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Business Challenge
A global leader in agriculture and construction technology was expanding its digital and engineering capabilities in India but faced multiple talent acquisition challenges.
The organization was hiring aggressively across IT, engineering, analytics, and product development functions. However, its brand was not widely recognized within the technology talent market, resulting in limited visibility among skilled professionals.
In addition, the company needed to scale its digital teams rapidly to support global product development and customer experience initiatives. Hiring expectations were initially misaligned with market realities, particularly in highly specialized domains such as cybersecurity, SAP security, embedded engineering, data analytics, and cloud technologies.
The organization also planned to expand beyond its existing technology base by setting up a new engineering center in a major Indian technology hub. This required building specialized teams from the ground up while ensuring consistent talent availability and maintaining hiring quality.
The pandemic further complicated hiring efforts, requiring the organization to continue scaling its workforce while navigating remote hiring challenges and intense competition for digital talent.
Key Pain Points
- Low employer brand awareness in the IT talent market
- Difficulty attracting specialized technology talent at scale
- Misalignment between hiring expectations and market realities
- Need to establish a new technology center in a competitive talent hub
- Requirement to build multiple engineering and digital product teams simultaneously
- High candidate decline ratios due to market competition
- Sustaining hiring momentum during the pandemic
- Ensuring diversity representation in technical roles
Business Impact & Results
Alp Consulting partnered with the organization to support large-scale hiring and strategic workforce expansion across India.
The engagement resulted in the successful closure of the initial IT hiring mandate ahead of timelines, establishing a long-term strategic talent partnership.
Over time, the organization successfully built multiple engineering and digital product teams across key technology functions, supporting global product development and digital transformation initiatives.
The new technology center was successfully established in a leading Indian technology hub and grew into a thriving engineering location with over 100+ technology professionals.
Across locations, Alp Consulting played a key role in scaling engineering and digital teams across multiple domains including cloud engineering, cybersecurity, embedded systems, data science, analytics, product engineering, and enterprise applications.
The partnership also contributed to significant improvements in hiring efficiency and candidate experience, resulting in measurable talent acquisition outcomes.
Key Outcomes
- 1,055+ technology roles successfully closed across multiple engineering grades
- 100+ member engineering team established at the new technology center
- 7 engineering groups successfully built in the new location
- 90–92% of total hiring delivered through Alp Consulting
- 94% of additional hiring demand addressed in one year
- 90% hiring demand addressed in the following year
- 30% diversity hiring ratio consistently maintained
- Candidate decline ratio reduced from 62% to 40% within 6–8 months
- Multiple digital product and engineering teams successfully scaled
Strategic Value Delivered
- Accelerated technology team expansion in India
- Supported establishment of a new engineering hub
- Enabled global product engineering and digital transformation initiatives
- Delivered consistent talent supply across high-demand technology skills
Strengthened workforce diversity and hiring efficiency