Recruitment Specialist

BSL is seeking an
experienced Recruitment Specialist to lead IT and
technical hiring across contracts in Qatar. This is a
hands on, delivery focused role for someone used to running a
live requisition load at pace, managing multiple vacancies
concurrently, sourcing and engaging passive technical talent and
building pipelines that hold up against demanding, time
sensitive customer hiring timelines. The successful
candidate will act as the trusted point of contact for
their hiring managers, not just filling roles, but owning
the relationship, anticipating pipeline risk and being
someone the client can rely on to tell them the truth
about market conditions and timelines. This role directly
impacts contract margins and is responsible for negotiating
candidate offers in a way that protects margin without
compromising BSL’s ability to win and retain talent.

Own end-to-end recruitment
delivery for assigned technical vacancies across BSL
contracts.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Build and run direct
  sourcing strategies, headhunting, market mapping,
  networking and referrals to engage passive technical talent
  across local, regional and international markets.
  
• Maintain live, active
  pipelines against forecast and in year demand, not just
  open requisitions.
  
• Act as the primary trusted
  contact for assigned hiring managers, providing
  proactive, honest updates on progress, risk and market
  conditions.
  
• Screen and assess
  candidates against technical and competency based
  criteria, coordinating interviews and managing candidate
  experience throughout.
  
• Work with full visibility
  of applicable rate cards and contract margins for
  assigned vacancies, using this to inform sourcing strategy
  and candidate targeting from the outset not just at offer
  stage.
  
• Escalate
  early where market rate expectations conflict with contract rate cards,
  proposing options (banding, package structuring, role scoping) rather than
  simply reporting the gap.
  
• Understand
  BSL’s commercial model well enough to explain, where appropriate, how candidate
  pay rate, invoice rate and internal costs interact and protect that structure
  in every negotiation.
  

Requirements

Essential

• Minimum
  3-5 years’ recruitment experience within IT, cyber security or related
  technical disciplines.
  
• Proven
  track record sourcing and placing mid-to-senior level technical/cyber
  professionals.
  
• Strong direct sourcing, headhunting and market mapping
  capability specific to IT/cyber talent markets
  
• Experience
  working within government, defense or other regulated/security conscious client
  environments.
  
• Comfortable
  working with rate cards, margin structures and commercial data as a routine
  part of the role.
  
• Experience
  negotiating candidate offers within a fixed margin or rate framework
  
• Excellent
  communication skills in English; strong stakeholder management and relationship
  building skills.
  
• Proficiency
  in Microsoft Office and recruitment systems (Zoho Recruit preferred).
  
• Understanding
  of Qatar labor market dynamics and recruitment practices.
  
• Ability to manage a high volume, concurrent
  vacancy load at pace without loss of accuracy

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Desirable

· Arabic
language skills.

· Familiarity
with operating with the operating rhythm of managed service delivery into
government or defense clients.

· Recruitment
experience within Qatar specifically.

· Familiarity
with security cleared recruitment and pre-employment screening/vetting
processes.

· Experience recruiting within aerospace, defense or other regulated contract
environments.

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