Job Description

An established South African business is looking for an experienced Recruiter to build high-performing frontline sales and operational teams. Based in Durban, Westville, the full-time role includes high-volume recruitment, senior sales leadership appointments, workforce planning and talent strategy. It may suit a recruitment professional who understands volume hiring, uses recruitment technology effectively and can work closely with senior stakeholders to achieve demanding hiring targets.

About the opportunity

The Recruiter will be responsible for identifying, attracting and securing talent for the organisation’s frontline sales teams and selected senior sales leadership positions.

The successful candidate will work closely with leaders across Sales, Operations and People teams. The role extends beyond filling individual vacancies and includes workforce planning, recruitment strategy and improving hiring outcomes at scale.

The employer is looking for someone who can operate effectively in a fast-paced, high-volume recruitment environment where the quality and speed of hiring directly affect business growth.

Key responsibilities

• Manage high-volume and bulk recruitment campaigns
• Recruit frontline sales employees
• Support senior sales leadership appointments
• Source and attract suitable candidates
• Screen and assess applicants
• Coordinate interviews and selection processes
• Partner with Sales, Operations and People teams
• Support workforce-planning requirements
• Contribute to talent-acquisition strategy
• Use recruitment technology and sourcing methods effectively
• Monitor recruitment data and hiring outcomes
• Improve recruitment processes using performance information
• Maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders
• Deliver quality hiring outcomes at scale

The official advertisement specifically identifies frontline sales recruitment, senior sales leadership hiring, workforce planning, talent strategy, stakeholder partnership and data-informed recruitment as central parts of the role.

Minimum requirements

Compulsory requirements

• At least three years of recruitment experience
• Experience working in a high-volume or bulk-recruitment environment
• Proven experience recruiting sales, customer-facing or operational employees at scale
• Strong stakeholder-management skills
• Experience using recruitment data to improve hiring results
• Experience with recruitment technology
• Knowledge of effective candidate-sourcing strategies
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to collaborate across departments

These requirements are stated directly in the official employer advertisement.

Preferred capabilities

The employer does not publish a separate preferred-requirements list. Do not present the following as compulsory, but suitable applicants may benefit from:

• Sales-recruitment experience
• Senior or leadership recruitment exposure
• Applicant-tracking-system experience
• Workforce-planning experience
• Recruitment reporting and analytics experience
• Experience improving time-to-hire and candidate-conversion rates
• Recruitment marketing or direct-sourcing experience

Who should consider applying?

This vacancy may suit:

• Senior recruiters
• Talent-acquisition specialists
• Bulk-recruitment specialists
• High-volume recruitment consultants
• In-house sales recruiters
• Recruitment team leads
• Recruiters experienced in customer-facing or operational hiring

The strongest candidate will have experience filling large numbers of sales or operational positions while maintaining hiring quality, stakeholder confidence and an organised candidate experience.

This is not an entry-level recruitment opportunity because the employer requires at least three years of relevant experience.