Contract Recruiter - Sales - Middle East & Africa

Role Overview

Contract Recruiter – Sales & Sales Engineering at Fortinet, based in the UAE. This role supports the recruitment of Sales and Sales Engineering professionals across the region.

Company Overview

Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) secures the largest enterprise, service provider and government organisations around the world. Fortinet empowers its customers with intelligent, seamless protection across the expanding attack surface and the power to address ever-increasing performance requirements of the borderless network. The Fortinet Security Fabric architecture delivers security across network, application, cloud and mobile environments. Fortinet ranks number one in the number of security appliances shipped worldwide, and more than 500,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses.

Role Purpose

Support the recruitment of Sales and Sales Engineering professionals by building strong candidate pipelines, managing the full recruitment lifecycle, and delivering commercially-minded recruitment strategies in a competitive technology and cybersecurity talent market.

Key Responsibilities

Sourcing & Pipeline Development

• Build and maintain strong candidate pipelines through proactive sourcing, networking, referrals, events, online postings and other recruitment channels.
• Demonstrate a demonstrated ability to build candidate pipelines from scratch using a broad range of sourcing and recruitment techniques.

Recruitment Strategy & Execution

• Recruit Sales and Sales Engineering professionals across a range of levels and experience.
• Develop and execute effective recruitment strategies to meet hiring plans and management expectations.
• Manage the full recruitment lifecycle, from initial sourcing and assessment through offer negotiation, offer presentation and close.

Stakeholder Management

• Partner closely with hiring managers to understand requirements, prioritise hiring needs and provide market insight and recruitment recommendations.
• Maintain regular communication with candidates and hiring managers to ensure expectations are aligned and recruitment activity remains on track.
• Act as a trusted candidate ambassador throughout the recruitment process and deliver a consistently positive candidate experience.

Operations & Priorities

• Manage multiple vacancies and priorities in a fast-paced environment, demonstrating a strong sense of urgency and attention to detail.
• Use recruitment data, market knowledge and candidate feedback to provide strategic insight to hiring managers.

Qualifications & Experience

• 7 or more years of proven recruitment experience, with a strong focus on Sales recruitment within a fast-paced environment.
• Experience recruiting Sales and/or Sales Engineering professionals within the technology, cybersecurity or related industries.
• Proven experience managing the full recruitment lifecycle from sourcing through to offer and close.
• Experience recruiting within the UK technology or cybersecurity market is strongly preferred.

Skills & Competencies

• Strong relationship-building skills with the ability to manage expectations effectively with both candidates and hiring managers.
• Excellent organisational skills and a high level of attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple roles and competing priorities.
• A proactive, problem-solving mindset with the ability to work with a strong sense of urgency.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with strong tact and diplomacy.
• Experience working with an Applicant Tracking System (ATS).

Additional Information

Fortinet is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, military or veteran status or any other applicable legally protected characteristic in the location in which the candidate is applying.