Talent Acquisition Lead

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Job Position: Talent Acquisition Lead - Gulf

Function: Employee Services - HR

WL: 1E

Reports to: Talent Acquisition Manager NAME.

Dotted line reporting to HR Director Gulf.

Scope: Gulf

Location: UAE, Dubai

Company Profile:

Every day, around the world, people reach for Unilever products. Our brands are trusted everywhere and, by listening to the people who buy them, we've grown into one of the world's most successful consumer goods companies. In fact, 150 million times a day, someone somewhere chooses a Unilever product.

Look in your fridge, or on the bathroom shelf, and you're bound to see one of our well-known brands. We create market and distribute the products that people choose to feed their families and keep themselves and their homes clean and fresh.

Our Corporate Strategy aims to double the size of our business while reducing our environmental impact by 2020. As a result, in the months and years to come, we envisage many opportunities for our staff to progress and gain vital experience. It's never been such an exciting time to join the Unilever team.

Job purpose:
In the role of "Talent Acquisition Lead Gulf" you will contribute towards the achievement of the HR strategy by leading the Talent Acquisition agenda. As part of this agenda you are expected to build a pipeline of qualified candidates both in support of active vacancies as well as proactively to meet the business need, building strong partnerships with HR Business Partners, Hiring Managers, Internal and External Candidates. Aligned with the Talent Acquisition agenda, you will lead the execution of Employer Branding Strategy in Gulf with a goal of maintaining to be the number 1 Employer of Choice across FMCGs. In this role you will be in charge of Delivering a best in class recruiting experience to Hiring managers and Candidates throughout the recruiting life cycle. Providing strategic support to Line Managers and a "more human" experience for candidates is the ultimate deliverable of the recruitment process.

Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities:
- Accountable for the Recruitment SLA's (Service Level Agreement) of TTO (Time To Offer, Candidate and Hiring Manager satisfaction)
- Leads and manages Talent Advisors and/or interns allocated for Gulf Talent Acquisition
- Drives forecasting and demand planning discussions in partnership with HRBP's
- Leads proactive sourcing for External Talent Mapping & candidate engagement initiatives as per business need
- Manages requisitions for managerial level & specific critical roles in all levels. And depending on the volumes, makes trade-off's in the Talent Acquisition team
- Continually improves the Talent Acquisition processes with innovation
- Fully utilizes the digital sourcing tools
- Owns the relationship and process management with the recruitment agencies and the third-party labour providers
- Holds advisory meetings with stakeholders to triage external requirements and consulting on most effective talent solutions
- Accountable for the Employer Branding execution and activations in the Gulf countries. This includes running Internship programs, Students competitions, Campus Visits, Building relationship with Universities, Career Fairs, managing the relationships with the agencies and other service providers and executing Digital activations
- Manages UFLP hiring process for Gulf countries
- Ensures that global Recruitment process and guidelines are applied in Gulf countries by taking into consideration local requirements ( i.e. driven by Labour Law)Continuously engages with stakeholders (Hiring Managers, new joiners, HR Business Partners, HR Director) for feedback and improvements in execution of Talent Acquisition agenda

Requirements

Key Interfaces:
- HR Business Partners
- Talent Advisors
- Talent Acquisition Manager NAME
- HR Director Gulf
- Hiring Managers
- External candidates
- People experience leads
- Data specialist
- Service providers
- Partners in universities

About the Company

Unilever is one of the leading FMCG company with 400 brands spanning 14 categories of home, personal care and foods products, no other company touches so many people's lives in so many different ways.

Our brand portfolio has made us leaders in every field in which we work. It ranges from much-loved world favourites including Lipton, Knorr, Dove and Omo, to trusted local brands such as Blue Band and Suave.

From comforting soups to warm a winter's day, to sensuous soaps that make you feel fabulous, our products help people get more out of life.

We're constantly enhancing our brands to deliver more intense, rewarding product experiences. We invest €1 billion every year in cutting edge research and development, and have five laboratories around the world that explore new thinking and techniques to help develop our products.