Talent Expansion Specialist at The South African Breweries (SAB)

Key Outputs & Responsibilities

Talent Program Execution

• Support the end-to-end recruitment, selection, intake, and talent pipeline activities for AB InBev Talent Programs, including GMT, DynamX, Internships, Apprenticeships, Supply Chain Trainees, and other early career initiatives across all Business Units within the Zone.
• Execute annual talent program attraction and recruitment activities aligned to business workforce planning requirements and future talent needs.
• Support the successful delivery of talent program recruitment cycles by ensuring achievement of hiring targets, candidate quality metrics, diversity objectives, and service level agreements.
• Establish and maintain talent pipelines for critical capability areas to ensure proactive sourcing of future talent.

Stakeholder & Project Management

• Act as the primary contact for People Teams, L&D and Program Teams throughout the talent program lifecycle.
• Support the Talent Expansion Lead by communicating Zone-wide Talent Program recruitment and activation calendar.
• Lead and coordinate cross-functional talent attraction projects, driving execution, change management, stakeholder engagement, and successful business outcomes.
• Facilitate regular governance forums and business updates to ensure transparency of recruitment progress, risks, challenges, and mitigation actions.

Employer Branding & Talent Attraction

• Coordinate employer branding and social media campaigns that strengthen AB InBev's Employee Value Proposition (EVP) and position the company as an employer of choice from a graduate and early career talent perspective
• Support the Talent Expansion Lead by building and maintain strategic relationships with universities, professional institutions, student organizations, graduate networks, and other external talent communities.
• Represent AB InBev at career fairs, recruitment events, campus engagements, networking forums, and talent attraction initiatives.
• Proactively identify innovative sourcing channels, recruitment technologies, and attraction strategies to improve access to high-calibre graduate, early career talent.

Candidate Experience Management

• Manage the end-to-end candidate experience, ensuring timely communication, engagement, and a positive employer brand experience throughout the recruitment journey.
• Coordinate and facilitate assessments (where required) required for talent programs.
• Partner with assessment providers and external vendors to ensure seamless assessment administration, reporting, compliance, and candidate support.
• Drive consistent and objective assessment and selection processes aligned with AB InBev Africa Zone Recruitment Policy and recruitment governance standards.

Talent Pipeline & Recruitment Operations

• Build and maintain talent pools across key functional disciplines and proactively engage passive talent for future opportunities.
• Develop sourcing strategies utilizing direct search, social recruiting, referrals, digital platforms, and integrated talent attraction methodologies.
• Support high-volume recruitment campaigns and manage multiple concurrent talent pipelines across countries and business functions.
• Ensure all recruitment activities are accurately managed within Workday and other recruitment systems.

Data Analytics & Reporting

• Provide comprehensive recruitment analytics, market intelligence, pipeline insights, and talent program reporting to support data-driven decision making.
• Monitor key recruitment metrics including application conversion, time-to-fill, time-to-hire, candidate quality, assessment outcomes, employment equity (where required and applicable), and onboarding effectiveness.
• Identify trends, risks, and opportunities through data analysis and recommend actionable interventions to improve talent outcomes.
• Maintain dashboards and executive reports that provide visibility into recruitment performance and talent program effectiveness.

Recruitment Delivery:

Manage end-to-end recruitment activities, including:

• Requisition creation, approvals, and job postings
• Intake and calibration sessions with Program Managers, Hiring Managers and People Business Partners.
• Candidate sourcing, screening, shortlisting, and interview coordination.
• Facilitation of interviews, assessment processes, and candidate evaluations.
• Background, reference, and pre-employment verification processes.
• Offer preparation and offer acceptance management.
• Employee take-on coordination and system initiation processes.
• Recruitment communications, vacancy reporting, and new hire announcements for early career/Talent Programs.

Ideal candidate profile/ minimum requirement:

• Relevant degree in Human Resources/Industrial & Organizational psychology and/or related discipline or equivalent
• 2 to 3 years Recruitment/Talent Attraction experience, preferably in an FMCG
• Previous talent pipeline/program experience will be highly advantageous
• High attention to detail
• Excellent Customer service orientation
• Ability to influence and consult across organizational levels
• Strong sales and marketing orientation from a talent attraction perspective
• Analytical and communication skills
• Upholds the highest level of confidentiality, discretion and integrity
• Coordination skills, presentation skills and a high sense of accuracy
• Communicative, team oriented and open for change
• Highly results focused
• Leads by example, and lives the company’s values