Executive Search Consultant

Weekday AI; Pune District; On-site; INR 600,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Weekday AI's client is seeking an experienced Executive Recruiter in Pune to manage end-to-end sourcing, assessment, reporting and onboarding for leadership mandates.

The role focuses on non-IT hiring with strong networking and research, collaborating with clients to ensure long-term fit across diverse sectors.

You will build and maintain a robust candidate database and participate in client interactions to drive hiring outcomes.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in executive recruitment.
• Specialization in leadership hiring preferred.
• Non-IT recruitment domain.

Responsibilities

• Understand client needs and map the leadership landscape.
• Source candidates through headhunting, networking and social media.
• Interviews: conduct initial interactions with candidates.
• Assess functional fit and stakeholder expectations.
• Coordinate scheduling of assessments and detailed interviews.
• Engage with clients during briefings and updates.
• Prepare candidate reports and market summaries for clients.
• Build and maintain an in-house candidate and sector database.
• Contribute to other internal projects as required.

Skills

Executive search

Leadership hiring

Recruitment

Job description

This role is for one of Weekday's clients

Min Experience: 2+ years

Location: Pune

JobType: full-time

The role with us requires you to handle an end-to-end search process that covers sourcing - assessment- reports - on boarding of candidates for a long term fit. Most of our work covers leadership mandates with the exceptionof select key customers where we support them in their hiring needs for other levels as well. We work primarily with Non-IT customers but have a handful of our customers from the SW Product companies segment as well.

Key Responsibilities:

• Understanding the client, conducting competitor and allied industry research.
• Source potential candidates through headhunting, networking & social media.
• Conduct primary interaction with potential candidates.
• Assessing candidates on functional fitment.
• Coordinating with candidates for scheduling detailed assessment, interview coordination, follow ups.
• Participating in select client interactions, stakeholder briefing interactions.
• Prepare candidatereports, market summary and similar collaterals to be shared with clients.
• Build / Strengthen / Manage an in-house candidate and sectoral database
• Participate in any other inhouse company project as & when required.

Must-have skills

Non IT

Good-to-have skills

Executive search, leadership hiring, recruitment