Talent Acquisition Specialist

Working closely with the Country Lead, Talent Acquisition and Employer Branding, the key responsibility of this role is to proactively and strategically attract, source, select, deploy and hire talent into the organisation whilst ensuring they develop a compelling employer brand to potential candidates.

Key Duties & Responsibilities    

Key Outputs and Accountabilities include, but not limited to:

Talent Sourcing

• Implement the Talent Acquisition and Assessment components of the Talent Management processes, to enhance business performance.
  
• Implements innovative, creative, and proactive recruitment / sourcing opportunities, designed and developed by the Country Lead, Talent Acquisition and Employer Branding, to develop high quality active and passive candidate pipelines.
  
• Identifies and sources appropriate internal talent for current and future roles within the organisation.
  
• Ensures that key vacancies are filled within agreed timeframe.
  
• Implement candidate sourcing strategies and selection methodologies to deliver high-quality hires.
  
• Anticipatory resourcing - forecasting future talent needs and building talent pools for key roles to aid in reducing vacancy days/hire time.
  

Talent Assessments

• Makes use of assessment information to enhance the quality of the selection process.
  

Data integrity

• Ensures talent acquisition and assessment data integrity for successful functional reviews and reporting requirements
  
• Reporting of recruitment metrics
  

Employee Value Proposition

• Is able to successfully position the employer value proposition both internally and externally to attract and retain the right talent.
  
• Managing the end-to-end recruitment process while ensuring pleasant candidate experiences
  
• Excellent Customer Service and Stakeholder Engagement/ Management
  

Conducts regular follow-up with recruiting managers to determine the effectiveness of recruiting plans and implementation.

• Relationship management- working closely with business leaders and HR Partnering teams and specifically hiring managers in meeting their talent needs.
  
• Provide talent solutions, advice and guidance to HRBPs on talent acquisition 
  
• Develops, networks and maintains successful relationships with external recruitment agencies.
  

Employee Onboarding & Integration

• Successful implementation of onboarding programme for all new recruits to ensure early impact and sustainable performance.
  
• Maintain and tracking the Employee onboarding experience for new joiners
  

Data integrity

• Ensures talent acquisition and assessment data integrity for successful functional excellence reviews and reporting requirements
  

Skills, Experience & Education    Education, Experience & Skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with post graduate HR qualification
  
• IHRM Membership
  

Experience

• 3-5 years’ experience with a proven track record as a talent acquisition or recruitment specialist in an FMCG or Manufacturing company. 
  
• Hands-on experience with full-cycle recruiting using various interview techniques and evaluation methods
  
• Knowledge of Applicant Tracking Systems
  
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  

Skills:

• Working with People
  
• Relating and Networking
  
• Persuading and Influencing
  
• Presenting and Communicating Information
  
• Writing and Reporting
  
• Applying Expertise and Technology
  
• Ability to use Psychometric and competency assessment tools.
  
• Competency Based interviewing skills
  

Working closely with the Country Lead, Talent Acquisition and Employer Branding, the key responsibility of this role is to proactively and strategically attract, source, select, deploy and hire talent into the organisation whilst ensuring they develop a compelling employer brand to potential candidates.

Key Duties & Responsibilities    

Key Outputs and Accountabilities include, but not limited to:

Talent Sourcing

• Implement the Talent Acquisition and Assessment components of the Talent Management processes, to enhance business performance.
  
• Implements innovative, creative, and proactive recruitment / sourcing opportunities, designed and developed by the Country Lead, Talent Acquisition and Employer Branding, to develop high quality active and passive candidate pipelines.
  
• Identifies and sources appropriate internal talent for current and future roles within the organisation.
  
• Ensures that key vacancies are filled within agreed timeframe.
  
• Implement candidate sourcing strategies and selection methodologies to deliver high-quality hires.
  
• Anticipatory resourcing - forecasting future talent needs and building talent pools for key roles to aid in reducing vacancy days/hire time.
  

Talent Assessments

• Makes use of assessment information to enhance the quality of the selection process.
  

Data integrity

• Ensures talent acquisition and assessment data integrity for successful functional reviews and reporting requirements
  
• Reporting of recruitment metrics
  

Employee Value Proposition

• Is able to successfully position the employer value proposition both internally and externally to attract and retain the right talent.
  
• Managing the end-to-end recruitment process while ensuring pleasant candidate experiences
  
• Excellent Customer Service and Stakeholder Engagement/ Management
  

Conducts regular follow-up with recruiting managers to determine the effectiveness of recruiting plans and implementation.

• Relationship management- working closely with business leaders and HR Partnering teams and specifically hiring managers in meeting their talent needs.
  
• Provide talent solutions, advice and guidance to HRBPs on talent acquisition 
  
• Develops, networks and maintains successful relationships with external recruitment agencies.
  

Employee Onboarding & Integration

• Successful implementation of onboarding programme for all new recruits to ensure early impact and sustainable performance.
  
• Maintain and tracking the Employee onboarding experience for new joiners
  

Data integrity

• Ensures talent acquisition and assessment data integrity for successful functional excellence reviews and reporting requirements
  

Skills, Experience & Education    Education, Experience & Skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with post graduate HR qualification
  
• IHRM Membership
  

Experience

• 3-5 years’ experience with a proven track record as a talent acquisition or recruitment specialist in an FMCG or Manufacturing company. 
  
• Hands-on experience with full-cycle recruiting using various interview techniques and evaluation methods
  
• Knowledge of Applicant Tracking Systems
  
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  

Skills:

• Working with People
  
• Relating and Networking
  
• Persuading and Influencing
  
• Presenting and Communicating Information
  
• Writing and Reporting
  
• Applying Expertise and Technology
  
• Ability to use Psychometric and competency assessment tools.
  
• Competency Based interviewing skills