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Experience: 5+ yrs

Location: Bengaluru

Job Type: Full-time

We are looking for an experienced Senior HR Executive – Recruitment to manage end-to-end talent acquisition activities across corporate and manufacturing functions within a pharmaceutical manufacturing environment. The role will be responsible for ensuring timely closure of approved positions, building strong talent pipelines, maintaining recruitment quality, and delivering a positive candidate experience.

The ideal candidate will combine robust recruitment expertise with excellent stakeholder management, recruitment analytics, coordination, and execution skills.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

- Coordinate with Department Heads and Hiring Managers to understand current and future manpower requirements.
- Track approved vacancies, recruitment budgets, requisitions, and hiring timelines to ensure timely closure of positions.
- Develop and execute sourcing strategies using job portals, Linked In, employee referrals, recruitment consultants, campus hiring, networking, and other channels.
- Build and maintain talent pipelines for critical, recurring, and specialised positions, particularly within manufacturing environments.
- Screen and shortlist candidates against defined job requirements, qualifications, experience, competencies, and organisational fit.
- Conduct initial HR screening and interviews and coordinate technical or functional assessments with Hiring Managers.
- Manage interview scheduling, candidate communication, feedback collection, and selection coordination.
- Support Hiring Managers in evaluating candidates and recommending suitable profiles.




- Conduct compensation discussions within approved salary structures and coordinate offer preparation and documentation.
- Maintain regular engagement with selected candidates throughout the notice period to improve offer acceptance and offer-to-joining conversion.
- Identify potential joining risks and proactively address candidate concerns.
- Coordinate pre-joining formalities, documentation, induction, and onboarding activities.
- Maintain recruitment dashboards, trackers, MIS reports, and accurate candidate records.
- Monitor recruitment metrics such as time-to-fill, vacancy closure, offer acceptance, offer-to-joining conversion, cost per hire, source effectiveness, and new-hire retention.
- Analyse recruitment trends and provide periodic hiring reports and insights to management.
- Support employer branding, job fairs, campus recruitment, networking events, and talent engagement initiatives.
- Maintain complete recruitment documentation and ensure adherence to HR policies, statutory requirements, and audit standards.
- Coordinate with approved recruitment agencies, assessment partners, educational institutions, and other external talent sources.
- Identify opportunities to improve recruitment processes, candidate experience, talent pipelines, and overall hiring effectiveness.

What Makes You a Great Fit





- 5+ years of relevant experience in recruitment, talent acquisition, or HR operations with strong exposure to end-to-end hiring.
- Proven experience managing recruitment across corporate and manufacturing functions.
- Experience in pharmaceutical manufacturing, healthcare, FMCG, or another regulated manufacturing environment will be an advantage.
- Strong understanding of manpower planning, sourcing, competency-based screening, interviewing, selection, offer management, and onboarding.
- Demonstrated ability to build and maintain talent pipelines for critical and recurring positions.
- Strong stakeholder-management skills with the ability to work effectively with HODs, Hiring Managers, senior management, candidates, and recruitment partners.
- Strong negotiation and candidate-engagement skills, particularly during compensation discussions and notice periods.
- Experience tracking and analysing recruitment metrics, MIS, dashboards, and hiring effectiveness.
- Good understanding of recruitment compliance, documentation, audit requirements, and HR processes.
- Proficiency in MS Excel, Word, Power Point, HRMS, ATS platforms, job portals, and recruitment analytics tools.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills with a professional and candidate-focused approach.
- Excellent planning, organisation, follow-up, problem-solving, and execution skills.
- Result-oriented mindset with the ability to manage multiple vacancies and stakeholders simultaneously.
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related discipline; MBA/PGDM in HR will be an added advantage.

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