Talent Acquisition Specialist

Role Overview

Volcafe Ltd

Volcafe works across the whole green coffee supply chain to make coffee business better, together with our partners and employees. We have built and operate sustainable coffee supply chains across all our origins, addressing key economic, social and environmental issues in coffee farming communities. Our Volcafe Way farmer support programme engages with thousands of coffee farmers and provides a holistic response to the challenges they face.

This role will be based in Bangalore and working for ED&F Man India office.

Key Accountabilities

• Managing the full life cycle of recruitment and search processes for junior to mid-level positions across the Bangalore business, from approval to recruit through to verbal offer acceptance.
• Building a deep commercial understanding of the business and hiring manager requirements, ensuring effective talent matching in line with our company culture, values and employer value proposition.
• Prioritizing a direct sourcing strategy, below average time to hire, quality of hire and high-touch, candidate and hiring manager experience.
• Utilizing various sourcing methods; LinkedIn, relevant specialist job boards, social media sharing, LinkedIn headhunting, employee referrals and internal advertising.
• Creating compelling and attractive job adverts and advertising on all the key platforms available.
• CV sifting, candidate screening, providing consistent, clear overviews of the business and the role, assessing candidates against the role, and hiring manager criteria, through to shortlisting for hiring manager assessment.
• Managing and coordinating the hiring manager interview process ensuring interview best practice and coaching managers where needed.
• Providing detailed constructive interview feedback, managing and negotiating offers.
• Business partnering with and advising a diverse range of multi-disciplinary hiring managers and HR colleagues.
• Research, build and maintain talent pipelines in key skills shortage areas as guided by the talent acquisition manager to support future hiring needs and where needed external succession planning, in line with the business strategy.
• Contribute to the evaluation and improvement of recruitment processes, tools, and systems to enhance efficiency, effectiveness, and candidate experience.

Skills and Experience

• 8 plus years of experience in end-to-end Talent acquisition roles
• Proven experience in talent acquisition/recruitment from a corporate in-house and/or agency environment.
• Industry exposure from one or more of the following: FMCG, Financial Services and/or Commodity Trading.
• Passion for talent acquisition and a commitment to deliver an exceptional candidate and hiring manager experience.
• Good understanding of recruitment best practice across the whole recruitment process, including experience of critical candidate assessment.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build rapport and collaborate effectively with hiring managers, HR business partners and candidates.
• Natural aptitude for good data management, reporting and systems usage/design.
• Exceptional organizational and time-management skills, with capacity to manage and prioritize multiple priorities, deadlines, and requirements in a fast-paced environment.
• Meticulous attention to detail especially with written communication.
• Resilience and tenacity, target driven with a continuous improvement mind-set.
• Problem solving skills and ability to think innovatively to overcome recruitment challenges.

We recognise that talent comes in many forms, and we value potential just as much as experience. If this role excites you but you don’t meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply.

Our Offer

We provide a fast-paced, stimulating and truly global environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the global leaders in soft commodity trading.

Our Values

Respect, Integrity, Meritocracy, Client Focus, Entrepreneurship

Volcafe shares the values of our parent company, ED&F Man Commodities. Our values define who we are. They are the fundamental beliefs that determine our actions and guide our behaviour. They influence the way we communicate and collaborate, and define the way we engage with our clients, partners, and communities.

Our Commitment

Volcafe shares the commitment of our parent company, ED&F Man Commodities. We are committed to creating and sustaining an inclusive and diverse work environment where all employees are treated with dignity and respect. We are committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment and are focussed on actively building and developing diverse teams. All qualified applicants will receive equal treatment without regard to race, colour, sex, gender, age, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, marital or civil partner status, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender reassignment (identity, gender expression), genetic information or any characteristic protected by local law.

We are willing to make any reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process.

To apply you must have the right to work for the provided location.