Talent Acquisition Manager

Emirates Flight Catering; Dubai; On-site; AED 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in Dubai is seeking an HR Manager – Talent Acquisition to enhance their recruitment strategies and manage a high-performing team. This role involves developing talent acquisition strategies, overseeing the full recruitment cycle, and ensuring effective partnerships with stakeholders. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in talent acquisition, excellent communication skills, and the ability to lead a team effectively. Join us to drive innovative recruitment solutions and elevate our employer brand.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years’ experience leading talent acquisition strategies.
• Experience in volume recruitment and managing diverse roles.

Responsibilities

• Leads talent acquisition strategy and manages the TA team.
• Implements sourcing techniques and develops recruitment metrics.
• Partners with stakeholders to meet talent acquisition goals.

Skills

Communication

Problem Solving

Team Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business administration or HR

Tools

Taleo

Job description

Are you passionate about building powerful employer brands and driving strategic talent acquisition initiatives?

We’re looking for a dynamic HR Manager – Talent Acquisition to lead our efforts in attracting top talent, managing a high-performing TA team, and elevating our recruitment strategies across diverse markets.

Key Result Areas:

• Contributes in establishing a robust talent acquisition strategy by identifying critical success factors from a talent acquisition perspective, benchmarking and best practices. Delivers best in class sourcing and marketing techniques to gain interest from potential candidates in available opportunities.
• Provides subject matter expertise in all TA policies and processes, maintains knowledge on all employment opportunity regulations, and leads the formulation of policies related to talent attraction and talent acquisition.
• Effectively implements the established strategy and leads the talent acquisition team with full cycle of talent acquisition process ensuring that there is a talent pipeline.
• Spearheads the complete process of talent acquisition (forecasting of hiring needs, prioritisation of request fulfilment, reporting and tracking of activities like sourcing, screening to interviewing candidates) to deliver headcount targets in line with business requirements and plans innovative and effective solutions to improve the effectiveness of attraction campaigns, sourcing, assessment and selection methodologies/processes.
• Provides leadership and oversight for talent acquisition programs, resources and support infrastructure, and ensures that the teams are focused on determining new and innovative ways to source talent from new talent pools in line with the market dynamics.
• Partners with stakeholders to understand business requirements. Plans, develops and drives talent acquisition solutions in consultation with hiring managers to effectively meet talent acquisition goals and facilitates solutions to overcome challenges.
• Promotes best practice, shares ideas and information internally and externally to ensure consistency through a value added services. Develops and maintains efficient relationships with all stake holders and educates them on market trends and constantly evolves acquisition and selection approaches.
• Leads employer-branding activities to increase brand reach, both internally and externally. Partners with HR Leads to build a positive and performance-oriented culture in the Company and works toward enhancing the candidate to employee experience
• Oversees the maintenance and authenticity of candidate records, assessment data and references held within Taleo. Creates, tracks, and monitors recruitment metrics and goals proactively takes appropriate corrective actions when goals are not met.
• Ensures effective goal setting and achievement of departmental functional objectives through the leadership of the team and provides on-going support, direction and development to ensure that desired results are achieved.

Job Context:

This job holder operates within the framework of talent acquisition practices but needs to keep up to date of factors that could affect the attraction of candidates, sourcing and assessment tools as well as selection.

Knowledge, Skills & Minimum Experience:

Qualification:

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration or HR, CIPD is desirable
• Accredited in the usage of psychometrics and assessments

Experience & Knowledge:

• Minimum 7 years’ experience leading talent acquisition strategies and managing the provision of services related to headcount budgets, global sourcing, assessment centers and selection.
• Experience gained within a large organisation and must have led a team overseeing the selection of multiple diverse roles.
• Experience in volume recruitment including the selection of suppliers and leading selection trips across Asia, Africa and Europe. Willingness to travel.

Skills:

• User competency in Taleo and BI reporting
• Ability to communicate effectively with all organisational levels
• Achievement orientated and problem solving capabilities
• Team leadership
• Ability to build strong and lasting relationships with others and inspire trust and confidence in them