Overview

This role needs someone who can run a high-performing TA team while still staying close to the business by owning a slate of senior and critical mandates. You’ll steer stakeholder alignment, enforce process discipline, raise the bar on candidate quality, and shape how the function shows up across markets.

Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and develop a TA team that delivers consistently and grows in capability
- Manage end-to-end hiring for senior and hard-to-fill roles, including market mapping, direct sourcing, and offer strategy
- Partner with global and regional leaders to understand business priorities and convert them into sharp hiring plans
- Build a culture of process adherence across the team from requisition intake to onboarding
- Strengthen data discipline and drive actions based on funnel metrics, ageing, talent pipelines, and capacity planning
- Act as the escalation point for business leaders and keep alignment steady even in ambiguous or high-pressure situations
- Improve hiring workflows, reduce cycle time, and ensure every recruiter follows TA standards
- Run weekly talent reviews with the business and ensure visibility of progress, risks, and dependencies
- Shape talent attraction initiatives with insights on competitor talent,



market realities, and messaging that resonates
- Push continuous improvement across recruiting tools, systems, and stakeholder experience
Qualifications
- Strong experience leading recruiters in a fast-moving, multi-market setup
- A track record of closing senior and niche roles through direct sourcing
- Confident stakeholder management at Director and VP levels
- Ability to coach, inspire, and raise performance across a team
- Strong grip on data, hiring metrics, and operational rigor
- Solid understanding of the latest hiring tools and techniques including AI-driven sourcing
- Someone who thrives in ambiguity and keeps the team focused on outcomes
- Track and analyze recruitment metrics (, time-to-find, offer acceptance rates, and candidate experience scores) and identify areas for improvement in team performance and overall recruitment outcomes
- Generate data-driven reports to provide insights and recommendations for recruitment improvements
- Leverage external labor market data to optimize hiring strategies based on industry trends
- Identify bottlenecks and recruitment inefficiencies, define actionable solutions for improvement

📌 Sr Manager- Talent Acquisition (India)
🏢 PepsiCo
📍 India