Talent Acquisition Manager

Role Overview

Talent Acquisition Manager at Kaizen Asset Management Services in the UAE. This role leads the end-to-end recruitment function, ensuring strong processes, systems and sourcing strategies align with business hiring needs.

Role Purpose

To establish and optimize recruitment operations that deliver quality hires within agreed timelines while building proactive talent pipelines and maintaining a professional candidate experience. The role requires a data-driven, proactive leader who partners effectively with hiring managers and leverages technology to strengthen recruitment efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

Recruitment Leadership & Operations

• Lead end-to-end recruitment from understanding hiring requirements through sourcing, assessment, offer, handover and onboarding.
• Translate workforce plans and upcoming hiring needs into clear recruitment priorities and proactive talent pipelines.
• Strengthen structured interviewing and candidate assessment practices across the business.
• Partner with hiring managers to clarify requirements, challenge where needed and support better hiring decisions.

Systems & Process Optimization

• Own and optimize the ATS, ensuring effective workflows, accurate data, reporting and consistent adoption across the recruitment process.
• Continuously identify opportunities to improve recruitment processes, tools and overall hiring effectiveness.
• Use AI and digital tools to improve sourcing, screening, recruitment efficiency and reporting while maintaining appropriate human judgement.

Talent Strategy & Sourcing

• Build strong sourcing strategies and proactively identify relevant talent for current and upcoming business needs.
• Build market knowledge across relevant UAE talent pools, compensation levels and competitor activity.

Reporting & Accountability

• Track and report key TA KPIs, including time-to-fill, quality of hire, retention, source effectiveness and candidate experience.

Qualifications & Experience

• 8+ years of Talent Acquisition or Recruitment experience, including end-to-end recruitment ownership and ideally team leadership.
• Strong ATS and recruitment process expertise, including reporting, TA KPIs and effective use of recruitment systems.
• Strong and accurate sourcing skills with a proactive approach to identifying and engaging relevant talent ahead of hiring needs.
• Strong interviewing and candidate assessment skills with a clear focus on quality of hire.
• UAE market knowledge, preferably with real estate, property management or facilities management recruitment experience.
• Bachelor's degree in HR, Business or a related field; professional certifications are an advantage.
• Experience within real estate, property management or facilities management is strongly preferred.

Skills & Competencies

• Digital and AI fluency with practical experience using technology to improve sourcing, screening and recruitment operations.
• Strong personality and stakeholder confidence; able to challenge requirements, influence hiring managers and drive accountability.

Additional Information

Success in this role is measured by delivering hiring requirements within agreed timelines without compromising candidate quality, establishing proactive pipelines for recurring and critical roles, ensuring consistent ATS use with accurate actionable data, clearly tracking and reporting TA KPIs, positioning Talent Acquisition as a credible hiring partner, achieving strong quality and retention of new hires, and delivering a professional, transparent and consistent candidate experience.