Position: Vendor Manager – IT Recruitment Partnerships
Work Location: Hyderabad / Chennai
Experience: 10+ Years
Industry: IT Staffing / Recruitment / Consulting
Job Summary
We are looking for an experienced
Vendor Manager
to build, manage and expand our recruitment vendor network for IT hiring requirements. The person will be responsible for identifying and partnering with new recruitment vendors, managing existing vendor relationships, driving quality CV submissions and ensuring successful closures against assigned hiring requirements.
Key Responsibilities
new recruitment vendors / staffing partners
for IT hiring requirements.
- Build and maintain a strong vendor network across
Singapore, Malaysia, India and the Middle East
.
project-based hiring, contract staffing and volume recruitment requirements
.
- Understand assigned client requirements / JDs and clearly communicate hiring expectations to vendors.
- Source and obtain
quality, relevant CVs
from recruitment partners within agreed timelines.
- Screen and validate vendor submissions for skills, experience, notice period, location, salary expectations and overall suitability.
- Manage the complete vendor recruitment cycle from
requirement allocation → CV submission → interview coordination → follow-up → offer → joining → closure
.
- Take ownership of assigned accounts / requirements and work closely with vendors to achieve
monthly closure targets
.
- Build strong relationships with high-performing vendors and continuously improve vendor productivity.
- Monitor vendor performance based on
CV quality, turnaround time, interview conversion, offer conversion and joining ratio
.
- Negotiate and manage commercial terms, replacement clauses and other vendor engagement requirements where applicable.
- Develop backup vendor channels for critical and niche IT skill requirements.
- Coordinate closely with internal recruiters, account managers and hiring teams to ensure requirements are fulfilled within SLA.
- Maintain accurate
vendor database, hiring pipeline, submission trackers and closure reports
.
- Identify new market opportunities and continuously expand the recruitment partner ecosystem.
Required Skills & Experience
- 10+ years of experience in
IT Recruitment, Staffing, Vendor Management or Recruitment Agency Management
.
IT skills, technologies and recruitment processes
.
- Proven experience working with multiple recruitment agencies / staffing vendors.
- Strong vendor network across
India, Singapore, Malaysia and/or Middle East
will be highly preferred.
project-based IT hiring and volume recruitment
.
- Strong negotiation, relationship management and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to work on multiple requirements simultaneously and deliver against tight timelines.
- Strong follow-up skills with a
result-oriented and closure-focused approach
.
- Good communication skills with the ability to manage vendors professionally and drive accountability.
- Experience in achieving recruitment targets / closures will be an advantage.
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Number of new vendors.
- Active and productive vendor network.
- Quality and number of CV submissions.
- CV-to-interview and interview-to-offer conversion.
Successful closures and joining ratio
.
- Vendor turnaround time and SLA adherence.
- Monthly hiring / closure target achievement.
- Vendor performance and relationship quality.
- Ideal Candidate: A highly connected and commercially aware recruitment professional who can
build a strong vendor ecosystem, drive vendors for quality CVs and personally take ownership of requirements until successful closure
