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For over two decades, we’ve partnered with leading enterprises, high-growth technology companies, and investors to answer some of the toughest questions they face:\nWhere should we invest?\n\nHow do we scale globally?\n\nWhat capabilities will win in the next decade?\n\nOur work shapes market entry strategies, global operating models, M&A decisions, and long-term growth bets. We’re known for being data-led, execution-focused, and outcome-driven - not opinion-heavy slideware.\nAt Zinnov, how you work matters as much as what you deliver. We value independent thinking, crisp communication, and early ownership. With 450+ professionals across 10 global offices, we work across industries including Digital Services, ER&D, Enterprise Software, Semiconductors, Healthcare, BFSI, Automotive, Media & Telecom, and Private Equity.\nZinnov isn’t for everyone. It’s for people who want steep learning curves, honest feedback, and the chance to see their work influence real business decisions - not just presentations.\nWhy Globalisation Excellence (GE) \nZinnov’s Globalisation Excellence (GE) practice helps enterprises build and scale Global Capability Centers (GCCs) end-to-end - from Design & Discovery to Build, Scale, and Run. \nIn GE, you don’t work in silos. You: \nOwn complex, end-to-end client journeys \nWork across GCC advisory, managed services, and BOT / outsourcing models \nInfluence leadership decisions that shape long-term talent and operating strategies \nThis is where strategy meets execution - and where talent plays a defining role. \n About the Role \nAs Leader - Talent Acquisition, you will lead a portfolio of strategic GCC and product-engineering client accounts, owning talent strategy, executive relationships, delivery performance, and the leadership teams that deliver outcomes. You will partner with CEOs, CTOs, CIOs, CHROs and business leaders to translate growth ambitions into executable workforce plans.\nThis is a multi-account leadership role, not a senior recruiting delivery position. You will anticipate business risks, challenge assumptions with market evidence, develop independent TA leaders, and create repeatable capabilities that strengthen Zinnov beyond any single account.\nWhat You’ll Do \nPortfolio TA Strategy & Workforce Planning\nOwn multi-account TA strategy, workforce demand forecasts, hiring prioritization and delivery commitments across technology, engineering and functional talent.\nAdvise executives on talent-market feasibility, compensation, role calibration, hiring trade-offs and scenarios; challenge unrealistic plans with evidence.\nTranslate growth plans into capacity models, account operating plans, hiring forecasts and clear decisions on investments, redeployment and risk.\nStrategic Talent Intelligence & Complex Hiring\nBuild targeted market maps and proactive pipelines for niche engineering, AI, data, leadership and other business-critical capabilities.\nLead sourcing strategy across research, referrals, communities, direct search, specialist partners and adjacent-skill talent pools.\nSet the strategy for complex searches and hiring drives, balancing talent quality, market realities, interview capacity and joining timelines.\nExecutive Stakeholder & Client Partnership\nAct as a trusted talent advisor to senior global executives, with direct accountability for confidence and outcomes across accounts.\nLead executive business reviews with a clear point of view on progress, risks, options, trade-offs and decisions required.\nPersonally lead critical account resets and escalations; restore confidence through diagnosis, corrective action, governance and sustained results.\nLeadership at Scale & Capability Building\nLead and develop Managers, Leads, recruiters, sourcers and TA operations; build successors who can independently own account delivery.\nCoach teams in technical talent advisory, structured problem-solving, sourcing, stakeholder influence and evidence-based decision-making.\nOwn capacity allocation, performance standards, succession, accountability and team health across a changing portfolio of client demands.\nDelivery Governance, Quality & Candidate Experience\nEstablish operating mechanisms that make hiring predictable: calibrated intakes, interviewer readiness, decision SLAs and clear ownership.\nDiagnose systemic delivery gaps and improve conversion, assessment consistency, candidate quality, time-to-hire and stakeholder experience.\nEnsure disciplined offer management, post-offer engagement, onboarding handoffs and risk-based joining forecasts across accounts.\nPortfolio Analytics, Forecasting & Commercial Judgment\nOwn demand, funnel, joining, forecast, productivity and utilization scorecards.\nUse market and funnel data to forecast, diagnose and allocate resources.\nManage staffing economics, utilization, vendor spend and delivery quality.\nTransformation, Technology & Continuous Improvement\nLead cross-TA transformation in analytics, AI, sourcing or governance.\nScale reusable tools and playbooks; 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