Assistant Manager/Manager - Leadership Hiring (RPGE_JR_295)

RPG Group; Mumbai; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

RPG Group is seeking a Talent Acquisition professional to lead leadership hiring research and fulfillment. You will develop structured search plans, map talent pools, and build organizational insights using multiple sources. The role emphasizes speed, quality, and diverse candidate pipelines.

You will collaborate with leadership stakeholders, maintain candidate backups, and ensure a top-tier candidate experience throughout the process, aligning with business goals across group companies.

Qualifications

• Experience in leadership hiring and building structured search plans.
• Ability to conduct comprehensive market and talent mapping across sources.
• Skill in identifying leadership talent pools and benchmarking compensation trends.

Responsibilities

• Develop search strategies with target companies and talent pools.
• Conduct market research and map leadership talent across functions/geographies.
• Build talent maps, org charts and keep references updated.
• Ensure high speed and relevance in fulfilling searches; maintain candidate backups.
• Drive diversity focus in open searches and maintain candidate experience.

Skills

Leadership hiring

Market mapping

Market research

Talent mapping

Diversity advocacy

Stakeholder management

Candidate experience

Tools

LinkedIn

Databases

Internal repositories

Job description

External Job Description

Location: Mumbai, MH, IN, 400030

Research and fulfillment

• Work closely with the Lead – Leadership Hiring to develop a structured plan for every search which must include a search strategy including target companies / talent pool availability.
• Conduct comprehensive market and talent mapping, leveraging multiple sources such as professional networks, databases, social platforms, and internal repositories.
• Conduct detailed market research to identify leadership talent pools across functions and geographies.
• Build and maintain talent maps and org charts indicating potential candidates, competitor benchmarking, leadership movement, compensation trends, etc.
• Ensure fulfilment of maximum number of searches through internal research in a target time. Speed and candidate relevance are of paramount importance.
• Evangelize / drive special focus on Diversity for open searches.
• Capturing organizational charts, key professionals in the company, business models, references and other market intelligence through discussions with candidates.
• Always strive to maintain a backup of at least 2 candidates at any given point of time.

Pre-research Focus Areas

• Ensure that all relevant information (Must-Haves, Good-to-Haves, Budget etc) is obtained and documented in a Control Sheet for all roles at the onset of the search.
• Ensure that every search starts with a well-drafted Opportunity Dossier which has a buy in of all business stakeholders.
• Build and maintain a forward-looking pipeline of potential talent for critical leadership positions across group companies.
• Conduct competitive intelligence and market trend analysis to identify new and emerging talent pools.

Candidate Assessment

• Preliminary assessments / conversations must include fitment with the JD and compensation budget.
• Undertake candidate assessments and propose a relevant pool for further evaluation.
• Ensuring that each candidate reached out to is provided with a top-of-the-line candidate experience.
• Close loop with all engaged candidates through a formal note.

Database Management

• Ensuring the research data is cleaned up, updated with latest comments and maintained in trackers.
• Evaluate and finalize alternate platforms for presenting Leadership Hiring data to Management.
• Regularly capture reference inputs from different sources.