Talent Acquisition Manager

About WTF Gyms

WTF Gyms is developing a technology-driven, customer-centric fitness network throughout Delhi NCR, featuring premium facilities, certified instructors, customized fitness programs, digital progress monitoring, and rigorous club operations.

Role Overview

The Talent Acquisition Manager will lead end-to-end hiring processes for the expanding gym network, managing everything from workforce planning and candidate sourcing to assessment, offer negotiation, and onboarding. This hands-on leadership role requires an experienced recruiter capable of sourcing, screening, and closing candidates while overseeing the recruitment team and processes.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the entire recruitment lifecycle from manpower planning to successful joining for roles in club operations, sales, fitness, corporate, and leadership.
• Translate job requirements into detailed scorecards, sourcing strategies, interview stages, and realistic timelines.
• Personally handle sourcing, screening, interviewing, and closing candidates for challenging or high-priority positions.
• Maintain consistent candidate communication to protect the employer brand.
• Develop talent pipelines using platforms like LinkedIn Recruiter, Naukri, Resdex, Apna, referrals, direct sourcing, and specialized communities.
• Employ advanced sourcing techniques including Boolean search, talent and competitor mapping, and structured outreach.
• Create role-specific pipelines with evidence-based qualification standards.
• Collaborate actively with hiring managers to clarify requirements, set evaluation criteria, and ensure structured interviewer training.
• Conduct intake meetings, weekly review sessions, and escalate aging vacancies with clear actions.
• Coach and supervise recruiters and sourcing partners to meet productivity and quality targets.
• Maintain accurate recruitment data, including ATS records and detailed metrics like source attribution, stage aging, and rejection reasons.
• Establish and maintain Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), dashboards, and audit-compliant recruitment documentation.
• Manage offer-related activities including compensation alignment, negotiation, documentation hand-offs, and follow-up on candidate joining.
• Monitor offer acceptance rates, joining conversions, early attrition, and recruiter and hiring manager satisfaction.
• Analyze recruitment funnel data to identify drop-offs and implement improvements ensuring ethical and compliant hiring.

Required Expertise and Qualifications

• A minimum of 6 years of dedicated, hands-on experience in talent acquisition, including at least 2 years leading recruiting teams or managing hiring functions.
• Recent direct ownership of complete hiring processes, beyond HR coordination or onboarding.
• Proven ability to manage large-scale recruiting operations with personal responsibility for at least 50 hires per month or an equivalent volume.
• Expertise in direct sourcing using LinkedIn Recruiter and major Indian job portals.
• Thorough experience in managing recruitment funnels, SLAs, conversion metrics, and joining outcomes.
• Preference for candidates with backgrounds in multi-location fitness, retail, hospitality, consumer services, healthcare, QSR, or other high-volume distributed workforces.
• Willingness and ability to work on-site full-time in the Greater Delhi Area.

Ideal Candidate Profile

• Can provide quantifiable details such as monthly and annual hires, peak hiring volumes, concurrent open roles, time-to-fill metrics, offer acceptance and joining ratios, team size, and source diversity.
• Has successfully sourced and closed challenging roles personally.
• Has identified and significantly improved bottlenecks within hiring funnels.
• Effectively negotiates requirements with stakeholders while maintaining trust.
• Demonstrates strategic recruiter coaching and enforcing disciplined recruitment operations.

Location and Work Environment

This role is strictly on-site in the Greater Delhi Area, supporting recruitment efforts across Delhi NCR. Remote work or broad HR generalism is not applicable.

Equal Opportunity Employer

WTF Gyms promotes equal opportunity employment, selecting candidates solely based on relevant qualifications and suitability for the position.