Recruitment Partner

About the Role:

• Partner with hiring managers and business leaders to understand hiring needs, workforce plans, role requirements, and recruitment priorities.
• Manage the complete recruitment lifecycle from requisition intake to candidate onboarding.
• Develop effective sourcing strategies using job portals, LinkedIn, employee referrals, social media platforms, recruitment agencies, and talent networks.
• Screen and assess candidate profiles to evaluate technical competencies, experience, and organizational fit.
• Conduct HR interviews and coordinate technical and business interviews with relevant stakeholders.
• Ensure timely interview scheduling, feedback collection, and candidate communication throughout the recruitment process.
• Maintain regular engagement with candidates to provide exceptional recruitment experience.
• Drive offer management activities including salary benchmarking, compensation discussions, offer generation, negotiations, and offer rollouts.
• Follow up with selected candidates after offer acceptance and maintain engagement until their date of joining to minimize dropouts.
• Coordinate with HR Operations and hiring managers to ensure a seamless onboarding experience.
• Ensure adherence to company HR policies, recruitment governance, and local employment regulations.
• Track and report recruitment metrics including time-to-fill, offer-to-join ratio, source effectiveness, hiring pipeline, and recruitment SLAs.
• Support employer branding initiatives to enhance the organization's visibility in the talent market.
• Build and maintain relationships with universities, colleges, and educational institutions for campus hiring programs.
• Represent the organization at career fairs, university events, networking forums, and recruitment drives.
• Participate in recruitment process improvement initiatives and leverage AI-enabled recruitment tools to enhance hiring efficiency.
• Travel across Sri Lanka, as required, to support campus engagement activities, hiring events, and business recruitment initiatives.

About You:

• Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources Management, Business Administration, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
• Professional certification in Talent Acquisition, Human Resources, or Recruitment Management is an added advantage.
• Postgraduate qualification in Human Resource Management or Business Management is preferred.
• 5–7 years of experience in end-to-end IT recruitment and Talent Acquisition.
• Proven experience handling technology hiring across various IT skill domains such as Software Development, Cloud, Infrastructure, ERP, Cybersecurity, Data Analytics, and Digital Technologies.
• Experience in managing the entire recruitment process from requirement gathering through offer management and candidate onboarding.
• Exposure to campus recruitment, university engagement programs, and graduate hiring initiatives will be an added advantage.
• Experience working with Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) - Workday, LinkedIn Recruiter, job portals, and recruitment analytics tools.
• Strong understanding of recruitment processes, HR policies, and employment practices.
• Expertise in sourcing, candidate screening, stakeholder management, and offer negotiations.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, networking, and relationship management skills.
• Strong analytical and reporting capabilities with proficiency in MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Working knowledge of AI-powered recruitment and productivity tools.
• Ability to manage multiple hiring requirements in a fast-paced environment while maintaining quality and delivery timelines.
• High level of professionalism, attention to detail, and commitment to delivering an outstanding candidate experience.
• Willingness and flexibility to travel for campus engagement activities, recruitment events, career fairs, and employer branding initiatives across Sri Lanka.

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