Talent Acquisition Business Partner

About the Role As our Talent Acquisition Business Partner for India, you will combine human judgement with digital recruitment and AI-enabled automation to deliver faster, high-quality hiring. Reporting to the India TA Lead, you will own senior professional and specialist searches, with a primary focus on senior level hiring, including Global Capability Centre (GCC) hiring. You will also recruit across other business functions according to hiring priorities, from intake to offer acceptance. You will use online sourcing, talent mapping and digital campaigns to build pipelines, advise hiring managers on India talent markets, and uphold structured assessment and candidate-experience standards within the global TA strategy. You will manage competing searches independently, support selected executive and business-critical hiring, and provide AMEA support when required.  Key Responsibilities  Full-Cycle Recruitment  Own end-to-end recruitment across India, primarily for senior professional and specialist senior level hires, including GCC roles, with flexibility to recruit for other business functions as hiring needs evolve.  Run structured, high-quality hiring processes: challenge role briefs, design interview frameworks, align assessment panels, and negotiate competitive offers  Manage and prioritise a portfolio of requisitions, maintaining momentum, stakeholder alignment and a consistent candidate experience across every search.  Lead digital recruitment in India through talent mapping, targeted online sourcing, talent communities and digital campaigns; measure channel effectiveness and funnel conversion to optimise outreach.  Support the India TA Lead on selected senior and executive searches — lead defined workstreams, manage candidate pipelines, and escalate market or stakeholder risks early.  Proactively raise internal mobility options with hiring managers before opening to external market; work with HRBPs to identify internal candidates, run fair and structured internal processes, and ensure internal applicants receive the same rigour and experience as external ones.  Hiring Manager Partnership  Partner with India hiring managers; advise on talent availability, compensation, notice periods and competing offers, and keep hiring aligned with the global TA framework.  Proactively flag risks — market tightness, unrealistic briefs, compensation gaps — and come with solutions, not just observations  Partner with India HRBPs and GCC stakeholders on capability needs, team growth, attrition risks and upcoming hiring demand.  Quality & Process  Ensure every role runs to the Opella global TA standard: structured interview design, panel alignment, bias mitigation, and consistent candidate communication  Maintain ATS hygiene (Workday) at all stages: accurate pipeline data, stage updates, and candidate dispositions in real time