Abel A.

Experience

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  PZ Cussons

  Dec 2012 - Oct 2017

  Sales And Marketing Specialist

  • Promoting the company's existing brands and introducing new products to the market.• Analyzing budgets, preparing annual budget plans, scheduling expenditures, and ensuring that the sales team meets their quotas and goals.• Researching and developing marketing opportunities and plans, understanding consumer requirements, identifying market trends, and suggesting system improvements to achieve the company's marketing goals.• Gathering, investigating, and summarizing market data and trends to draft reports.• Implementing new sales plans and advertising.• Recruiting, training, scheduling, coaching, and managing marketing and sales teams to meet sales and marketing human resource objectives.• Maintaining relationships with important clients by making regular visits, understanding their needs, and anticipating new marketing opportunities.• Staying current in the industry by attending educational opportunities, conferences, and workshops, reading publications, and maintaining personal and professional networks. Show less

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  GTBank

  Mar 2019 - Aug 2019

  Bulk Teller / Syscons unit

  • Examine cheque for endorsements and to verify other information such as dates, bank names, identification of the persons receiving payments and the legality of the documents.• Perform specialized tasks such as preparing cashier’s checks, personal money orders, issuing travellers checks and exchanging foreign currency.• Electronic batch movement from branches. • Document management in accordance to the CBN document management policy.• Sorting and Consolidations of the set threshold as set by the bank.• Ensuring uploads as being traced to its physical location • Instrument retrieval, Batch control and Analysis.• Uploaded old tickets to the database for retrieval• Responded to retrievals as requested by the Regulator agencies. (CBN, EFCC,ICPC,NPF) Show less

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  ERecruiter

  Sept 2019 - Aug 2021

  Recruitment Consultant (Technical and Non Technical)

  A recruitment consulting and professional staffing firm with a core focus on executive search, contingent search, contract/interim, and professional staffing services across Africa, Europe, and the Middle East.• Headhunting, talent acquisition, assessing prospective candidates and matching them with vacancies at clients’ companies across Nigeria, Ghana, and Ivory Coast. Within various sectors like FMCG, IT / Tech, Fintech, Retail, Integrated Marketing Communications among others• Analyze sourcing metrics and effectively drive referrals from internal and external networks to reduce time-to-hire and turnaround time.• Effectively utilize the Applicant Tracking System (ATS) for easy monitoring and tracking of candidates' progress within the recruitment cycle.• Possess an active client-facing role with specific clients while supporting the Business Development team on developing and managing key accounts.• Met and exceeded recruitment revenue targets by closing talent acquisition deals, signing new clients with multinational recruitment briefs, thus driving up my team's generated revenue by 90%.• Builds business by identifying and selling prospects; maintaining relationships with clients.• Identifies business opportunities by identifying prospects and evaluating their position in the industry; researching and analyzing sales options.• Maintains relationships with clients by providing support, information, and guidance; researching and recommending new opportunities; recommending profit and service improvements.• Identifies product improvements or new products by remaining current on industry trends, market activities, and competitors.• Maintains quality service by establishing and enforcing organization standards.• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending workshops; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices.• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed. Show less

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  GoodTalent Corporation

  Apr 2021 - Aug 2021

  Senior Technical Recruiter

  eRecruiter sister companyAn HRTech company that helps organizations solve their people challenges using innovating and user-friendly HR Tech products to Streamline, Build, Onboard, Manage and Pay Distributed Teams across the United Kingdom, Estonia, Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, and Senegal.• Responsible for conducting the end-to-end recruitment process from sourcing to candidate placement by using deep sourcing methodologies and tools such as Boolean search, LinkedIn and Github Xray, SQL Queries, Biometric Scoring, AI Sourcing & Filtering, etc.• Successfully identified and recruited software engineers and developers with different technical specialties.• Approached, intrigued, engaged, and closed passive talents for hard-to-fill roles using compelling narratives, uncovering unmet needs/goals/aspirations, rapport building, networking, and excellent salesmanship.• Strategize different ways to build talent pipelines and execute with referral generation, talent mapping, events, people analytics, and sourcing campaigns.• Performed intake meetings to understand client specifications and strategize the appropriate sourcing techniques.• Managed client accounts and educated hiring managers, engineering managers, and directors on best practices to improve hiring efficiency.• Driving revenue generation by signing and closing major talent acquisition deals.• Requesting references and checking the suitability of applicants before submitting their details to the client.• Preparing CVs and correspondence to be forwarded to clients regarding suitable applicants.• Organizing interviews for candidates as requested by the client.• Reviewing recruitment policies to ensure effectiveness of selection techniques and recruitment program• Rigorously follow the recruitment processes and accurately manage the candidates till resumption.• Maintaining relationships with both external and internal clients to ensure staffing goals are achieved Show less

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  Enov8 Solutions

  Sept 2021 - Dec 2022

  Lead Technical Recruiter (West Africa & Europe)

  • Currently leading and supporting talent sourcing and talent management in Africa, Europe, and North America. Strategizing creative ways to attract talents, build talent pipelines, and execute market research, referral generation, talent mapping, and sourcing campaigns. Utilize a combination of sourcing techniques and tools to identify viable talent such as Boolean Strings, Xray searches, AI Sourcing Tools (Hiretual, Eightfold, SeekOut, Recruitin), LinkedIn Recruiter, Employee Referrals, etc.• Manage executive search engagements from intake meetings with hiring managers to research, sourcing/engagement strategies, and candidate experience.• Effectively used talent market intelligence, data, and recruitment metrics to influence hiring decisions within the leadership and cross-functional teams.• Rolled out a new system that supports new hires, positions them for success in the long run, and increases employee retention.• Reduced time to hire and improved Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) by collecting the right data and analyzing the right metrics, establishing a structured hiring process, ensuring hiring managers stick to it, built and nurturing talent pipelines. Show less

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  CareerBuddy

  Feb 2022 - Dec 2024

  Global Talent Partner - Engineering, Product, Design, Data, Business

  APAC, EMEA

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  TalentUp Africa

  Jan 2024 - Apr 2024

  Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist
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  TRANSSION HOLDINGS

  Jan 2024 - now

  Senior Manager Talent Acquisition - West Africa 1