Talent Acquisition Lead

Location: Gurugram

Experience: 7 - 11 years

Function: Human Resources Talent Acquisition

Role Purpose

Lead end-to-end Talent Acquisition across key business functions, with a strong focus on lateral hiring, sourcing strategy, campus hiring and TA transformation.

The role will combine hands-on hiring ownership with team leadership, stakeholder management, market intelligence and process improvement.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead hiring across Sales, Technology and Support functions, covering both volume and senior-level mandates.
- Build proactive talent pipelines through direct sourcing, market mapping, referrals, portals and external networks.
- Drive Campus and Early Career Hiring, including institute strategy, assessments, selection and conversion.
- Partner closely with HODs and hiring managers to align talent needs, timelines and market realities.
- Lead and coach the TA team, ensuring robust ownership, recruiter productivity and hiring discipline.
- Drive TA transformation through better processes, structured assessments, dashboards, recruitment analytics and improved candidate experience.
- Manage recruitment partners and vendors for niche and leadership hiring.




- Track and improve key metrics including time to hire, ageing, offer-to-join, sourcing mix, funnel conversion and recruiter productivity.

What We’re Looking For
- 7–11 years of strong end-to-end Talent Acquisition experience.
- Proven exposure to lateral hiring, especially Sales and support functions.
- Experience leading recruitment teams and delivering against hiring targets.
- Strong capability in sourcing strategy, market mapping and talent pipeline creation.
- Experience in campus / early career hiring.
- Strong stakeholder management skills with senior business leaders.
- Experience in recruitment analytics, vendor management and process improvement.

What You’ll Bring
- Strong ownership and execution focus.
- Commercial understanding of talent markets and hiring dynamics.
- Ability to balance speed, quality and stakeholder expectations.
- Strong analytical and reporting capability.
- Confident communication, negotiation and influencing skills.
- Proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint.
- Ability to build and coach a high-performing TA team.

📌 Talent Acquisition Lead (Gurugram)
🏢 Niit
📍 Gurugram