Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition EMEA & APJ

Ciena is committed to our people-first philosophy. Our teams enjoy a culture focused on prioritizing a personalized and flexible work environment that empowers an individual’s passions, growth, wellbeing and belonging. We’re a technology company that leads with our humanity—driving our business priorities alongside meaningful social, community, and societal impact.

How You Will Contribute:

As the Senior Manager for TA across EMEA & APJ, you will provide leadership, development, and coaching for EMEA & APJ Talent Acquisition team. Ensuring best in class talent attraction, candidate care and business partnering. Providing guidance and insight that enables best in class delivery aligned to Ciena’s strategy and day to day operations.

• Responsible for planning, developing and executing on recruitment strategies to enable business to meet headcount growth plans.

• Provide leadership on TA operations and process efficiency across region

• Create and nurture an environment that drives recruiting excellence to attract the best talent and build Ciena as an employer of choice.

• Manage and support the local TA team, ensuring effective communication of our long-term strategic direction, and the translation of this into goals and objectives

• Implement process improvements in the recruiting area

• Collaborate and leverage partners and stakeholders to ensure successful attainment of talent at all levels.

• Use recruiting data and metrics to influence and educate the business on talent attraction best practices, resulting in improved candidate experience, efficient processes and predictive delivery of forecasted talent .

• Cultivate trust and collaborative relationships with key business partners

• Develop communication practices to help keep the team informed and educated on global practices, programs, and processes.

• Actively explore new recruiting trends, products, and strategies

• Participate and contribute to local/global projects

• Evolve and champion the required change behaviors to establish TA function as trusted advisor and partner to the business, moving away for the “order taker” mindset

What Does Ciena Expect of You?

• Initiative – You’re a self-starter who works with limited direction and is committed to delivering against aggressive deadlines.

• Relationship Builder – you possess the ability to build trusted internal and external relationships quickly and influence thinking.

• Agility – you are readily able to manage competing and ever-changing priorities under often stressful circumstances, prioritizing deliverables based on the company’s business objectives.

• Communication expertise – you can effectively tailor a message/articulate a point of view to an audience to enable engagement and understanding at all levels of an organization.

• Problem Solver – quickly able to understand/analyze an issue and propose an ideal solution.

• Critical thinking – you readily understand and can appropriately balance legal and business objectives.

The Must Haves:

• Extensive knowledge and progressive experience working within global TA and HR functions

• Understanding and experience of hiring across multiple functions and levels in India

• Demonstrated track record of success in both agency and in-house recruiting environments

• Ability to build relationships at all levels of the business  

• Successful in developing high performance teams

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills

•  Demonstrates understanding of global cultural differences

• Proven track record in creating and implementing sourcing strategies for passive candidate market

• Excellent consultative, problem solving and interpersonal skills

• Recognized subject matter expert with strong business acumen

• Strong team player with excellent sense of humor

Assets:

• Knowledge of Workday.

• Agency or Inhouse background

Why Ciena:

• We are big proponents of life-work integration and provide the flexibility and tools to make it a reality with remote work and potentially, part-time work.

• We believe an inclusive, diverse and barrier-free work environment makes for empowered and committed employees.

• We recognize the importance of well-being and offer programs and benefits to support and sustain the mental and physical health of our employees and their families and offer a variety of paid family leave programs.

• We are committed to employee development, offering tuition reimbursement and a variety of in-house learning and mentorship opportunities.

• We know that financial security is important. We offer competitive salaries and incentive programs, RSU’s (job level specific) and an employee share option purchase program.

• We realize time away to recharge is non-negotiable. We offer flexible paid time off!

• Great work deserves recognition. We have a robust recognition program, with ongoing and enhanced awards for exemplary performance.

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At Ciena, we are committed to building and fostering an environment in which our employees feel respected, valued, and heard. Ciena values the diversity of its workforce and respects its employees as individuals. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination.

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If you are interested for this position, you may apply to this link.