Talent Acquisition Manager
Position summary
Introduction
Job description
Strategic Talent Acquisition Leadership
· Leads the development and execution of a future-focused talent acquisition strategy aligned with business growth.
· Builds strong partnerships with senior leaders, designs fair and compliant recruitment frameworks, and drives employer branding initiatives.
· Acts as a trusted advisor on talent trends and candidate assessment, ensuring a positive candidate experience and effective communication.
· Focuses on sourcing scarce skills, leveraging analytics, and strengthening collaboration with assessment centres and external networks.
Driving Recruitment Operations
· Oversees and optimises the full recruitment lifecycle, ensuring efficiency, quality hires, and excellent candidate experience.
· Drives continuous improvement in processes, systems, and technologies, including ATS usage.
· Manages external partners and delivers data-driven insights on key recruitment metrics.
· Establishes a Recruitment Centre of Excellence, strengthens sourcing strategies, builds talent pools, ensures compliance through audits, and equips hiring managers with effective interviewing skills.
Talent Pipelines and Workforce Planning
· Guides proactive talent pipeline development for critical roles using data, market insights, and networking.
· Partners with leadership to align hiring with workforce planning, anticipates future skills needs, and supports diversity and inclusion goals.
· Builds external partnerships to access underrepresented talent and monitors diversity metrics across hiring processes
T Stakeholder Engagement
· Maintains strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure recruitment services meet business needs.
· Provides strategic insights, tracks service delivery performance, gathers feedback, and drives continuous improvement in customer satisfaction and recruitment outcomes.
Financial Management
· Manages departmental financial performance, including budgeting (OPEX/CAPEX), cost control, and reporting.
· Monitors operational metrics, ensures revenue tracking, drives efficiency initiatives, and ensures accountability for cost management and financial compliance.
People Management
· Builds and leads high-performing teams through recruitment, coaching, development, and performance management.
· Promotes a positive work environment, ensures adherence to company policies, supports employee growth, and aligns team performance with organisational goals.
Compliance and Risk Management
· Ensures adherence to all recruitment-related legislation, policies, and governance standards.
· Maintains data integrity, manages audit requirements, enforces risk controls, and ensures service level agreements are met to support business continuity and minimise risk.
Minimum requirements
• Degree in Human Resources Management or related field.
• Minimum 5 years Talent Acquisition experience with exposure to sourcing for a wide array of positions including specialist and scarce skill roles.
• Minimum 3 years managerial experience in Talent Acquisition, running a recruitment team within a corporate or a recruitment agency environment.
• Experience running large volume-based recruitment campaigns leveraging various recruitment platforms.
• Experience working with psychometrics and assessment tools.
• A proven track record in implementing talent acquisition analytics and implementing such insights to improve recruitment practices and outcomes.
• Collaboration and Support
• Positive energy and influence
• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills
• Results driven with focus on resolving issues timeously
• Analytical Skills