About the Company
POPO Global, also operating as POPO Ventures, is a Bengaluru-based restaurant and food platform operating multiple dining concepts, including The Pizza Bakery, known for its artisanal wood-fired sourdough pizzas; Paris Panini, offering French-style sandwiches and grilled wraps; and Smash Guys, focused on smash burgers. As we continue to scale our operations, we are looking for dynamic HR professional who can contribute to our high-volume recruitment and people-growth initiatives.

About the Role
We are looking for a proactive and target-oriented HR Recruiter with experience in F&B;, restaurants, QSR, hospitality, retail or other high-volume recruitment environments. The candidate will be responsible for managing end-to-end recruitment, with a primary focus on bulk and frontline hiring across POPO Global's restaurant outlets. The role involves sourcing, screening, interviewing, offer coordination and ensuring candidates successfully join within the required timelines. The ideal candidate should have strong sourcing and negotiation skills, excellent follow-up abilities and the ability to work towards daily, weekly and monthly recruitment targets while ensuring quality hiring.

Key Responsibilities
· Handle end-to-end recruitment for F&B;, restaurant and corporate positions, with a strong focus on bulk and frontline hiring.
· Understand manpower requirements and recruitment priorities from the Operations and HR teams.
· Drive bulk recruitment for frontline restaurant positions across Bengaluru and other business locations.
· Source candidates through job portals, social media, local job groups, WhatsApp communities, employee referrals, consultants, walk-ins, databases, job fairs and other recruitment channels.
· Screen candidates based on experience, communication, stability, salary expectations, notice period, location and role requirements.
· Conduct initial telephonic screening and coordinate interviews with hiring managers.




· Schedule interviews and ensure timely candidate follow-ups to improve interview turnout and joining conversion.
· Maintain a strong candidate pipeline for bulk hiring as well as managerial and support positions.
· Recruit for service, kitchen, operations and support functions.
· Coordinate with hiring managers and Operations teams for interview feedback and selection decisions.
· Handle salary discussions and joining negotiations within approved company guidelines.
· Release offers and maintain regular follow-up until the candidate joins.
· Conduct and support walk-in interviews, job fairs and recruitment drives; travel to outlets for recruitment activities wherever required.
· Maintain recruitment trackers, candidate databases, interview status, offer status and joining reports.
· Ensure candidates receive accurate information regarding job responsibilities, salary, location, shifts, accommodation, benefits and other employment conditions.
· Maintain a database of active, shortlisted, rejected, offered, joined and future-reference candidates.
· Achieve assigned daily, weekly and monthly recruitment targets, with a focus on actual candidate joinings.
· Track recruitment funnel metrics, identify conversion gaps and take corrective measures to improve recruitment productivity.
· Coordinate with candidates and outlet teams for pre-joining formalities and joining confirmation.
· Provide daily and weekly recruitment updates to HR management. Positions to Handle: Restaurant & Service: Restaurant Manager, Assistant Restaurant Manager, Floor Manager, Supervisor, Captain, Senior Order Taker, Order Taker, Senior Steward, Steward and other service positions. Kitchen: CDP, DCDP, Senior Kitchen Executive, Kitchen Executive,



Kitchen Helper, KST, Sous Chef, Chef and other kitchen positions. Candidate

Requirements:
· Bachelor's degree in HR, Business Administration, Hospitality or a related field preferred.
· 1–2 years of recruitment experience, preferably in F&B;, restaurant, QSR, hospitality, retail or high-volume recruitment.
· Experience in bulk hiring, frontline hiring or blue-collar recruitment will be an advantage.
· Strong sourcing, candidate screening and negotiation skills.
· Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
· Strong follow-up and candidate relationship-management skills.
· Ability to work with recruitment targets and tight deadlines.
· Valuable knowledge of MS Excel / Google Sheets and recruitment portals.
· Ability to manage multiple vacancies and candidates simultaneously.
· Willingness to participate in walk-in drives, job fairs, recruitment campaigns and outlet visits as required. Key Performance Indicators (KPI's)
· Candidate callings and profiles sourced.
· Candidates screened and qualified.
· Interviews scheduled and interview turnout.
· Candidates shortlisted and offers released.
· Actual candidates joined.
· Offer-to-joining ratio and joining conversion rate.
· Vacancy closure turnaround time (TAT).
· Source-wise hiring performance.
· Achievement of assigned recruitment targets.
· Candidate retention / early attrition.
· Daily and weekly recruitment productivity. Compensation: Annual CTC of upto ₹4.5 LPA, depending on the candidate's relevant experience and overall suitability. Reporting Structure: Department: Human Resources Reporting To: HR Head Personal Attributes:
· Target-oriented, proactive and energetic.
· Strong follow-up and coordination skills.
· Good communication and interpersonal skills.
· Positive attitude and ability to work under pressure.
· Quick learner with a high sense of ownership.
· Willingness to grow with the organisation.

📌 Recruitment Associate (Bengaluru)
🏢 The Pizza Bakery
📍 Bengaluru