GE Recruits Talent Sourcing Manager

GE is a global energy, technology infrastructure and finance company taking on the world’s toughest challenges. From everyday light bulbs to fuel cell technology, to cleaner more efficient jet engines, GE has continually shaped our World with groundbreaking innovations for over 130 years. In fact, we are one of the world’s biggest companies employing over 300,000 people and consistently receive global recognition for outstanding leadership and innovation. GE employees have an unparalleled foundation on which to build their careers, their abilities and their dreams. We offer all our employees challenging, rewarding careers in dynamic businesses, giving them a genuine chance to shape the future

GE is recruiting to fill the below position of:

Job Title: Talent Sourcing Manager

Job No: 1608436
Business: GE Global Growth & Operations
Business Segment: Global Growth & Operations - Africa
Location: IIkoyi - Lagos, Nigeria

Role Summary/Purpose:    
Our resourcing teams are at the heart of our ability to attract and hire the very best talent available to drive our continued growth. As a result of our strategic recruitment planning, business focus and increasing regional growth we are seeking to hire a Talent Sourcing Manager into Sub Saharan Africa to owe and drive our Talent Sourcing strategy

Essential Responsibilities:    

• Develop and implement a cross business, cross geography Talent attraction strategy for Sub Saharan Africa
• Develop critical pipelines of talent for key and scarce skill set roles, utilizing long term work force planning and Growth Play-book data. Partner with businesses to define medium to long term talent requirements
• Increase GE brand presence in all markets as an Employer of choice through partnering with communications team
• Meet diversity hiring targets through targeted
• Increase internal referrals by leveraging Whodoyouknow campaign
• Develop diaspora and ‘Back 2 Africa’ strategies to maximize returnee numbers to GE. Partner with other Staffing and Talent Acquisition teams in GE
• Ensure localization hiring targets are met for Sub Saharan Africa
• Lead a virtual team of dotted line reports to create a cohesive talent hunting team
• Create tools, best practice process and techniques to allow for talent mapping, pipelining and data sharing
• Ensure consistent yield of candidates from social media channels; Facebook, Twitter, Linked in
• Maintain newspaper, internet, third party vendor sourcing databases to ensure maximum yield
• Manage recruitment agency relationships
• Leverage all available GE global CRM and sourcing tools
• Design recruitment event calendar for region and implement with local and global recruitment teams
• Ensure systems compliance to produce accurate hiring data
• Lead transformation and process improvement projects in talent sourcing
• Share best practice and develop SSA recruitment team knowledge and skills
• Partner with University Relations Manager to increase hiring via University channels

Qualifications/Requirements:    

• Minimum 10 years’ plus relevant recruitment experience including recruitment leadership
• Strong communication, influencing and interpersonal skills
• Proven and demonstrated ability to provide leadership and direction within a virtual team environment through tangible delivery
• Excellent consultative account management and business partnering skills with stakeholders at all levels
• Must be proactive detailed oriented, organised and able prioritize complex multiple tasks and projects in timely fashion
• Proven ability to deliver required work outputs in a fast paced and complex organization
• Demonstrated track record of sourcing top talent on time and within budget in a headhunting, agency or corporate recruitment environment
• Must be able to develop and implement complex processes across multiple locations and businesses
• Metric and SLA focused
• Process and compliance focused
• Demonstrable strategic thought-leadership in proactive recruitment, vision and innovation to drive improved performance, recruitment processes and tools
• Strong business acumen
• Expert in current technology which supports the identification of top talent using a broad range of creative sourcing channels, including data mining, advertising, direct research, networking and internet and database search
• Able to travel regularly
• Must possess right to live and work in country of vacancy
• Degree in Business, Human Resources or a related field

Additional Eligibility Qualifications:    
Desired Characteristics:    

• Familiarity with recruitment management systems, preferably Kenexa Brassring
• Technical/Engineering hiring experience
• Pan-Africa recruitment experience
• Knowledge of local labour legislation and requirements
• External Vendor management
• Project management skills
• Change management experience
• Good language skills: English plus French or Portuguese

Application Closing Date:
20th March, 2013

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should
Click here to apply online