Tech Talent Acquisition Manager (Remote, United Kingdom)

Tech Talent Acquisition Manager (Remote, United Kingdom)

This position will report to the Head of Talent Acquisition and can be based anywhere where possible to work within a time zone -1/+3 hours UTC.

Our client is a fast-growing FinTech company offering millions of underbanked customers across Africa access to life-enhancing products and services.

They are looking for a Talent Acquisition Manager to join their HR team.  Our client requires a TA professional who is organized, proactive, and confident working in a fast-paced, high-pressured environment. The HR team supports and develops our client’s talented workforce to ensure they have the right skills, at the right time and in the right place.

Your main objective will be to develop Talent Acquisition strategies and practices and build on our client’s employer branding to develop improved direct pipelines. This role will focus on Technology teams, currently going through a period of high growth in a demanding market.  Additionally you will support our client’s global team, working closely with teams in Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, and Ghana.

Responsibilities

• Act as a representative of the company’s TA team, driving confidence and reliance on this teams for advice and best practice

• Lead on the transactional, end-to-end recruitment process for all Technology roles, from brief approval to offer, taking ownership of companies ATS system and candidate relationships

• Work with agencies to ensure effective relationships, sharing the internal knowledge to enhance partner ability to source the best candidates

• Actively recruit from the active and passive market in accordance with business strategy, through methods such as headhunting, referrals, and developing talent pools, ensuring a consistent pipeline of high calibre talent

• Source a highly diverse pool of candidates, in line with our client’s internal diversity metrics, through pro-active sourcing and establishing positive recruitment practices, whilst ensuring compliance with diversity regulations

• Negotiate competitive offers and ensure that our client’s benefits package and salaries are sufficient within the global market, collaborating with the wider HR team to ensure internal bandings are accurate

• Develop uniform global recruitment materials and practices for us, such as selection matrixes and advertisement materials, that can be adopted by the global HR team, and form part of our client’s global recruitment strategy

• Collaborate with the wider global and regional HR teams on various tasks, such as ensuring successful onboarding of new candidates, continuous improvement projects, and internal policies

• Develop the company’s employer brand and presence in the global Technology market to become an Employer of choice

• Contribute to the global recruitment strategy, and support regional HR teams to develop market related sourcing strategies

• Focus on reducing recruitment costs, evaluating recruitment methods, whilst ensuring that the recruitment of top-level talent is not impacted

• Build stakeholder relationships and provide advisory support to managers, ensuring all are trained and comfortable with the recruitment process, and acting within best practice and aligned to our client’s strategy and value

• Support senior leadership teams and HRBPs evaluate talent and develop workforce plans in conjunction with wider organizational strategy, to ensure current and future talent needs are met

• Act as source of knowledge and advise on the global tech market and employment regulations, providing valuable insights and analysis, and considering future predictions

• Assist on adhoc projects as needed

Qualifications 

Must have experience in the Technology/software/IT sector 

• You are a confident and clear communicator, comfortable with building relationships and adapting your approach to a variety of stakeholders

• You are organized and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, with a proactive nature

• Have a strong understanding of employment law and best practices, in particular, focused on sourcing and recruitment

• You are an experienced recruiter, understanding and completing the full end-to-end recruitment process and all related administration, as well as having experience of headhunting within passive markets

• You are familiar with an applicant tracking system, with Lever experience being desirable although not essential

• You are comfortable using all Microsoft packages, including outlook, teams and word

• You are experienced working alongside agencies, and have an open-minded approach to working alongside agencies as part the recruitment strategy

• You have extensive experience, and a passion, for the Technology market, with a developed network within this space and experience of alternative recruitment methods to engage this market

• You have experience recruiting challenging roles and in a high-volume environment

• You have recruited globally, and understand the associated challenges such as developing diverse talent pools

• You are collaborative, with strong communication skills, and enjoy working in large teams, including contributing to global HR teams

• You have led on recruitment strategies in previous roles, including areas such as employer branding, recruitment materials and policies, workforce planning, and developing internal bandings and packages

• You are enthusiastic about project work and taking on leadership roles within this