Talent Acquisition & Employer Brand Manager

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You provide a talent acquisition service for all Executive, Senior Leadership, Professional and critical roles. You ensure an efficient and effective talent acquisition process and identify great talent to meet the company’s objectives. You will act as a strategic talent scout, innovator, collaborator and effective networker across all business functions in Tiger Brands and use the Employer Brand to focus on key talent segments and design focused acquisition campaigns.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Design a talent acquisition strategy to support the development of the Executive, Snr Leadership, Professional, Critical and Young Talent acquisition objectives
• Provide strategic oversight of the Young Talent portfolio, and integration of early career programmes into the employer brand and talent acquisition & development strategy.
• Leverage the Employer Brand to focus on key talent segments and design focused acquisition campaigns to build and sustain relationships with the channel providers (where needed)
• Develop and manage the Strategic Workforce Plan for the organization and share this with key role players to ensure proactive talent acquisition, retention and succession
• Enable the Talent acquisition strategy of execution by the P&OE managers and HRBPs. This includes proactively sourcing talent for the Executive, Snr Leadership, Professional and Critical Roles in partnerships with HRBPs
• External mapping and creation of talent pools for leadership and critical skills - this includes roles at D band that are critical to the organization’s strategy execution across the group. The P&OE managers will do this for D and C band and below roles in their specific functions.
• Talent Acquisition analytics and Business Intelligence including mining of data from LinkedIn and other channels in collaboration with people insights specialist in the HR Strategy and Capability team
• Management of strategic partnerships with sourcing agencies and channels such as LinkedIn, glass doors, rising stars, SAGEA, Universum etc in collaboration with early career development team
• Lead development and execution of Employer Brand and be the face of Tiger to the external market and prospective employees.
• Conduct recruiting strategy meetings with senior management for open positions and discusses methodology to ensure the most qualified candidates are identified
• Work closely with the P&OE Managers to fill vacant roles with internal and external pipeline candidates
• Manage full life-cycle recruiting process for assigned Executive, Snr Leadership, Professional and Critical Roles
• Drive compliance to Employment Equity targets as specified in BBBEE plan
• Own the management and development of technology and digital platforms that enable talent acquisition across Tiger.
• Support the development of talent research capability and expertise in the P&OE
• Identify and utilize relevant multiple channels to attract and source candidates for the different workforce segments, open roles and pipelining as per the sourcing strategy including: association meetings, meet ups, industry meetings, career fairs, university open days, internet, employee referrals, etc
• Utilize and maintain applicant tracking system, understand the candidate workflow process
• Design, track and report on talent acquisition key metrics to measure and evaluate effectiveness of programmes, processes to ensure continuous improvement
• Conduct candidate screenings and screening interviews
• Lead the hiring manager satisfaction process to calibrate candidates, and refine sourcing plan as necessary

WHAT YOU’LL BRING TO THE TABLE

Key attributes and competencies

• Relationship building – with demonstrated success at building and managing meaningful relationships with external candidates and business leadership
• Employer Brand – design and execute for talent attraction and retention
• Stakeholder management – build and maintain relationships with strategic external stakeholder i.e UNIVERSUM, SAGEA
• Talent Analytics - Talent Acquisition analytics and Business Intelligence including mining of data
• Talent acquisition expertise – with a deep knowledge on methods and strategies to convert highly skilled candidates into Tiger Brands employees
• Negotiation skills – with an ability to negotiate contracts that align Tiger Brands and candidate salary expectations

Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Prior experience of full life-cycle executive position recruitment experience with at least two years in a corporate environment (preferably FMCG)
• Experience working with multiple executive stakeholders with demonstrated ability to influence leaders at the highest levels of the organisation
• Previous work experience in a managerial/technical role outside of Human Resources (preferred)

WHAT YOU WILL BE MEASURED ON

• Employment Equity score
• Vacancy fill rate
• Time to fill
• Employer of Choice Certification (achieved
• Employer Brand campaigns
• Hiring Manager satisfaction
• Candidate experience

In accordance with the employment equity plan of Tiger Brands and its employment equity goals and targets, preference may be given, but is not limited, to candidates from under-represented designated groups.