Specialist Talent Acquisition

About The Opportunity

What’s On Your Plate?

• Plan and participate in strategic planning meetings with key business partners to understand current and upcoming requirements in order to build a plan on how to effectively recruit for positions within your area of responsibility.
• Ownership of the entire recruitment process including requisition approval, hiring manager briefing, job advertising, candidate sourcing, application review, candidate screening, interview strategy and offer process.
• Leverage relevant advertising resources to create awareness and attract qualified applications for key roles within your area of responsibility.
• Leverage candidate databases (internal and external) to identify prospective candidates to create awareness and invite them to apply for open positions including cold calling prospects.
• Build and maintain candidate pools of strong candidates and new prospective candidates within the functional area that your support.
• Conduct weekly check-ins with active candidates and hiring managers throughout the entire recruiting process for each role.
• Support planning and gathering information for quarterly review meetings with key stakeholders that will provide an overview of recruiting achievements as well as opportunities to improve hiring performance moving forward.
• Partner with recruiting and sourcing colleagues to share candidates and jobs to encourage a collaborative hiring process.
• Utilize recruitment systems effectively following key standards, documenting key actions and ensuring all data is accurate for reporting purposes.
• Support additional recruitment initiatives as needed.
  
  

What you need to be successful

What Did We Order?

• Minimum of 3 years experience in talent acquisition ideally within a fast-paced agency or client.
• Track record for delivering high-impact customer experiences and implementing new solutions to support their business area.
• Track record of driving recruiting initiatives (i.e. proactive recruiting, internal recruiting, diversity, etc) and achieving goals.
• Demonstrated ability to drive holistic recruitment strategy (i.e. employer branding, social recruiting, etc.)
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple priorities
• Experience with applicant tracking systems and other recruitment tools
  
  

Who we are

As the region’s leading local tech organization, we’re proud to say that we have been delivering for millions of people right across MENA for the past 18 years.

We were founded in Kuwait in 2004, and acquired by Delivery Hero (DHER) in 2015. This gives us a unique outlook - local knowledge with global expertise. It also allows us to innovate, create, and bring new technologies for the betterment of the MENA region, such as q-commerce, sustainable packaging, cloud kitchens, autonomous delivery vehicles, robots, and drones.

We deliver across 9 countries with more than 4,500+ employees! Our food delivery business works with over 27,000 brands and almost 50,000 branches.

Our q-commerce concept, talabat mart (121 Stores), now delivers groceries to customers in Bahrain, Iraq, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and the UAE in 30 minutes or less!

talabat is part of the Delivery Hero Group, the world’s leading local delivery platform operating in 70+ countries worldwide