? Location: Infopark Phase 2 ,Kochi,Kerala

? Experience: 6-8 years

? Work Model: Work From Office/General Shift The Senior Manager – Recruitment will lead and manage the end-to-end talent acquisition function, ensuring achievement of hiring targets within defined timelines, budget guidelines, and quality standards. The role involves driving sourcing strategies, managing recruitment teams, overseeing stakeholder and vendor management, optimizing recruitment processes, and ensuring a strong candidate experience while aligning hiring delivery with business objectives.

Duties and responsibilities:

Recruitment Strategy & Workforce Planning

- Partner with business leaders and hiring managers to understand manpower requirements, workforce plans, and hiring priorities.
- Develop recruitment strategies for volume, niche, and leadership hiring requirements.
- Create sourcing plans aligned to business expansion, attrition trends, and critical skill requirements.
- Drive recruitment process improvements to enhance efficiency, candidate quality, and hiring outcomes.

Team Management

- Lead, mentor, and manage a team of recruiters and sourcing specialists.
- Allocate requisitions based on recruiter capability, bandwidth, and business priority.
- Monitor team productivity, sourcing effectiveness, and recruitment pipeline health.
- Conduct regular performance reviews, coaching sessions, and capability-building initiatives for the recruitment team.
- Ensure adherence to recruitment SLAs, policies, and compliance standards

Talent Sourcing & Networking

- Oversee sourcing activities across multiple channels including job portals, employee referrals, social media platforms, consultants,



and internal databases.
- Build and maintain strong talent pipelines for critical and recurring positions.
- Develop market intelligence on talent availability, compensation trends, and competitor hiring practices.
- Strengthen employer branding initiatives to improve talent attraction.

Screening & Selection

- Guide recruiters in candidate assessment and shortlisting processes to ensure hiring quality.
- Ensure structured screening and interview processes are followed across all business units.
- Coordinate with hiring managers to ensure timely interview feedback and decision-making.
- Monitor selection quality and ensure alignment with competency and cultural fit requirements.

Stakeholder & Candidate Management

- Build solid working relationships with business leaders and hiring stakeholders.
- Ensure seamless and professional candidate experience throughout the hiring lifecycle.
- Handle escalations related to recruitment delivery, offer negotiations, and candidate engagement.

Recruitment Operations & Compliance

- Ensure accurate maintenance of recruitment data, reports, and ATS records.
- Monitor recruitment metrics, dashboards, and periodic hiring reports.
- Ensure compliance with company recruitment policies, audit requirements, and documentation standards.




- Support HR audits and management reviews related to talent acquisition processes.

Recruitment Budget Planning

- Prepare and manage the annual recruitment budget in alignment with workforce planning and business hiring projections.
- Monitor recruitment-related expenses including job portals, consultancy fees, campus hiring, employee referral payouts, travel expenses etc.
- Track budget utilization against approved allocations and ensure cost-effective hiring practices.
- Coordinate with Finance and Business Heads for recruitment forecasting and manpower budgeting exercises.

External Vendor Management

- Manage external recruitment vendors, job portals, and hiring partners to support recruitment activities
- Coordinate and monitor recruitment processes related to consultants, agencies, and sourcing platforms to ensure effective hiring support.
- Oversee the usage and performance of job portals and external hiring channels to improve sourcing efficiency and recruitment outcomes.
- Ensure recruitment activities comply with labour laws and internal HR policies.
- Support employer branding initiatives by promoting company culture and values through job postings and social media platforms.

Qualification & Experience:

- MBA in HR stream or Graduation in any discipline
- 10+ years of experience in Talent Acquisition / Recruitment.
- Minimum 5 years of experience managing a recruitment team.
- Experience handling volume hiring, niche hiring, and stakeholder management.
- Exposure to ATS platforms, job portals, market standards and recruitment analytics preferred.

📌 Senior Manager – Recruitment (Kochi)
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