Recruitment Team Lead

Job description / Role

Job Title: Recruitment Team Leader
Department: Recruitment
Location: Dubai, UAE
Reports To: Head of Recruitment

Job Purpose: To lead and manage a team of recruiters in achieving hiring targets, ensuring high-quality candidate delivery, and maintaining excellent client satisfaction. The role requires strong leadership, performance management, and process optimization skills.

Key Responsibilities:

Team Leadership:
- Supervise, mentor, and motivate a team of recruiters to achieve individual and team KPIs.
- Conduct regular one-on-ones, team meetings, and performance reviews.
- Develop team capabilities through training, feedback, and support.

Recruitment Operations:
- Oversee the full recruitment lifecycle – sourcing, screening, interviewing, and onboarding – for various roles across industries and geographies.
- Ensure all job requisitions are managed efficiently and within defined timelines.
- Work closely with clients and internal stakeholders to understand hiring needs and deliver quality candidates.

Process & Quality Management:
- Ensure adherence to recruitment processes, SLAs, and compliance standards.
- Monitor and improve sourcing strategies and database utilization.
- Drive adoption of ATS/CRM systems and ensure data accuracy and reporting.

Stakeholder Management:
- Act as the primary point of contact for escalations and complex requirements.
- Collaborate with the Sales and Delivery teams to align recruitment strategies with client goals.

Performance Reporting:
- Track team productivity, fill rates, TAT, and other key metrics.
- Provide weekly and monthly reports to management on team performance and hiring progress.

Key Requirements:

- Proven experience (4–7 years) in recruitment, preferably in agency environments.
- Prior experience in a leadership or mentoring role is a must.
- Strong understanding of sourcing tools, ATS platforms, and recruitment metrics.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, target-driven environment.

Preferred Skills:

- Experience recruiting across GCC markets.
- Exposure to volume hiring or specialised technical hiring.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and make decisions.

About the Company

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Connect Resources is U.A.E’s leading HR Management Agency and an official alliance of Randstad that offers paramount consultancy services to our clients. We foster an unparalleled industry insight and a sophisticated consultative approach to meet all your HR consultancy needs

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Through our unique approach of delivering HR innovation with human interaction at the center, Connect Resources have been able to accommodate many of the clients’ requirements in different verticals and matched thousands of candidates to rewarding roles in the U.A.E. Connect Resources advances the careers and business success of our candidates and clients through a combination of Talent hunt & Customized Solutions based on the client Business Needs.