Full-time Recruitment manager Jobs in Riyadh

Join Our Team as a Recruitment Manager
At Asas Makeen, we are seeking an experienced and dynamic Recruitment Manager to lead our talent acquisition and hiring operations. The ideal candidate will develop and implement effective recruitment strategies to attract top talent and support the company’s growth and strategic objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement recruitment strategies, policies, and procedures.
• Oversee the full recruitment cycle (job posting, screening, interviewing, and offer management).
• Build and maintain a strong candidate database while ensuring a professional candidate experience.
• Manage relationships with recruitment agencies and online job platforms.
• Analyze recruitment performance metrics and recommend process improvements.
• Supervise and develop the recruitment team’s skills and capabilities.
• Coordinate with department heads to identify and fulfill hiring needs across the organization.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources Management, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in recruitment, including at least 3 years in a supervisory role.
• Strong knowledge of Saudi labor laws and local/international recruitment platforms.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and negotiation skills.
• Proficiency in English (spoken and written).

About the Role
We are looking for a highly capable Recruitment Manager to lead the end-to-end talent acquisition function for a multi-brand restaurant group in Saudi Arabia. This role is responsible for attracting, assessing, and onboarding high-quality talent across all brands, locations, and seniority levels. The Recruitment Manager will play a critical role in supporting business growth, strengthening the Saudi talent pipeline, and ensuring full compliance with Saudization and Nitaqat requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the full recruitment lifecycle, including sourcing, screening, assessment, interviewing, offer negotiation, and onboarding.
• Own the group’s Saudization strategy, targets, and execution plan across all brands and locations.
• Monitor Nitaqat classification and proactively manage workforce composition to maintain compliance.
• Build annual and quarterly workforce plans in partnership with Operations, Brand GMs, FP&A, and HR leadership.
• Lead high-volume recruitment for front-of-house, back-of-house, management, and support office roles.
• Build strategic partnerships with Saudi universities, vocational institutes, HRDF programs, and talent platforms.
• Develop Saudi talent pipelines, including internship, graduate, and apprenticeship programs.
• Manage and optimize the Applicant Tracking System, ensuring data accuracy, reporting, and process efficiency.
• Develop standardized recruitment SOPs, interview guides, competency frameworks, and assessment rubrics.
• Track and report recruitment KPIs, including time-to-fill, cost-per-hire, offer acceptance rate, quality of hire, 90-day retention, and Saudization ratio.
• Partner with Operations leadership on workforce planning, hiring priorities, and talent risks.
• Support expatriate workforce planning in coordination with Government Relations, including visa requirements, profession classification, and renewal tracking.
• Represent the group at career fairs, recruitment events, and government workforce initiatives.

Requirements

• Saudi National.
• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Minimum 5 years of recruitment experience in high-volume F&B, retail, hospitality, or multi-site service operations.
• Strong knowledge of Saudization, Nitaqat, Qiwa, MHRSD regulations, HRDF, GOSI, and Saudi Labour Law.
• Proven experience recruiting for frontline, operational, and management roles.
• Experience managing recruitment for multi-site operations.
• Strong understanding of shift-based workforce needs and frontline talent dynamics.
• Experience using ATS platforms, HRIS systems, MS Excel, and recruitment reporting tools.
• Fluent Arabic and professional-level English.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills.
• Ability to work closely with Operations, HR, Training, Brand leadership, and senior management.

Key Skills & Competencies

• Saudization and Nitaqat strategy.
• High-volume recruitment.
• Workforce planning.
• Talent pipeline development.
• Recruitment operations and ATS management.
• Data-driven recruitment reporting.
• Stakeholder management.
• Employer branding.
• Compliance and documentation accuracy.
• Saudi Labour Law knowledge.
• Change management.
• Cultural understanding of the Saudi labour market.