Onsite RPO Manager

Department: Recruitment Delivery - RPO

Office Location: Baner Gaon

Employment type: Full-time

Experience: 5-8 Years years in recruitment, with at least 2 years in project or team leadership.

Role Summary:

The Onsite Project Manager (Recruitment) will lead the end-to-end hiring delivery for a client engagement from the client's office. The role owns the recruitment project plan, manages an onsite and offsite team of recruiters, acts as the single point of contact for client hiring managers and HR, and ensures hiring targets are met on time, within budget and to quality standards.

Key Responsibilities

Project and Delivery Management:

• Own the recruitment project plan, including hiring volumes, timelines, milestones and SLAs.
• Translate client manpower requirements into workforce plans, sourcing strategies and weekly delivery targets.
• Track the full hiring funnel (sourcing, screening, interviews, offers, joining) and take corrective action on bottlenecks.
• Manage requisition intake, job calibration and prioritisation with hiring managers.
• Ensure offer-to-joining conversion through proactive candidate engagement and drop-out management.

Client Relationship Management:

• Serve as the primary onsite point of contact for the client's HR leadership and hiring managers.
• Conduct regular status meetings, and share weekly and monthly dashboards and MIS reports.
• Run governance reviews (weekly, monthly, quarterly), including SLA performance and improvement plans.
• Handle escalations promptly and identify opportunities to expand the engagement.

Team Leadership:

• Lead, coach and set targets for recruiters, and coordinators working on the project.
• Allocate requisitions based on skills and capacity, and review productivity and quality regularly.

Sourcing and Process Excellence:

• Define sourcing strategies across job portals.
• Manage the ATS and ensure data accuracy, hygiene and timely updates.
• Drive process improvements to reduce time-to-fill and cost-per-hire.

Reporting and Commercials:

• Prepare and present MIS, funnel analytics, TAT, quality-of-hire and source effectiveness reports.

Required Qualifications and Skills

• Bachelor's degree required; MBA/PGDM in HR is preferred.
• 5-8 years of recruitment experience, with at least 2 years managing recruitment projects, RPO engagements or teams.
• Proven record of delivering high-volume and/or niche hiring across multiple functions.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication and negotiation skills.
• Proficiency with ATS tools, job portals, LinkedIn Recruiter, and Excel/Google Sheets for reporting.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a data-driven approach.
• Ability to work onsite at the client location and handle pressure in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred Experience

• Prior experience in an RPO or staffing company managing client-site engagements.
• Exposure to industries such as Manufacturing, healthcare, retail or e-commerce.
• Familiarity with project management tools and methodologies (PMP or similar is a plus).

Key Performance Indicators

• Requisition closure against target and SLA adherence.
• Time-to-fill and offer-to-joining ratio.
• Quality of hire and client satisfaction.