Recruitment Lead

We are looking for an experienced Recruitment Lead to manage end-to-end recruitment operations, lead a team of recruiters, and ensure timely delivery of quality talent across multiple business functions. The ideal candidate should have strong sourcing expertise, stakeholder management skills, and a proven ability to meet hiring targets in a fast-paced environment.

1. Lead and manage a team of recruiters, allocate hiring requirements, monitor productivity, and ensure recruitment targets are achieved within agreed timelines.

2. Manage end-to-end recruitment, including requirement understanding, sourcing, screening, interview coordination, offer negotiation, and candidate onboarding.

3. Develop effective sourcing strategies using job portals, LinkedIn, employee referrals, recruitment agencies, social media, and internal databases.

4. Partner with hiring managers and business stakeholders to understand workforce requirements, define candidate profiles, and establish hiring priorities.

5. Track recruitment metrics such as time-to-fill, cost-per-hire, sourcing effectiveness, interview-to-selection ratio, offer acceptance rate, and joining ratio.

6. Build and maintain a strong talent pipeline for current and future requirements, ensuring adequate coverage for critical and high-volume positions.

7. Coach recruiters on Boolean searches, candidate engagement, screening techniques, interview preparation, negotiation, and recruitment best practices.

8. Prepare recruitment reports, identify delivery bottlenecks, resolve escalations, and continuously improve hiring processes and team performance.

• Strong expertise in end-to-end recruitment and talent acquisition.

• Proven experience in team leadership and recruitment delivery.

• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

• Proficiency in Boolean search, LinkedIn Recruiter, job portals, and applicant tracking systems.

• Strong understanding of recruitment metrics, reporting, and performance management.

• Ability to manage multiple requirements and deliver against tight deadlines.

• Strong negotiation, problem-solving, and candidate relationship management skills.

• Achievement of monthly and quarterly hiring targets.

• Reduction in time-to-fill and cost-per-hire.

• Improvement in offer-to-joining ratio.

• Quality of hires and hiring manager satisfaction.

• Recruiter productivity and sourcing effectiveness.

• Candidate experience and recruitment process compliance.

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related discipline.

• 5–8 years of overall recruitment experience, including at least 1–3 years in a team leadership or recruitment management role.

• Experience managing multiple recruiters and delivering against defined hiring targets.

• Exposure to IT recruitment, non-IT recruitment, or high-volume hiring, depending on business requirements.