Lead and coordinate end-to-end recruitment across the Group Companies and their various manufacturing locations, covering operations, technical, supply chain, and corporate support positions. Ensure consistent recruitment practices and timely availability of competent manpower in line with approved workforce plans, budgets and business priorities.

Roles & Responsibilities

Recruitment Management

• Partner with Corporate HR, various HRBPs, business leaders, and finance to consolidate manpower requirements, validate vacancies and prepare monthly and annual hiring plans across entities and locations.
• Manage and govern the full recruitment cycle across Group Companies: requisition intake, job description finalization, sourcing, screening, assessment coordination, interviews, selection, offer negotiation, pre-employment checks and follow-up.
• Build shared talent pool sources for recurring and critical roles using job portals, employee referrals, social media, consultants, ITIs, polytechnics, colleges, apprenticeship channels and local community networks.
• Coordinate Group-level and company-specific recruitment drives, campus hiring, walk-ins and plant interviews, including logistics, documentation and stakeholder communication across locations.
• Standardise selection processes, interview guides, assessment methods and documentation across Group Companies while allowing for role- and business-specific requirements.

Monitoring & Governance

• Maintain a consolidated Group recruitment tracker and accurate applicant records; publish dashboards by company, location, function and role on vacancies, ageing, pipeline status, offers, joins and recruitment cost.
• Monitor and improve Group and entity-level recruitment KPIs such as time-to-fill, time-to-hire, offer acceptance, joining ratio, source effectiveness, cost-per-hire and early attrition.
• Empanel and manage common and specialised recruitment vendors for the Group, including service-level expectations, commercial terms, allocation of mandates, invoice validation and performance reviews.
• Deliver a consistent and professional candidate experience across Group Companies through clear communication, timely feedback and coordination with respective HR operations teams for onboarding.
• Ensure recruitment activities across the Group follow approved policies, delegated authorities, equal-opportunity principles, data confidentiality standards and applicable employment requirements.
• Track labour-market availability, compensation trends and talent risks for critical skills across Group locations; recommend shared sourcing, mobility, redeployment or retention actions.

Skills Required

Functional

• Workforce planning.
• Multi location hiring challenges.
• Vendor governance.
• Campus hiring.
• Internal mobility.
• Recruitment MIS.

Behavioural

• Communication.
• Influencing.
• Negotiation.
• Planning.
• Problem-solving.
• Ownership.
• Attention to detail.

Digital

• Proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, job portals and HRIS tools.

Qualifications & Experience

MBA/Equivalent in HR.

Minimum 5 years in recruitment/HRBP.

MBA/PGDM or equivalent qualification in Human Resources; exposure to multi-level hiring in a factory or process manufacturing environment is preferred.

Multi-company/multi-location/multi-function hiring exposure in manufacturing businesses. Exposure to support more than one business entity or location.

Job Location: Kadayirrupu

Reporting to: Sr. GM – HR & Administration