ROLE PURPOSE The Senior Manager – Talent Acquisition owns recruitment cycle across functions and geographies. The role leads the in-house Talent Acquisition team and all engaged recruitment firm partners, enforces the Four-Gate Screening & Onboarding Guideline without exception, and holds sourcing, screening and onboarding quality accountable against the JD/SCNQA match standard. The role carries direct accountability for reducing early-attrition cost, presently benchmarked at ₹50 lakh a year.
KEY RESPONSIBILITY AREAS (KRA)
- Own and enforce the Four-Gate Screening & Onboarding Guideline end to end – Gate 1 Budget Sanctioned | Gate 2 Goals Signed | Gate 3 RACI Confirmed | Gate 4 CTC vs Budget/LOA Matched – with no exceptions, including under business urgency.
- Lead, coach and performance-manage the in-house Talent Acquisition team and every engaged external recruitment firm across all open indents.
- Develop the and signed 30/60/90-day goals with each hiring intender before an indent opens for sourcing.
- Own sourcing strategy across job portals, Naukri Resdex Boolean sourcing, recruitment firm engagement and employee referrals,
case to case and on an approval basis.
- Drive Level 0 litmus/SCNQA screening to the qualifying bar of 7.5 out of 10 and above and confirm final CTC against sanctioned budget/LOA with People's Office before any offer is released.
- Own onboarding discipline – joining buddy assigned without exception, Day 1 induction, 30/60/90-day goals reconfirmed at joining – and publish TA MIS (indent ageing, gate compliance, time-to-fill, offer-to-joining ratio) to People's Office.
QUALIFICATION & EXPERIENCE
Postgraduate degree/MBA in Human Resources or equivalent relevant experience | 10 to 15 years in Talent Acquisition/HR, of which at least 4 to 5 years in a TA team-leadership or people-management role | prior recruitment exposure in an engineering, electronics or industrial manufacturing setting preferred | working knowledge of Naukri Resdex, Zoho/Keka or an equivalent HRMS, and structured JD/SCNQA-based screening frameworks | fluent in spoken and written English.