Talent Acquisition Lead - Edtech & Sales

Job Description

The incumbent is responsible for driving end-to-end hiring strategy, ensuring a strong talent pipeline across business units, and delivering a superior candidate and stakeholder experience. This role partners closely with business leaders, HR teams, and external partners to fulfil organizational talent needs efficiently and effectively.

Key Responsibilities

· Partner with business heads to understand manpower needs, skills gaps, and future workforce requirements.

· Develop and execute the annual hiring plan aligned with business priorities.

· Own end-to-end hiring across all levels – junior, mid, senior, and niche roles.

· Provide weekly dashboards, hiring status, and leadership insights.

· Manage sourcing, screening, interviews, assessments, salary negotiation, and offer closure.

· Maintain strong candidate pipelines using multiple channels (job portals, social media, referrals, agencies, direct networking).

· Lead campus hiring strategy across engineering & MBA institutes.

· Build and maintain campus relationships.

· Implement best practices in assessments, interviewing, and candidate evaluation.

· Ensure compliance with HR policies, budgeting, and documentation.

Required Skills & Experience

8–12 years of progressive experience in talent acquisition.

Strong experience in hiring for diverse functions (Tech/Non-Tech/Corporate/R&D).

Demonstrated capability in campus hiring and employer branding.

Strong communication, stakeholder management, and negotiation skills.

Education

MBA/PGDM in HR or related field preferred.

Sourcing Guidelines

Must-Haves

8–12 years of progressive experience in Talent Acquisition

• Experience in the Manufacturing domain

• Proven track record in hiring for diverse functions (Tech, Non-Tech, Corporate, R&D)

• Hands-on experience in campus hiring and employer branding initiatives

• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and negotiation skills

• Notice Period: Immediate to 30 days

• Education: MBA/PGDM in HR or a related field preferred

Profile:

• Graduation is a must
• Minimum of 6 months relevant working experience.
• Excellent English– written and verbal – communication skills.
• Ability to persuade and influence.
• Able to work with people from different cultural background.

Key responsibilities

• You will be responsible for Recruitment of candidates on a Junior level.
• Manage hiring managers and candidate relationships at a professional level.
• Partner with recruiters to determine business needs, identify skill gaps and solicit input on recruiting strategies.
• Assist with Employer Branding projects.

• Communicating with hiring managers to identify future job openings and the technical requirements for those jobs.
• Writing job descriptions and posting to relevant media platforms.
• Screening applicants for competency with the job requirements.
• Arranging telephone, video, or in-person interviews.
• Performing background and reference checks.
• Presenting the resumes of the most suitable candidates to the hiring manager.
• Offering job positions and completing the relevant paperwork.
• Keeping track of all applicants as well as keeping applicants informed on the application process.
• Forecasting recruitment budgets.

Key Skills:

• Must have good Communication.
• Individual contributor having good min 1-year hands-on experience on job portals & knowledge of social media hiring.
• Should be able to handle end to the end hiring process.
• Good with excel, reports & data management.
• Must have a proven track record hiring in the e-learning/publishing domain will be a plus.
• Should be presentable, thoughtful & have an understanding of the professional work environment.
• Solid ability to conduct different types of interviews (structured, competency-based, stress etc)
• Hands-on experience with various selection processes (video interviewing, phone interviewing, reference check etc)
• Ability to organize skills assessment centres (in tray activities, work samples, psychometric and IQ/EQ tests, etc)
• Familiarity with HR databases, Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and Candidate Management Systems (CMS)
• Hands-on experience with recruiting software, as well as Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS) or Human Resource Management Systems (HRMS)
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong decision-making skills

Responsibilities

• Develop and update job descriptions and job specifications.
• Perform job and task analysis to document job requirements and objectives
• Prepare recruitment materials and post jobs to appropriate job board/newspapers/colleges etc
• Source and recruit candidates by using databases, social media etc
• Screen candidates resume and job applications
• Conduct interviews using various reliable recruiting and selection tools/methods to filter candidates within schedule
• Assess applicants’ relevant knowledge, skills, soft skills, experience and aptitudes
• Onboard new employees in order to become fully integrated
• Monitor and apply HR recruiting best practices
• Provide analytical and well documented recruiting reports to the rest of the team
• Act as a point of contact and build influential candidate relationships during the selection process
• Promote the company’s reputation as “Great place to work”

• Full-Cycle Recruitment Process
• New Client References for the company

• Management- Manage full-cycle recruitment for a host of assigned searches.
• Gather Information- Understand the company and candidate requirements thoroughly.
• Process- Create and suggest the hiring process and strategies on the basis of the job description.
• Timeline- Mention the timelines for the end-to-end recruitment process to hire the right-fit candidate.
• Job Marketing- Advertise the job through different channels to get more attraction.
• Sourcing- Source candidates through different job portals and social media platforms.
• Initial Screening- Screen the candidates via phone call or video call.
• Interviews- Conduct rounds of interviews before shortlisting and submitting candidates to the clients.
• Assessments- Create and submit assessments based on each candidate’s interview.
• Co-ordination- Follow up with the client and candidates to schedule final interviews on a timely basis.
• Negotiation- Based on the client’s shortlisting, initiate negotiations with candidates and close the deal.
• Candidate Management- Once the deal is closed, follow up and maintain a good relationship with the candidates till the transition is complete.
• Client Management- keep in touch with the client for more vacancies.

• Excellent communication (verbal & written), interpersonal and consulting skills
• Sound judgment to recognize and strive to meet client's hiring needs.
• Ability to meet targets and deadlines.
• Confident, pleasant personality, ambitious, self-motivated, organized with leadership and management skills.

Are you convinced that the people are the most invaluable part of all organizations? Are you interested in becoming a part of one of the hottest trends in the world of start-ups today? Are you excited about joining the online ultra-fast grocery delivery service business pioneer and driving the trend forward? Then this may be the right opportunity for you.

1. Scour the ends of planet earth in search of solid personalities and technical skill sets that will flourish within Blok.
2. Act as a brand ambassador for Blok. Strive to provide a candidate experience that is not Blok-centric, but rather candidate-centric. We may not work with all candidates, but all should have positive impressions about Blok.
3. Evaluate candidates within their own unique context. Always bear in mind that people have their own unique stories.
4. Not be limited by our current ways of sourcing candidates. Find new ways. Create them if necessary. Widen the range whenever possible.
5. Work together with interviewers from the technology team to accurately determine candidates’ technical expertise.
6. Travel (Covid-permitting!) to places that become major sources of recruitment, both to conduct real-time interviews and follow-up with onboarded talents.
   Requirements

1. English is an absolute must. An increasing percentage of our candidates use English as their language of preference.
2. Energy. Quickly absorb Blok's unique energy, and exert that energy in your communication with potential recruits. You are, after all, an outward-facing representative of Blok, a startup that is a pioneer in the ultra-fast grocery delivery industry.
3. Resilience, because often you’ll get hyped about a potential candidate, but for one of many valid reasons, it may not work out. Remember that matching job-seekers with employers is after all a rather complicated matching process.
4. We should know the rules to win the war for talent. Bear in mind legislative processes and cross-cultural differences.
5. Previous background in talent acquisition, especially in early-stage technology-first startups would be a strong advantage.
6. The ability to evaluate technical skills is preferred, but not an absolute requirement.
   
   Who You Are

1. A visionary, who is invested in the vision of making Blok a world-class, people-centric organization.
2. An empath, who sees the success of their organization and its people as their own success.
3. A perpetual learner, who stretches their boundaries and enjoys new ideas.
4. A doer, who takes initiative regardless of boundaries and works well in a team.