About the role
As Woven continues to grow, we are strengthening our HR team and are looking for an Assistant Manager – Talent Acquisition who can take ownership of our talent acquisition agenda and help us scale our internal team and hiring capabilities.
Responsibilities- Own the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle, from understanding the requirement through sourcing, assessment, selection, offer and joining.
- Partner with business leaders and hiring managers to understand current and future talent requirements.
- Develop effective sourcing strategies for different roles and levels.
- Conduct market mapping and talent intelligence for critical and specialist positions.
- Ensure a strong candidate experience throughout the recruitment journey.
- Manage offer discussions, candidate engagement and offer-to-join conversion.
- Maintain strong recruitment discipline around turnaround time, quality of hire and closure of positions.
- Build trusted relationships with hiring managers and business leaders.
- Provide regular updates on hiring progress, challenges and market availability.
- Act as a talent advisor to stakeholders rather than simply managing requisitions.
- Challenge and refine hiring requirements where required to improve the quality and effectiveness of the hiring process.
- Track and report key TA metrics including open positions, ageing, sourcing effectiveness, interview-to-selection ratios, offer-to-join ratios and time to hire.
- Maintain accurate recruitment data and dashboards.
- Identify opportunities to improve recruitment processes, turnaround times and candidate experience.
- Ensure effective use of the ATS and other recruitment tools.
- Support Woven's employer branding initiatives across relevant platforms.
- Build talent communities and maintain relationships with prospective candidates.
- Develop initiatives that strengthen Woven's visibility as an employer.
- Support recruitment campaigns and hiring-related communication.
- Work closely with the HR team on onboarding and overall employee experience.
- Support HR initiatives and projects as Woven continues to scale.
- Contribute to strengthening HR processes, policies and people practices where required.
- Consistently delivering quality talent against business requirements.
- Building strong and relevant talent pipelines.
- Building strong credibility with business leaders and hiring managers.
- Improving recruitment turnaround time and conversion metrics.
- Bringing greater structure, data and discipline to Woven's internal TA process.
- Helping Woven scale its team while strengthening its employer brand.
- 5+ years of relevant experience in Talent Acquisition / Recruitment.
- Strong hands-on experience across the complete recruitment lifecycle.
- Experience managing multiple roles and stakeholders simultaneously.
- Strong sourcing and talent mapping capability.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into effective hiring strategies.
- Strong candidate engagement and relationship-building skills.
- Comfortable working with recruitment data, dashboards and ATS platforms.
- Proactive, organised and highly execution-oriented.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, growing organisation where processes continue to evolve.
- Candidates with experience in RPO, recruitment/search firms or high-growth organisations would be relevant.
- Experience hiring across multiple functions and levels, particularly in a fast-paced environment, will be an advantage.