Manager - Talent Acquisition

Responsibilities: Talent Acquisition Planning & SLA Management: - Own the SLAs for all open positions and ensure timely movement and closure of hiring requirements. - Strategize and prioritise execution across the team to ensure balanced and consistent attention to all open positions. - Monitor ageing positions, hiring bottlenecks, and critical requirements and drive timely interventions. - Partner with hiring managers to establish clear expectations, timelines, and priorities for open positions. - Identify gaps in hiring execution and implement measures to improve time-to-offer and time-to-join. Leadership Hiring - Individual Contributor (30%): - Independently own the end-to-end hiring of leadership positions as an Individual Contributor. - Partner with business leaders and hiring managers to understand role requirements, success profiles, and talent expectations. - Develop appropriate sourcing strategies and proactively build talent pipelines for leadership roles. - Manage candidate assessment, stakeholder coordination, offer discussions, and closure. - Ensure a strong candidate experience throughout the leadership hiring process. - Drive leadership hiring within defined SLA and quality expectations. TA Performance & Reporting: - Own and maintain the TA Dashboard, providing visibility into hiring pipeline, ageing, SLA adherence, and conversion metrics. - Prepare and publish the Talent Acquisition Team Performance Report with relevant insights and trends. - Track key hiring metrics including Time to Offer, Time to Join, Offer-to-Joiner Conversion, and position-wise SLA adherence. - Identify trends, bottlenecks, and performance gaps and translate them into actionable recommendations. - Provide periodic hiring insights and performance updates to HR leadership. Qualifications and Requirements: - 8 - 10 years of experience in Talent Acquisition, with experience managing hiring delivery and leading recruitment teams. - Strong experience in end-to-end Talent Acquisition, including stakeholder management, sourcing strategy, candidate assessment, offer management, and closure. - Proven experience in leadership and senior-level hiring, with the ability to independently manage critical mandates as an Individual Contributor. - Strong experience in managing hiring SLAs, recruitment pipelines, ageing positions, and delivery metrics. - Demonstrated ability to balance multiple hiring priorities and ensure consistent attention and execution across open positions. - Strong data orientation with experience in TA dashboards, hiring reports, funnel analytics, and recruitment metrics. - Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to partner effectively with business leaders, hiring managers, HR, and candidates. - Strong negotiation, influencing, communication, and candidate engagement skills, particularly for senior and leadership hiring. - Demonstrated ability to identify hiring bottlenecks, bring structure and clarity to complex hiring requirements, and drive timely closure. - Strong ownership, accountability, execution discipline, and ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, high-volume hiring environment. - Proficiency in ATS/HRMS, recruitment dashboards, Excel/Google Sheets, and people analytics tools.