HR Manager - Recruitment

Role Overview

The HR Manager Talent Acquisition will own recruitment for Ascends frontline and field organization, with the majority of hiring across Sales and Collections. The role requires a hands-on recruitment leader who can manage high-volume hiring across multiple cities, build strong sourcing channels, drive hiring TAT and joining conversion, and lead a team of recruiters. The candidate must have strong experience in bulk/high-volume recruitment of field staff or frontline employees across multiple locations.

What you'll own

• Own end-to-end recruitment for frontline Sales and Collections roles across existing and new geographies.
• Drive bulk/high-volume hiring for field staff across multiple cities and locations while maintaining hiring quality and turnaround time.
• Lead, manage, and develop the recruitment team; allocate requirements, set recruiter-wise targets, and conduct regular performance reviews.
• Work closely with Sales and Collections leadership to understand manpower plans, replacement requirements, expansion hiring, and priority positions.
• Build scalable sourcing channels through job portals, referrals, local consultants, field sourcing, walk-in drives, recruitment camps, and other relevant channels.
• Plan and execute city-wise hiring drives for high-volume frontline roles and ensure adequate candidate pipelines for recurring requirements.
• Own the recruitment funnel from sourcing and screening through interviews, selection, offer rollout, documentation follow-up, and joining.
• Track hiring metrics including open positions, ageing, time-to-hire, source productivity, selection ratio, offer-to-join ratio, recruiter productivity, and joining conversion.
• Reduce candidate drop-offs and improve offer-to-join conversion through structured follow-ups and pre-joining engagement.
• Build location-wise talent pools and maintain a ready pipeline for critical Sales and Collections positions.
• Ensure recruiters and hiring managers follow defined selection criteria, interview processes, documentation requirements, and recruitment SOPs.
• Use recruitment data and MIS to identify bottlenecks, improve sourcing effectiveness, and forecast manpower closure timelines.

What we're looking for

• 3 - 5 years of experience in Talent Acquisition / Recruitment, with strong exposure to high-volume or bulk hiring.
• Must have hands-on experience recruiting frontline/field employees, preferably Sales and Collections staff, across multiple cities or locations.
• Strong preference for candidates from NBFC, lending, fintech, vehicle finance, microfinance, BFSI, field-sales, collections, or other businesses with large distributed field teams.
• Proven experience managing and driving performance of a recruitment team.
• Strong understanding of bulk sourcing channels and the ability to build candidate pipelines beyond conventional job portals.
• Experience managing multiple open requirements simultaneously with clear prioritization and closure ownership.
• Comfortable working with recruitment MIS, Excel, dashboards, and funnel metrics.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to work closely with business leaders and field managers.
• Good communication in English and Hindi, with strong coordination, negotiation, and follow-up skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with aggressive hiring targets and changing manpower requirements

Preferred Background

• Candidates who have managed bulk hiring for distributed field teams in Tier 2 and Tier 3 markets.
• Candidates with experience hiring Sales Executives, Collection Executives, Team Leads, Branch Managers, Territory Managers, or similar field roles.
• Candidates who have built or improved recruitment processes, sourcing channels, recruiter productivity, or offer-to-join conversion at scale.

Why join

• Opportunity to build and scale the recruitment engine behind a rapidly growing field organization.
• Own high-impact hiring across multiple markets and work directly with business leaders on manpower growth.
• Be part of a fast-growing commercial EV finance company expanding across India.