2013-06-25

Job Title: Recruitment Manager

Employer: General Electric (GE)

Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Job Number: 1787710

Business: GE Global Growth & Operations

Business Segment: Global Growth & Operations – Africa

Career Level: Experienced

Function: Human Resources

Function Segment: Talent Recruitment

Relocation Assistance: Yes

About Us: GE (NYSE: GE) works on things that matter. The best people and the best technologies taking on the toughest challenges. Finding solutions in energy, health and home, transportation and finance. Building, powering, moving and curing the world. Not just imagining. Doing. GE works. For more information, visit the company’s website at www.ge.com.

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 in West Africa. As a result of our strategic recruitment planning, business focus and increasing regional growth we are seeking to hire an experienced recruiter to support our Oil and Gas business in West Africa.

Essential Responsibilities:

You will be part of a highly visible recruitment team in Nigeria that seeks to deliver best quality external talent for GE businesses based on planned hires and increasing business priorities. As a Recruitment Manager you will be responsible for partnering a customer group or business vertical to ensure businesses and talent plans are converted into on time hires through executing robust and effective recruitment strategy. You will be accountable for full cycle sourcing and candidate assessment, at all times placing speed, metrics, quality and candidate and hiring manager experience at the heart of your activities.

• Full cycle recruitment process ownership for assigned customer groups

• Partner with business to gather specific customer needs related to recruitment and develop strategic recruitment plan

• Lead job briefing and hiring plan creation with hiring managers and HR Managers

• Create attractive advertising copy

• Develop talent sourcing strategy for customers utilizing multiple hiring channels

• Partner with customers to develop long term talent pipelining requirements

• Drive proactive talent acquisition activity

• Source, screen and interview candidates to deliver high quality on time candidate shortlists to customers

• Deliver hires against defined metrics and SLAs

• Lead transformation and process improvement projects

• Share best practice and develop SSA recruitment team knowledge and skills

• Lead and manage sub teams within the recruitment structure

• Support University and development program hiring

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Minimum 5 years’ relevant recruitment experience including recruitment leadership

• Strong communication, influencing and interpersonal skills

• Ability to provide leadership and direction within a virtual team environment

• Excellent consultative account management and business partnering skills with stakeholders at all levels

• Outstanding interview, assessment and candidate management

• Must be detailed oriented, organised and able prioritize complex multiple tasks and projects

• Proven ability to work well in a fast paced and complex organization

• Track record of delivering high quality candidate shortlists on time and within budget in a high volume 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, vision and innovation to drive improved performance, recruitment processes and tools

• Strong business acumen

• Expert in current technology which supports the identification, acquisition and on boarding of top talent using a broad range of creative sourcing channels, including data mining, advertising, direct research, networking and internet and database search

• Hold NYSC certificate

• Must possess right to live and work in Nigeria

Additional Eligibility Qualifications:

Desired Characteristics:

• Familiarity with recruitment management systems, preferably Kenexa Brassring

• Experience of Energy or Oil and Gas recruitment, particularly sales or engineering

• Africa recruitment experience

• Knowledge of local labour legislation and requirements

• External Vendor management

• Project management skills

• Degree in Business, Human Resources or a related field

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