Manager Talent Solutions (Manufacturing/Automobile)

About Taggd

Taggd is a digital recruitment platform that provides Ready-to-Hire talent to India Inc. Combining human knowledge and data, we have fulfilled talent mandates for 100+ clients and ensured hiring manager success for half a million jobs across 14+ sectors. Our vision is to fulfil 1 million jobs through our talent platform by 2030.

Role Snapshot

• Designation: Manager – Talent Solutions
• Location: Chennai (Oragadam), Tamil Nadu
• Industry Focus: Manufacturing, Heavy Engineering, Automobile and plant hiring
• Reports to: Vice President – Talent Solutions
• Team Span: 10+ recruiters
• Hiring Volume: 800–1,000 hires annually across multiple business functions
• Experience: 8+ years in recruitment or RPO, including leading a team of 10+ recruiters

About the Role

Own the talent acquisition mandate for an assigned manufacturing or automotive account. You will anticipate hiring demand before it arrives, run a recruitment team to SLA, and personally source on the mandates that portals cannot fill.

Key Responsibilities

Client and Stakeholder Governance

• Build strong working relationships with business stakeholders, TA leadership and key HR contacts on the account and across Taggd
• Act as the single point of contact for all recruitment, sourcing and strategy matters raised with the RPO team
• Hold weekly, monthly and quarterly reviews with hiring managers and senior business stakeholders covering pipeline health, SLA status and open escalations
• Seek stakeholder feedback actively and close every item with a documented action

Delivery and Operations

• Deliver the agreed annual hiring plan, tracked as monthly fulfilment against plan (target: 95%+)
• Keep time-to-fill within the contracted SLA for each role band and review every ageing requisition in the weekly account review
• Review team numbers and SLA performance on a set cadence and act on any measure falling below benchmark
• Maintain offer-to-join conversion at 85% or above through structured candidate engagement from offer to joining
• Ensure governance and compliance across policy, process and procedure, with zero audit exceptions

Sourcing and Talent Pipeline

• Lead hands-on sourcing for critical and niche mandates and head-hunt for roles portals cannot fill
• Understand the client's business, structure, nature of work and challenges, so sourcing is built on anticipated demand and not just live vacancies
• Build and maintain ready pipelines of active and passive candidates for repeat-demand and hard-to-fill roles
• Engage specialised, high-skilled and difficult-to-attract talent through professional networks, portals and direct approach

Market Intelligence and Reporting

• Analyse recruitment trends and insights across the business unit, client and external market, and share them to shape future hiring
• Share market intelligence (talent availability, compensation trends, competitor movement) in every monthly review

People Management

• Create KPIs for every team member on the HRMS and manage performance through the year
• Plan and track training so the team can deliver against its targets
• Run structured engagement connects and build a documented career path for each team member

What We're Looking For

• 8+ years in search or RPO delivery, including leading a team of 10+ recruiters (candidates who have not managed at this scale will not be considered)
• Volume hiring experience in manufacturing, automobile, auto component, heavy machinery, OEM or EV businesses, with a clear view of where the talent sits and what it costs (mandatory requirement)
• Hands-on sourcing skills: head-hunting, Boolean and advanced search, portals and professional networks
• Ability to hold your own with business heads and senior HR stakeholders and run a consultative hiring conversation
• Strong written and verbal communication
• Target-driven, with a delivery orientation you carry into the team
• Fluent in ATS and database management; advanced in MS Office
• Comfort with AI-enabled sourcing tools (CV matching, Gen AI Boolean strings and adverts, automated outreach) and measuring what each one yields
• Ability to run the weekly delivery dashboard and monthly account MIS, and act on what the numbers show
• Skill in building recruiter capability: identify gaps, coach, and add capability where needed
• Graduate in any discipline; postgraduate or MBA/PGDM in HR preferred

What Success Looks Like (Top KPIs)

• Fulfilment: 95%+ monthly
• Time to Fill: within SLA for each role band
• Offer-to-Join: 85%+
• Recruiter Productivity: at or above account benchmark
• CSAT: 4/5 or higher, quarterly
• Data Accuracy: 100%, same-day ATS updates
• Team Attrition: 15% or below annually
• Customer Success: account renewed, no open critical escalation