Sr. Specialist Talent Acquisition - 6 month contract

Company Description

When you think of food delivery in the MENA region, we’d be pretty surprised if talabat didn’t pop
into your mind first! Since delivering our first order in Kuwait in 2004, we’ve grown quite a lot over the
past 17 years.

Today, we deliver hundreds of millions of food orders, grocery items and other products per year, to
our customers in nine countries throughout the region with more than 3,000+ employees! Our food
delivery business works with over 27,000 brands and almost 50,000 branches, while our
q-commerce concept, talabat mart, now delivers groceries to customers in Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan,
Kuwait, Oman Qatar, and the UAE in 30 minutes or less!
Our philosophy is to make sure we do what is right for our ecosystem - our customers, our partners,
our people, our riders, and the communities in which we operate. Our #techforgood program allows
our customers a safe and convenient way to contribute to important causes in their community
through donating to local and international charities directly on talabat with a focus on food
insecurity in the region. Since its inception in 2020, we have facilitated the donation of well over 1
million meals to those in need, as well as donated over $1.5 million to charity with the help of our
partners and customers. talabat is part of Delivery Hero, the global leader in online food delivery and
q-commerce.


 

Job Description

Talabat are looking to hire immediately available Sr Talent Acquisition Specialists for an initial 6 month contract to be located in our Dubai HQ

Additional Information

Responsibilities

• Plan and participate in strategic planning meetings with key business partners to understand current and upcoming requirements in order to build a plan on how to effectively recruit for positions within your area of responsibility.
• Ownership of the entire recruitment process including requisition approval, hiring manager briefing, job advertising, candidate sourcing, application review, candidate screening, interview strategy and offer process.
• Leverage relevant advertising resources to create awareness and attract qualified applications for key roles within your area of responsibility.
• Leverage candidate databases (internal and external) to identify prospective candidates to create awareness and invite them to apply for open positions including cold calling prospects.
• Build and maintain candidate pools of strong candidates and new prospective candidates within the functional area that your support.
• Conduct weekly check-ins with active candidates and hiring managers throughout the entire recruiting process for each role.
• Support planning and gathering information for quarterly review meetings with key stakeholders that will provide an overview of recruiting achievements as well as opportunities to improve hiring performance moving forward.
• Partner with recruiting and sourcing colleagues to share candidates and jobs to encourage a collaborative hiring process.
• Utilize recruitment systems effectively following key standards, documenting key actions and ensuring all data is accurate for reporting purposes.
• Support additional recruitment initiatives as needed.