Assistant Manager - Recruitment South Karnataka

The role will be responsible for ensuring timely and quality manpower deployment across the branches assigned, with particular focus on branch-level, replacement hiring, high-volume recruitment, employee referrals, local sourcing and stakeholder management.

Role & responsibilities:

Branch & Field-Level Recruitment

• Execute high-volume recruitment for MFI field and branch positions including:

• Branch Managers
• Assistant/Deputy Branch Managers
• Credit Officers
• Loan Officers
• Field Officers
• Collection/Recovery roles
• Sales and Business Development roles
• Cluster/Area/Regional-level positions
• Drive recruitment for both new manpower requirements and attrition/replacement vacancies.
• Establish location-wise talent pools for critical and difficult-to-fill branches.
• Ensure timely deployment of manpower against approved vacancies.
• Monitor vacancy ageing and take corrective action for positions remaining open beyond agreed SLAs.
• Develop a branch-wise and district-wise candidate pipeline for recurring requirements.
• Identify alternative sourcing channels for locations where conventional recruitment channels are ineffective.
• Work closely with Regional/Zonal/State Heads to understand manpower requirements.
• Analyse approved manpower against actual deployment at branch level.

Attrition & Replacement Hiring

• Analyse cluster-wise and branch-wise attrition trends.
• Identify positions requiring proactive replacement hiring.
• Work with business leaders to understand the key recruitment and retention challenges in high-attrition locations.
• Develop talent pools for positions with historically high turnover.
• Track recruitment against attrition and ensure business continuity

Recruitment Analytics & MIS

• Provide regular recruitment updates and actionable insights to senior management.
• Use MS Excel extensively for recruitment dashboards.
• Identify trends and recommend interventions based on recruitment data.

Employee Referral & Recruitment Initiatives

• Conduct recruitment drives, walk-in interviews and local hiring campaigns wherever required.
• Encourage existing employees and business teams to support local talent sourcing.
• Build a sustainable referral and local sourcing ecosystem across the region.

Compliance & Recruitment Governance

• Ensure recruitment activities are carried out in accordance with company policies and approved manpower plans.
• Ensure appropriate background verification, MFIN checks and other pre-employment verification processes.
• Maintain proper recruitment records and documentation.
• Ensure adherence to recruitment approval processes and defined SLAs.
• Coordinate with HR Operations, Compliance and other stakeholders on recruitment-related matters.

Preferred candidate profile:

Educational Qualification

• MBA/PGDM in Human Resources / Personnel Management from a recognised institution.
• Full-time qualification preferred.

Experience

• 3 to 5 years of relevant experience in HR/Talent Acquisition within Microfinance/ MFI.
• Strong hands-on experience in MFI branch and field-force recruitment is preferred.
• Experience managing high-volume recruitment across multiple geographies.
• Experience in managing multiple recruitment channels.
• Strong understanding of MFI business roles, branch structure, field operations and manpower requirements is mandatory.