Team Leader – Recruitment / Executive Search

Job Title: Team Leader – Recruitment / Executive Search
Location: Mira Road, Mumbai
Employment Type: Full-time | Work from Office
Function: Recruitment Operations / Executive Search

About the Role

JobsPlan is looking for an experienced Recruitment Team Leader who can lead a team of recruiters while remaining actively involved in recruitment delivery.

This is not purely a supervisory role. The Team Leader will be responsible for daily mandate allocation, recruiter productivity, quality of submissions, committed delivery dates, candidate pipelines and overall team performance.

The individual must be capable of identifying problems before targets are missed and taking corrective action without depending on repeated management intervention.

Key Responsibilities

Team Management & Daily Planning

- Manage and guide a team of recruiters.
- Allocate mandates based on recruiter capability, workload, priority and client urgency.
- Set clear daily and mandate-wise delivery commitments.
- Review recruiter pipelines at the beginning and during the day.
- Ensure adequate focus on priority, senior and high-CTC mandates.
- Monitor daily CV productivity and committed profile submission dates.
- Identify shortfalls early and redistribute work where required.
- Ensure recruiters are not repeatedly missing agreed targets or timelines.

Recruitment Delivery

- Personally support difficult, specialised and senior-level searches where required.
- Review profiles before client submission where quality control is necessary.
- Ensure CVs submitted genuinely match client requirements.
- Guide recruiters on sourcing strategy, target companies and candidate mapping.
- Improve shortlist, interview and closure ratios.
- Ensure sufficient candidate pipelines exist for every active mandate.

Candidate & Client Coordination





- Monitor candidate follow-ups through interview, offer and joining stages.
- Ensure candidates receive timely communication.
- Coordinate internally on client feedback and interview schedules.
- Escalate delays, market challenges or compensation issues proactively.
- Support client communication where required.

Performance Management

- Review individual recruiter productivity daily.
- Identify repeated performance gaps and take corrective action.
- Coach recruiters on sourcing, screening, communication and follow-up.
- Maintain records of commitments and actual achievement.
- Ensure team targets are achieved consistently rather than through repeated report overrides.
- Highlight genuine operational constraints before deadlines are missed.

MIS & Process Compliance

- Ensure all team recruitment activities are accurately updated in the JobsPlan MIS.
- Check that mandatory candidate, mandate and follow-up information is complete.
- Ensure daily reports are submitted accurately and on time.
- Review pending client feedback, interviews, CVs, offers and joining cases.
- Prevent ageing cases from remaining unattended.
- Ensure data entered by the team is complete and reliable.

Candidate Profile

- Graduate / Postgraduate.
- Typically 4–7+ years of recruitment experience.
- Minimum 1–2 years of team handling or senior recruiter/lead experience preferred.
- Strong experience in recruitment consultancy/executive search.
- Demonstrated ability to manage recruiters against measurable targets.




- Excellent sourcing and candidate assessment skills.
- Robust understanding of job portals, LinkedIn and database recruitment.
- Ability to work across multiple client mandates simultaneously.
- Strong follow-up and execution discipline.
- Good communication and people-management capability.
- Experience in manufacturing, engineering, industrial or technical recruitment preferred.

What We Expect From the Team Leader

The Team Leader is expected to own the team's output, not merely compile its reports.

The role requires:

- advance planning
- continuous monitoring
- early intervention
- proper mandate prioritisation
- accountability for commitments
- hands-on support wherever the team is struggling

Pay: ₹500,000.00 - ₹600,000.00 per year

Benefits:

- Health insurance

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Maharashtra: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Preferred)

Application Question(s):

- How many years of recruitment experience do you have, and how many years have you handled a recruitment team?

Answer type: Numeric / Short text
What is the maximum team size you have directly managed, and were you responsible for their daily/weekly recruitment targets?
Answer type: Short text
Are you personally hands-on in sourcing and recruitment, including working on difficult or senior-level mandates when required?
Answer type: Yes / No
Which sectors have you recruited for? Please mention your experience in Manufacturing, Engineering, Industrial, Automation, Electrical or other technical sectors.
Answer type: Short text
Are you comfortable working from office at Mira Road, Mumbai, and being accountable for team CV targets, committed submission dates, MIS compliance and mandate closures?
Answer type: Yes / No

Experience:

- 7's: 2 years (Preferred)

Work Location: In person

📌 Team Leader - Recruitment / Executive Search (Maharashtra)
🏢 Jobsplan
📍 Maharashtra