Head - Talent Acquisition - BFS/BPO

You are responsible for the broad oversight of talent acquisition activities within organizations. To fulfil multiple managerial and strategic roles that ensure consistent levels of workforce talent. You take charge of planning and guiding talent needs and goals, thereby contributing to overall business success. Gaining an understanding of an organization's plans and priorities to create and implement talent strategies is crucial. Building and managing a diverse and skilled talent team and overseeing aspects of the resourcing and global recruitment teams will form part of your day-to-day job.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Driving the full spectrum of recruiting and selection activities

- Creating and implementing talent acquisition strategies for leadership, mid-career and graduate hiring

- Designing and driving the adoption of consistent recruiting, interviewing and hiring practices that support a strong candidate experience

- Partnering with leaders within the organization to track the ongoing hiring needs of their business

-Managing end-to-end recruitment for senior roles

- Identifying and partnering with external providers as required to ensure hiring needs are met

- Defining and driving the team to meet and exceed hiring benchmarks relating to time to fill, cost per hire, diversity hiring and hiring manager and candidate satisfaction

- Defining and leading projects focused on continuous improvement

- Developing and retaining a diverse talent acquisition team

- Applying strategies to attract diverse candidates to all areas of the business

Required Skills:

- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills. Experience in managing and overseeing a talent acquisition team and evidence of transforming the recruitment function within an organisation is key. A degree qualification is not essential but is often beneficial.

- Having commercial and analytical know-how is required, as is having strong communication and leadership skills. You must be strategic, influential and confident in building relationships with employees at all levels