Hyderabad, Telangana, India, December 2025 – Jayant Pennapati has taken on a new leadership role as Head of Talent Acquisition at ArcelorMittal Global Business & Technologies (AMGBT). In this role, he is responsible for strengthening global hiring strategy, building scalable talent acquisition ecosystems, and enabling workforce capability aligned to ArcelorMittal’s digital, sustainability, and advanced manufacturing transformation agenda.
In his current role at ArcelorMittal Global Business & Technologies, Jayant is leading enterprise talent acquisition strategy supporting global digital, analytics, AI, cloud, and engineering capability build-outs across AMGBT’s India hubs.
Prior to this, he served as Vice President – Global Talent Acquisition at Qentelli, where he led global hiring strategy, employer branding, and large-scale workforce planning across geographies.
Earlier, Jayant spent close to five years with Epiq, where he progressed through Director – International Talent Acquisition and APAC Talent Acquisition leadership roles, driving large-scale hiring across product, eDiscovery, and legal technology domains.
He also held senior global TA leadership roles at Feuji Inc., and earlier built his recruitment leadership foundation at Cigniti Technologies (Gallop), Sai People Solutions (Talent Logic), and Knoah Solutions, developing deep expertise in enterprise technology hiring, client delivery hiring, and global talent strategy.
Jayant holds an MBA in Foreign Trade from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT).
About ArcelorMittal Global Business & Technologies
ArcelorMittal is one of the world’s leading integrated steel and mining companies, operating in 60 countries with primary steelmaking facilities in 15 countries and a global workforce of over 125,000 employees. The company serves customers across 129 countries, supplying steel to automotive, construction, engineering, energy, and machinery sectors.
ArcelorMittal Global Business & Technologies (AMGBT) is the group’s global digital and innovation arm, bringing together services, technology, and advanced analytics to enable smarter, cleaner, and more sustainable steelmaking. Through AI, cloud, IoT, and data science, AMGBT drives predictive maintenance, real-time operations, and carbon-reduction initiatives across ArcelorMittal’s global plants.
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