Associate Talent Acquisition Partner – Cairo Based – 6 months Contract [SHP]

About Agoda

At Agoda, we bridge the world through travel. Our story began in 2005, when two lifelong friends and entrepreneurs, driven by their passion for travel, launched Agoda to make it easier for everyone to explore the world.

Today, we are part of Booking Holdings [NASDAQ: BKNG], with a diverse team of over 7,000 people from 90 countries, working together in offices around the globe. Every day, we connect people to destinations and experiences, with our great deals across our millions of hotels and holiday properties, flights, and experiences worldwide.

No two days are the same at Agoda. Data and technology are at the heart of our culture, fueling our curiosity and innovation. If you’re ready to begin your best journey and help build travel for the world, join us.

Get To Know Our Team:

The People Team is a purveyor of opportunity, searching the globe for the most talented individuals and offering them an open, collaborative workplace. By prioritizing skill and potential, we have cultivated a powerful assembly of professionals through our drive for equal opportunity and diversity. We make the move to Agoda a breeze with assisted onboarding programs, and we continue to support and enrich our thousands of Agoda employees through individual growth with outstanding learning programs and various means of assistance. Our development of incredible benefits has ensured everyone can stay strong, healthy, and happy during their time at Agoda. Leading ambitious changes and making a positive impact in the lives of our employees, the People Team is a crucial and rewarding part of the Agoda family.

The Opportunity:

Join our dynamic team as an Associate Talent Acquisition Partner, where you'll play a pivotal role in shaping our workforce. Dive into the heart of recruitment, working collaboratively to source, screen, and connect with top-tier candidates across a variety of functions. Your journey will involve close collaboration with key stakeholders to ensure that Agoda attracts and secures the brightest talent in the market.

This is more than a job—it’s an opportunity to influence how we build teams, scale our organization, and strengthen our hiring practices. You’ll have the chance to contribute to and implement best practices, make an immediate impact on our talent acquisition strategy, and help bring exceptional individuals on board to drive Agoda’s continued success.

What You’ll Do:

• Support the business by providing quality driven, cost effective and timely end-to-end recruitment solutions to the designated business units, drawing insights from analytics to make the hiring process smarter and more efficient.

• Deliver a full range of recruitment services providing a positive and professional experience to both candidates and hiring managers.

• Review CVs, conduct pre-screening interviews and face to face interviews as required.

• Partner with hiring managers in the selection process, where appropriate, attending interviews to support hiring managers.

• Conducting interview debriefs at all stages with both hiring managers and candidates to uncover any potential issues, handle objections and pre-close both parties.

• Drive proactive sourcing plans to attract external talent using direct channels in line with business needs; position specific sourcing strategies, initiatives and programs including networking/relationship building, internet job boards, social network search, database mining, professional outreach and advanced direct searching techniques.

• Improve our employer brand in partnership with the HR team.

Required Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience in recruitment (agency or in-house)

• Experience recruiting for Egypt market is highly preferred

• Experience recruiting for customer service and business development positions is preferred

• Experience recruiting in the OTA (online travel), e-commerce, or tech industries is preferred 

• Fluency in English, it would be a plus if you can speak other languages such as German, Italian, Spanish, or French.

• Demonstrable track record of handling multiple vacancies across a variety of locations and disciplines

• Ability to build strong relationships at all levels of the business

• Strong organizational skills; time management; attention to detail and ability to prioritize and manage competing demands.

• Confident communicator with ability to cope within a fast-paced and changing environment.

• Results orientated - demonstrate initiative, a strong commitment to achieving meaningful results.

• Willing and able to adjust to multiple demands, shifting priorities, and demonstrate flexibility

*No relocation support provided for this position

#HR #Cairo #Egypt

Discover more about working at Agoda

• Agoda Careers https://careersatagoda.com

• Facebook https://www.facebook.com/agodacareers/

• LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/agoda

• YouTube https://www.youtube.com/agodalife

Equal Opportunity Employer

At Agoda, we pride ourselves on being a company represented by people of all different backgrounds and orientations. We prioritize attracting diverse talent and cultivating an inclusive environment that encourages collaboration and innovation. Employment at Agoda is based solely on a person’s merit and qualifications. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity regardless of sex, age, race, color, national origin, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, citizenship, veteran or military status, and other legally protected characteristics.

We will keep your application on file so that we can consider you for future vacancies and you can always ask to have your details removed from the file. For more details please read our privacy policy.

Disclaimer

We do not accept any terms or conditions, nor do we recognize any agency’s representation of a candidate, from unsolicited third-party or agency submissions. If we receive unsolicited or speculative CVs, we reserve the right to contact and hire the candidate directly without any obligation to pay a recruitment fee.