Sr. Talent Acquisition / Team lead - Recruitment

Role Overview

We are looking for a Team Leader Talent Acquisition who will lead and manage a team of recruiters, drive end-to-end recruitment delivery, and ensure high-quality hiring for client organizations. The ideal candidate should have strong people leadership, client management, and recruitment strategy experience within a staffing or recruitment consultancy environment.

Key Responsibilities

Team Leadership & Management

• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of recruiters to achieve individual and team hiring targets
• Allocate roles, responsibilities, and requisitions to team members effectively
• Conduct regular team reviews, performance evaluations, and training sessions
• Motivate the team to improve productivity, quality, and closure ratios

End-to-End Recruitment Delivery

• Manage full-cycle recruitment: sourcing, screening, interviewing, offer negotiation, and closure
• Handle senior, niche, and critical positions personally when required
• Ensure adherence to client SLAs, TATs, and quality benchmarks
• Monitor pipeline health and recruitment metrics daily

Client & Stakeholder Management

• Act as a primary point of contact for key clients
• Understand client requirements, hiring plans, and business priorities
• Provide regular hiring updates, market insights, and talent availability reports
• Resolve client escalations and ensure high client satisfaction

Sourcing Strategy & Process Excellence

• Design and implement effective sourcing strategies using job portals, LinkedIn, referrals, and databases
• Optimize Boolean searches and ATS utilization
• Drive process improvements and best recruitment practices
• Ensure compliance with company policies and hiring standards

Reporting & Analytics

• Track and report recruitment KPIs such as:
• Closures
• TAT
• Interview-to-offer ratio
• Offer-to-joining ratio
• Prepare weekly and monthly recruitment performance reports for management

Required Skills & Competencies

Technical & Functional Skills

• Strong experience in consultancy / staffing recruitment
• Hands-on expertise in Boolean search and ATS tools
• Excellent understanding of recruitment life cycle
• Experience hiring across multiple industries or functions is an advantage

Leadership & Behavioural Skills

• Strong team management and people development skills
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management abilities
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, target-driven environment
• Problem-solving and decision-making mindset

Qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters degree in HR, Management, or related field
• 510 years of experience in Talent Acquisition / Recruitment
• Minimum 13 years of experience as Team Leader / Lead Recruiter

Preferred Experience

• Experience working with recruitment consultancies or staffing firms
• Exposure to IT / Non-IT / BFSI / Engineering hiring
• Experience in handling Mid to senior level as well as niche hiring mandates