Job description

Overview Of The Role:

Support Al-Futtaim Real Estate’s growth by attracting and securing high-calibre mid to senior level talent across Asset Development, Asset Management and Shared Services. Acting as a trusted advisor to business leaders and HRBPs, the role delivers a fast, insight-led and candidate-centric hiring experience that sets the standard for quality, fairness and compliance with the Al-Futtaim Group recruitment policy.

What You Will Do:

General

• Partner with business leaders and HRBPs to translate workforce plans into clear hiring priorities and recruitment strategies.
• Lead discussions to align role requirements, success profiles, sourcing approaches and hiring timelines.
• Manage the end-to-end recruitment cycle for Manager to Director-level roles, from attraction and sourcing through to offer acceptance.
• Deliver high-quality shortlists through proactive sourcing, headhunting, referrals and professional talent networks.
• Build and maintain talent pipelines, market maps and succession pipelines for critical and hard-to-fill roles.
• Provide market intelligence, competitor insights, salary benchmarks and talent availability data to support hiring decisions.
• Facilitate structured, competency-based assessments and support hiring managers in making objective, merit-based selection decisions.
• Plan and conduct assessment centres, open days and other selection activities where required.
• Conduct reference and background checks and manage offer negotiations within approved budgets and reward guidelines.
• Deliver a positive, engaging and candidate-centric experience throughout the recruitment journey.
• Maintain accurate recruitment data and reporting within SAP SuccessFactors and provide regular pipeline updates to business and HR leadership.
• Ensure compliance with Al-Futtaim recruitment policies, audit requirements and agreed service levels while effectively managing agency partnerships and external recruitment spend.

Skills

Required Skills To Be Successful:

• Strong strategic headhunting, talent mapping and proactive sourcing capabilities.
• Excellent competency-based interviewing and candidate assessment skills.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to build trusted partnerships with business leaders and HRBPs.
• Persuasive negotiation and closing skills, particularly for mid to senior-level appointments.
• Ability to provide data-driven market insights, competitor intelligence and salary benchmarking.
• Strong understanding of the real estate value chain, including development, construction, asset and property management, and leasing.
• High levels of discretion, integrity and commitment to fair and compliant recruitment practices.
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What Qualifies You For The Role:

• Minimum of 7 years of recruitment experience, including at least 3 years hiring mid to senior-level talent across the GCC.
• Recruitment experience within real estate, construction, retail or related sectors.
• In-house recruitment experience within a large, matrix organisation is preferred, while an executive search background is a strong advantage.
• Hands-on experience using SAP SuccessFactors and LinkedIn Recruiter.