Manager IT Recruitment

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Manager IT Recruitment to head and build the IT Recruitment Practice at Wroots Global.

This is a leadership role for someone who can take complete ownership of the IT Recruitment function from building and managing the recruitment team to driving client delivery, developing recruitment strategies, improving processes, and contributing to the growth of the IT Recruitment business.

The person will be responsible for creating a strong and scalable IT recruitment practice at Wroots and will work closely with the leadership team to define and execute the overall recruitment strategy.

Key Responsibilities

1. Own the IT Recruitment Practice

- Take complete ownership of the IT Recruitment Practice at Wroots.
- Develop and execute the overall strategy for growing the IT recruitment business.
- Build a scalable recruitment function capable of handling multiple clients and high-volume as well as niche hiring.
- Define recruitment processes, standards, SLAs, and performance benchmarks.
- Continuously improve the way Wroots delivers IT recruitment services.
- Establish best practices across sourcing, screening, client management, interview coordination, offer management, and joining conversion.
- Build a strong reputation for Wroots as a preferred IT recruitment partner.

2. Build & Lead the Recruitment Team

- Build, manage, and scale the IT recruitment team based on business requirements.
- Define team structures, roles, responsibilities, and individual targets.
- Hire and develop high-performing recruiters and team leaders.
- Set clear productivity and quality expectations for the team.
- Conduct regular performance reviews and provide coaching and mentoring.
- Identify skill gaps and implement training and development programs.
- Create a performance-driven and accountable recruitment culture.

3. Drive Client Delivery

- Take overall ownership of IT recruitment delivery across Wroots clients.
- Ensure all client requirements are delivered within agreed SLAs and timelines.
- Develop recruitment strategies based on client requirements, technology, location, seniority, and talent availability.
- Ensure consistent quality of profiles and hiring outcomes.
- Monitor the complete recruitment funnel from requirement to joining.
- Personally support critical, niche, and senior-level mandates when required.
- Ensure Wroots consistently delivers against client expectations and maintains robust vendor performance.

4. Client Relationship & Stakeholder Management

- Build and maintain strong relationships with key clients and hiring stakeholders.
- Participate in client meetings, business reviews, requirement discussions, and escalations.
- Understand client hiring plans and proactively prepare the team for upcoming requirements.
- Work with clients to improve hiring processes, turnaround time, and quality.




- Identify opportunities to increase hiring volumes and expand relationships with existing clients.
- Position Wroots as a strategic recruitment partner rather than only a CV supplier.

5. Business Growth

- Work closely with the Wroots leadership team to grow the IT Recruitment business.
- Identify opportunities within existing accounts for additional hiring mandates.
- Support new client acquisition by providing recruitment capability, market insights, and delivery plans.
- Participate in client pitches, recruitment proposals, and solution discussions.
- Help develop and position Wroots' IT Recruitment and RPO capabilities.
- Contribute to revenue and profitability targets for the IT Recruitment Practice.
- Build long-term and scalable client relationships.

6. Recruitment Metrics & Performance

- Define and monitor key recruitment KPIs at recruiter, team, client, and practice level.
- Track:

- Requirement fulfilment
- Profiles shared
- Shortlisting ratio
- Interview ratio
- Selection ratio
- Offer-to-joiner ratio
- Time-to-hire
- Offer dropouts
- Joining ratio
- Revenue / billing
- Client performance

- Use data and recruitment MIS to identify gaps and improve performance.
- Drive the team's performance against the 54321 recruitment benchmark:

5 Profiles 4 Shortlists 3 Interviews 2 Offers 1 Joiner

- Ensure the team consistently delivers quality and maintains Wroots' position as a Top 3 vendor across active clients.

7. Process & Technology

- Build standardized recruitment processes across the IT Recruitment Practice.
- Identify and implement new sourcing methods, recruitment tools, and technologies.
- Drive effective use of LinkedIn Recruiter, Naukri, Boolean/X-ray search, GitHub, AI-based sourcing tools, ATS/CRM, and other recruitment platforms.
- Introduce dashboards and reporting mechanisms to improve visibility and decision-making.
- Explore automation and AI opportunities to improve recruitment productivity.

8. Market & Talent Intelligence

- Develop strong understanding of the IT talent market.
- Track hiring trends, technology demand, salary trends, talent availability, and competitor activity.
- Build talent pools for high-demand and niche technology skills.
- Provide market insights to clients and the Wroots leadership team.
- Develop proactive sourcing strategies for emerging technologies and difficult-to-hire skills.

Ideal Candidate

We are looking for a recruitment leader who has the entrepreneurial mindset to build a practice, not just manage a recruitment team.





The ideal candidate should have:

- 8+ years of overall recruitment experience, preferably with strong IT recruitment exposure.
- 3+ years of experience managing recruitment teams or functions.
- Experience managing multiple enterprise clients and large recruitment mandates.
- Strong experience in technical, lateral, niche, and leadership hiring.
- Proven experience in building or scaling recruitment teams.
- Strong client-facing and stakeholder management experience.
- Experience in Recruitment Consulting, RPO, Staffing, IT Services, GCC, Product, or Consulting environments.
- Strong understanding of recruitment business metrics and commercial aspects.
- Demonstrated ability to achieve business and hiring targets.

Key Skills

IT Recruitment

- Technical and lateral hiring
- Niche technology recruitment
- Leadership hiring
- Talent mapping
- Passive candidate sourcing
- Market mapping and talent intelligence

Leadership

- Team building
- People management
- Performance management
- Coaching and mentoring
- Recruitment strategy
- Process ownership

Client Management

- Enterprise client management
- Stakeholder management
- Hiring manager engagement
- Business reviews
- Escalation management

Business Management

- Account growth
- Revenue and profitability awareness
- Client retention
- New business support
- RPO / Recruitment solutions

Technology & Tools

- LinkedIn Recruiter
- Naukri
- Boolean / X-ray search
- GitHub and other technical sourcing platforms
- ATS / CRM
- Recruitment analytics and MIS
- AI recruitment tools

Success in This Role

The success of this role will be measured by the ability to:

- Build a strong and scalable IT Recruitment Practice at Wroots.
- Build and retain a high-performing IT recruitment team.
- Increase IT recruitment closures and revenue.
- Improve recruitment productivity and quality.
- Strengthen existing client relationships.
- Add new IT recruitment clients and mandates.
- Improve offer-to-joiner conversion.
- Establish consistent recruitment processes and reporting.
- Make Wroots a preferred recruitment partner for technology hiring.

What You'll Get

- Opportunity to build and lead the IT Recruitment Practice at Wroots.
- Direct exposure to the leadership team and business strategy.
- Opportunity to build your own team and recruitment function.
- Exposure to enterprise, GCC, product, IT services, and consulting clients.
- Opportunity to work across Recruitment, RPO, Staffing, and Executive Search.
- Significant ownership and decision-making responsibility.
- Performance-driven compensation and career growth linked to business impact.

Position Details

Position: Manager IT Recruitment
Function: IT Recruitment Practice
Experience: 8+ Years
Location: Bangalore
Reporting: Leadership Team

To Apply

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Email: [email protected]

📌 Manager - IT Recruitment (Bengaluru)
🏢 Wroots Global
📍 Bengaluru