Senior Manager - Talent Acquisition - Retail/Hospitality/F&B

Talent Acquisition Strategy:

- Develop and execute hiring strategies aligned with business growth, expansion plans and workforce requirements across locations and functions.

End-to-End Recruitment:

- Lead the complete recruitment lifecycle, from manpower planning and sourcing to selection, offer management and onboarding, ensuring timely closures and quality of hire.

High-Volume & Frontline Hiring:

- Drive large-scale frontline recruitment across multiple locations, including location-specific hiring strategies for challenging markets.

Expansion & Pre-opening Hiring:

- Plan and execute recruitment for new site openings, ensuring manpower readiness within defined timelines in partnership with Operations and Project teams.

Corporate & Leadership Hiring:

- Oversee recruitment across middle management, senior management, corporate and specialist positions, personally driving critical and business-sensitive mandates where required.

Talent Pipelines & Market Mapping:

- Build talent pools for critical and recurring roles, undertake market mapping and proactively engage potential candidates for future requirements.

Internal Mobility:

- Strengthen internal hiring through employee referrals and internal job postings, working with HRBPs to identify internal talent and support career mobility.

Recruitment Analytics:

- Track key metrics including time to hire, cost per hire, offer-to-joining ratio, source effectiveness, quality of hire and vacancy ageing. Use data to improve recruitment productivity and efficiency.

Stakeholder Management:

- Partner with business leaders, HRBPs and functional heads on workforce planning, role definition, sourcing strategies and candidate assessment.

Employer Branding & Sourcing:

- Build a multi-channel sourcing strategy across job portals, LinkedIn, referrals, campuses, recruitment partners and professional networks.

Vendor & Budget Management:

- Manage recruitment agencies and external partners, establish service-level expectations and optimise recruitment costs.

Team Leadership:

- Lead and develop the TA team, establish performance metrics and build capabilities across sourcing, stakeholder management, market mapping and recruitment analytics.

Candidate Profile:

- 8 - 15 years of experience in Talent Acquisition, with substantial experience in high-volume and multi-location recruitment.

- MBA/PGDM is mandatory.

- Retail, hospitality, F&B, entertainment or consumer-facing industry experience preferred.

- Strong exposure to frontline hiring, alongside corporate and management-level recruitment.

- Experience managing recruitment for new site openings or business expansion will be an advantage.

- Strong stakeholder management, team leadership and analytical capabilities.

- Proficiency in English and Hindi.

- Ideal candidate: A hands-on TA leader who can manage high-volume frontline hiring at scale while ensuring strong recruitment governance, stakeholder alignment and hiring quality across corporate and operational roles.