Talent Acquisition Specialist- P1 at Sandvik

The Role:

• Working as part of an integrated and collaborative People Operations function focused on driving business success, this role is responsible for the talent acquisition, talent development and succession planning through a business partnering approach. In addition to manage the end-to-end recruitment process to deliver quality candidates for the business and fill vacancies effectively.

Key Performance Areas:

• Partnering with the business and the managers on their workforce requirements to assist them with planning their teams current and future requirements. 
• Hire planning, identification, and development of talent acquisition strategies to build effective candidate pools.
• Develop a pool of qualified candidates in advance of need.
• Identify relevant platforms and post openings in online platforms, newspaper classifieds, with professional organizations, and in other position appropriate platforms.
• Research new ways of using the digital tools for recruitment.
• Create and maintain a relationship with all candidates in the talent pool.
• Network through industry contacts, association memberships and employees
• Develop and track measurable facets of talent acquisition
• Co ordinate and implement college talent acquisition initiatives i.e. career fairs, universities, schools etc.
• Preparation of recruitment tasks such as initial meeting, coordination of marketing activities, time outline, interview structure, position description reviews and/or development, drafting of adverts, advertising plans and developing advertisements, preparing effective interview questions and compiling of interview packs, scheduling of interviews, screening, short lists, psychometric testing, reference checks and pre-employment.
• Talent acquisition administrative duties i.e. candidate management, pre-employment etc.
• Execute hire transactions and relevant documentation eg. Policies, stater pack, employee benefit forms etc.
• Talent Development and Succession Planning ie. Working closely with the business managers to identify the key roles in their teams and support managers to identify future potential successors. Once successors are identified, ensuring successors have effective development plans, training, skills, and experience to be successful in the role.
• Supporting managers to develop effective development plans for each of their team members.
• Supporting managers to develop effective development plans for high potential employees.

Your Profile:

• Grade 12 / Equivalent qualification
• Bachelor’s degree in human resources or equivalent
• Human Resource background essential
• 3 – 5  years’ end to end recruitment experience 
• Experience in a role that requires strong planning and organizational skills with the ability to work proactively and independently.
• Knowledge of mining industry will be an added advantage
• Ability to communicate with various stakeholders at an appropriate level