Talent Acquisition Executive

GMG is a global well-being company retailing distributing and manufacturing a portfolio of leading international and home-grown brands across sport everyday goods health and beauty properties and logistics sectors. Under the ownership and management of the Baker family for over 45 years GMG is a valued partner of choice for the worlds most successful and respected brands in the well-being sector. Working across the Middle East North Africa and Asia GMG has introduced more than 120 brands across 12 countries. These include notable home-grown brands such as Sun & Sand Sports Dropkick Supercare Pharmacy Farm Fresh Klassic and international brands like Nike Columbia Converse Timberland Vans Mama Sitas and McCain.

What youll be doing:

The job holder is responsible for executing the recruitment plans and to ensure all manpower requirements of the GMG are met as per the defined recruitment policy.

• Support the business unit during manpower planning and scheduling
• Create and own a hiring plan for different brands to fulfil budgeted requirements
• Interact with business units and line managers to assess recruitment requirements and provide solutions to attract and source quality local and global candidates in a timely manner
• Manage end-to-end recruitment cycle (attract source select and offer management) and drive a proactive fulfilment of business requirements through developing an extensive network/talent pool in the market.
• Ensure that each stage of the recruitment process is completed within the required time frame.
• Support and educate line managers with appropriate assessment tools to attract source and select the right talent.
• Provide the business with market mapping data to ensure current market trends and status are considered for any recruitment campaigns.
• Facilitate and record activities and results and ensure results are used in a comparative fashion to guarantee merit-based decisions are taken on candidates
• Plan and develop Talent Pools for the business in order to meet the requirements of the Hiring Plan
• Use relevant interviewing techniques to match & select candidate profiles with business requirements
• Ensure candidates are fully referenced checked before selecting the final candidate
• Manage offers and ensure they are in line with business manpower budgets provided by the HRBP and internal total rewards policies
• Ensure SLAs are adhered to and processes followed for all roles

What we need:

• A Bachelors degree within any professional field relevant to the business area or within HR would be preferred.
• A minimum of 3 years recruitment/sourcing experience in UAE is required
• Experience of working within a large matrix organization would be an advantage.
• In house experience is preferred with the ability to manage complex stakeholders and multiple HRBPs
• Experience in working with high volume or niche roles
• Previous experience working with an ATS preferred (Success Factors)
• Good knowledge of UAE labor laws and regulations
• Experience in creating extensive market mapping to provide the business and company with specific candidate and company market data
• Experience conducting large scale candidate assessment centers would be preferred.