Manager - Talent Acquisition

Responsibilities:

Talent Acquisition Planning & SLA Management:

- Own the SLAs for all open positions and ensure timely movement and closure of hiring requirements.

- Strategize and prioritise execution across the team to ensure balanced and consistent attention to all open positions.

- Monitor ageing positions, hiring bottlenecks, and critical requirements and drive timely interventions.

- Partner with hiring managers to establish clear expectations, timelines, and priorities for open positions.

- Identify gaps in hiring execution and implement measures to improve time-to-offer and time-to-join.

Leadership Hiring - Individual Contributor (30%):

- Independently own the end-to-end hiring of leadership positions as an Individual Contributor.

- Partner with business leaders and hiring managers to understand role requirements, success profiles, and talent expectations.

- Develop appropriate sourcing strategies and proactively build talent pipelines for leadership roles.

- Manage candidate assessment, stakeholder coordination, offer discussions, and closure.

- Ensure a strong candidate experience throughout the leadership hiring process.

- Drive leadership hiring within defined SLA and quality expectations.

TA Performance & Reporting:

- Own and maintain the TA Dashboard, providing visibility into hiring pipeline, ageing, SLA adherence, and conversion metrics.

- Prepare and publish the Talent Acquisition Team Performance Report with relevant insights and trends.

- Track key hiring metrics including Time to Offer, Time to Join, Offer-to-Joiner Conversion, and position-wise SLA adherence.

- Identify trends, bottlenecks, and performance gaps and translate them into actionable recommendations.

- Provide periodic hiring insights and performance updates to HR leadership.

Qualifications and Requirements:

- 8 - 10 years of experience in Talent Acquisition, with experience managing hiring delivery and leading recruitment teams.

- Strong experience in end-to-end Talent Acquisition, including stakeholder management, sourcing strategy, candidate assessment, offer management, and closure.

- Proven experience in leadership and senior-level hiring, with the ability to independently manage critical mandates as an Individual Contributor.

- Strong experience in managing hiring SLAs, recruitment pipelines, ageing positions, and delivery metrics.

- Demonstrated ability to balance multiple hiring priorities and ensure consistent attention and execution across open positions.

- Strong data orientation with experience in TA dashboards, hiring reports, funnel analytics, and recruitment metrics.

- Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to partner effectively with business leaders, hiring managers, HR, and candidates.

- Strong negotiation, influencing, communication, and candidate engagement skills, particularly for senior and leadership hiring.

- Demonstrated ability to identify hiring bottlenecks, bring structure and clarity to complex hiring requirements, and drive timely closure.

- Strong ownership, accountability, execution discipline, and ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, high-volume hiring environment.

- Proficiency in ATS/HRMS, recruitment dashboards, Excel/Google Sheets, and people analytics tools.