Team Lead Talent Acquisition

This role is for one of Weekday’s clients

Min Experience: 8+ years Location: Mumbai JobType: full-time

Working Days: Monday to Saturday

We are looking for an experienced Team Lead – Talent Acquisition to lead a recruitment team supporting a leading wealth management and financial services organisation. The role involves managing end-to-end recruitment, driving hiring delivery, building strong stakeholder relationships, and ensuring the timely closure of critical positions.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in BFSI recruitment , particularly in Wealth Management, Private Banking, Relationship Management, Sales, and Business Development hiring. The candidate should possess strong team leadership, stakeholder management, and recruitment delivery capabilities, along with a track record of meeting hiring targets and maintaining high standards of candidate experience.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

1. Team Leadership and Performance Management

• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of recruiters to achieve recruitment targets and business hiring objectives.
• Monitor recruiter productivity, hiring quality, and delivery performance.
• Provide guidance, coaching, and regular feedback to improve team effectiveness.
• Conduct periodic team reviews and proactively address recruitment challenges.

2. End-to-End Recruitment

• Oversee the complete recruitment lifecycle, from understanding hiring requirements and sourcing candidates to screening, interview coordination, offer management, and successful closure.
• Manage multiple hiring mandates simultaneously while ensuring timely delivery.
• Establish effective recruitment strategies to improve turnaround time and quality of hire.
• Ensure a positive candidate experience throughout the recruitment process.

3. BFSI and Wealth Management Hiring

• Drive recruitment across Wealth Management, Private Banking, Relationship Management, Sales, Business Development, and other relevant financial services functions.
• Build talent pipelines for Wealth Managers, Relationship Managers, Private Bankers, and other business-critical positions.
• Develop a strong understanding of wealth management talent markets, competitor organisations, and industry hiring trends.
• Support hiring for roles catering to High-Net-Worth Individuals (HNIs) and Ultra-High-Net-Worth Individuals (UHNIs).

4. Sales and Business Development Recruitment

• Lead hiring for revenue-generating positions, including client acquisition, relationship management, and wealth sales roles.
• Understand the skills and experience required for professionals managing HNI/UHNI client relationships and Assets Under Management (AUM).
• Build sustainable candidate pipelines for business-critical and niche sales positions.
• Identify suitable talent from relevant financial institutions and competing organisations.

5. Stakeholder Management

• Partner with business leaders and hiring managers to understand hiring needs, define candidate profiles, and establish recruitment priorities.
• Provide regular updates on hiring progress, candidate pipelines, and anticipated closure timelines.
• Manage stakeholder expectations and recommend appropriate sourcing strategies based on market availability.
• Build strong working relationships with business teams to improve hiring outcomes and satisfaction.

6. Sourcing Strategy and Market Mapping

• Develop targeted sourcing strategies for niche, leadership, and business-critical roles.
• Conduct competitor mapping and talent market research to identify relevant candidates.
• Strengthen sourcing effectiveness through recruitment networks, referrals, databases, and other channels.
• Maintain healthy candidate pipelines to support current and future hiring requirements.

7. Recruitment Metrics and Reporting

• Track key recruitment metrics, including hiring targets, turnaround time, recruiter productivity, pipeline health, interview-to-offer ratios, and offer-to-joining conversions.
• Prepare recruitment dashboards and provide regular reports to relevant stakeholders.
• Analyse recruitment performance and implement corrective actions to address delivery gaps.
• Drive continuous improvement in recruitment processes, team productivity, and hiring quality.

Must-Have Skills

• Talent Acquisition: Strong expertise in talent acquisition strategy, workforce hiring, and recruitment delivery.
• Recruitment: Proven experience managing end-to-end recruitment and multiple hiring mandates.
• BFSI Recruitment: Strong knowledge of banking, financial services, wealth management, and private banking talent markets.
• Team Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead, mentor, and motivate recruitment teams while achieving hiring targets.
• Stakeholder Management: Excellent relationship management, communication, negotiation, and expectation-setting skills.
• Recruitment Metrics: Ability to monitor hiring performance, manage dashboards, and drive data-backed improvements.

Good-to-Have Skills

• RPO (Recruitment Process Outsourcing): Experience managing recruitment delivery in an RPO or recruitment consulting environment.
• Sales Recruitment: Experience hiring sales, business development, client acquisition, and revenue-generating professionals.
• Relationship Manager Hiring: Expertise in recruiting Relationship Managers, Wealth Managers, Private Bankers, and professionals managing HNI/UHNI clients.
• Executive Search: Exposure to executive search, niche talent mapping, and specialised recruitment assignments.
• Corporate Talent Acquisition: Experience managing recruitment within an organisation's internal talent acquisition function.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• 9–12 years of overall experience in Talent Acquisition or Recruitment.
• Prior experience leading, mentoring, or managing a recruitment team.
• Strong hands-on experience in BFSI recruitment, preferably across Wealth Management and Private Banking.
• Demonstrated success in hiring Relationship Managers, Wealth Managers, Private Bankers, Sales, and Business Development professionals.
• Understanding of HNI/UHNI client segments, Assets Under Management (AUM), and wealth sales hiring requirements.
• Experience managing multiple recruitment mandates and delivering against defined hiring targets.
• Strong analytical, organisational, communication, negotiation, and problem-solving skills.

Key Success Measures

• Achievement of team hiring targets and timely closure of recruitment mandates.
• Quality, relevance, and consistency of candidate pipelines.
• Improved recruiter productivity and overall team performance.
• Strong stakeholder satisfaction and positive candidate experience.
• Higher offer-to-joining conversion rates.
• Accurate recruitment reporting and effective management of hiring metrics.