Business Development Manager

Business Head – GCC & Semiconductor | Permanent Recruitment

Location: Gurugram / Delhi NCR
Business: Permanent Recruitment / Executive Search
Markets: GCCs & Semiconductor
Experience: 10+ years
Role: Client Acquisition | Revenue | P&L | Strategic Accounts

The Mandate

HiredNext is looking for an accomplished recruitment business leader with an existing, active client network in the GCC and/or semiconductor ecosystem.

This is specifically for someone who is already doing business with senior hiring stakeholders and can bring established market relationships, commercial credibility and revenue capability into the role.

We are not looking for someone to build a client network from scratch.

We are also not hiring for staffing, contract staffing, RPO, payroll or temporary hiring experience. Our business is permanent recruitment and executive search.

The right person will already know the decision-makers, understand where hiring demand sits, and have a demonstrable history of converting those relationships into permanent recruitment mandates.

What We Need

You should currently or recently have:

• Personally acquired and managed GCC and/or semiconductor clients for permanent recruitment.

• Active relationships with CHROs, HR Heads, Talent Acquisition Heads, GCC Leaders, Business Heads, CEOs, CTOs or other senior hiring decision-makers.

• A track record of converting relationships into live recruitment mandates and revenue.

• Personally owned a meaningful revenue target, business number or P&L.

• Experience negotiating recruitment commercials directly with senior client stakeholders.

• Built or grown strategic accounts rather than simply servicing accounts allocated by another business development team.

• Strong understanding of permanent recruitment economics, delivery capability and account profitability.

• The ability to identify where hiring budgets and mandates are moving within the GCC and semiconductor markets.

Your Role

You will take ownership of business growth across our GCC and semiconductor practice.

This includes:

• Opening and converting senior client relationships into permanent recruitment mandates.

• Building a high-quality portfolio of GCC and semiconductor accounts.

• Driving new client acquisition and expansion of strategic accounts.

• Owning revenue, pipeline, conversion and account profitability.

• Engaging directly with senior leadership on critical and leadership hiring requirements.

• Working closely with the recruitment delivery team to ensure mandates convert into closures and long-term accounts.

• Identifying high-value hiring opportunities before they become widely competed mandates.

• Contributing to the commercial direction and growth of the practice.

This Role Is Specifically for You If

You can clearly demonstrate:

1. Existing relationships
You already have genuine working relationships within GCCs and/or semiconductor companies.

2. Personally won business
You can name accounts or mandates that you personally originated—not merely accounts you serviced after acquisition.

3. Revenue ownership
You have carried and delivered against a defined annual revenue/business target.

4. Senior stakeholder access
Your relationships extend beyond junior HR contacts to senior TA, HR and business leadership.

5. Permanent recruitment expertise
Your commercial track record is predominantly in permanent recruitment / executive search.

Please Do Not Apply If

Your primary background is:

• Contract staffing

• Temporary staffing

• Payroll services

• RPO-only business

• Generalist HR services

• Inside sales / lead generation

• Recruitment delivery without client acquisition

• Account management where clients were allocated to you

• Business development without GCC or semiconductor relationships

Similarly, this role will not be suitable if you would need the first several months to establish your network before generating business.

What We Will Discuss in the First Conversation

To keep the process senior and efficient, we will focus on five things:

• Which GCC / semiconductor accounts you have personally acquired or developed.

• Which of those relationships remain active today.

• Your current/recent annual revenue number.

• The senior stakeholders you personally engage with.

• Examples of permanent recruitment mandates you have independently converted and grown.

We prefer a short, evidence-led conversation over a lengthy interview process.

Why HiredNext

HiredNext is building focused, high-value recruitment businesses in markets where specialist networks, hiring intelligence and execution matter.

This role carries substantial ownership and direct access to the Founder.

For the right person, it is an opportunity to own and scale a business vertical, rather than operate as another salesperson inside a large recruitment organisation.

If your market relationships and track record already match this mandate, we would like to speak.