Talent Manager

Talent Manager APPLY NOW As a Talent Manager, you’ll take the lead on a high-volume client account. You’ll be driving end-to-end recruitment delivery, shaping the talent approach, and partnering with senior client stakeholders, all while leading, developing, and inspiring a high-performing recruitment team. This is your chance to make a real impact, managing complex recruitment operations, ensuring consistent delivery at scale, and guiding a team responsible for bulk recruitment activity in a fast-paced environment. 🤩 What You’ll Be Doing Leading recruitment delivery across non-technical roles within a fast-paced, high-volume environment. Partnering with highly engaged hiring managers across the US to ensure alignment on hiring needs and strategies. Managing, coaching, and developing a team of recruiters to ensure high performance, engagement, and delivery excellence. Driving operational excellence, ensuring KPIs are met and continuously improving processes and team output. Overseeing account profitability and ensuring effective resource planning and allocation across your team. Implementing innovative sourcing strategies and leveraging talent insights to anticipate hiring needs and market trends. 🔎 What We’re Looking For Extensive experience in talent acquisition leadership, with proven people management responsibility. A strong track record of building, leading, and retaining high-performing recruitment teams. Confidence managing senior and challenging stakeholders in high-pressure, client-facing environments. Comfortable working US hours. Experience within consulting or RPO environments, ideally with global or multi-market exposure. Strong understanding of non-technical recruitment markets, talent trends, and workforce insights. A self-starter who takes ownership, drives results, and builds trust with both clients and internal teams. ❓ Why Join aston holmes At aston holmes, recruitment goes beyond filling roles, they act as catalysts for growth. Guided by the principles of audacity, legacy, and unity, the business focuses on building high-performing teams while creating meaningful impact. What you can expect: A flexible hybrid working model across teams Exposure to international recruitment environments Opportunities to contribute to company-wide initiatives, including work with their NGO, Holmies in the Community A strong culture of learning and development, supported by book and audiobook incentives 🏆 Perks & Benefits Competitive salary Flexible working hours, supporting work-life integration Access to learning and development incentives Opportunities to work on impactful projects aligned to personal passions P.S. For a behind-the-scenes look at life at Aston Holmes, check out our new newsletter, The Scoop , for exclusive insights and updates! Department aston holmes Locations Cape Town, South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa Remote status Hybrid Employment type Full-time Cape Town, South Africa Johannesburg, South Africa Why join us? We pride ourselves on offering an environment where we enable people to do their best work, through a supportive and As a minority-owned business, accredited by MSDUK, we encourage diversity at all levels of our business. Our philosophy of 'Ubuntu' - that we are a stronger as a team because of who we are as individuals - permeates through our entire business, making us better advisors to our clients. We are humble in our nature but fierce in the way that we are not afraid to compete with larger organisations in our space.