Designation: Principal – Business Development

Locations: Could be for any of our office locations (Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Singapore or New York). We may consider a great candidate for a location in which we do not have an office.

Your Industry focus: Could be any of the following – Lifesciences, Technology/Media/Internet, Engineering & Industrials, Consumer Goods & Retail, Financial Services.

Summary of the role:
This is a critical role in our organization. People in this role are expected to possess the capability to generate new business with current and future clients. As a Principal – BD, you are expected to be a great concept seller to clients to explain the value we bring viz-a-viz an internal recruiter, get mandate exclusivity & retainers, pitch higher fees and gain a client’s trust. You are also expected to work with a recruitment partner to deliver a mandate while you oversee the relationship with the client.
It is a target-driven role so you also must be confident in your ability to carry out the tasks described above to achieve your target and earn attractive performance incentives.

Ideal prior experience:
– 8-12 years of experience in a concept selling business development role. You could be senior sales executive in an specific industry or a senior BD executive in a services industry like consulting or executive search.
– You must have a track record of meeting business development and revenue billing targets.

Designation: Leadership Hiring Consultant
Levels/ Grades: Consultant, Sr. Consultant, Account Delivery Manager, Principal

Location: Could be for any of our office locations (Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Singapore or New York). We may consider a great candidate for a location in which we do not have an office.

Your Industry focus: Could be any of the following – Lifesciences, Technology/Media/Internet, Engineering & Industrials, Consumer Goods & Retail, Financial Services.

Summary of the role:
A leadership hiring consultant or recruiter is the backbone of our organization. They are the reason why clients ultimately come to us and stay with us. Quality candidate evaluations, high quality servicing, agile delivery and follow-up and a proactive approach to salary discussions and closing negotiations are KRAs of a leadership hiring consultant. This role involves high stakeholder engagement responsibilities as well – you will engage with your business development partner, candidates and client hiring managers and keep them informed and satisfied with developments.
Depending on your experience, maturity and industry knowledge, we hire consultants at different seniority levels as described above.

Ideal prior experience:
– Anywhere from 0 to 12 years of experience. We are flexible with the experience level because we believe that top quality leadership consultants can be developed if they have the right attitude, a willingness to learn and a hunger to succeed.
– For a more seasoned consultant (6+ years in recruiting), you must have a good understanding of your industry of expertise, the different roles in it, a decent idea of current salary benchmarks in that industry, a familiarity with the candidate pool, the ability to take a detailed job brief and the ability to manage expectations of hiring managers and candidates.
– For a junior executive or fresher, your attitude, diligence and reasons for wanting to become a high impact recruiter with us will form the core of our evaluation of you.

1) Internal Recruitment & HR
We are looking for candidates who are passionate about our organization. That is 90% of the job. Can you tell the PSS story to influence good candidates who may not otherwise have heard of us, much less join us?
You will work directly with our executive directors and gain exposure to hiring for critical sales and consulting roles for a service organization like us. We have found that people who have high energy, follow an organized approach, are super persistent and can communicate well orally and in written form, do well with us in this role. There is no minimum experience required but some prior recruitment experience sure helps.

2) Digital & Social Media Marketing
With recruiting becoming increasing social on platforms like LinkedIn, Google, Facebook and various job portals, we see a need to be fully optimized on all digital mediums.
As our Digital Marketing & Events Manager, you will be responsible for gaining eyeballs to our digital content and followers to our LinkedIn, Youtube, social media pages and insights blog. You will also be involved in organizing events like our bi-annual leadership webinars which bring thoughts experts from across the spectrum for an online webinar that is organized and curated by us to an audience that includes our various stakeholders.

3) Full-Stack Software Engineer/ Developer
This role is typically filled by a young and inquisitive software programming engineer to join our organization as a Back-end developer with expertise in building web applications on the Ruby on Rails framework (Rails 4.1, Ruby 2.3) and mySQL and MongoDB databases.

Someone with about 4-8 years of experience, including half of that experience building ROR applications will be ideal for this role. You must have strong grounding of OOPs programming concepts and a general knowledge of front end skills like HTML, CSS and JS among other skills – we generally find that Computer Science engineers from good technology institutes are the best fit for us.

4) Finance/MIS, Client Accounts & Administration roles
While we do not hire frequently for these roles since there are long-standing incumbents, these vacancies can open up from time to time.
A good attitude and good analytical skills are general traits that we look for in this role. If you believe you bring such skills to the table and are keen for us to open up a position for you, please reach out to us!