Senior Talent Advisor

What You'll Do

In your position within the People and Communities function, your mission will be to deliver a personal touch to the experiences of prospective and potential employees at Cisco. We serve as the pathway to what's possible, placing equal importance on the journey as well as the destination. Your duties include engaging with candidates, those referred to us, and our future team members to provide a top-tier experience before they come on board. You will collaborate closely with Sales Leaders and hiring managers to handle all facets of requisition fulfillment, from candidate sourcing and pipeline development to giving presentations and advising on talent market, compensation and the hiring process. This position involves overseeing the recruitment for senior-level positions within the Sales and Marketing function throughout India, with occasional responsibilities extending beyond these regions.

Key responsibilities will include: 

• Strong Recruiting Business Partner to collaborate with and advise business leaders on hiring strategies.
• Build (source new) and engage with our talent pipelines. Drive innovative resourcing solutions to attract the best talent.
• Advise hiring managers on talent market insights: talent availability, salary ranges and market trends, etc. 
• Deliver exceptional customer service standards to both internal and external candidates
• Build and maintain talent pipelines within a line of business through targeted candidate relationship interactions
• Act as an SME on hiring an inclusive and diverse workforce.
• Keep up to date and in alignment with local hiring practices and laws
• Ensure candidate data privacy and work with an Applicant Tracking System to manage candidates.

Who You Are

• 8+ years of Talent Acquisition (Recruitment experience), within corporate recruiting environment with full life cycle recruiting experience. 
• Experience in a senior recruitment role managing senior level roles, within Technology and/or Sales.
• Excellent business partnering skills and the ability to build relationships at senior levels.
• Executive level stakeholder management experience 
• An individual with a drive to excel through execution whilst understanding communication and collaboration is key to building robust people relationships. Strong presentation and public speaking skills
• Open to learning new technologies and approaches to continually “be better"
• Preferred experience: 1-2 years of team leadership experience

Why You'll Love Cisco

#WeAreCisco, where each person is unique, but we bring our talents to work as a team and make a difference. Here’s how we do it.

We embrace digital, and help our customers implement change in their digital businesses. Some may think we’re “old” (30 years strong!) and only about hardware, but we’re also a software company. And a security company. A blockchain company. An AI/Machine Learning company. We even invented an intuitive network that adapts, predicts, learns and protects. No other company can do what we do – you can’t put us in a box!

Day to day, we focus on the give and take. We give our best, we give our egos a break and we give of ourselves (because giving back is built into our DNA.) We take accountability, we take bold steps, and we take difference to heart. Because without diversity of thought and a commitment to equality for all, there is no moving forward.