Lead - Talent Acquisition

TA Lead | Mumbai Location: Mumbai Experience: 8-14 Years About the Opportunity: Our client is part of a high-growth, entrepreneurial business platform with interests across real estate, home, lifestyle, hospitality, and financial services. The platform is backed by a strong consumer-focused ecosystem and continues to build and scale businesses across categories. This role will lead Talent Acquisition for a fast-growing consumer business, with a strong focus on bulk and volume hiring across sales, design, and business functions. The role will require a hands-on TA leader who can operate at speed, manage high attrition environments, and build scalable hiring processes across locations. Key Responsibilities: - Lead high-volume hiring across sales, design, and business functions, with a strong focus on speed and quality of closures. - Manage Pan-India recruitment, including large-scale hiring for frontline and operational roles such as telecallers. - Build effective sourcing strategies for both volume and niche talent pools, including designers and other specialised roles. - Partner closely with business and functional leaders to understand manpower requirements and build hiring plans for new centres and expanding business lines. - Track market and competitor hiring practices to identify opportunities to strengthen talent attraction and sourcing strategies. - Manage and develop the TA team while driving strong execution, ownership, and delivery discipline. - Strengthen employer branding and talent attraction initiatives through relevant market and industry channels. Preferred Candidate: - 8-14 years of Talent Acquisition experience with a strong blend of strategic and hands-on recruitment leadership. - Strong experience in bulk - volume hiring, ideally within retail, consumer, sales-led, or high-attrition environments. - Proven ability to manage high-volume recruitment while maintaining speed, quality, and candidate experience. - Pan-India hiring experience across frontline as well as specialized roles. - Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work closely with business leaders in a fast-paced environment. - Demonstrated team management capability and a high-ownership approach to execution. - Strategic mindset with an understanding of talent markets, competitor hiring practices, and evolving sourcing channels.