Talent Acquisition Specialist at Discovery Limited

Key Purpose

The Talent Acquisition Specialist is responsible to plan and manage the end to end Non Operations and Commercial recruitment process for permanent employees and independent contractors in line with Discovery Insure’s EE plan.

 As a Talent Acquisition Specialist, this individual will partner closely with the hiring managers to ensure that the recruitment process is efficient and that the organisation is effectively identifying and hiring the talent the business needs to achieve it’s goals. 

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

• Full function of recruitment for dedicated Non Operational and Commercial teams within Discovery Insure.
• Build and maintain relationships with business stakeholders throughout the recruitment process, including effective feedback and communication at all times.
• Meet all deadlines in the recruitment cycle.
• All administration relating to recruitment.
• Works in partnership with the hiring manager and Heads of Department to manage sourcing and recruitment activities for supported Insure teams.
• Advises hiring managers on recruitment approach and processes and leads the sourcing process from end-to-end.
• Spends time with stakeholders to fully understand the business, the key talent needs, and the value proposition for prospective candidates. This includes maintaining relationships with hiring managers to stay abreast of current and future hiring needs.
• Reviews and selects appropriate candidates to be evaluated by hiring managers, ensuring objectivity of the process and compliance with standard processes and best practices.
• Supports hiring managers in the evaluation and assessment of candidates to determine suitability for a given position.
• Compiles all recruitment related documentation in line with the Discovery standard recruitment and vendor management process.
• Communicates with candidates to provide status updates on their employment consideration and maintains relationships.
• Responsible for administration around employee onboarding (organising assessments and risk checks, booking induction, ordering assets, compiling contracts, and adding to onboarding group list, etc).
• Ensuring timeous on boarding and cross boarding of employees is conducted by line managers, by providing regular reports to business.

Personal Attributes and Skills

• Outstanding customer focus
• Self-starter
• Relationship building and networking
• Persuading and influencing
• Planning and organising
• Problem solver
• Delivering results and meeting customer expectations
• Coping with pressure and setbacks
• Working in a high pressurised environment
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)
• Conflict handling
• Persuasion
• Emotional Awareness
• Team player

Education

• Matric (Essential)
• HR qualification (Essential)
• Short term insurance and compliance knowledge related to Fit and Proper (Advantageous)

Experience

• Minimum of 3 years experience and demonstration as a talent acquisition specialist in scarce skills recruitment.
• Minimum of 2 years proven scenario based interviewing skills.
• Excellent overall understanding of the talent acquisition journey and meeting deadlines timeously.
• Minimum of 2 years working experience on all Microsoft office applications.
• Exposure and working knowledge of different recruitment sourcing platforms – LinkedIn etc.