Lead: Talent Acquisition

1 week ago

Sandton, South Africa Absa Bank Limited Full time

Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together one story at a time.
- With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.Job Summary

Provide complex advice and support in the positioning of Talent Acquisition & Mobility operating models and frameworks in a broadly defined business functional strategy to enable and develop the Talent Acquisition and Mobility practice to international best practice status.

**Job Description**:
Key Accountabilities:
Stakeholder Management:

- Be a trusted advisor and strategic partner by delivering the basics consistently well and adding value to the business
- Challenge the thinking of the business when appropriate in terms of their Talent Acquisition & Mobility strategy. Build relationships vertically and horizontally in Talent Acquisition.
- Effectively manage and engage external PSL and recruitment agencies Manage agency and third party spend Manage channel usage, targets and agency utilisation
- Partner with HRBP’s and Hiring Managers in the recruitment of Specialist positions
- Lead and coordinate end to end Talent Acquisition & Mobility services to the business and be accountable for proactively communicating and updating key stakeholders
- Agree service levels with business areas/HC Leads/HRBP’s and ensure that Talent Acquisition & Mobility service provided to the business areas complies with internal operating levels between Business and Resourcing.
- Provide regular feedback to cluster Resourcing Head, Cluster HC Heads and BU Leaders on the TA scorecard.
- Drive Excellence within the Talent Acquisition & Mobility Team

Talent Acquisition and Selection:

- Define and ensure implementation of innovative sourcing strategies that will enable the establishment of a diverse pool of talent geared to meet the evolving needs of the Cluster Workforce Plan.
- Proactively explore all available channels and processes to build diverse pools of talent across Africa.
- Engage in recruitment for senior level positions for the relevant Cluster’s and participate in interviews on request for key roles
- Work with Cluster Head to compile high reward package offers and buy-outs assisting in the negotiation process.
- Ensure timely on-boarding of senior hires and adherence to onboarding policies and procedures Identification of critical senior vacancies - build proactive pipelines and agree transformation plans with the Cluster seniors including targets and timelines.
- Scan the external market to understand future challenges and ensure that the team is resourced to deal with multiple and often contradicting scenarios across the African Continent.
- Drive the Group’s transformation agenda Together with HC Heads, identify key senior roles for succession planning in the portfolios

Delivery:

- Bring the best talent, at the right time, at the right cost, at the right place and gain our unfair share of the talent market.
- Develop a cost-effective Talent Acquisition & Mobility strategy
- Deliver on the basics consistently by overcoming challenges.
- Meet and exceed clients resourcing expectations Providing reporting in terms of Management Information to the resourcing team and to internal clients.
- Ensure the Talent Acquisition & Mobility team provides quality and timely MI via the recruitment system, agree the overall metrics for Talent Acquisition & Mobility with internal partners and clients i.e. time to fill, quality and cost. Analysis, interpretation and distribution of monthly/quarterly/annual resourcing strategy, demand planning/forecasting and associated costs.
- Contribute to the completion of forecasted recruitment demand/MTP working with the business and HRBP’s.
- Deliver on the HC strategy and build diverse talent pools by proactively exploring all channels and processes

Leadership:

- Build the teams capability through, but not limited to, acquiring the right talent, succession planning, team performance development, team motivation acquiring the right talent and being accountable for the team structure and architecture to enable delivery.

Qualification, Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

- Bachelor’s Degree (NQF 7)
- Extensive Talent Acquisition & Mobility experience in a large corporate (financial services preferred)
- Talent Acquisition & Mobility strategy development and implementation
- Solid experience in leading teams
- Commercial mindset
- Digital familiarity
- Effective communication
- Emotional intelligence
- Ethics and values
- Leading change

Education

Bachelors Degree and Professional Qualifications: Human and Social Studies (required)
- Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised_

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