Recruitment Manager – Advisory

PwC; Dubai; On-site; AED 300,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

PwC seeks a Recruitment Manager – Advisory to partner with Consulting & Deals in the Middle East, leading end-to-end recruitment including manpower planning, sourcing, and on-boarding. You will manage a small team, coordinate with market HC, and ensure adherence to recruitment best practices across the region.

The role emphasizes a service-minded in-house recruitment approach, delivering quality candidate experiences and promoting PwC employer branding within Advisory.

Qualifications

• Experienceproactive, delivery-focused recruitment professional (or HR generalist with recruitment background)
• HR Generalist or Recruitment specialist with 3+ years at Manager level or above
• In-house recruitment experience essential; agency background advantageous
• Professional services and/or Big 4 expertise and knowledge essential
• Knowledge and experience of the Middle East Region required
• Experience and expertise in selection techniques including competency-based interviewing and running assessment centres
• HR or Recruitment qualifications (e.g., CIPD, psychometric testing) advantageous
• Experience using psychometric testing in selection advantageous
• Knowledge of manpower planning, organisational design and succession planning advantageous
• Knowledge of recruitment best practices and processes required

Responsibilities

• Working with Directors and Partners to ascertain annual recruitment needs and ensure campaigns align with manpower plans and approvals
• Pro-active, delivery-focused recruitment professional maintaining regular communication with internal clients to build strong relationships
• HR Generalist or Recruitment specialist with 3+ years experience at Manager level or above
• Experience of in-house recruitment essential, including managing small teams; agency background advantageous
• Professional Services and/or Big 4 expertise and knowledge essential
• Knowledge of the Middle East Region required
• Experience with recruitment technology and ATS (e.g., Oracle) essential
• Experience sourcing top-quality candidates online via Job Boards and Social Media (LinkedIn/Facebook) with online recruitment campaigns
• Experience and expertise of selection techniques including group exercises, case studies and analytical exercises
• Professional HR or Recruitment qualifications such as CIPD, psychometric testing considered advantageous
• Knowledge of manpower planning, organisational design and succession planning advantageous
• Knowledge of recruitment best practices and processes required

Skills

Recruitment management

Stakeholder management

In-house recruitment

Big 4 experience

Middle East knowledge

Job description

The Recruitment Manager – Advisory works closely with the Consulting & Deals lines of service in the PwC Middle East Region to ‘partner’ them in their recruitment efforts and pro-actively managing their end to end recruitment process – including manpower planning, sourcing and routes to market, quality selection methodology and best practice, on-boarding and compensation & benefits.

The role requires constant, regular and consistent communication with Advisory to ascertain their manpower requirements, succession planning activity, quality technical and person specifications and assignment briefings, and updating on immediate recruitment activity and campaigns. In addition this role is pivotal to communicate and ensure adherence to recruitment best practices and procedures including latest initiatives within the area of Advisory.

This role requires an understanding of the Professional services business and the roles within it so that the best quality individuals can be recruited. The role is responsible for driving the recruitment of experienced hires and graduates in to Advisory in the region.

The role requires a ‘service mentality’ so that Advisory receives a quality in-house recruitment service with the objective of providing quality candidate experience and ensuring that our employer branding is positively promoted at all times.

The role has a regional remit as the jobholder will be required to work closely with HC / Recruitment Managers in each market to achieve recruitment requirements.

The jobholder will also work on a number of other HR / Recruitment related projects during the course of the contract as needed, e.g., Graduate Recruitment, Interns and Nationalisation projects.

The Advisory Recruitment Manager directly manages a small team.

Responsibilities

• Working with Directors and Partners to ascertain annual recruitment needs ensuring campaigns are run inline with approved manpower plans and right
• Pro-active, passionate, delivery focused experience Recruitment professional (or HR generalist with good recruitment record), who communicates regularly and consistently with internal clients, to build and maintain strong business relationships;
• HR Generalist or Recruitment specialist with 3+ years experience at Manager level or above required;
• Experience of in – house recruitment essential, including managing small teams. Agency background is a definite advantage;
• Professional Services and /or Big 4 expertise and knowledge is essential;
• Knowledge and experience of the Middle East Region is required;
• Experience and proficiency in human resources and/or recruitment technology is essential (i.e Oracle/Applicant Tracking Systems.
• In depth knowledge of sourcing top quality candidates on line from Job Boards and Social Media (Linked in/Facebook) and a proven track record in running on line recruitment campaigns is essential;
• Experience and expertise of selection techniques essential including competency based interviewing and designing and running assessment centres is essential. Evidence of use of a variety of selection techniques including group exercises, case studies and analytical exercises is required;
• Professional Human Resources or Recruitment qualifications an advantage (i.e CIPD, Level A/B Psychometric Testing);
• Experience of using psychometric testing in selection is an advantage;
• Knowledge and experience of manpower planning, organisational design and succession planning is an advantage;
• Knowledge of and evidence of having established, recruitment best practices and processes is required.

About The Company

PwC firms help organizations and individuals to create the value they’re looking for.

We’re a network of firms in 158 countries with close to 169,000 people who are committed to delivering quality in assurance, tax and advisory services..

PwC is the brand under which member firms of PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited (PwCIL) operate and provide services. Together, these firms form the global PwC network.

In our 3 key areas of business or ‘Lines of Service’ – Assurance, Tax, and Advisory – we work with our clients from business start ups to the world’s leading organizations – to measure, protect and enhance the things that matter most to them.

We help our own people to learn, discover, develop and make a real difference all the way through their working lives. And we have big ambitions to grow.

PwC Middle East Region is part of what we call the ‘Central Cluster’ and includes the UK, Europe and Africa as well as the Middle East. The region consists of 12 markets - UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Libya, Iraq and Palestine.

PwC has been established in the region for over 40 years, we already employ over 2500 people and we are on course to become the Middle East number one professional service firm