Assistant Manager - Talent Acquisition

Assistant Manager - Talent Acquisition

The Opportunity:

Own recruitment for assigned business requirements, from role intake and sourcing to offer closure and joining. Applicants may specialise in one or more tracks below; experience across all three is not required.

What you will do:

- Business alignment: Translate business growth and capability priorities into hiring plans, sourcing strategies and relevant talent pipelines.

- Role intake and sourcing: Agree role requirements and timelines with hiring managers; source through portals, networks, referrals and direct outreach.

- Screening: Assess relevant skills and experience; discuss candidate interest, compensation, notice period and location.

- Selection: Coordinate interviews and assessments, secure timely feedback and maintain clear candidate communication.

- Offers and joining: Manage negotiations within approved budgets, pre-joining engagement and joining follow-ups.

- Recruitment operations: Maintain accurate records; track turnaround time, pipeline conversion, offer acceptance and offer-to-joining conversion.

- Market insights: Share talent availability, compensation expectations and hiring challenges; recommend practical process improvements.

Hiring tracks:

- Technology: Recruit software engineers across backend, frontend and full-stack, plus QA, DevOps, data science and AI/ML. Build relevant talent pools and partner with engineering managers on screening criteria and assessments.

- Campus: Build placement-team relationships and institute maps; coordinate campus calendars, internships, graduate/management trainee drives, assessments, offers, PPO processes and joining.

- Corporate Functions: Recruit across Legal, HR, Marketing and IT. Tailor sourcing to specialist requirements, map relevant organisations and build pipelines for current and future needs.

What you will bring:

- Completed full-time postgraduate qualification in HR or a relevant management discipline from a Tier 1 institute.

- 1 - 4 years of recruitment experience, with relevant exposure to at least one of Technology, Campus or Corporate Functions hiring.

- Strong sourcing, screening, stakeholder management and negotiation skills; disciplined follow-up and the ability to manage multiple requisitions.

- Clear communication, ownership, sound judgement and comfort using recruitment data to improve delivery and candidate experience.