Women First Jobs
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womenfirstjobs.com
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Role Summary
We are hiring a Senior Talent Acquisition Manager to lead our recruitment team, drive delivery excellence, and personally handle strategic and leadership hiring mandates. This role requires a strong blend of hands-on recruiting, stakeholder management, team leadership, and process/KPI ownership.
Key Responsibilities
1) Strategic Hiring & Delivery Ownership
- Lead end-to-end hiring for senior, niche, and high-priority roles (Manager to C-suite).
- Conduct deep requirement intake with clients and translate into strong sourcing and selection strategies.
- Build targeted talent pipelines using LinkedIn, job portals, referrals, communities, and direct outreach.
- Ensure strong shortlists with high alignment, speed, and quality.
2) Team Leadership & Performance Management
- Manage and mentor recruiters: daily prioritization, coaching, feedback, and quality control.
- Set weekly targets and ensure accountability on sourcing, submissions, interviews, and closures.
- Run team huddles, pipeline reviews, and role-briefing sessions to remove blockers fast.
- Improve recruiter capability through training, scripts, scorecards, and roleplays.
3) Client & Stakeholder Management
- Be the primary point of contact for key clients for hiring delivery updates and alignment.
- Proactively manage expectations, timelines, and feedback loops to reduce drop-offs.
- Build trust through insight-led recruitment (market mapping, salary benchmarks, competitor insights).
4) Recruitment Operations & Process Excellence
- Maintain CRM/ATS hygiene: accurate pipelines, stage tracking, notes, and reporting.
- Build and enforce recruitment SOPs: intake forms, scorecards, interview coordination, follow-ups.
- Track and improve core metrics: TAT, submittal-to-interview ratio, interview-to-offer ratio, offer acceptance.
Requirements
- 7–12 years in Talent Acquisition / Recruitment (agency experience strongly preferred).
- Proven success managing senior/niche/strategic hiring with strong closure track record.
- Prior experience leading a recruitment team and driving KPIs.
- Strong sourcing expertise (LinkedIn Recruiter, NaukriGulf/Indeed/Bayt etc.).
- Excellent stakeholder management, negotiation, and communication skills.
- Strong process orientation—comfortable with SOPs, trackers, and dashboards.
Skills We Value
- Leadership + coaching mindset
- High ownership, speed, and structured execution
- Candidate experience and relationship building
- Strong judgment on quality and role fit
- Comfortable working in a fast-moving founder-led environment
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