SBI Manager (HR) Recruitment 2026 – 2 Posts | Apply by 27 Aug

The State Bank of India released a recruitment notification on 7 August 2026 on its official website, sbi.bank.in. As per Advertisement No. CRPD/SCO/2026-27/12, online registration and payment of fees is open from 7 August 2026 to 27 August 2026. This is for MBA/PGDM candidates with HR experience who want a permanent Specialist Cadre officer post at SBI.

The bank is hiring for two posts — Manager (Manpower Planning & Recruitment) and Manager (Learning & Development) — with a total of 2 vacancies. A full post-wise breakdown, along with pay scale and eligibility, follows below. The suggested place of posting is SBI’s Global IT Centre (GITC) in Navi Mumbai, though the bank may post a selected candidate anywhere in India. Candidates should check all details in the article below.

Information verified from the official State Bank of India notification No. CRPD/SCO/2026-27/12 dated 07.08.2026. Last verified: 06.08.2026.

State Bank of India is recruiting 2 Manager (Specialist Cadre) posts — 1 Manager (Manpower Planning & Recruitment) and 1 Manager (Learning & Development) — through Notification No. CRPD/SCO/2026-27/12. The last date to apply online is 27 August 2026 at sbi.bank.in/web/careers/current-openings. Selection is through shortlisting followed by an interview carrying 100 marks; there is no written examination.

Quick summary of SBI Manager (HR) Recruitment 2026

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About State Bank of India

State Bank of India is India’s largest public sector bank, headquartered in Mumbai. This recruitment is run by the bank’s Central Recruitment & Promotion Department (CRPD) at Corporate Centre, Mumbai. For a candidate, a Specialist Cadre post at SBI means a permanent government-bank appointment in a specialised HR track, distinct from the bank’s general banking officer cadre. Queries on this recruitment can be sent through SBI’s official query link.

How this compares to similar current openings

This is added context, not part of the official notification. Confirm with the official SBI careers page.

SBI has tried to fill this same HR function before. The bank had earlier attempted to recruit an Assistant Vice President (Manpower Planning & Recruitment) and an Assistant Vice President (Learning & Development) on a contract basis, and that process closed with no candidate found suitable for either post. This notification reopens the same two functional areas at the Manager (MMGS-III) grade instead, as a regular, permanent appointment rather than a fixed-term contract — a lower entry grade but a permanent role, which may suit candidates who did not have the seniority for the earlier AVP-level contract hiring.

GITC, the suggested place of posting, stands for SBI’s Global IT Centre at CBD Belapur, Navi Mumbai — one of the bank’s main technology campuses, where the bank’s IT and BFSI-linked HR functions are based. This lines up with the notification’s preference for candidates with IT industry or BFSI-IT HR experience.

Important dates

Candidates should note that eligibility — age, qualification, experience and preferred certifications — is all measured as on 31 July 2026, a date that falls before the application window itself opens. A candidate who crosses the qualifying experience or age threshold only after that date is not eligible, even if they apply within the 7–27 August window.

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Vacancy details and salary for SBI Manager (HR) Recruitment 2026

Both posts carry the same pay scale: ₹85,920–2680/5–99,320–2980/2–1,05,280 (MMGS-III), with a 12-month probation period. Selected officials are eligible for DA, HRA, CCA, Provident Fund, the Contributory Pension Fund (NPS), Leave Fare Concession (LFC), medical facility and other perquisites as per the bank’s rules in force.

The vacancies shown above, including any reserved-category vacancies, are provisional and may vary according to the bank’s actual requirement at the time of selection. Candidates belonging to a reserved category, including Persons with Benchmark Disabilities (PwBD), for whom no reservation has been announced, are free to apply against these Unreserved vacancies, provided they meet the same eligibility conditions as Unreserved candidates.

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Eligibility

Age limit (same for both posts): Minimum 28 years, Maximum 40 years, as on 31 July 2026.

The IT-industry or BFSI-IT preference is stated as a preference, not a mandatory filter — a candidate with the required core HR (or HR/Training) experience outside IT/BFSI still meets the mandatory criteria. The educational qualification is a minimum requirement, and the experience certificate from an employer must specifically state that the experience was in the relevant field. Where a degree or diploma certificate does not itself specify the field of specialisation, the candidate must produce a separate certificate from the university or college confirming it.

Job profile

Manager (Manpower Planning & Recruitment): implementing HR best practices in manpower planning, recruitment and onboarding; preparing job descriptions with user departments; end-to-end recruitment support liaising with CC-HR; conducting interviews, GDs, salary negotiation and onboarding; sourcing through talent-hunt agencies; skills-gap analysis in emerging areas like AI/ML; HR analytics; succession planning; and driving automation in workforce planning.

