Talent Acquisition Specialist - Arabic Speaker

Role overview

Recruitment responsibilities

• Manage recruitment from job brief and sourcing through screening, interviews, offer negotiations, and onboarding coordination.
• Lead F&B hiring across kitchen and culinary teams, service staff, baristas, supervisors, outlet managers, chefs, restaurant managers, multi-outlet operations, and senior leadership.
• Partner with hiring managers and department heads to define manpower requirements, role expectations, and recruitment strategies.
• Build talent pipelines using job portals, LinkedIn, referrals, networking, recruitment databases, and other channels.
• Assess candidate skills, experience, cultural alignment, communication, and role suitability.
• Coordinate bulk recruitment for new outlet openings, business expansion, and urgent operational requirements.
• Support hiring across F&B, luxury retail, corporate, and interior fit-out and construction businesses as needed.
• Maintain clear, timely candidate communication and a professional recruitment experience.
• Manage salary discussions, offers, notice periods, and candidate follow-ups within approved budgets and procedures.
• Track vacancies, pipeline status, time-to-fill, and hiring progress; provide regular recruitment updates.
• Monitor F&B talent availability, hiring trends, salary benchmarks, and competitor recruitment practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Proven experience as a Talent Acquisition Specialist, Recruiter, or similar, with demonstrated F&B recruitment across all levels.
• Strong understanding of restaurant, café, hospitality, and multi-outlet operations recruitment.
• Fluent Arabic is mandatory; strong English communication skills are required.
• Able to recruit high-volume operational roles as well as management and senior-level positions.
• Experience managing multiple vacancies and demanding hiring timelines.
• Strong sourcing, interviewing, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Familiarity with applicant tracking systems, recruitment platforms, and Microsoft Office.
• Able to work independently, manage competing priorities, and deliver in a fast-paced environment.
• UAE recruitment experience is preferred.

Key competencies

• Strong ownership and accountability, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Effective stakeholder partnership, commercial awareness, and understanding of business needs.
• Strong candidate assessment and decision-making abilities.
• Agility, adaptability, and a results-oriented approach.