Associate Director, Talent Sourcing, Enterprise

Randstad Enterprise; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Randstad Enterprise in Hyderabad area seeks an experienced Talent Sourcing Lead to drive senior and niche role recruitment. You will conduct in-depth evaluations, build candidate profiles, and prepare market-aware sourcing recommendations to guide client strategies.

You will collaborate with recruiters and hiring managers to tailor sourcing plans, mentor junior staff, and ensure ATS governance. This role emphasizes data-driven insights and continuous improvement in sourcing methods.

Qualifications

• Specialized sourcing for senior, technical, or niche roles.
• Experience preparing candidate profiles and recommendations.
• Ability to prepare advanced sourcing reports and analyze market trends.
• Collaborates with recruiters and managers to design client-specific sourcing strategies.
• Mentors junior sourcing staff and ensures governance in ATS.
• Provides sourcing intelligence for workforce planning.

Responsibilities

• Leads sourcing efforts for senior, technical, or niche roles, applying advanced sourcing techniques.
• Conducts in-depth candidate evaluations, preparing comprehensive profiles and recommendations.
• Prepares advanced sourcing reports, highlighting market trends, talent availability, and competitor activity.
• Collaborates with recruiters and managers to design sourcing strategies tailored to client needs.
• Mentors junior sourcing staff, sharing best practices and building team capability.
• Ensures ATS accuracy and governance standards across sourcing activities.
• Contributes to strategic workforce planning by providing sourcing intelligence.
• Identifies opportunities for innovation in sourcing tools and methodologies.

Skills

Candidate Screening

ATS

Candidate Sourcing

Collaboration

Problem Solving

Negotiation

Stakeholder Management

KPI Reporting

Data Analysis

Talent Intelligence

Job description

Every year, we help hundreds of thousands of people find rewarding jobs in the ever-changing world of work.We understand the importance of a job in peoples lifes and we want to help them find work that feels good. And we’ll help them continue to grow as their needs and ambitions change.At Randstad, our value comes from our people and that is why we put them first. We are proud of our learning culture and career architecture framework that encourages ours team to develop both personally and professionally.We believe that talent grows when presented with opportunity and this is why we encourage our people to think beyond their role. We have created a culture that enables talent to flourish, encouraging entrepreneurship, fostering team spirit, and continually building mutual trust.

Responsibilities

• Leads sourcing efforts for senior, technical, or niche roles, applying advanced sourcing techniques.
• Conducts in-depth candidate evaluations, preparing comprehensive profiles and recommendations.
• Prepares advanced sourcing reports, highlighting market trends, talent availability, and competitor activity.
• Collaborates with recruiters and managers to design sourcing strategies tailored to client needs.
• Mentors junior sourcing staff, sharing best practices and building team capability.
• Ensures ATS accuracy and compliance with governance standards across sourcing activities.
• Contributes to strategic workforce planning by providing sourcing intelligence.
• Identifies opportunities for innovation in sourcing tools and methodologies.

Grade Descriptor

• Requires specialized knowledge and expertise in their own job discipline and deep experience in integrating related disciplinary knowledge
• Identifies applications of technical and/or functional knowledge and existing methodologies to lead others to solve complex problems; provides advice on a wide range of issues within area of subject matter expertise
• Contributes to setting standards around which others will operate within area of expertise
• May act as advisor to management and key external stakeholders on broad ranging projects
• Impacts policy development affecting multiple areas, linking with other parts of the organization function and across business areas or a segment, to ensure achievement of customer, operational, project/program, business or service objectives
• Communicates difficult concepts and negotiates with others to influence decisions

skills

• Candidate Screening
• Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS)
• Candidate Sourcing
• Collaboration
• Problem Solving
• Negotiation
• Stakeholder Management
• KPI Reporting
• Data Analysis
• Talent Intelligence