Recruiter & Vendor Relations Specialist
Location: Noida
Work Mode: Work from Office
Experience: 2–5 Years
Company: Suitable AI
About the Role
Suitable AI is looking for a Recruiter & Vendor Relations Specialist to strengthen our candidate sourcing and recruitment partner network.
The role will combine hands-on recruitment with vendor and partner management. You will be responsible for sourcing candidates directly, activating existing recruitment partners, onboarding new vendors, and ensuring timely and high-quality candidate submissions for client requirements.
This is an execution-focused role for someone who enjoys recruitment, relationship management, and working in a fast-paced hiring environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Source candidates through job portals, LinkedIn, databases, referrals, and other sourcing channels.
- Manage and engage with Suitable AI's network of recruitment agencies, vendors, and freelance recruiters.
- Share open positions and priority requirements with relevant recruitment partners.
- Follow up regularly with vendors to ensure timely candidate submissions.
- Reactivate dormant recruitment partners and improve their participation.
- Identify and onboard new recruitment agencies and sourcing partners.
- Map vendors based on their expertise, industries, skills, locations, and candidate networks.
- Screen and review profiles received from recruitment partners for quality and relevance.
- Coordinate candidate interviews, feedback, documentation, offers, and joining.
- Maintain strong relationships with high-performing recruitment partners.
- Track vendor-wise submissions, shortlists, interviews, selections, offers, and joinings.
- Ensure urgent and high-priority requirements receive adequate sourcing coverage.
- Minimize duplicate, irrelevant, and low-quality candidate submissions.
- Work closely with internal recruiters, delivery teams, and account managers to achieve hiring targets.
Key Performance Indicators
Performance will be measured on:
- Number of quality candidates sourced
- Number of active recruitment vendors
- Dormant vendors reactivated
- New recruitment partners onboarded
- Profiles generated through the vendor network
- Candidate quality and shortlist ratio
- Interview-to-selection ratio
- Offer-to-joining ratio
- Turnaround time for priority positions
- Overall contribution to successful closures
Candidate Profile
- 2–5 years of experience in recruitment, staffing, talent acquisition, or recruitment vendor management.
- Strong experience in candidate sourcing and recruitment.
- Prior experience working with recruitment agencies or staffing partners is preferred.
- Good understanding of job portals, LinkedIn, Boolean search, and candidate databases.
- Strong communication, coordination, and relationship-management skills.
- Comfortable making calls and interacting with recruitment vendors on a daily basis.
- Strong follow-up and negotiation skills.
- Ability to manage multiple open positions and stakeholders simultaneously.
- Target-driven and comfortable working with recruitment metrics.
- Working knowledge of Excel or Google Sheets.
- Experience in IT, Automotive, Engineering, Semiconductor, Telecom, or R&D recruitment will be an advantage.
What Success Looks Like
You will be successful in this role if you are able to:
- Build and maintain an active network of recruitment partners.
- Increase the flow of quality candidates for client requirements.
- Ensure priority positions receive profiles quickly.
- Improve the productivity of existing recruitment vendors.
- Build a dependable group of high-performing recruitment partners.
- Personally contribute towards candidate sourcing and hiring closures.
About Suitable AI
Suitable AI is an AI-powered recruitment and talent solutions company helping enterprises identify, assess, and hire high-quality talent faster.
We combine AI-powered interviewing, experienced recruitment teams, and an extensive sourcing partner network to deliver scalable hiring solutions across technology, automotive, engineering, telecom, healthcare, and other industries.
