Talent Acquisition Lead

What will you do?

Santam Human Resources has two positions available for a dynamic, results-orientated and client centric Talent Acquisition Lead who will be based in Gauteng or Western Cape.

These Positions Will Support The Below Business Units

• Client Solutions
• Broker Solutions

This role will be responsible for leading a team to deliver a full end to end talent acquisition (TA) service a specific region. The role will be responsible to ensure we deliver a professional TA service that includes sourcing, interviewing, conducting of integrity checks and offer management. This role will also manage the HR onboarding process. This role will actively implement the TA strategy around recruitment channels to ensure we provide a best cost-fit TA solution to the business.

What will make you successful in this role?

• Leads and oversees the full end to end Talent Acquisition process in the business.
• Provides training, coaching and support to the Talent Acquisition team (Talent Specialists and Recruitment Administrators).
• Monitors and interprets Talent Acquisition data to identify trends and suggests and implements actions to address.
• Effectively manages Talent Acquisition costs including agency costs.
• Stakeholder management with the business to audit Talent Acquisition service.
• Balances own priorities with directing and motivating others.
• Plans and assigns work across the team.

Qualification And Experience

• Relevant HR Degree.
• Registered Psychometrist would be preferable.
• 6- 10 years Recruitment experience working in an RPO or Volume business and at least 3 years talent lead/management experience
• Research methodology, head-hunting and differentiated sourcing strategies.
• Experience working with candidate management systems.
• Understanding of the fundamentals of outsourcing, agency work and labor broking is an advantage.

Knowledge And Skills

• Team leadership skills
• Strong networking skills
• Strong communication and relationship building skills
• Ability to work under pressure and manage tight deadlines
• Project management skills
• Ability to work and make decisions independently
• Computer literate (Excel, Word and PowerPoint)
• Dealing with confidentiality
• Report writing skills
• Results orientated, pro-active and deadline driven
• Self- management
• Execution focused
• Perseverance and go the extra mile to unearth talent
• Data Analytics and MIS reporting
• Transformational and new recruitment practices
• Perseverance and go the extra mile to unearth talent

Core Competencies

Cultivates innovation - Contributing through others

Customer focus - Contributing through others

Drives results - Contributing through others

Collaborates - Contributing through others

Being resilient - Contributing through others

About The Company

Santam is the market leader in the general insurance industry in Southern Africa. We are a large, diversified, expanding and transforming company and whilst based in South Africa, we are rapidly moving into a number of emerging markets, both in Africa and Asia.

Our success is rooted in our passion for our clients and everything we do is centered on our delivery of Insurance Good and Proper. Were about people. People drive our business so it follows that we want to recruit the best people possible whether they work for us permanently or for a short time as temporary employees.

At Santam we are committed to transformation and embracing diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse workplace with employment equity as a key goal to create an inclusive workforce, representative of the demographics of our society. In achieving our employment equity goals we give preference to applicants from the designated groups in alignment with the Divisions Employment Equity targets.