Industries
Global Capability Centres
Building and scaling engineering capability in India.
The hiring challenge
What makes this sector difficult.
A GCC build-out is not ordinary recruitment. It is a compressed, high-visibility hiring programme with an unusual problem at its centre: the organisation has no employer brand in the Indian market, no local network, and often no clear internal view of what the India team should look like.
The first fifteen hires determine everything that follows. Get the leadership right and the centre attracts talent on its own. Get it wrong and the organisation spends two years correcting a structure that was set in the first quarter.
Bengaluru is the primary destination for these centres, and that is where we're based.
Roles we recruit
The role index for this sector.
Not an exhaustive list — a representative one. If your role isn't here, it's still worth a conversation.
- Location analysis
- Talent availability modelling
- Competitor centre mapping
- Compensation benchmarking
- Feasibility assessment
- Site Head / Country Manager
- Engineering Director
- HR Head
- Finance Controller
- Functional leadership
- Engineering teams across disciplines
- Functional and support hiring
- Contract capacity during ramp
- Embedded RPO for the build period
- Structure and role architecture
- Levelling and banding
- Competency frameworks
- Employer positioning
Sub-domains we cover
Our approach
How we hire in this sector.
We start with the market map, not the job description, because most GCC hiring plans are built on parent-country assumptions about availability and cost that don't hold in India. Correcting the plan is more valuable than executing an unachievable one.
We then prioritise the leadership layer, since those appointments determine hiring velocity for everything after. And we're direct about employer brand: an organisation nobody in Bengaluru has heard of has to compensate with clarity of proposition and speed of process, and we'll tell you if the current process is losing you candidates.
Services most used by this sector
How organisations here engage us.
Talent Intelligence
Market mapping, compensation benchmarking and workforce insight
ExploreExecutive Search
Leadership and business-critical appointments, run as a retained search
ExploreRecruitment Process Outsourcing
Embedded recruitment capacity that scales with your hiring plan
ExploreHR Advisory
Organisation design, workforce planning and people strategy
ExploreLive roles
Current openings in this sector.
No live roles listed right now
Most of the roles we work on are never advertised. Send us your CV and we'll be in touch when something matches your profile.
Let's talk about the team you're building.
Tell us the role, the constraint and the timeline. We'll tell you honestly whether we're the right firm for it — and if we're not, we'll say so.