Recruitment Manager - 9 Months Contract

Job description / Role

The Recruitment Manager – works closely with one of the line of services in the PwC Middle East Region to ‘partner’ them in their recruitment efforts and pro-actively managing their end to end recruitment process – including manpower planning, sourcing and routes to market, quality selection methodology and best practice, on-boarding and compensation & benefits.

The role requires constant, regular and consistent communication with the hiring departments to ascertain their manpower requirements, ideal job profiles and quality technical and person specifications and assignment briefings, updating on immediate recruitment activity and campaigns. In addition this role is pivotal to communicate and ensure adherence to recruitment best practices and procedures.

This role requires a good understanding of the ‘Big 4’ business and the roles within it so that the best quality individuals can be recruited.

The role requires a ‘service mentality’ so that your key stakeholders receive a quality in-house recruitment service with the objective of providing a quality candidate experience and ensuring that our employer branding is positively promoted at all times.

The organisation and implementation of regular selection events whether candidates are required or not will result in the delivery of a pro-active service and getting and staying ahead of the recruitment requirements.

It is essential to build and maintain positive working relationships with your stakeholders.

Responsibilities:
- Working with Directors and Partners to ascertain annual experienced hire & graduate recruitment needs ensuring campaigns are run inline with approved manpower plans and right quality individuals sourced and selected;
- Support recruitment campaigns and delivery of activity;
- Deliver or be part of a delivery team for projects during the course of the year which improve and move the recruitment department forward ;
- Sourcing candidates from Graduates to Partners from multiple sources, liaising with PwC Recruitment teams in other locations to share information and minimize duplication of effort;
- Creating and posting online and hard copy recruitment advertising on both internal and external job boards, newspapers, industry magazines, social media;
- Developing and promoting the PwC people value proposition within recruitment;
- Ensure the full end to end candidate experience is a quality one;
- Interviewing and testing candidates using the standard competency based recruitment model and employing psychometric testing within selection;
- Managing the end to end recruitment process in line with Global PwC standards and metrics
- Maintaining all reporting and administration to facilitate precise MIS;
- Report recruitment information & statistics to key internal clients, for purpose of tracking cost, time & source of hire and to keep them informed of progress on recruitment;
- Work with, the Graduate talent Manager and the People team on the region to achieve Graduate recruitment targets.

Requirements

- Pro-active, passionate, delivery focused experience Recruitment professional (or HR generalist with good recruitment record), who communicates regularly and consistently with internal clients, to build and maintain strong business relationships;
- HR Generalist or Recruitment specialist with 3 + years experience at Manager level or above required;
- Experience of in – house recruitment essential;
- Professional Services and / or Big 4 expertise and knowledge is essential;
- Knowledge and experience of the Middle East Region is required;
- Experience and proficiency in human resources and / or recruitment technology is essential (i.e Oracle / Applicant Tracking Systems such as Kenexa and Taleo);
- In depth knowledge of sourcing top quality candidates on line from Job Boards and Social Media (Linked in / Facebook);
- Experience and expertise of selection techniques essential including competency based interviewing and designing and running assessment centres is essential. Evidence of use of a variety of selection techniques including group exercises, case studies and analytical exercises is required;
- Professional Human Resources or Recruitment qualifications an advantage (i.e CIPD, Level A / B Psychometric Testing);
- Experience of using psychometric testing in selection is an advantage;
- Knowledge and experience of manpower planning, organisational design and succession planning is an advantage;
- Knowledge of and evidence of having established, recruitment best practices and processes is required.

About the Company

At PwC Middle East, we've set out an ambitious purpose and strive to live it everyday: to solve important problems and build trust in society.

We're a community of solvers that come together in unexpected ways to build trust and create sustained outcomes. We solve important problems, support one another as we grow, develop and build fulfilling careers.

PwC provides industry-focused services for public and private clients across Assurance and Audit, Deals, Consulting, Tax and Legal. We draw on our development legacy that brings together the collective experience of over 7,000 people in our region with offices across 12 countries to solve for tomorrow.

We're striving to consistently deliver innovative work that builds trust and delivers sustained outcomes. And we're proud of the strength that comes from all our different backgrounds and experiences and we value everyone's uniqueness. We thrive in uncertainty, operate with integrity and leverage the diverse perspectives of our teams.

If you're looking for a place that fuels your ambition to make a difference, that matches your curiosity with continuous learning opportunities and reimagines ways of working to enable you to lead a more balanced life, then you're a future PwCer.