence & Compliance

- Maintain the highest standards of process compliance, data integrity, governance, and documentation throughout the recruitment lifecycle.
- Ensure adherence to local employment legislation, global hiring policies, data privacy requirements, and PepsiCo's Diversity, Equity & Inclusion commitments.
- Drive consistency, operational excellence, and continuous improvement across recruitment processes and stakeholder interactions.

Qualifications:





- Business Administration, Psychology, or a related discipline. Master's degree or MBA is preferred.
- Minimum 9+ years of progressive Talent Acquisition experience, with significant expertise in end-to-end recruitment for corporate/professional hiring within multinational organizations or shared services environments.
- Demonstrated experience recruiting across functions such as Finance, Human Resources, Information Technology, Marketing, Supply Chain, Procurement, R&D;, Legal, and other corporate functions.
- Proven ability to partner with senior business leaders and HR Business Partners, influencing hiring decisions and acting as a trusted talent advisor.
- Strong experience managing multiple complex requisitions simultaneously while consistently delivering against hiring priorities and service level expectations.
- Experience conducting competency-based and behavioral interviews using structured interview frameworks.
- Demonstrated ability to leverage recruitment metrics, talent analytics, and labor market intelligence to drive hiring decisions and improve recruitment outcomes.
- Hands-on experience with Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), CRM platforms, and recruitment technologies.
- Solid understanding of recruitment compliance, employment legislation, diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I;) practices, and ethical hiring standards.
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, influencing, and relationship-building skills with the ability to work effectively across global and cross-functional teams.
- Proven ability to thrive in a quick-paced, matrixed environment while managing competing priorities with a high degree of ownership and accountability.

📌 Talent Acquisition Sr Analyst (Hyderabad)
🏢 PepsiCo
📍 Hyderabad