Talent Resourcing Manager
Role Overview
The Talent Resourcing Manager ensures the hotel attracts, identifies, and secures talent for current and future business needs.
The role combines workforce planning with hands-on recruitment, sourcing, employer branding, candidate engagement, and recruitment-process improvement.
The role works closely with HR leadership and department heads to build pipelines, advise on market conditions, and support a strong candidate experience.
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Role overview
The Talent Resourcing Manager ensures the hotel attracts, identifies, and secures talent for current and future business needs.
The role combines workforce planning with hands-on recruitment, sourcing, employer branding, candidate engagement, and recruitment-process improvement.
The role works closely with HR leadership and department heads to build pipelines, advise on market conditions, and support a strong candidate experience.
Recruitment and workforce planning
- Develop and implement a talent-resourcing strategy aligned with business priorities and workforce needs.
- Partner with HR leaders and department heads on hiring needs, workforce planning, and manpower requirements.
- Build proactive pipelines for critical, high-volume, and hard-to-fill roles and maintain talent pools for recurring needs.
- Provide market intelligence on talent availability, salary expectations, competitor activity, and recruitment trends.
- Lead end-to-end recruitment for assigned vacancies and agree role requirements, candidate profiles, and selection criteria with hiring managers.
- Source through careers pages, professional networks, social media, recruitment platforms, databases, referrals, agencies, and direct sourcing.
- Conduct screening, interviews, assessments, and selection activities; support fair, consistent, objective candidate evaluation.
- Manage offers and negotiations within approved salary structures and hotel guidelines.
- Improve recruitment efficiency, quality, and time-to-fill; maintain accurate documentation, approvals, records, and candidate confidentiality.
Talent attraction and candidate experience
- Develop employer branding and recruitment campaigns and position the hotel as an employer of choice in local and international hospitality markets.
- Use digital channels to showcase the hotel's culture, colleagues, career opportunities, and employee experience.
- Coordinate recruitment materials, job advertisements, career events, and talent campaigns.
- Maintain clear, timely candidate communication and make recruitment processes organized, efficient, and respectful of candidates' time.
- Gather candidate feedback, improve the recruitment experience, and represent the employer brand throughout the candidate journey.
Governance, analytics, and leadership
- Ensure recruitment complies with IHG policies, hotel procedures, approved manpower plans, and applicable local regulations.
- Coordinate employment documentation, background checks, references, medical requirements, and onboarding with relevant stakeholders.
- Monitor recruitment KPIs, including vacancies, time-to-fill, source effectiveness, pipeline, offer acceptance, and quality of hire; report findings to leadership.
- Evaluate recruitment channels and agency return on investment, benchmark performance, and use data to improve sourcing and workforce planning.
- Advise operational leaders, challenge requirements constructively, and coach hiring managers on interviewing, assessment, and selection.
- Coordinate recruitment priorities, support recruitment-to-onboarding handoffs, and lead, coach, and develop resourcing colleagues where applicable.
Candidate profile
- Proven experience in Talent Acquisition, Recruitment, Talent Resourcing, or HR, preferably in a large hotel or hospitality organization.
- Previous manager-level or senior recruitment experience is preferred.
- Strong understanding of hospitality recruitment and local and international talent markets.
- Demonstrated experience in proactive sourcing, market mapping, talent pipelining, and direct recruitment.
- Strong stakeholder management, influence, and advisory skills with senior operational leaders.
- Excellent interviewing and candidate-assessment skills.
- Employer branding and recruitment marketing experience is advantageous.
- Strong understanding of recruitment technology, applicant tracking systems, social media sourcing, and digital recruitment platforms.
- Commercial awareness and ability to translate workforce needs into effective recruitment strategies.
- Strong analytical skills and experience using recruitment data and KPIs; highly organized with ability to manage competing priorities.
- Excellent command of English; additional languages are advantageous.
- A degree or qualification in Human Resources, Business Administration, Hospitality Management, or a related field is preferred.
What the employer offers
- Competitive salary and benefits.
- Opportunity to join the global IHG family.
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