Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist at Old Mutual South Africa

Job Description

• The Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist is responsible for proactively sourcing, screening, interviewing, and placing qualified candidates, partnering with our hiring managers throughout the full candidate life cycle.
• The ideal candidate will thrive in a dynamic, high-performance environment.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to sourcing strategies/campaigns e.g., LinkedIn
• Proactive identification and research to identify potential candidates (talent mapping)
• Manage the end-to-end recruitment process, from advertising, shortlisting, interviews, vetting and offer  
• Engage with Human Capital Business Partners (HCBP’s) to understand critical, scarce, and future hiring needs through proactive sourcing and talent pool development.
• Manage recruitment system - Workday.
• Ensure candidate tracking processes using recruiting metrics to ensure an amazing candidate experience.
• Prepare relevant talent analytics which informs talent initiatives, analyse and report on hiring and employment data.
• Build and maintain relationships and service levels with internal and external partners.
• Execute the full recruitment process source to placement and ensure the co-ordination of new employee orientation, employee benefits sessions and contribute thought leadership to induction and onboarding framework.
• Serve as brand ambassador at various events (career fairs or professional conferences and recruiting events).
• Responsible for Actuarial graduate recruitment & onboarding initiatives
• Manages final years Actuarial Science bursary students – ensure a smooth transition to the world of work  

Requirements

• Relevant tertiary qualification
• At least 5 years’ experience as a Talent Acquisition Specialist and/or proven experience recruiting Actuaries.
• In-depth knowledge of candidate sourcing techniques for active and passive candidates
• Workday experience would be advantageous.
• Experience conducting competency-based interviews
• Hands on experience using social media and niche professional networking sites
• Knowledge of labor legislation

The ideal fit for this role will have the following skills and characteristics:

• A team player with a passion for excellence and a sense of urgency who knows how to follow through with processes and project timelines
• Strong multi-tasking, organizational, and time management skills - used to juggling many roles at once
• Able to maintain internal and external relationships with a diverse range of personalities, cultures, and departments \
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong decision making and analytical skills
• The ability to work well under pressure
• Solid relationship building skills
• Excellent influencing and negotiation skills

Skills

• Building Relationships, Candidate Sourcing, Candidate Tracking, External Relations, Onboarding, Proactive Approach, Project Schedules, Sourcing Strategies, Taking Initiative, Workday

Education

• Bachelors Degree (B) (Required)

Closing Date

01 March 2023