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Director, Talent Acquisition (Gurgaon)

As the world’s travel platform, we are guided by our mission: Power Global Travel for Everyone, Everywhere, reflecting the diverse backgrounds and experiences of our employees, customers, partners and communities. We’re united by our values, and we celebrate our unique differences.

In this Talent Acquisition Leadership Team role, you will drive change, contribute to and influence the future of the wider Global Talent Acquisition team and Expedia Group’s overall strategy with an emphasis for our India team.

You will lead the India sites for Talent Acquisition in addition to a global technology talent acquisition team. You will partner directly with all TA Leadership team members in addition to directly leading the Product & Technology Recruiting team. Your focus will be to design recruiting strategies that lead to identifying, interviewing, and hiring experienced, diverse, talent that will raise the bar of Expedia Group’s performance.

As such we are seeking a passionate and transformative change-agent who values collaboration and creativity, and who has both the thought leadership and the executional ability to lead and drive change across a highly matrixed global organization.

What you’ll do: 

Direct Accountabilities:

• Design, launch and scale a robust, global talent acquisition strategy focused on Expedia Group’s hiring in India.

• As a true value-coach, build a seamless partnership with our hiring leaders as a genuine trusted advisor.

• Partner with our business and TA leaders to understand talent requirements, whilst challenging current thinking and ways of hiring whilst advising them on industry talent trends and market competitiveness.

• Translate hiring needs into strategic recruitment plans and set clear expectations for the timeframe and partnership needed from the business.

• Partner effectively with People (HR) business partners to ensure a high-quality experiencefor hiring managers, the hiring team and candidates.

• Translate data into insights to influence senior leadership decision making, support problem solving and to communicate compelling data stories.

• Organizational Design & Development: Build a high-performance team that can move hiring in India to the next orbit of delivery and business partnership.

• Drive workforce planning and capacity planning, optimize the team to deliver against full hiring demand. 

Shared Accountabilities:

• Co-develop Expedia Group’s Global Talent Acquisition strategy in partnership with other leadership Team members.

• Approach, prioritize and tackle problems from a data and systems perspective. 

• Partner with our People Analytics team to establish core metrics to measure the outcomes of our programs, while also ensuring compliance with all statutory and industry bodies.

• Collaborate to develop and drive Talent Acquisition programs and initiatives internally and externally across candidate sourcing channels.

• Contribute to building and communicating Expedia Group’s employer brand as company that prioritizes diversity, equity and inclusion from both an internal employee perspective and a consumer perspective.

• Create an environment where you will actively support the realization of our strategic imperative to build a more open world for all travelers.

• Create an Inclusion & Diversity centered Expedia Group hiring culture, where our hiring leaders will take ownership and be the catalyst for change.

• Embed an open culture where training, coaching and delivering proactive feedback lead to positive impact and results; creating a work environment where people can realize their full potential.

Who you are:

You’ll fit this role if you have: 

Functional Expertise:

• Bachelor’s degree, MBA or other advanced degree preferred

• 10+ years’ experience leading a global recruiting team, ideally in India

• A strategic global recruiting leader, experienced leading a global team which hassuccessfully increased pipeline and hiring in technology and location specific hiring experience within India.

• Passion for and understanding of talent acquisition and its relationship to talent management, and to assess and translate business strategies and workforce implications.

• Proven impact and influencing skills and track record of successfully engaging with senior leaders to drive a talent strategy.

• A Strategic Partner: curious and passionate about the business context and leadership growth, builds strong relationship by being an inspiring and approachable leader.

• A Storyteller: able to build and articulate a vision and translating it into an executable strategy, leading with data and insights.

• Skilled thought-leader, confident and successful at influencing others to act.

• An incredibly strong operator on a global scale, across globally dispersed teams, leveraging technology and change management to continuously optimize efficiencies and push the boundaries of what’s possible.

• Strong analytical thinking and strategic problem-solving skills, with the drive to cut through complexity and turn high-level business requirements and opportunities into specific initiatives.

• Translate metrics, research, and external and internal trends into creative practices, to drive decision making and measure success.

• Experienced operating in a highly matrixed organization, being familiar with methods and approaches needed to get things done in a collaborative, lean and fast-paced environment.

People Leadership:

• Outstanding communication skills and track record of building alignment amongst cross-functional partners to drive initiatives.

• Inspiring and approachable as a leader.

• Create an environment where people can realize their full potential.

• Be humble and lead with open, candid relationships.

• Inspire peripheral relationships across the wider Expedia Group.

• Demonstrable success using your expertise to generate buy-in and trust with senior business leaders (SVP/C-level) to provide effective counsel and influence decision-making.

• Passionate about engaging and developing talent; attract, develop, engage and retain talented individuals with a compelling, unifying vision that steers and motivates.

• Curious and passionate, with a desire to continuously learn more, which you use to understand business operations and the organizational levers that drive profitable growth.

• Bias to action, being familiar with methods and approaches needed to get things done in a collaborative, lean and fast-moving environment.

• Lead while thriving on the opportunity to own, innovate, create, and constantly re-evaluate.

• Comfortable making recommendations across competing and equally critical business needs.

• Simplify clearly and succinctly convey complex information and ideas to individuals at all levels of the organization.

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About Expedia Group 

Expedia Group (NASDAQ: EXPE) powers travel for everyone, everywhere through our global platform. Driven by the core belief that travel is a force for good, we help people experience the world in new ways and build lasting connections. We provide industry-leading technology solutions to fuel partner growth and success, while facilitating memorable experiences for travelers. Expedia Group's family of brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Vrbo®, trivago®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Hotwire®, Wotif®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Expedia Group™ Media Solutions, Expedia Local Expert®, CarRentals.com™, and Expedia Cruises™.  

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