[Hiring] Global Talent Manager @Generation

Role Description

The Global Talent Manager owns the global talent supply strategy for alumni placement projects at Generation. This role is responsible for ensuring that experienced Generation graduates across different regions are identifiable, engaged, effectively assessed, and matched to paid opportunities via our employer partners.

This is a 360° recruitment role, where you will liaise with employers and manage the end-to-end graduate-to-opportunity matching pipeline at a global level, ensuring that the right talent is available and deployable across markets such as Africa and South America.

The Global Talent Manager works closely with the other global and local country teams to translate client demand into timely, high-quality placements. This role is critical in building a data-driven and globally coordinated talent ecosystem.

This is a 12-month remote Fixed-Term role with potential for renewal or transition to a permanent role.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage a global talent pipeline that can respond quickly and reliably to client demand.
• Own the global alumni talent pipeline across Generation’s global markets.
• Monitor talent availability, readiness, skills, experience, location, language, and work constraints.
• Fully manage CRM and ATM systems to ensure talent records are accurate, up-to-date, and usable for matching decisions.
• Define and maintain global standards for talent assessment, tracking, and opportunity eligibility.
• Identify talent supply gaps across markets, roles, and skill areas.
• Ensure that global placement processes remain consistent while allowing for local adaptation.
• Support market expansion by identifying the talent infrastructure required for new geographies.
• Support business development team members by engaging employers and delivering pitch meetings.
• Own the matching process from opportunity intake to confirmed placement.
• Translate the BD pipeline into talent readiness and sourcing strategies.
• Coordinate with BD team members to understand upcoming demand and prepare suitable talent shortlists.
• Match experienced graduates and alumni to paid opportunities based on skills, availability, client requirements, and delivery risk.
• Resolve placement bottlenecks, like skills gaps, availability issues, and client-fit concerns.
• Ensure fast, transparent, and well-documented placement decisions.
• Collaborate with global alumni team members to define, design and deliver alumni re-engagement strategies.
• Design initiatives that keep alumni active and motivated to participate in job opportunities.
• Track alumni responsiveness, availability, re-engagement, and contribution.
• Collaborate with Finance and Admin Ops to support the documentation of payment-related data.
• Maintain clear internal visibility on placement status, risks, blockers, and talent supply constraints.
• Monitor placement performance and support interventions where placements are at risk.
• Help define global standards for successful placement, escalation, and post-placement follow-up.
• Track global talent management KPIs across markets.
• Produce regular insights on talent supply, demand alignment, bottlenecks, and market readiness.
• Contribute to the design of scalable systems, tools, and workflows for global talent management.

Qualifications

• 5 years of recruitment or talent management experience.
• Experience managing talent pipelines across multiple markets, regions, or distributed teams.
• Experience matching graduates, consultants, or early-career professionals to paid opportunities.
• Experience working with remote cross-functional teams.
• Experience managing alumni engagement, re-engagement, or community activation strategies.
• Experience using data to monitor placement performance, talent readiness, and utilisation.
• Experience in project management and new strategy development.
• Experience in social impact or youth employment programmes is strongly preferred.

Skills

• Spanish language skills are necessary due to expansion into Latin America.
• Strong understanding of employability, graduate placement, or skills-to-work transition models.
• Strong talent pipeline management and candidate matching skills.
• Ability to assess talent against client requirements, delivery risks, availability, and readiness criteria.
• Strong stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent organisational and process management skills.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to interpret placement, utilisation, and engagement data.
• Ability to design and monitor dashboards, trackers, and reporting systems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong problem-solving skills, especially around placement bottlenecks and delivery risks.
• Technically savvy and comfortable working with CRM systems, spreadsheets, and project management tools.
• Ability to design scalable processes that work across different regions, time zones, and markets.

Key Attributes

• Strategic and execution-oriented.
• Highly organised, responsive, proactive and data-informed.
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability.
• Relationship-driven and able to build trust with talent, internal teams, and regional stakeholders.
• Culturally sensitive and comfortable working across diverse geographies and labour markets.
• Quality-focused, with strong attention to placement fit and long-term success.
• Mission-driven and committed to expanding access to meaningful paid work opportunities.
• Able to handle multiple priorities and balance speed, quality, fairness, and operational scalability.

Company Description

Generation is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, particularly those from communities we serve. We welcome candidates regardless of race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion, or age. If you require any accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know—we are happy to support.

***Please apply with your English CV, thank you***