Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

The Role

The Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist will be responsible for leading and driving talent resourcing initiatives. Collaborate with respective business stakeholders to understand their talent needs and align resourcing strategies to meet the people plans. Ensure customer obsession and adopt the best recruitment approaches to drive a seamless candidate experience.

Business and People Strategy

• Translate and implement talent acquisition objectives aligned to the overall Talent Strategy, including workforce planning and EE etc, build and customize for respective Talent Pool.
• Implement innovative and cost-effective recruitment strategies that position Pele as an employer of choice.
• Implement governance structures to provide adherence to fair procedures and service levels agreed with business.

Talent Acquisition transformation & Business Partnering

• Assist the People team in benchmarking the latest recruitment trends, best practice, and developments against external parties, competitors, and recruitment providers.
• Enhance Pele employer brand among external candidate pools.
• Ensure sounds relationships with internal and external stakeholders & ensure stakeholder commitment & perception of value of the talent activities.
• Identifying process gaps and recommendation, and where approved implementing solutions that increase process efficiencies.

Agile Recruitment

• Supporting the integration and prioritization of timelines, adherence to laid down recruitment processes, governance and SLAs.
• Proactively, timeously and efficiently conduct end-end recruitment, including sourcing, shortlisting, arranging interviews offer management where applicable, personal checks and verifications.
• Execute the process for the attraction, identification and sourcing of candidates, maintain external pipeline of business critical-talent, and alternate sourcing channels.
• Prepare and execute recruitment advertising.
• Consolidate advert responses by record of receipt & date. All applications to be checked for the required criteria of vacancies.
• Screen & shortlist all applications and regret applicants who do not meet criteria, once advert has closed.
• Shortlist of applicants successfully screened to be sent to line managers once advert has closed.
• Ensure thorough and accurate reference checks are conducted on all candidates.
• Ensure interviews are conducted with all relevant stakeholders involved (i.e. People Partner, line manager, candidate, and recruiter where necessary).
• Inform all relevant parties of all details of new associates, position, start date if offer is accepted.
• Manage Recruitment tracker and analytics; track and manage all vendor applications.
• Complete ad hoc administration and reporting through various platforms (i.e. Word, PPT, Excel dashboards, HR systems).
• Assist in the delivery of the offer process, including negotiation and final offer documentation.

Self-Management

• Promote and live the Pele Values and Competencies.
• Professional conduct that is in line with Pele policies.
• Commit to driving a high-performance culture.
• Take ownership, initiative and accountability for work priorities and responsibilities.
• Ensure all work tasks and deadlines are executed timeously.
• Identify and apply sound, fact-based problem-solving techniques and criteria in setting priorities and making ethical decision-making and recommendations.
• Adapt and learn to changing and competing work demands and environments by remaining agile, innovative and resilient.
• Promote, engage and embrace the value of culture, diversity and inclusion in all work aspects of individuals, teams, business units and the organization.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Relevant bachelors degree and a minimum of 5 years in Human resources.
• Minimum 5 years' experience in aggressive corporate recruitment.
• Working knowledge and experience with human resource information, systems and recruiting techniques and tools (e.g. ATS, HR Databases).
• Proficient in MS Office (i.e. Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Word).
• Understanding and knowledge of SA legislation and respective HR policies, procedures and procedures.

Competencies

Core Competencies:

• Live the Pele Values & Competencies.
• Comfort with ambiguity: Self-starter, ability to develop initial hypotheses / solutions with limited certainty / input.
• Strong communication skills and ability to influence cross functionally by tailoring messaging for various audiences and stakeholders. Excel at articulating relevant arguments, concisely and grounded in fact.
• Emotional intelligence: Ability to interact with a wide variety of stakeholders at all levels / functions of the organization and across diverse cultures.
• Collaboration and flexibility: Desire to work in an agile team and deliver "Executive ready" outputs under sometimes - very tight deadlines.
• Grit: Spirit of perseverance, desire to achieve, standard of excellence.

Functional Competencies:

• Adaptable.
• Analytical skills.
• Facilitation and Presentation skills.
• Ensure execution and achieve Results.
• Models and upholds integrity, ethics and compliance.
• Accuracy and ability to pay attention to detail.
• Time Management.