Talent Acquisition Specialist / Executive

Navi Mumbai | Work From Office

Location

- Navi Mumbai

Experience

- upto 7 years

Preferred background

- Recruitment Consulting / Executive Search

Focus

- Lateral Hiring

About the Role We are looking for a Talent Acquisition professional with experience in a recruitment consultancy or executive search environment, with strong exposure to lateral hiring. The role will involve managing the recruitment lifecycle from understanding hiring requirements and sourcing relevant talent to candidate engagement, interview coordination, offer management and closure. The ideal candidate should be comfortable working on multiple mandates, engaging with professionals across levels and delivering against hiring timelines.

Key Responsibilities

- Understand client / business hiring requirements and translate them into clear candidate search criteria.
- Source and identify candidates primarily for lateral hiring mandates across relevant functions and industries.
- Use job portals, LinkedIn, internal databases, references, networking and other sourcing channels to build candidate pipelines.
- Screen candidates for experience, functional relevance, compensation, location, notice period and overall fit.
- Conduct initial candidate discussions and assess motivation, career movement and suitability for the mandate.
- Coordinate interviews and maintain regular communication with candidates and clients / hiring stakeholders.
- Drive candidates through the recruitment lifecycle, including follow-ups, offer management and joining closure.
- Maintain accurate candidate and pipeline data and provide timely updates on active mandates.
- Work on multiple assignments simultaneously while maintaining turnaround time and quality of submissions.




- Build and maintain a strong professional network of candidates for current and future mandates.

Candidate Profile

- 0-7 years of experience in Talent Acquisition / Recruitment, preferably within a recruitment consultancy, executive search or staffing environment.
- Strong exposure to lateral hiring is essential ; experience hiring across multiple functions or levels will be preferred.
- Good understanding of sourcing, screening, candidate mapping and recruitment lifecycle management.
- Strong communication, interpersonal and candidate engagement skills.
- Ability to work with hiring targets, timelines and multiple concurrent mandates.
- Proactive, resilient and comfortable with a quick-paced, delivery-oriented recruitment environment.
- Working knowledge of LinkedIn and recruitment job portals; familiarity with Boolean / X-ray search will be an advantage.
- Candidates based in Mumbai or Navi Mumbai will be preferred due to the Work From Office requirement.

What Will Make You Successful?

- Strong lateral recruitment orientation rather than predominantly volume / bulk hiring exposure.
- Ability to independently manage mandates from requirement understanding through candidate closure.
- Strong sourcing ability and willingness to proactively build candidate pipelines.
- Commercial and delivery mindset with a focus on turnaround time and quality of hire.
- Ability to build long-term relationships with both candidates and hiring stakeholders.

Preferred Experience Recruitment consultancy / executive search firms, especially professionals who have worked on mid-to-senior lateral mandates, niche hiring or multi-client recruitment assignments.

Please feel free to apply here or reach out on [email protected] for a quick discussion the opportunity.

📌 Specialist TA_Recruitment Consulting_(0-7 yrs)_Mumbai (Navi Mumbai)
🏢 benz calder
📍 Navi Mumbai