Manager (Learning & Development): conducting training-needs assessment and building training policy; skill-gap analysis; mapping role-based certifications for system officers; building a competency framework; engaging training vendors; organising workshops; running employee engagement and rewards & recognition programmes; and overseeing career development programmes.

The bank states these job profiles are illustrative, and additional roles or KRAs may be assigned to either post from time to time.

SBI Manager (HR) Recruitment 2026 Selection process

Selection for both posts is through shortlisting followed by an interview. There is no written examination at any stage.

1. Shortlisting — meeting the minimum qualification and experience does not by itself entitle a candidate to an interview call. A shortlisting committee constituted by the bank decides the shortlisting parameters and the number of candidates called. The bank’s decision is final, and no correspondence is entertained on this.
2. Interview — carries 100 marks. The qualifying marks are decided by the bank, and no correspondence is entertained on this either.
3. Merit list — prepared in descending order of interview marks only. If two or more candidates score the same marks at the cut-off point, they are ranked by age, older candidates placed higher.

Outstation candidates called for interview are reimbursed economy-class airfare by the shortest route, or the actual travel cost in India, whichever is lower, up to a maximum of ₹10,000 to-and-fro, on submission of original tickets and boarding passes. Local transport such as taxis is not reimbursed, and a candidate found ineligible at the interview stage is not reimbursed at all. Candidates serving in government, quasi-government, PSU or nationalised-bank roles must submit a No Objection Certificate from their employer at the time of interview; without it, their candidature and travel expenses will not be considered.

Call letters, wherever required, are sent by email or uploaded on the bank’s website only — no hard copy is sent.

Application fee

The application fee and intimation charges are ₹750 (non-refundable) for General, EWS and OBC candidates. There is no fee for SC, ST or PwBD candidates. This exemption applies even though both posts are listed as Unreserved vacancies, since reserved-category and PwBD candidates are permitted to apply against Unreserved posts under the same conditions as General candidates. The fee, once paid, is not refunded on any account and cannot be adjusted against any other SBI examination or selection.

How to apply

1. Visit the SBI careers page and open Advertisement No. CRPD/SCO/2026-27/12.
2. Register online with a valid email ID and mobile number, keeping both active until the result is declared.
3. Fill in personal, educational and experience details carefully. The application can be saved and edited up to three times before final submission.
4. Upload the required documents and a recent photograph and signature in the specified format and size (see checklist below).
5. Pay the application fee through the integrated payment gateway using debit card, credit card or internet banking, where applicable.
6. Submit the application and download or print the system-generated application form and e-receipt for reference.
7. Apply online through the SBI CRPD/SCO/2026-27/12 application portal.

Documents to keep ready

• Recent photograph (JPEG, 20–50 KB, 200×230 pixels) and signature (JPEG, 10–20 KB, 140×60 pixels, not in capital letters)
• Detailed resume (PDF)
• ID proof and proof of date of birth (PDF)
• Caste certificate and PwBD certificate, if applicable (PDF)
• Mandatory educational certificates, including degree certificate (PDF)
• Experience certificates (mandatory) and preferred certification certificate, if any (PDF)
• Biodata form, duly filled and signed, in the format available on the bank’s career page against this advertisement (PDF)
• Form-16, offer letter, or latest salary slip from the current employer (PDF)
• No Objection Certificate from the present employer — mandatory if currently working in a government institute, public sector unit, or public sector bank (PDF)

All documents must be in PDF, A4 size, and not exceed 500 KB each.

Important links

Should you apply?

This suits an HR professional with an MBA/PGDM/PGDBM in HR and at least 6 years of hands-on HR experience, who wants a permanent government-bank role rather than a private-sector or contract position. The Manpower Planning & Recruitment post suits someone from a talent-acquisition or workforce-planning background; the Learning & Development post suits someone from a training, LMS or competency-framework background. Candidates from an IT-industry or BFSI-IT HR background have a preference stated in the notification, though it is not mandatory.

Competition is likely to be sharp given only 1 vacancy per post and a national candidate pool, and selection is entirely interview-based, so strong domain depth and articulation matter more than exam preparation. One honest trade-off: this is a fixed Manager-grade role in the Specialist cadre with no path for conversion into SBI’s General cadre, so it suits someone who wants to build a long-term career specifically in banking HR, not a stepping stone into broader banking operations. A candidate without the mandatory 6 years of core HR experience, or outside the 28–40 age band as on 31 July 2026, is not eligible regardless of other strengths.

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