Lead: Executive Talent Acquisition

Optimal Growth Technologies; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 600 000 - 800 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading human resources consultancy in Johannesburg is seeking a Lead: Executive Talent Acquisition. This role involves managing the end-to-end hiring process, providing strategic guidance, and attracting diverse talent. The ideal candidate has 5-8 years of experience in executive recruiting and strong skills in stakeholder management and communication.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years experience in executive recruiting.
• Experience in research, market mapping, and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic guidance and coaching on talent acquisition.
• Create innovative research strategies to attract talent.
• Engage and qualify high-quality talent in the market.
• Collaborate with the larger TA team for efficiency.
• Lead meetings with hiring executives on talent pipelines.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Proactive and solution-focused

Experienced LinkedIn user

Stakeholder management

Education

Tertiary qualification

Matric

Job description

Lead: Executive Talent Acquisition

Role Purpose

The Talent Acquisition team is dedicated to managing end to end hiring process across the company's ecosystem.

• In partnering with our executives, The Executive TA Partner will be responsible for driving both external research and internal talent mapping, to ensure that we are hiring talented and diverse individuals across our organization to drive the company's growth.
• The researcher will conduct extensive research to source individuals with the right experience and qualifications and to match them to the provided job descriptions.
• You will be required to source and attract both active and passive talent using your networks, job portals, social media platforms, adverts.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Provide strategic guidance, coaching, and expectation-setting to our executives with regard to talent acquisition process, target companies, market research, etc.
• Create innovative research strategies that will identify and attract the best talent.
• Proactively map the external talent, build talent networks and industry sources to build a future leadership talent pipeline.
• Engage with, qualify, and attract high-quality talent in the market, screening against competencies and cultural values, while effectively representing company's vision and values.
• Track progress and record data with a view to creating an overarching database and talent pools.
• Collaborate with the larger TA team to designing a knowledge management framework for all research work, drive efficiency, and ensure business continuity.
• Lead consistent and comprehensive meetings with hiring executives on active searches and future talent pipelines
• Adhoc reports/presentations on talent insights

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

• Must have matric
• Must have a tertiary qualification
• 5-8 years experience in executive recruiting
• Experience in research, market mapping, and stakeholder management
• Experienced LinkedIn user, as well as other search engines and talent tools
• Core competencies, knowledge, and experience:
• Experience executive recruiter
• Proactive and solution- focused
• Excellent communication skills