Head-hunter / Talent Acquisition Specialist

Role overview

Recruitment delivery

• Manage recruitment from sourcing and screening through offer, joining, and onboarding.
• Headhunt experienced sales candidates using LinkedIn, referrals, databases, professional networks, and direct outreach.
• Screen candidates, coordinate interviews, manage offers and negotiations, and follow through to start dates.
• Maintain warm talent pipelines for recurring vacancies.

Team leadership and reporting

• Allocate vacancies, set priorities, monitor KPIs and hiring targets, and coach in-house recruiters.
• Align screening standards with hiring managers.
• Maintain trackers, pipelines, and source-effectiveness data.
• Present monthly reports on pipeline volume, stage conversion, source effectiveness, time to fill, cost per hire, and month-on-month movement.
• Interpret hiring data, diagnose role, market, or offer problems, and recommend fixes.

HR and onboarding support

• Support basic HR administration and onboarding documentation.
• Coordinate visa, documentation, and joining formalities with HR and the PRO.
• Ensure new joiners are handed over to their department on day one.

Essential qualifications

• Currently based in the United Arab Emirates.
• Proven talent acquisition or headhunting experience recruiting Retention and Conversion Sales roles.
• Experience managing or supervising in-house recruiters and an established candidate network.
• Strong LinkedIn sourcing, direct approach, interviewing, negotiation, and candidate-management capability.
• Working knowledge of UAE HR and onboarding processes.
• Can build and present recruitment reports, interpret funnel metrics, and explain what the data means.
• Strong Excel skills and excellent written and spoken English.
• Comfortable with targets in a fast-paced, high-volume sales environment.

Preferred experience

• Recruitment experience in CFD, Forex, FinTech, brokerage, or financial services is preferred.
• International candidate networks and recruiting for English-speaking desks are preferred.
• Experience building recruitment reporting and source-effectiveness tracking from scratch is preferred.

Benefits

• Competitive salary package, company-provided UAE employment visa, medical insurance, and daily lunch buffet.
• Professional growth opportunities, ownership of the recruitment function, and direct access to senior management.