Talent Acquisition Manager
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About the Role
Infrarose seeks a Manager – Talent Acquisition to lead end-to-end recruitment in Kinshasa, DRC. The role requires strategic and hands-on experience building recruitment frameworks, managing senior searches, and influencing candidates for challenging markets.
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Responsibilities
- Develop and execute Talent Acquisition strategy aligned with business priorities
- Lead annual recruitment planning in collaboration with business leaders and HR leadership
- Oversee end to end recruitment processes ensuring efficiency, quality, compliance, and candidate experience
- Personally manage strategic, confidential, senior, or hard to fill recruitment mandates
- Develop employer branding initiatives and EVP in collaboration with PR & Communications
- Build and maintain recruitment dashboards and analytics to support decision making
- Lead, mentor, and develop the Talent Acquisition team
- Partner with Head of HR Shared Services to operationalize service delivery models
Requirements
- Minimum 8–10 years of progressive experience in Talent Acquisition or HR
- At least 3–5 years in a leadership or managerial role within Talent Acquisition
- Bachelor’s degree in HR, Business Administration, Psychology, Management, or related field
- Proven experience managing end to end recruitment in complex, fast paced environments
- Experience recruiting in emerging markets or challenging geographies strongly preferred
- Experience in sectors such as infrastructure, industrial, energy, mining, or construction is an asset
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Role Overview
- The Manager – Talent Acquisition is responsible for designing, implementing, and leading end to end talent acquisition activities for Infrarose.
- The role operates in a dynamic, fast evolving environment and requires both strategic and hands on capability.
- The role oversees workforce planning, recruitment delivery, sourcing strategy, candidate experience, employer branding, and TA analytics.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and execute the Talent Acquisition strategy and operating plan aligned with business priorities.
- Lead annual recruitment planning in close collaboration with business leaders and HR leadership.
- Establish and enforce standardized recruitment policies, procedures, and governance frameworks.
- Advise executive leadership on talent market trends, skills shortages, and competitive positioning.
- Develop targeted hiring strategies for critical, niche, and hard to fill roles.
- Build proactive talent pipelines to support current and future business needs.
- Oversee and actively support end to end recruitment processes, ensuring efficiency, quality, compliance, and candidate experience.
- Personally manage selected strategic, confidential, senior, or difficult to fill recruitment mandates.
- Apply and drive structured, competency based selection methodologies across all hiring processes.
- Introduce and monitor KPIs, service levels, and process controls to improve recruitment outcomes.
- Develop and implement Infrarose’s Employer Value Proposition (EVP).
- Lead employer branding initiatives to position Infrarose as an employer of choice.
Education & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Psychology, Management, or a related field.
- A Master’s degree or relevant postgraduate qualification is an advantage.
- Professional certification in Recruitment, Talent Management, or Human Resources is an added advantage.
- Minimum 8–10 years of progressive experience in Talent Acquisition, Recruitment, or broader Human Resources roles.
- At least 3–5 years in a leadership or managerial role within Talent Acquisition.
- Proven experience managing end to end recruitment operations in complex, fast paced, and evolving business environments.
- Demonstrated success recruiting for critical, niche, and hard to fill roles.
- Experience in direct sourcing and headhunting, with the ability to personally drive key searches when needed.
- Experience recruiting in emerging markets, frontier markets, or challenging geographies is strongly preferred.
- Experience influencing and attracting candidates for relocation or roles in markets perceived as difficult is highly desirable.
- Exposure to matrix organisations, shared services models, and HR systems/ATS platforms is preferred.
- Experience in sectors such as infrastructure, industrial, energy, mining, construction, or similarly operational environments would be an asset.
Skills & Competencies
- Strong knowledge of talent acquisition best practices, sourcing strategies, and modern recruitment techniques.
- Proven ability to operate both strategically and hands on in a demanding, changing environment.
- Strong capability to understand business needs and translate them into practical hiring solutions.
- Demonstrated ability to influence, engage, and close candidates, including for roles in challenging locations.
- Strong stakeholder management and interpersonal influencing skills.
- Ability to interpret recruitment data and use analytics to guide decisions and improvements.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and candidate engagement skills.
- Strong leadership and coaching capability.
- High level of integrity, confidentiality, and organisational awareness.
- Resilient, adaptable, and comfortable working in a fast paced, multi entity environment.
- Strong cultural awareness and sound judgment in dealing with local and international talent markets.
Reporting & Location
- Primary reporting line: Director – HR / functional reporting line: Head of HR Shared Services.
- Location: Kinshasa, DRC.
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