Senior Talent Acquisition Partner

Position: Senior Talent Acquisition Partner

Experience: 5 - 7 Years

Location: Hyderabad (Work from Office)

Industry Preference: KPO/BPO/ITES/ Healthcare

Role Summary:

We are looking for a seasoned recruiter to lead high-volume lateral hiring and campus recruitment for a fast-growing KPO. The role involves end-to-end recruitment ownershipfrom workforce planning and sourcing strategy to offer closure and onboarding—while ensuring speed, quality, and a strong candidate experience at scale.

Key Responsibilities:

1) Volume / Bulk Hiring

• Drive bulk hiring across multiple process lines, roles, and locations based on business ramp-up plans.
• Manage end-to-end recruitment: sourcing, screening, interview coordination, selection, offer rollout, documentation, and joining.
• Plan monthly/quarterly hiring roadmaps aligned to targets, attrition backfills, and new business requirements.
• Conduct and manage walk-ins, mass hiring drives, and virtual hiring events, ensuring smooth execution and logistics.

2) Campus Hiring

• Plan and execute campus hiring initiatives including college tie-ups, calendar planning, pre-placement talks, and hiring drives.
• Coordinate assessments, interview panels, selection lists, offer issuance, and joining pipelines for fresher batches.
• Partner with L&D/onboarding teams to ensure batch readiness and seamless fresher onboarding.

3) Sourcing & Channel Management

• Build and manage diverse sourcing channels: job portals, consultants/vendors, referrals, social media, and internal databases.
• Develop continuous talent pipelines for recurring/high-volume roles through proactive sourcing and talent mapping.
• Drive referral programs and recruitment marketing initiatives to improve response rates and reduce cost-per-hire.

4) Stakeholder & Vendor Management

• Partner with business/operations leaders to forecast hiring demand, define priorities, and manage TAT.
• Manage consultant/vendor performance: SLAs, closures, pipeline quality, and commercial coordination (as applicable).
• Align with HR Ops/Compliance teams to ensure documentation accuracy and process adherence.

5) Reporting, Analytics & Process Excellence

• Maintain ATS hygiene and track hiring dashboards including funnel metrics, source performance, aging, offer-to-join ratio, and cost-per-hire.
• Provide regular MIS updates to leadership with insights and corrective action plans to improve conversion and speed.
• Identify and drive process improvements to enhance candidate experience, reduce dropouts/no-shows, and improve quality-of-hire.

6) Candidate Experience & Onboarding

• Ensure a smooth candidate journey from first contact to onboarding.
• Drive joining conversion through structured engagement, follow-ups, and issue resolution (offers, documentation, BGV initiation, etc.).

What we are looking for:

• 5–7 years of recruitment experience, with strong exposure to volume/bulk hiring and campus hiring.
• Prior experience in KPO, BPO, or ITES hiring is strongly preferred.
• Proven ability to close large hiring mandates within tight timelines and changing business requirements.
• Strong stakeholder-management and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with senior operations leaders.
• Hands-on experience with ATS/HRMS tools, recruitment analytics, and reporting.
• Strong execution orientation and comfort working in a fast-paced, target-driven environment.
• Willingness to work extended hours or weekends during hiring drives, as required.
• Must be based in Hyderabad or willing to relocate; this is a work-from-office role.
• Demonstrated career stability, with no more than three company changes in the last five years.