Assistant Manager-Recruitment

Job highlights

• The Assistant Manager - Recruitment will be responsible for managing critical and multiple hiring requirements,partnering closely with hiring managers and business stakeholders,guiding recruiters toward hiring targets,and ensuring timely closure of positions while maintaining a positive candidate experience. . Key Roles and Responsibilities: . .

Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced and result-oriented Assistant Manager - Recruitment to manage and drive end-to-end recruitment activities across IT and Non-IT functions. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in corporate recruitment, sourcing strategy, stakeholder management, team coordination, candidate assessment, and recruitment operations.
The Assistant Manager - Recruitment will be responsible for managing critical and multiple hiring requirements, partnering closely with hiring managers and business stakeholders, guiding recruiters toward hiring targets, and ensuring timely closure of positions while maintaining a positive candidate experience.

**Key Roles and Responsibilities:**    

• Manage and drive the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle, including requirement understanding, sourcing, screening, interviews, documentation, and joining.

• Partner with hiring managers and business stakeholders to understand manpower requirements, hiring priorities, and recruitment expectations.

• Manage recruitment for IT and Non-IT positions across multiple skill sets and business functions.

• Develop and implement effective sourcing strategies through job portals, LinkedIn, social media, employee referrals, networking, internal databases, and other relevant channels.

• Drive targeted hiring, market mapping, and talent identification for critical, niche, and high-priority positions.

• Review candidate profiles and ensure effective screening based on skills, experience, communication, cultural fit, and business requirements.

• Conduct initial screening/interviews and coordinate further interview rounds with hiring managers and stakeholders.

• Guide and support recruiters in sourcing, screening, interview coordination, follow-ups, and candidate closure activities.

• Build and maintain strong relationships with candidates and ensure a professional and positive candidate experience throughout the hiring process.

• Coordinate the collection and verification of educational, employment, identity, and other required documents for background verification.

• Ensure complete and accurate candidate documentation is submitted to the HR/BGV team within defined timelines.

• Monitor and maintain recruitment MIS, dashboards, hiring trackers, and recruitment reports.

• Track key recruitment metrics including Time to Submit, Time to Hire, Submission-to-Interview, Interview-to-Selection, Offer-to-Joining, and overall recruitment conversion ratios.

• Identify recruitment challenges and bottlenecks and work proactively with the reporting manager and stakeholders to implement effective solutions.

• Ensure recruitment SLAs, productivity targets, and hiring goals are consistently achieved.

• Conduct regular follow-ups with candidates and stakeholders to minimize offer dropouts, delays, and joining-related challenges.

• Support recruiters in handling candidate negotiations, counteroffers, notice-period concerns, and offer-to-join conversions.

• Stay updated on market trends, talent availability, compensation trends, sourcing channels, and emerging recruitment practices.

• Participate in daily/weekly recruitment reviews with the reporting manager and provide updates on hiring progress, challenges, achievements, and action plans.

• Take ownership of critical and high-priority requirements and ensure they are driven toward closure within defined timelines.

• Assist the Recruitment Manager in planning hiring strategies, allocating requirements, monitoring team performance, and achieving overall recruitment targets.

• Provide regular feedback, guidance, and support to junior recruiters to improve sourcing effectiveness, productivity, and recruitment quality.

• Review team performance and provide guidance to improve productivity, quality, and recruitment conversion.

  Qualifications Skills:

• Experience: 9+ years of relevant experience in Corporate/IT Recruitment, preferably with experience in an Assistant Manager or Team Lead capacity.

• Strong experience in end-to-end recruitment, stakeholder management, and multiple-position hiring.

• Experience managing or guiding a team of recruiters and driving recruitment targets.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Strong sourcing, screening, interviewing, negotiation, and candidate management skills.

• Proficient in job portals, LinkedIn, ATS, MS Excel, PowerPoint, and recruitment tools.

• Good understanding of recruitment MIS, hiring metrics, dashboards, and analytics.

• Strong leadership, coordination, problem-solving, and time-management skills.

• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively in a fast-paced recruitment environment.

• Strong stakeholder and hiring manager management skills.

• Ability to identify recruitment challenges and implement practical solutions.

• Education: Bachelors degree; MBA/PGDM in HR or a related field preferred.

Mandatory Skills

IT Non-IT Recruitment/End-to-End Hiring/Team Management/Sourcing Talent Mapping/Stakeholder Management/Screening Interviewing/Candidate Negotiation/Offer-to-Join Conversion/Recruitment MIS Analytics/Market Mapping/BGV Coordination

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