Job Title: Associate Manager

Work Hours : APAC

Purpose of the role

- Develops sourcing strategies that enhance the experience for blue collar workers, ensuring a personalized approach to project-based job opportunities
- Works closely with the clients' hiring teams, ensuring all KPIs and SLA requirements regarding order-based sourcing and talent conversion from passive candidates are met
- Monitors and analyzes recruitment metrics and data to identify areas for improvement and optimize the recruitment process for passive and active candidates, considering blue-collar workers with limited online presence
- Stays informed of industry best practices and trends in the career/ hiring space of blue-collar placements, continually assessing where Randstad can tap into project-based jobs
- Leads sourcing activities/projects and drives to meet the key metrics goals as set by leadership, focusing on proactive engagement and headhunting of passive talent
- Drives continuous improvement initiatives aimed at enhancing sourcing efficiency and effectiveness
- Manages candidates and ensures that the most qualified candidates are shortlisted for clients'

short-term engagements.

SLA & KPI Management: You will track the team's daily and monthly hiring targets. You'll look at the data to make sure candidates are moving through the hiring stages quickly and efficiently.

Capacity & Demand Planning: You will look at incoming hiring requests and assign work to your team fairly, making sure they can handle sudden rushes of new job openings.

Upskilling & Mentorship:



You will coach and train your team members to improve their sourcing skills, teaching them how to find hard-to-reach tech professionals.

Advanced Sourcing Frameworks: You will build smart plans to find passive candidates (people who aren't actively looking for a job) for complex IT roles like Cloud, Infrastructure, and Security.

AI & Tech Stack Optimization: You will guide the team on how to best use up-to-date recruitment tools, databases, and AI sourcing technology to work faster and smarter.

Process Agility & Continuous Improvement: You will find ways to fix delays or blockers in the sourcing process so everything runs smoothly and quickly

Client & Stakeholder Management: You will work closely with Kyndryl’s hiring managers, sharing updates regularly, building strong relationships, and making sure we meet their expectations.

Quality Assurance: You will check the quality of candidates your team finds to ensure only the best-vetted profiles are sent to the client.

Grade Descriptor

- Good understanding of procedures and concepts within own discipline and knowledge of these elements in other disciplines
- Provides management and operational oversight to large and/or moderately complex business or technical support team members, potentially including work leaders
- Sets priorities for the team to ensure task completion; coordinates work activities with other supervisors/team leaders
- Responsible for end results of the team
- Provides input on resource planning, guidelines, processes and procedures
- Solves problems guided by policies and procedures; receives guidance from manager

📌 Talent Acquisition Lead (Hyderabad)
🏢 Randstad Enterprise
📍 Hyderabad