Deputy Manager Talent Acquisition

Requisition Number: 2248605
Job Category: People Team
Primary Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IN

Doctor consulting nurse at nurse station.

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.

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Full spectrum of recruiting, candidate selection and onboarding activities
  • Partner with business, HR partners, finance, and analytics team to build recruitment forecast, proactively initiate hiring activities to ensure on time fulfillment of demand
  • Being relevant to industry trends, building market intel and competitor intelligence on key skills and capability, and engage in business conversation on growth strategy
  • Must work well in large organization in a matrix org structure
  • 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
  • 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
  • 5+ years of experience with talent acquisition in India in Operations, Technology or Consulting
  • Experience in end-to-end Ops hiring / non-tech hiring in bulk
  • Proven ability to understand competitors landscape / market trend
  • Proven ability to do the sourcing independently
  • Proven ability to deal with volume hiring
  • Proven to be good with candidate management, stakeholder management
  • Proven to be aware of market trends, diversity focused approach

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.

Additional Job Detail Information

Requisition Number 2248605

Business Segment Optum

Employee Status Regular

Travel No

Country: IN

Overtime Status Exempt

Schedule Full-time

Shift Day Job

Telecommuter Position No

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