Recruitment Relationship Manager

Ernst & Young LLP ( EY India ); Gurugram District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

EY GDS in India is seeking an experienced Relationship Manager for End-to-End Recruitment on a contract basis. You will partner with business leaders to attract top talent across service lines, driving data-driven decisions and scalable hiring programs.

The role emphasizes stakeholder management, diversity, and timely delivery within defined timelines. You will influence hiring strategies, collaborate with global teams, and ensure a compliant, high-velocity recruitment process that supports EY’s

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience.
• 4–6 years of proven recruitment experience, managing large-scale hiring.
• Experience with Applicant Tracking Systems and recruitment analytics.
• Ability to forecast, plan sourcing, and propose achievable hiring plans.
• Strong analytical skills and dashboard experience.

Responsibilities

• Forecasting business requirements and sourcing strategies to enable just-in-time hiring.
• Drive data-driven decisions and stakeholder engagement.
• Maintain strong relationships with leaders and potential candidates.
• Manage end-to-end recruitment projects for cross-functional teams.
• Negotiate offers, roll-out and post-offer management.
• Ensure timely closing of positions within budget.
• Track hiring metrics and provide insights.

Skills

Stakeholder management

End-to-end recruitment

Data-driven decision making

Relationship building

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Tools

Applicant Tracking System

Job description

Relationship Manager – End to End Recruitment – Contract

At EY, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we’re counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.

Senior Associate - Relationship Manager - Talent Attraction and Acquisition

We’re looking for an experienced Recruitment professional with 8+ years of experience in managing end to end recruitment – to attract and acquire top talent for all service lines across EY GDS (India), by deploying unique strategies to locate right Talent. In EY GDS we value wellbeing, curiosity and agility as an individual. We create teams of inspiring, teaming and belonging. We care for our business, society and client. Our purpose is building a better working world. Does that resonate with you? We look forward to working with you.

The opportunity

You will act as a Recruitment Partner for Business Leaders and have opportunity to derive insights from data and turn ideas into action. You will propose and execute programs(s) in the areas of Employer Branding, Diversity & Inclusion, Tools and Automation to ensure we achieve impactful results. We are committed to drive improvements for our business and our people, supportive of EY culture and as a result enhance customer experience. Being a Partner in an Individual Contributor role, need to engage closely with Business Operations’ Managers and Hiring Managers to help hiring as per pre-defined hiring turnaround timelines of quality resources with effective stake-holder management skills by meeting standard compliance and risk guidelines.

Your key responsibilities

• Forecasting business requirement, planning for sourcing strategies to enable just-in-time and pro-active hiring.
• Drive informed, data driven decisions.
• Cultivating strong business relationships with frequent connects with stakeholders and potential candidates.
• Drive organisational best practices.
• Deliver projects for large scale hiring for cross-functional audiences.
• Responsible for operational speed to procure offers selection, conduct best in class offer negotiation, offer roll‑out and effective post‑offer acceptance management.
• Ensure all positions are closed on time and within the budgeted cost.
• Responsible for tracking and measuring hiring metrics.

Skills and attributes for success

• Manage stakeholders including senior leaders and build strong relationships.
• Strong verbal and written business communication, active listening and interpretation skills.
• Strong influencing abilities.
• Ability to communicate complex information in an approachable manner.
• Strong business acumen and commercial awareness, ability to develop clear, actionable plans in support of an overall business unit strategy.
• Strong client focus with the ability to build good relationships with multiple stakeholders across the organisation at all levels.
• Exposure to professional services hiring and proven skill of large volume hiring.
• Develop strong relationship with other Talent teams.
• Ability to work with ambiguity and build consensus across diverse, often global, groups.

To qualify for the role

• Must have Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience.
• 4 - 6 years of proven recruitment experience, managing large scale and complex hiring.
• Should have experience working on various HR applications including Applicant Tracking System.
• Experience in developing hiring strategy for competencies based on the forecast and propose achievable plan.
• Strong analytical skills, ability in creating and maintaining dashboards needed for stakeholder management.
• Ideally, you’ll also have Strong industry outlook.
• Approach to learn and adapt quickly to global recruiting trends.
• A keen sense to identify key business priorities, delivery models, solutioning, driving timely performance.

What you can look for

• Be an enabler of high-performance recruitment team.
• Keen interest to invest time for self-learning, seeking opportunities to work on cross-functional HR projects.
• Vision and capability to understand industry trends and build talent landscape to meet the hiring needs.

What we offer

EY Global Delivery Services (GDS) is a dynamic and truly global delivery network. We work across six locations – Argentina, China, India, the Philippines, Poland and the UK – and with teams from all EY service lines, geographies and sectors, playing a vital role in the delivery of the EY growth strategy. From accountants to coders to advisory consultants, we offer a wide variety of fulfilling career opportunities that span all business disciplines. In GDS, you will collaborate with EY teams on exciting projects and work with well‑known brands from across the globe. We’ll introduce you to an ever‑expanding ecosystem of people, learning, skills and insights that will stay with you throughout your career.

Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.

Success as defined by you : We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.

Transformative leadership : We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.

Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

EY | Building a better working world

EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long‑term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets. Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform and operate. Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.

Experience Level Mid Level