Talent Acquisition Head Careem Dubai

Careem, a leading Technology platform for the greater Middle East, is building the everything app making it easier than ever to move around, order food and groceries, manage payments and more. Careem’s mission is to simplify and improve the lives of people and build a lasting institution that inspires. While continuing to deliver on purpose, Careem is looking for Ambitious people to join its team on their journey. Since its Establishment, Careem has created more than one million job opportunities in the region. Currently, Careem is seeking a Global Talent Acquisition Head in Dubai.

Role of Talent Acquisition Head

At Careem, a Global Talent Acquisition Head will build a World-class Talent Acquisition function covering both Tech and Non-tech roles – hire, manage and mentor a team of agile, bold and Innovative TA Specialists whose obsession is to support Careem’s Business partners reach their goals.

Responsibilities of Talent Acquisition Head

• Design and deliver on a Talent Acquisition strategy. Truly understand Careem’s vision and goals and build a strategy to support its ambitious regional plans (strategy by job family, level, geography with tactics on acquiring talent for each segment).
• Define and grow company’s employer brand.
• Grow Careem’s bench strength – create Competitive advantage for Careem by proactively building their talent pools globally.
• Be a functional Team Leader – Provide best practice, insights, and know how on anything and everything relating to cutting edge talent acquisition approach and processes.
• Report and monitor growth and progress – create and share live dashboards and reports which will monitor talent acquisition and business progress across key well-defined hiring metrics.
• Plan as Careem scales–  act as both an enabler and a counsellor for commercial and technical leads when it comes to planning how their teams will grow both in size and shape.

Education & Experience Required For Talent Acquisition Head

• A Bachelor’s degree.
• Scale-up experience in a high growth tech scale up is preferable.
• Extensive mixed in-house and agency experience in the MENA region is a bonus.
• Experience managing and growing a team (minimum 30 members) capable of hiring for scale and complexity.

Knowledge & Skills

• Able to work in a Fast-paced, Unstructured environment and have strong Stakeholder Management, problem structuring and solving skills that cater to Careem’s context.
• Passionate, driven and full of Conviction.
• Fantastic relationship building acumen.
• Strong Planning and Analytical capability.
• Data-driven.
• A love of Technology.
• Relentless positivity.

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