Associate Manager, Talent Sourcing, Enterprise

IN_RSM Randstad Enterprise Private Limited; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 2,000,000 - 3,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Randstad Hyderabad is seeking a senior sourcing lead to drive strategic blue-collar recruitment. You will develop sourcing strategies, partner with client hiring teams, and mentor a growing team to meet KPIs and SLA targets.

You will monitor metrics, optimize processes, stay ahead of industry trends, and lead proactive headhunting for IT and non-IT roles, ensuring high-quality candidate shortlists for short-term engagements.

Responsibilities

• Develops sourcing strategies that enhance the experience for blue collar workers, ensuring a personalized approach to project-based job opportunities
• Works closely with the clients' hiring teams, ensuring all KPIs and SLA requirements regarding order-based sourcing and talent conversion from passive candidates are met
• Monitors and analyzes recruitment metrics and data to identify areas for improvement and optimize the recruitment process for passive and active candidates, considering blue-collar workers with limited online presence
• Stays informed of industry best practices and trends in the career/ hiring space of blue-collar placements, continually assessing where Randstad can tap into project-based jobs
• Leads sourcing activities/projects and drives to meet the key metrics goals as set by leadership, focusing on proactive engagement and headhunting of passive talent
• Drives continuous improvement initiatives aimed at enhancing sourcing efficiency and effectiveness
• Manages candidates and ensures that the most qualified candidates are shortlisted for clients' short-term engagements
• SLA & KPI Management: You will track the team's daily and monthly hiring targets. You'll look at the data to make sure candidates are moving through the hiring stages quickly and efficiently
• Capacity & Demand Planning: You will look at incoming hiring requests and assign work to your team fairly, making sure they can handle sudden rushes of new job openings
• Upskilling & Mentorship: You will coach and train your team members to improve their sourcing skills, teaching them how to find hard-to-reach tech professionals
• Advanced Sourcing Frameworks: You will build smart plans to find passive candidates for complex IT roles like Cloud, Infrastructure, and Security
• AI & Tech Stack Optimization: You will guide the team on how to best use modern recruitment tools, databases, and AI sourcing technology to work faster and smarter
• Process Agility & Continuous Improvement: You will find ways to fix delays or blockers in the sourcing process so everything runs smoothly and quickly
• Client & Stakeholder Management: You will work closely with Kyndryl’s hiring managers, sharing updates regularly, building strong relationships, and making sure we meet their expectations
• Quality Assurance: You will check the quality of candidates your team finds to ensure only the best-vetted profiles are sent to the client

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.

• Develops sourcing strategies that enhance the experience for blue collar workers, ensuring a personalized approach to project-based job opportunities
• Works closely with the clients' hiring teams, ensuring all KPIs and SLA requirements regarding order-based sourcing and talent conversion from passive candidates are met
• Monitors and analyzes recruitment metrics and data to identify areas for improvement and optimize the recruitment process for passive and active candidates, considering blue-collar workers with limited online presence
• Stays informed of industry best practices and trends in the career/ hiring space of blue-collar placements, continually assessing where Randstad can tap into project-based jobs
• Leads sourcing activities/projects and drives to meet the key metrics goals as set by leadership, focusing on proactive engagement and headhunting of passive talent
• Drives continuous improvement initiatives aimed at enhancing sourcing efficiency and effectiveness
• Manages candidates and ensures that the most qualified candidates are shortlisted for clients' short-term engagements .

SLA & KPI Management: You will track the team's daily and monthly hiring targets. You'll look at the data to make sure candidates are moving through the hiring stages quickly and efficiently.

Capacity & Demand Planning: You will look at incoming hiring requests and assign work to your team fairly, making sure they can handle sudden rushes of new job openings.

Upskilling & Mentorship: You will coach and train your team members to improve their sourcing skills, teaching them how to find hard-to-reach tech professionals.

Advanced Sourcing Frameworks: You will build smart plans to find passive candidates (people who aren't actively looking for a job) for complex IT roles like Cloud, Infrastructure, and Security.

AI & Tech Stack Optimization: You will guide the team on how to best use modern recruitment tools, databases, and AI sourcing technology to work faster and smarter.

Process Agility & Continuous Improvement: You will find ways to fix delays or blockers in the sourcing process so everything runs smoothly and quickly

Client & Stakeholder Management: You will work closely with Kyndryl’s hiring managers, sharing updates regularly, building strong relationships, and making sure we meet their expectations.

Quality Assurance: You will check the quality of candidates your team finds to ensure only the best-vetted profiles are sent to the client.

Grade Descriptor

• Good understanding of procedures and concepts within own discipline and knowledge of these elements in other disciplines
• Provides management and operational oversight to large and/or moderately complex business or technical support team members, potentially including work leaders
• Sets priorities for the team to ensure task completion; coordinates work activities with other supervisors/team leaders
• Responsible for end results of the team
• Provides input on resource planning, guidelines, processes and procedures
• Solves problems guided by policies and procedures; receives guidance from manager

Is this the job for you?

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