Talent Acquisition Consultant at Sanlam Group

Are you ready to architect the future Sales workforce of Miway in Kwa-Zulu Natal?

We're looking for a proactive, Talent Acquisition professional to step into a fast paced role where you will directly impact Miway's continued growth in the war for top talent.

In this role you will be responsible for providing talent sourcing and recruitment expertise to support Miway business's current and future talent requirements that will empower the business to achieve its objective. 

Your core mission is to move beyond reactive hiring and execute the Employment Equity and strategic recruitment plan to ensure our talent mix is intentionally diverse and aligned with business goals.

You will be a Pipeline Architect, partnering with business leaders to proactively forecast needs and build robust, high-quality internal and external talent pools 

Knowledge and Skills

• Collaborate with business stakeholders and HC team to determine talent pool requirements.
• Proactively develop an internal and external talent database to increase recruitment responsiveness and effectiveness
• Manage recruitment process within SLA 
• Proactively develop and maintain suitable talent pools within Sales and Business insurance & Brokers, through a proactive talent search capability.
• Recruitment administrative and MIS reporting
• Consult with TA Manager, and business stakeholders to determine, plan and forecast current and future recruitment needs
• Data analytics (Talent mapping, Linkedin insights, best practice data)

Recruitment

• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to determine short and medium-term recruitment needs
• Provide external talent search capability and headhunting service to the business
• Set up and maintain talent-sourcing channels such as social media (Linkedin and TikTok) and search engines to uncover talent.
• Coordinate the advertisement of roles through TA Administrator to advertise vacancy in line with business requirements and relevant TA standards
• Leverage resources (including Ai) to screen and attract high caliber candidates through various social and professional networking site channels
• Conduct candidate screening and shortlisting 
• Manage consistent recruiting, interviewing and hiring processes that support the employer brand and create a positive candidate experience
• Guide and advise the business to stakeholders to effectively influence the hiring process in order to ensure the selection of top talent and support the achievement of employment equity targets
• Contribute to the offer negotiation process by objectively determining candidates' salary expectations in line with the budgeted salary benchmark for the role
• Regularly provide feedback to stakeholders throughout the recruitment process
• Accurately maintain and update recruitment documentation in line with relevant SOP
• Compile and submit recruitment scorecards, monthly reports and other related metrics as required
• Make recommendations to constantly enhance and improve talent attraction practices and processes

Self-management and Team work

• Develop and maintain productive and collaborative working relationships with peers (HC, L&D and Transformation teams) and stakeholders (Internal & external)
• Positively influence and participate in change initiatives
• Continuously develop own expertise in terms of professional, industry, and legislative knowledge
• Contribute to continuous innovation through development, sharing, implementation of new ideas

Contribute to financial controls

• Help maintain agency spending (recruitment agencies)
• Identify solutions to enhance cost-effectiveness and increase operational efficiencies
• Provide input in the risk identification process and communicate recommendations to TA Manager or in appropriate forums

Minimum Requirments 

Qualification

• A Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources or Industrial and Organisation Psychology or related qualification

Experience

• 3 – 5 years of bulk Talent Acquisition experience
• Recruitment Agency recruitment exposure advantageous
• Recruitment experience in the insurance or Financial Services industry is preferable
• High Volume recruitment experience desirable 
• Experience recruiting via Linkedin advantageous
• Strong Administartion skills

Knowledge and Skills

• Manage recruitment process ensuring governance
• Recruitment administrative support
• Data analytics and MIS reporting
• Understands business and role requirements
• Implement the transformational recruitment plan

Personal Attributes

• Plans and aligns - Contributing independently
• Attracts top talent - Contributing independently
• Decision quality - Contributing independently
• Interpersonal savvy - Contributing independently

Core Competencies

• Cultivates innovation - Contributing independently
• Customer focus - Contributing independently
• Drives results - Contributing independently
• Collaborates - Contributing independently
• Being resilient - Contributing independently