About the role:
We are looking for an HR Manager who owns end-to-end hiring for our operations workforce. You will keep our dark store and field sites fully staffed, on time and with the right people.

The role blends high-volume field managers hiring. You will work closely with operations heads to plan manpower, run sourcing drives, manage vendors, and make sure every new joiner is onboarded and compliant from day one.

Hiring mandate:
The candidate will be hired for three operations functions, each with a different profile and hiring style across inventory, offloading and field deployment team.

Key Responsibilities:

Manpower planning
• Work with operations heads each month to forecast headcount by team, site and shift, including peak-season and recent-site needs.
• Maintain a live open-positions tracker with priority, target joining date and status.

Sourcing and recruitment
• Run bulk hiring drives, walk-ins and on-site recruitment camps for Inventory and Offloading roles.
• Source through job portals (Naukri, Apna, WorkIndia, Indeed), employee referrals,



local networks and community channels.
• Hire Operation Managers through targeted search, LinkedIn, consultants and industry networks.
• Build and maintain a ready bench of pre-screened candidates for high-attrition roles.

Screening and selection
• Maintain hiring pipeline, and coordinate interviews
• Negotiate salaries within approved bands and roll out offer letters.

Vendor management
• Onboard and manage manpower and recruitment vendors; track their closures, quality and billing.
• Ensure vendor staff meet statutory compliance

Onboarding and compliance
• Complete documentation, background and ID verification (Aadhaar, PAN, address, previous employment where needed).
• Run day-one induction for all new joinees with Ops leadership.
• Enrol joiners in PF, ESIC and payroll, and hand over to operations smoothly.

Retention and reporting
• Track early attrition (first 30/60/90 days) and run exit conversations to

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