Recruitment Lead - Experienced Hire

Marsh McLennan; Gurugram District; Hybrid; INR 2,800,000 - 4,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Oliver Wyman is seeking an experienced Recruiting Lead based in Gurugram or Mumbai to drive experienced-hire recruitment across the IMEA region. You will manage end-to-end recruitment, partner with business leaders, strengthen talent pipelines and employer branding, and use data to improve hiring decisions and candidate experience.

The role collaborates with IMEA Partners and senior stakeholders to deliver impact in a fast-paced regional recruiting environment, with day-to-day work spanning

Qualifications

• 6+ years of recruitment or talent acquisition experience in a fast-paced professional environment.
• End-to-end recruitment across seniority levels, including executive searches.
• Recruitment experience in professional services or management consulting.
• Knowledge of IMEA talent markets and workforce dynamics.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders in a matrixed org.

Responsibilities

• Manage full-cycle recruitment across multiple searches with focus on experienced hires.
• Design and implement Middle East-specific recruiting strategies to attract top talent.
• Build pipelines through sourcing, networking, referrals and relationships.
• Collaborate with hiring managers to define needs and drive timely decisions.
• Use data and market insights to monitor performance and improve outcomes.
• Oversee executive search firms and ATS providers for delivery and value.
• Coach and mentor recruiting colleagues and drive process improvements.
• Ensure an inclusive, high-quality candidate experience.

Skills

End-to-end recruitment

Stakeholder management

Talent market insights

Employer branding

Data-driven hiring

Executive search

People leadership

MS 365 / IT tools

Job description

Oliver Wyman - Recruiting Lead - Mumbai or Gurugram

Company: Oliver Wyman

Description: Oliver Wyman is seeking an experienced recruitment professional to drive experienced-hire recruitment for our consulting teams across the India, Middle East, and Africa (IMEA) region! This role can be based in either our Gurugram or Mumbai office.

Role purpose

We are seeking a Recruiting lead based in Gurugram or Mumbai, India, to drive experienced hire recruitment across the broader IMEA region. This role manages end-to-end recruitment across experienced hires, partners with business leaders, strengthens talent pipelines and employer branding, and uses data to improve hiring decisions and candidate experience.

Why Join Us

Work closely with IMEA Partners and senior stakeholders to deliver impact in a fast-paced regional recruiting environment.

Meet the Team

• Day-to-day collaborators: IMEA recruiting team, IMEA recruiting Director and Head of Talent, broader IMEA Human Capital Team, IMEA leadership, Partners, hiring managers/stakeholders, and regional and global recruiting colleagues.

How this role will contribute to team success

Deliver experienced hire recruitment across Middle East practice groups in IMEA; advise senior stakeholders on talent markets and workforce planning; be responsible for recruitment delivery, candidate experience and employer branding.

Your Day-to-Day

• Manage the full-cycle recruiting process across multiple searches, with focus on experienced hire-level hires.
• Design and implement innovative, Middle East-specific strategies to attract, engage, and secure the best talent.
• Build talent pipelines through sourcing, networking, referrals and relationship management.
• Partner with the Experienced Hires Manager and Director of Recruiting in IMEA to execute experienced hire recruitment strategy across practice groups, aligned with regional priorities and growth plans.
• Partner with stakeholders and hiring managers to define needs, share market intelligence and drive timely decisions.
• Use recruitment data and market insights to monitor performance, identify opportunities and improve hiring outcomes.
• Manage multiple end-to-end searches for different practices and industries.
• Deliver an efficient, inclusive, high-quality hiring process and strong candidate experience.
• Manage executive search firms, agencies and RPO providers for delivery and value.
• Collaborate with regional and global recruiting colleagues on best practices and consistency across IMEA.
• Coach and mentor recruiting colleagues, encouraging knowledge sharing and development.
• Identify process improvements and operational efficiencies.
• Support employer branding and engagement with external talent communities.

Skills & What You Bring to the Team

• 6+ years of recruitment or talent acquisition experience in a fast-paced professional environment.
• End-to-end recruitment experience across seniority levels, including executive searches.
• Recruitment experience in professional services, management consulting or another client-driven environment.
• Knowledge of Middle East talent markets, strategy consulting competitors, market trends and talent availability.
• Ability to build trusted relationships and influence senior stakeholders in a matrixed organization.
• Experience with workforce planning, applying recruiting analytics and market insights to hiring strategies and decisions.
• Ability to lead recruitment initiatives, manage competing priorities and deliver results.
• Organizational, project management, stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills.
• Advanced Microsoft 365 skills
• Experience with recruitment tools and applicant tracking systems (ATS)

What Will Make You Stand Out

• Open mindset and proactive, solutions-oriented approach; able to work independently.
• Creative, adaptable and resilient, with a continuous-improvement mindset.
• Collaborative approach in a fast-paced environment.
• Attention to detail, sound judgment, ownership and accountability.

Oliver Wyman is a business of Marsh (NYSE: MRSH), a global leader in risk, reinsurance and capital, people and investments, and management consulting, advising clients in 130 countries. With annual revenue of over $27 billion and more than 95,000 colleagues, Marsh helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit oliverwyman.com, or follow us on LinkedIn and X.

Marsh is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age, background, caste, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Marsh is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one "anchor day" per week on which their full team will be together in person.

Experience Level

Senior Level