77 Executive Search jobs in South Africa

Johannesburg, South Africa | Posted on 31/03/2025

Working Hours: UK Time (8:30 AM - 5:30 PM)

Type: Full-time or Part-time

Our client is a leading Executive Search and talent acquisition consultancy dedicated to helping businesses engage, assess, and retain top-tier talent. With a strong commitment to excellence and innovation, they specialize in connecting outstanding candidates with transformative career opportunities. Their team thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, ensuring clients and candidates receive an exceptional experience.

You will be responsible for conducting research, market analysis, and candidate sourcing and engagement to ensure our clients have access to the best candidates for our retained mandates. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment whilst contributing to the success of our business and helping change the fortunes of our clients and candidates.

1. Conduct market research to identify potential candidates, industries, and companies.
2. Utilize various sourcing methods, including online databases, social media, and professional networks, to attract passive candidates.
3. Screen and assess candidates to align with client requirements.
4. Build and maintain a strong talent pipeline for current and future recruitment needs.
5. Collaborate with the recruitment team to develop and implement effective sourcing strategies.
6. Manage paperwork, including proposals and briefing documents.
7. Administer behavioral profiling assessments.
8. Update campaign details, including video editing, media uploads, and candidate records.
9. Schedule meetings for potential candidates and consultants.
10. Attend mandate briefings to initiate the executive search process.
11. Stay updated on industry trends and best practices in recruitment and sourcing.

1. Prior experience in recruitment research and/or candidate sourcing is preferred.
2. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
3. Strong research and analytical abilities.
4. High attention to detail and organizational skills.
5. Enthusiastic, proactive, and solution-oriented mindset.
6. Ability to take ownership of tasks and drive them to completion.
7. Strong IT proficiency and adaptability to new tools.

Benefits:

1. Opportunity to work in a leading executive search firm with a collaborative and high-energy team.
2. Exposure to top-tier clients and executive-level recruitment processes.
3. Flexibility with remote working.
4. