About this role
Jiji Online Marketplace Limited seeks a Head of Recruitment and Learning Projects for a hybrid role in Lagos. The position leads large-scale sales recruitment and workforce training, building a steady pipeline of sales agents and directing a team of recruitment associates. The role involves hands-on recruitment leadership, high-volume hiring, sourcing strategy, and implementing training to boost sales productivity. Responsibilities include end-to-end recruitment for sales agents, developing mass recruitment plans, managing recruitment KPIs, overseeing onboarding and sales training, and collaborating with Sales and Operations. The company operates as a pan-African online marketplace focused on safe buying and selling and aims to grow its sales capability and performance.
What you would do
- Lead end-to-end recruitment of sales agents for online and offline teams
- Develop mass recruitment strategies to meet targets and deadlines
- Build and maintain a pipeline of qualified candidates across multiple channels
- Lead, coach and manage Recruitment Associates
- Set recruitment targets, monitor KPIs and drive accountability
- Allocate workloads, track performance and ensure timely hiring
- Design and coordinate onboarding and sales training programmes for new hires
- Assess training effectiveness and ensure recruits are deployable
- Collaborate with Sales and Operations to address performance gaps
- Translate growth plans into recruitment targets and hiring schedules
What they are asking for
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Psychology, Industrial Relations or related field
- 4–7 years of relevant recruitment or talent acquisition experience with high-volume hiring
- At least 2–3 years in a team leadership or recruitment project management role
- Proven success recruiting large numbers of sales agents within tight timelines
- Experience in recruitment consulting, BPO, e-commerce, telecommunications, FMCG, fintech or high-volume sales environments is highly desirable
- Professional HR certification and experience coordinating sales training are additional advantages
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