Aelum Consulting - Manager - Talent Acquisition

Description:

Role Overview

The Recruitment Lead will be responsible for driving end-to-end talent acquisition strategy and execution across business units.

This role requires strong leadership, stakeholder management, and the ability to scale hiring operations while ensuring quality, speed, and cost efficiency.

The role involves owning recruitment delivery, team performance, hiring metrics, and stakeholder satisfaction, while continuously improving hiring processes and candidate experience.

Key Responsibilities:

- Lead and manage end-to-end recruitment across technology, sales, leadership, and niche roles.

- Define and execute hiring strategies aligned with business growth plans.

- Manage and mentor a team of recruiters; drive productivity and performance.

- Partner closely with business leaders to understand workforce plans and hiring priorities.

- Own hiring SLAs, quality metrics, time-to-hire, and offer-to-join ratios.

- Drive senior and leadership hiring independently.

- Oversee vendor management, campus hiring, referrals, and external partners.

- Implement and improve recruitment processes, ATS usage, and reporting.

- Ensure strong candidate experience and employer branding.

- Provide regular hiring dashboards and insights to leadership.

Required Experience & Skills:

- 12+ years of experience in talent acquisition or recruitment leadership.

- Proven experience managing high-volume and niche hiring.

- Strong exposure to technology hiring, sales hiring, and leadership hiring.

- Experience working with senior stakeholders and CXO-level leaders.

- Strong understanding of hiring metrics, workforce planning, and compliance.

- Ability to build, scale, and optimize recruitment teams.

- Excellent communication, negotiation, and decision-making skills.

Preferred Experience:

- Experience in IT services, consulting, product, or enterprise environments.

- Experience implementing ATS, recruitment analytics, and automation.

- Strong vendor and partner management experience.

Success Metrics:

- Hiring delivery vs plan.

- Time-to-hire and quality-of-hire.

- Offer acceptance and joining ratio.

- Recruiter productivity and team performance.

- Stakeholder satisfaction.

Why This Role:

- High ownership and leadership visibility.

- Opportunity to scale hiring for a growing organisation.

- Strategic role with direct business impact.

- Platform to build and lead a mature recruitment function.