HR Manager

Senior Recruitment Manager – Leadership RoleIndustry: Premium Building Materials

Location: Bommasandra, Bengaluru

Reporting To: Head – Human Resources

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Senior Recruitment Manager to lead talent acquisition for a premium and growing brand in the building materials industry.

The role will be responsible for building a strong talent pipeline across sales, manufacturing, technical, corporate and support functions, with a particular focus on attracting high-quality professionals who can support the organisation’s growth and strengthen its leadership bench.

The position will work closely with the HR Head and business leadership team and will be based out of the organisation’s facility at Bommasandra, Bengaluru, which includes its sales operations, manufacturing facility and training centre.

Key Responsibilities

1. Talent Acquisition Strategy

• Develop and execute the organisation's recruitment strategy in alignment with business growth plans.
• Build a robust and continuously updated talent pipeline for critical and recurring positions.
• Drive recruitment across sales, manufacturing, technical, operations, corporate and support functions.
• Develop targeted sourcing strategies for niche and senior-level positions.
• Strengthen the organisation's employer brand and talent attraction initiatives.

2. Leadership & Senior Hiring

• Lead recruitment for senior management, functional heads and critical leadership positions.
• Partner with the HR Head and business leaders to understand leadership requirements and define appropriate candidate profiles.
• Identify and engage high-calibre passive candidates through networks, industry mapping, referrals and executive search channels.
• Maintain a strong database of potential leadership talent within the building materials and allied industries.

3. Sales Recruitment

• Build a strong talent pipeline for the sales organisation covering project/specification sales, institutional sales, retail/channel sales and key accounts.
• Identify talent from relevant building materials, construction products and allied industries.
• Support the organisation's expansion into new markets by ensuring timely availability of quality sales talent.

4. Manufacturing & Operations Hiring

• Drive recruitment for the manufacturing facility at Bommasandra, including production, quality, maintenance, engineering, supply chain and related functions.
• Work closely with plant and functional heads to understand manpower requirements and critical skill gaps.
• Develop specialised talent pools for technical and manufacturing positions.

5. Stakeholder Management

• Partner closely with the HR Head, Business Heads, Sales Leaders and Plant/Functional Heads.
• Understand manpower plans and translate business requirements into effective recruitment strategies.
• Manage recruitment expectations, timelines and candidate quality across stakeholders.
• Provide regular recruitment dashboards and market intelligence to the HR leadership team.

6. Recruitment Process Excellence

• Own the recruitment lifecycle from manpower requisition through sourcing, assessment, selection, offer management and joining.
• Improve recruitment turnaround time while maintaining high standards of candidate quality.
• Build effective relationships with recruitment firms, consultants, industry networks, professional associations and talent platforms.
• Establish structured recruitment processes, assessment methodologies and candidate tracking systems.

7. Talent Market Intelligence

• Track compensation trends, availability of talent, competitor hiring activity and movement of key professionals within the industry.
• Build and maintain competitor talent maps for critical functions.
• Provide market insights to HR and business leadership to support hiring decisions.

Key Success Measures

• Quality and timeliness of critical hires
• Closure of senior and specialised positions
• Strength and depth of the talent pipeline
• Recruitment turnaround time
• Offer-to-joining conversion
• Retention and quality of new hires
• Reduction in dependence on external recruitment agencies
• Effectiveness of talent mapping and succession pipelines
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Ideal Candidate

• Profile 10–18 years of experience in recruitment/talent acquisition, preferably with a strong leadership hiring component
• Experience in building materials, construction products, manufacturing, industrial products, consumer durables or allied industries would be strongly preferred.
• Proven experience in recruiting sales, manufacturing and functional leadership talent.
• Strong understanding of the Bengaluru and broader South Indian talent market.
• Demonstrated ability to manage senior stakeholders and work independently in a high-growth environment.
• Strong industry network and proven ability to identify passive candidates.
• Excellent communication, negotiation and candidate-engagement skills.
• Experience in managing recruitment teams and external search partners.

Personal Attributes

The ideal candidate should be:

• Strategic yet hands-on
• Commercially aware and business-oriented
• Strong at stakeholder management
• Highly networked within the relevant talent market
• Data-driven and process-oriented
• Comfortable dealing with senior leadership
• Persistent, proactive and capable of working in a fast-paced environment

Why This Role

• This is a high-visibility leadership position offering an opportunity to shape the organisation's talent strategy and build the leadership and specialist talent pipeline for a premium building materials brand.
• The successful candidate will play a key role in supporting the organisation's sales growth, manufacturing expansion and capability-building agenda, while working closely with the HR Head and senior business leadership.