Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Talent Acquisition AD role will be responsible for driving the full spectrum of recruiting and selection activities for the India market. The role will also include designing and driving the adoption of consistent recruiting, interviewing, and hiring practices that support a solid candidate experience.

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead and drive talent acquisition for India market, be a strategic partner to business leadership to enable business growth
• Driving the full spectrum of recruiting, candidate selection and onboarding activities
• Creating and implementing talent acquisition strategies for entry level to experienced hiring
• Designing and driving the adoption digital and technology solution to build new age recruiting, interviewing, and hiring practices that support a solid candidate and hiring manager experience
• Partner with business, HR partners, finance, and analytics team to build recruitment forecast, proactively initiate hiring activities to ensure on time fulfillment of demand
• Build go-to market strategy to hire right talent, with DEI focus
• Achieve best in class industry benchmark on metrics impacting – cost, quality speed and experience
• Process transformation initiatives and projects to make TA more efficient and scalable in least time possible
• Being relevant to industry trends, building market intel and competitor intelligence on key skills and capability, and engage in business conversation on growth strategy
• Lead people culture and practice for TA teams based out of multiple locations in India, directly responsible for Employee Experience Index, Attrition and Performance Management
• Awareness of local laws, traditions, and nuances that need to be applied to our recruitment offerings and own the compliance metric
• Must work well in large organization in a matrix org structure
• Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives (such as, but not limited to, transfer and/or re-assignment to different work locations, change in teams and/or work shifts, policies in regards to flexibility of work benefits and/or work environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor / Post graduation degree in any stream
• 12+ years experience with talent acquisition in India in Technology, Non Tech & Consulting
• 10+ years experience in managing teams across India locations
• Experience in interaction with agencies to build the solid resource pipeline
• Expertise in talent sourcing, attracting top-tier candidates, and developing a solid talent pipeline
• Data-driven decision-making skills, with the ability to analyze recruitment metrics and optimize recruitment processes
• Good with Stakeholder Management
• Good with people management
• Able to coordinate time to time with agencies for Diversity hiring pipeline
• Able to work with RPOs (will be managed 40% by RPOs, and 60% by Inhouse team)
• Able to manage a delivery of 500+ roles

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes — an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.