Recruitment Manager/Lead – Healthcare Staffing (India)

About GWDApollo Global Workforce Development (GWD) is Apollo's global healthcare workforce initiative, connecting nurses, doctors, and allied health professionals to career opportunities across India and 9+ countries worldwide. GWD combines skilling, certification, and licensing support with end-to-end recruitment and deployment services for hospitals, clinics, and diagnostic centres, both domestically and internationally.

Job PurposeTo manage the domestic recruitment function for healthcare talent (nurses, doctors, allied health professionals) for hospital/clinic/diagnostic centre placements across India. The role is primarily client-facing and managerial in nature — responsible for owning stakeholder discussions on hiring requirements, delegating execution to the recruitment team, and ensuring all deployments are completed within agreed SLAs.

Key Responsibilities• Serve as the primary point of contact for client/partner hospitals and clinics to understand and define manpower requirements — roles, numbers, timelines, and specifications

- Translate client requirements into transparent, actionable hiring plans and delegate execution to the recruitment team (recruiters/sourcers)
- Monitor team workload and requisition allocation to ensure balanced distribution and optimal turnaround
- Own SLA management — track deployment timelines against client commitments and proactively resolve bottlenecks or delays
- Lead, mentor, and manage the recruitment team as a people manager — setting goals, coaching performance, and building team capability
- Conduct regular reviews with the team on pipeline health, fill rates, and requisition ageing




- Escalate and resolve client concerns related to hiring quality, pace, or process
- Drive adoption of technology-driven recruitment practices within the team — ATS usage, automation tools, and data-driven tracking
- Report deployment status, SLA adherence, and hiring metrics (TAT, offer-to-join ratio, fill rate) to leadership and clients
- Ensure compliance with statutory and internal hiring policies, including credential/license verification standards followed by the team
- Partner with HRBPs and internal stakeholders on manpower budgeting and headcount planning

Required Qualifications & Experience• Bachelor's/Master's degree in HR, Business Administration, or related field

- 10+ years of overall experience in domestic recruitment, with significant exposure to healthcare/hospital/clinical hiring
- Minimum 5–8 years of experience in a people manager role, directly managing recruitment teams
- Experience managing high-volume/bulk hiring drives through a team
- Strong exposure to client/stakeholder management in a staffing or recruitment services environment
- Familiarity with technology-driven recruitment tools — ATS platforms, automation, AI-assisted sourcing/screening

Key Skills & Competencies• Strong client relationship management and requirement-gathering skills

- Proven people manager — delegation, performance coaching, team capability building
- SLA and deployment management — tracking, escalation, and resolution
- Data-driven approach to monitoring team performance and hiring metrics
- Ability to manage multiple client accounts/requisition streams simultaneously

- Excellent communication and stakeholder influencing skills

📌 Recruitment Lead/Manager, Healthcare Staffing (India)
🏢 Global Workforce Development
📍 India