Specialist: Talent Acquisition

Why This Role Exists

What You’ll Be Doing

• Partner with hiring managers to define role requirements, success profiles, and hiring strategies
• Act as a trusted advisor, providing guidance on talent availability, market trends, and hiring approaches
• Manage the end-to-end recruitment process (brief → interview → offer → close)
• Facilitate structured, competency-based interviews and assessments
• Influence and guide hiring decisions to ensure fairness, consistency, and quality of hire
• Deliver a seamless, professional, and engaging candidate experience
• Track, analyse, and report on recruitment metrics, insights, and hiring progress
• Identify opportunities to optimise processes and improve hiring effectiveness
• Ensure compliance with relevant labour legislation and internal policies

What You Bring

You are a credible Talent Advisor who brings insight, structure, and confidence into every hiring conversation.

You likely have:

• At least 2–3 years’ experience in Talent Acquisition / Recruitment, ideally with exposure to technology and data-related roles
• Proven experience managing end-to-end recruitment processes in a target-driven environment
• Strong stakeholder management and the ability to influence and challenge constructively
• Confidence in advising on hiring decisions using data, insights, and structured evaluation methods
• A track record of building trusted relationships with business stakeholders

Proven experience in:

• Interviewing techniques (including telephonic and competency-based interviewing)
• Candidate response handling and constructive feedback delivery
• Recruitment and selection processes and methodologies
• Application and interpretation of assessments (e.g. ability tests, personality questionnaires)
• Working with structured hiring frameworks and best practices

Ideal:

• Experience with management competency frameworks, including assessment and feedback
• Exposure to talent review processes and development conversations
  Ability to contribute to broader talent discussions beyond hiring (e.g. talent planning, succession, capability building)

Why Join Us

• Be more than a recruiter – Step into a true Talent Advisor role, where your insights and guidance directly influence hiring decisions and business outcomes.  
• Partner with purpose - Work closely with leaders to shape teams, not just fill roles, and contribute to long-term talent success.  
• Drive real impact – Play a key role in hiring critical mid to senior talent, where quality truly matters.  
• Elevate your craft – Strengthen your expertise in structured hiring, assessments, and talent advisory within a high-performing environment.  
• Shape better hiring experiences – Help build a fair, consistent, and engaging recruitment journey for every candidate.

Kindly note: This position operates on a hybrid model, with a requirement of 60% on-site presence at our Stellenbosch HQ. Candidates must be able to commute or open to relocation.