Associate Manager – Talent Acquisition (Manila, PH)

TEKsystems Global Services in India; Metro Manila; On-site; PHP 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

TEKsystems Global Services in India seeks an experienced Associate Manager - Talent Acquisition to lead our Manila TA function. This hands-on leadership role combines people management with strategic delivery to meet business hiring priorities.

You will mentor the Manila TA team, balance recruitment leadership with hands-on production, and partner with hiring managers to define role requirements, sourcing strategies, and market intelligence, ensuring timely fills and scalable processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in any discipline required; MBA or equivalent postgraduate qualification preferred.
• 10-12 years of Talent Acquisition or technical recruitment experience.
• Experience leading and managing a recruitment team.
• Strong hands-on experience managing end-to-end recruitment.
• Experience recruiting for technology and/or niche technical positions is preferred.
• Experience with ATS, sourcing platforms, and recruitment dashboards.

Responsibilities

• Lead Manila Talent Acquisition team with focus on performance, development, and accountability.
• Allocate hiring requirements across the team based on workload and priorities.
• Monitor pipelines and move candidates through sourcing, screening, interview, offer, and joining stages.
• Drive delivery against priorities, timelines, and SLAs.
• Coach recruiters on requirements, sourcing, assessment, and stakeholder communication.
• Build strong relationships with hiring managers and provide timely updates.

Skills

Team leadership

End-to-end recruitment

Sourcing strategy

Stakeholder management

ATS / recruitment systems

Manila market knowledge

High-volume hiring

Niche technical hiring

Interview coordination

Recruitment dashboards

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA or equivalent

Tools

LinkedIn Recruiter

ATS

Job description

NOTE: PLEASE APPLY ONLY IF YOU ARE LOCAL TO METRO MANILA PH

Location: Manila, Philippines

Function: Talent Acquisition

Role Mix: 70% Team Management & Recruitment Leadership | 30% Hands-on Recruitment / Production

Role Overview:

We are looking for an experienced Associate Manager - Talent Acquisition to lead our Talent Acquisition function in Manila. This is a hands-on recruitment leadership role responsible for managing and developing the Manila TA team while ensuring consistent delivery against business hiring priorities.

The successful candidate will combine people leadership, recruitment delivery, stakeholder management, sourcing expertise, and market intelligence. Approximately 70% of the role will focus on team management and recruitment leadership, while 30% will involve directly managing critical or high-priority hiring requirements.

This role is best suited for someone who has grown through hands-on recruiting and can confidently lead a team without stepping away from recruitment execution.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Team Management & Recruitment Leadership - 70%

• Lead, mentor, and manage the Manila Talent Acquisition team, with a strong focus on performance, productivity, capability development, and accountability.
• Allocate hiring requirements across the team based on recruiter capability, workload, priority, and business demand.
• Monitor recruitment pipelines and ensure timely movement of candidates across sourcing, screening, interview, offer, and joining stages.
• Drive recruitment delivery against agreed priorities, timelines, and service-level expectations.
• Conduct regular recruiter reviews covering pipeline health, candidate quality, ageing requirements, offer status, joining risks, and closures.
• Coach recruiters on requirement understanding, sourcing strategy, candidate assessment, stakeholder communication, and closure management.
• Build strong relationships with hiring managers and business stakeholders and provide clear, timely updates on hiring progress, challenges, risks, and market conditions.
• Identify delivery bottlenecks and implement corrective actions to improve recruitment productivity and hiring outcomes.
• Ensure recruitment processes, documentation, systems, and reporting are maintained accurately and consistently.
• Drive proactive talent-pipeline building for recurring, niche, and business-critical skill requirements.
• Support talent-attraction initiatives and contribute to continuous improvement of recruitment processes.

2. Hands-on Recruitment / Production - 30%

The Associate Manager is expected to remain actively involved in recruitment delivery and should be comfortable personally owning requirements when required.

• Personally manage critical, niche, high-priority, or difficult-to-fill positions.
• Partner directly with hiring managers to understand role requirements, mandatory skills, candidate profiles, hiring urgency, and market availability.
• Develop sourcing strategies using job portals, LinkedIn, referrals, internal databases, networking, and other relevant sourcing channels.
• Conduct candidate screening and assess technical/functional alignment, experience, communication, compensation expectations, availability, and overall suitability.
• Engage and manage candidates throughout the recruitment lifecycle.
• Coordinate interviews, collect feedback, manage offers, and follow through until candidate joining.
• Maintain strong candidate engagement to minimize offer dropouts and joining risks.
• Step into production during periods of high hiring demand and demonstrate recruitment best practices through hands-on delivery.

Required Experience & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in any discipline is required; MBA or equivalent postgraduate qualification is preferred.
• 10-12 years of Talent Acquisition or technical recruitment experience, preferably within technology, IT services, professional services, outsourcing, staffing, or similar environments.
• Demonstrated experience leading and managing a recruitment team.
• Strong hands-on experience managing end-to-end recruitment, from requirement intake through candidate joining.
• Proven ability to manage multiple hiring requirements, competing priorities, and diverse business stakeholders.
• Experience recruiting for technology and/or niche technical positions is strongly preferred.
• Experience working with ATS/recruitment systems, sourcing platforms, and recruitment dashboards.
• Strong understanding of sourcing strategy, candidate assessment, pipeline management, offer management, and stakeholder communication.
• Good understanding of the Manila/Philippines talent market, including candidate availability and compensation considerations.
• Experience supporting high-volume, niche technology, or senior-level hiring will be an advantage.