ShadowFax - Senior Manager - Corporate Recruiter - Leadership Hiring

Role & responsibilities

- Partner with CXOs, functional heads and HRBPs to understand organisation structure, role requirements and success profiles for leadership and senior corporate positions.

- Lead endtoend hiring for senior roles in Finance, HR, Marketing, and other corporate teams (job scoping, sourcing strategy, assessment design, stakeholder alignment, offer closure).

- Build and manage strong external talent pipelines through headhunting, LinkedIn, networks, research, and specialised search partners for leadership roles.

- Drive structured assessment and interview processes for leadership hiring, including competency frameworks, case studies and stakeholder panels.

- Ensure superior candidate experience, from first contact to onboarding, particularly for senior/critical roles.

- Track and report hiring metrics for corporate/leadership roles (time to hire, source mix, offer to join, diversity, quality of hire) and share insights with leadership.

- Partner with HRBPs and Comp & Benefits on compensation benchmarking, offer structuring and negotiations for senior hires.

- Manage relationships with external search firms; define mandates, evaluate performance, and optimise cost of hiring.

- Support employer branding initiatives focused on corporate and leadership talent segments.

Preferred candidate profile

- 8-12 years of experience in talent acquisition, with significant exposure to leadership/corporate function hiring (Finance, HR, Marketing, etc.), preferably in highgrowth or tech/ecommerce/logistics companies.

- Strong track record of closing senior roles directly through headhunting and networks, not only via agencies.

- Ability to work closely with CXOs and senior stakeholders; strong influencing, communication and stakeholdermanagement skills.

- Good understanding of compensation structures for corporate leadership roles and comfort with complex offer negotiations.

- Familiarity with ATS, LinkedIn and other sourcing tools; data driven approach to recruitment metrics and reporting.