Talent Acquisition Manager

Division/Department: Talent Bridge
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Job Title: Talent Acquisition Manager
Reports to: Chief Operating Officer
Type of Position: Full--?time

General Description: You should have a strong drive to achieve.
You will be at the front end of most consulting engagements, so you need to able to explain complex, technical and sensitive issues in simple, straightforward intuitive ways.
Clients rely on you to take a long--?term perspective and to provide the necessary analysis to back this up.
You are expected to be decisive when action needs to be taken and to demand high standards from yourself and colleagues.

Roles & Responsibilities:
• Develop and manage the Talent Bridge’s talent Acquisition process and resources to support the future growth and performance of the brand. Successful execution includes establishing and maintaining a business partner relationship with hiring managers. This includes
Forecasting talent needs, defining positions, analyzing hiring trends and issues impacting candidate pools.
• You will serve as a critical enabler of the Company’s ongoing successful growth and expansion and provide talent acquisition leadership and consultation to our corporate clients.
• Lead the sourcing, assessing and hiring of high caliber candidates as quickly and as cost effectively as possible.
• Continuously improve the quality of recruiting processes to ensure they are simple, effective, repeatable, and scalable and integrated with Taleo.
• Manage recruiting resources and develop team members to continuously improve service levels. Success will be measured by improving and tracking key metrics including time to fill, quality hire, and recruiting function cost effectiveness.
• Lead training and development efforts to build teams’ interviewing and staffing competencies.
• Provide hands on, full cycle recruitment for assigned requisitions.
• Develop and oversee vendor policies and programs to create successful partnerships, which provide a variety of recruiting services i.e. sourcing, assessments, and candidate searches.
• Manage the identification, evaluation, selection and contracting of these resources ensuring relationships that provide cost effective services as value added business partner, i.e. Taleo, Hogan Assessments through Career Connections etc
• Work with Personnel team to create a candidate experience that supports Personnel’s employment branding from marketing opportunities, community relationships, web page development, and referral programs.
• Partner with HR team members in all areas pertaining to the attraction and retention of highly skilled employees e.g. total rewards, relocation, internal transfer, new hire orientation and assimilation, performance management, succession planning, and leadership development.
• Update job knowledge by participating in conferences in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, maintaining personal networks and participating in professional organizations.
• Generate revenue through old and new business opportunities pertaining to Talent Acquisition
• Follow-up on payments from clients in a timely manner.
• Other roles will involve supporting the career center for workshops and mentoring. HRO Services will involve supporting client needs and or requests where applicable.

Job Requirements:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Individuals in this position will also need strong leadership skills, the ability to multi task, strong analytical thinking and communication skills, and an orientation toward getting things done.

The requirements listed below are a representative of the knowledge, skill and or ability required.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resource Management and 5+ years of experience preferred.
• Requires experience with and knowledge of all legal aspects of recruitment and selection, discrimination, equal employment opportunity, harassment, labor laws and other human resource fields.
• Able to analyze issues and scenarios effectively and understand what the underlying issues are.
• Ability to sell (new business development and cold sales) and have a successful track record in recruitment.
• Knowledge grasp of professional principles and skills. Knows and effectively uses fundamental concepts, practices and procedures of particular area of specialization.
• Influence/people leadership–strong leadership ability, able to motivate, develop and motivate others.
• Excellent Communication and listening skills.
• Must be self--?starters and self motivated.
• A passion to improve the effectiveness of client organizations
• Be able to work with a team and effectively under little supervision
• High affinity for technological advancements in recruitment.

Physical Demands:
The physical demands described are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals to perform the essential functions. While performing duties of this job, the employee must occasional lift and or move up to 10 pounds.

Advancement Opportunities: This role offers an excellent career path for the right candidate with opportunities to progress to Head of Talent Acquisition.

Interested candidates holding the necessary requirements, good performance and / or references are encouraged to send their applications with detailed CV names and contacts of 3 referees, current telephone number and email address to [email protected] copy [email protected]
Kindly quote the job title on the subject line of your application.
Only short listed candidates will be contacted.