Senior Manager Talent Acquisition

About noon

noon is a leading digital ecosystem in the Middle East, operating across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt. As a multi-billion-dollar organization, noon serves millions of customers daily through diverse business verticals such as e-commerce, quick commerce, food delivery, fashion, and fintech. With more than 10,000 employees, noon continues its rapid expansion with a commitment to deliver goods to every home every day.

Role Overview

The Senior Manager of Talent Acquisition will play a foundational role in noon's next growth stage by leading the recruitment of key executive and critical talent across the organization. This position collaborates directly with group leadership, business CEOs, and functional heads to define talent needs, map the market, engage top-tier candidates, and manage the full recruitment lifecycle for complex and high-priority roles.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the recruitment of senior and leadership positions across the noon Group from role definition to offer and closure.
• Manage priority searches for roles where an exceptional hire and timely process are critical to business success.
• Develop ongoing talent maps for crucial functions, sectors, and regions to proactively identify exceptional candidates.
• Create comprehensive and actionable search strategies turning ambiguous business needs into clear candidate profiles and market plans.
• Directly source and engage with senior talent to build trusted relationships, minimizing reliance on inbound applications or external agencies.
• Collaborate with leadership to establish hiring standards, refine role briefs, and avoid compromised hiring decisions.
• Design robust, role-specific interview and evaluation frameworks that rigorously assess capabilities, judgment, leadership qualities, and cultural fit.
• Provide insights on talent availability, competitor teams, compensation norms, candidate motivations, and market conditions to guide leadership decisions.
• Effectively communicate noon’s value proposition to candidates and manage the conversion process in competitive scenarios.
• Ensure strict governance of all critical searches, including clear ownership, regular updates, and escalation to resolve bottlenecks.
• Maintain long-term talent pipelines by fostering relationships with potential future hires even if they are not immediately available.
• Guarantee a positive candidate experience by demonstrating noon’s decisiveness, thoughtfulness, and ambition throughout the recruitment process.

Qualifications and Experience

• Proven success in delivering executive, specialist, or business-critical hires in challenging environments.
• Exceptional direct sourcing skills, capable of identifying and engaging passive candidates.
• Strong commercial acumen with an ability to understand organizational goals before defining recruitment needs.
• Confidence working with high-level executives including group leadership and CEOs, with the ability to challenge assumptions constructively.
• Excellent talent judgment to differentiate candidates who will truly perform from those who will not.
• Expertise in research and market mapping with a structured approach toward talent intelligence.
• Advanced skills in assessment, including leadership, commercial insight, technical proficiency, and operating style evaluation.
• Aptitude for transforming unclear requirements into clear, executable search mandates.
• Commercial confidence in managing compensation, offer structuring, negotiations, and successful candidate closing.
• High ownership, discretion, and meticulous attention to detail in handling sensitive senior-level searches.
• Ability to work efficiently and maintain quality standards across multiple businesses and markets under tight timelines.
• A proactive, builder mindset focused on creating processes, tools, and intelligence rather than waiting for them.

Preferred Attributes

Experience in the Middle East market, background in executive search, exposure to fast-growing tech or e-commerce companies, recruitment experience across multiple countries, and an established network across product, technology, commercial, operations, finance, or leadership roles is highly advantageous.

Ideal Candidate Profile

This role suits individuals with exceptionally high standards who believe in hard work, resourcefulness, and commercial insight. Candidates must be skilled at accessing talent others cannot reach and balancing speed with quality. They should be credible with senior leaders, persuasive with candidates, and disciplined in managing complex recruitment processes. The motivating factor is the quality and impact of the hires made rather than just closing numbers.