We partnered with a European multinational company having established presence in India for 20 plus years. The company is engaged into manufacturing and sale of steel chords with a special technology of manufacturing steel wires and chords. the company has global presence across 50 plus countries. It’s product range consisted of products across steel wires and chords. As part of the global strategy of digitalization of the operations and enhance digital capability of the organization the company put in place a new digital organization across the world. One of the global digital verticals in this new digital organization is based out of India.
The company mandated us to provide talent for the Indian digital vertical. The talent needs required a talent pool of digital experts in the area of data scientist, data analytics and solution architects across technologies. The talent need was across the experience levels and seniority level of operational and leadership roles. All these roles were for the global digital internal customers of the company. The pay range varied with the highest pay for some roles up to INR 09 million per year. The digital hiring team of ours successfully used multiple methods of databased hiring and headhunting approach to attract the talent in 6 months. The top 3 challenges in this hiring assignment are identified as attracting digital talent for manufacturing organisation with low employer brand visibility , significant jump in demand for digital talent post pandemic and pay range based on market which is outside the normal pay range of manufacturing industry. With deep partnering with the hiring managers in India & Europe and the local and global Human resource team, we moved with speed and reliability in the process of hiring overcoming these challenges. We have hired 8 talents so far and the same will continue with additional new mandates in the year 2022-23.
