MAIN JOB PURPOSE:
The Unilever Employee Experience Team is focused on putting people first in each end-to-end HR experience to bring smiles to employee faces. As a member of this team, you will work with the Unilever business and HR teams to attract the best talent possible, deliver great quality service to hiring managers, and drive excellent candidate experiences.
As a Talent Partner, you must be passionate about creating a candidate experience like no other and have the ambition to deliver time and time again. The Talent Partner for East Africa is responsible for delivering best in class recruiting experience to Hiring Managers and candidates throughout the recruiting life cycle. They provide strategic support to the Line Manager and a “more human” experience for candidates. They partner with the HRBP as talent champion for the function(s) to create proactive demand plans and long term external talent pools. While recruitment will focus predominantly on East African markets, you will also recruit for other African markets when required.
JOB SUMMARY
Strategic Partnering
Leading strategic Talent Acquisition meetings with Line Manager & HRBP to drive end to end conversations on holistic/strategic plan (Contingent Workforce, Internal & External, and new talent economy).
Advise Hiring Manager into build, buy, borrow approach for each vacancy
Leading forecasting and demand planning discussions against business strategy
Developing and providing market insights to influence and determine resourcing decisions
In depth business and market knowledge to craft/co-create Job descriptions to engage active and passive talent
Attending internal talent forums and accessing data about availability of internal talent to become an internal sourcing channel
Managing end to end talent relationship at all levels
Trusted & strategic partnering within the business and HR to pro-actively identify resourcing needs and strategies of the function
Provide expertise, advise and coaching (E.g.: Assessment)
Recruitment and Resourcing
Enriching candidate experience through analytics and social listening
Developing sourcing methods to find the best drivers of talent
Utilising digital sourcing tools to develop pipelines of internal and external talent against functional and talent strategies
Continuously improving Sourcing strategy with sourcing channel innovation
Define and design process continuous improvement
Using expert knowledge to identify top talent and create a refined shortlist to share with HRBPS and business
Apply diverse talent selection techniques
Conducting adhoc and proactive talent mapping upon business requirements
Organising, managing and continuously improving proactive talent events (e.g. clearing house)
Part of Employer Brand network and Employer Brand advocates
Accountable for speed, cost and experience of key metrics through the recruitment cycle
Collect candidate / process feedback and input into system to further generate insights and reports
Inspiring passive talent about Unilever and delivering an exceptional experience throughout the engagement piece
Engage with potential candidates with a proactive plan based on local needs to maintain talent pools
Leading local functional specific projects (e.g. diversity.)
Conducting recruitment drives and anchoring selection process by coordinating between Hiring Manager & candidates
Negotiating and manage verbal offers with candidates after receiving HRBPs inputs
Managing the on-boarding process for candidates – from selection to offer acceptance.
Work with Africa Hub to complete recruitment administration
KEY REQUIREMENTS
Minimum 5 years of relevant recruitment experience
Experience recruiting from junior to Director level positions
Advanced sourcing knowledge and experience using LinkedIn Recruiter tool
Meet local education requirements in related field e.g. relevant qualification
Proficient in MS Office 365 (Excel, PowerPoint, Access, OneDrive, Outlook, SharePoint etc.)
Labour market knowledge
Forecasting Recruitment needs
Talent mapping & other recruitment sourcing strategies
Selection techniques (Assessment, Interviews, etc)
Client management
Superior interpersonal and communication skills
Solid customer service and relationship management skills
Ability to anticipate needs and solve problems proactively
Strong multi-tasking skills with a comfort in maintaining multiple, often conflicting, priorities, and deadlines
Demonstrated ability to work independently as well as in a collaborative team environment
Influencing and advisory skills
Strong analytical skills
Apply via :
careers.unilever.com
