Job Title: Talent Acquisition Manager Department: Human Resources Reports To: Head of HR Location: Ghugus, Chandrapur, Maharashtra

Position Summary: The Talent Acquisition Manager will lead and direct the end-to-end recruitment strategies and onboarding processes across the organization. Managing a team of 5 TA Specialists, the Manager will be responsible for building strategic talent pipelines, optimizing talent acquisition processes, managing recruitment channels, and ensuring a seamless, high-quality candidate onboarding experience. This role requires a balance of strategic workforce planning, data-driven recruitment, and operational leadership.

Key Responsibilities

1. Team Leadership & Operations Management

- Lead, mentor, and evaluate a team of 5 Talent Acquisition Specialists, setting transparent individual targets, metrics, and hiring priorities.
- Distribute requisition workloads strategically based on team capacity, domain expertise, and role priorities.
- Drive recruitment excellence, standardizing screening processes, candidate evaluation frameworks, and interviewing best practices.
- Monitor and optimize daily TA operations to ensure consistent hiring velocity and service quality across departments.

1. End-to-End Talent Acquisition Strategy

- Collaborate with hiring managers, department leads, and senior leadership to understand headcount demand and workforce requirements.
- Formulate and execute multi-channel sourcing strategies using job portals, executive search, social recruiting, campus drives, and employee referrals.
- Manage the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle from job profile formulation to offer negotiation and candidate closing.




- Drive employer branding initiatives to position the company as an employer of choice in target industries.

1. Onboarding & Candidate Experience

- Oversee the end-to-end pre-onboarding and post-offer engagement process to minimize drop-outs and offer decline rates.
- Design, continuously improve, and execute structured 30-60-90 day onboarding frameworks in collaboration with HR Business Partners and business teams.
- Ensure new hires experience a smooth transition into the organization, covering compliance documentation, orientation, and functional alignment.
- Track candidate feedback and onboarding satisfaction scores to refine the overall candidate experience.

1. Vendor & Stakeholder Management

- Manage relationships, service level agreements (SLAs), and performance evaluations for external recruitment agencies, executive search firms, and job boards.
- Partner with finance and HR operations to manage the talent acquisition budget, cost per hire, and recruitment tool licenses.
- Act as a trusted talent advisor to business leaders, presenting market intelligence, talent availability insights, and compensation benchmarks.

1. HR Technology & Analytics

- Maintain and optimize the Applicant Tracking System (ATS) and HR databases for accurate reporting and pipeline tracking.
- Analyze recruitment metrics (Time-to-Hire,



Cost-per-Hire, Source Efficiency, Offer Acceptance Rate, First-Year Retention) to drive data-led hiring decisions.
- Prepare periodic dashboard reports for HR leadership and executive management on recruitment funnel progress and hiring forecasts.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs):
- Hiring Efficiency: Adhere to agreed SLA timelines for Time-to-Fill and Time-to-Hire across junior, mid, and leadership roles.
- Offer Closing: Achieve an offer acceptance rate greater than 85%.
- Onboarding & Retention: Maintain post-offer drop-off under 10% and achieve a candidate satisfaction score greater than 90%.
- Cost & Sourcing Optimization: Achieve over 75% hires through direct channels including referrals, direct sourcing, and job boards.
- Team Management: Ensure 100% adherence to ATS workflows and team KPI achievement.

Candidate Profile & Qualification Requirements:
- Education: MBA or PGDM in Human Resources.
- Experience: 8 to 14 years of total talent acquisition experience, with at least 2 to 3 years in a team lead or managerial capacity managing a recruitment team.
- Technical Competencies: Hands-on expertise with ATS platforms and modern sourcing tools, in-depth experience in end-to-end recruitment lifecycle and structured onboarding frameworks, and strong command over talent acquisition metrics, reporting dashboards, and workforce analytics.
- Soft Skills & Competencies: Proven leadership and team development capability, strong negotiation, stakeholder management, and communication skills, with a data-driven approach to problem-solving and process optimization.

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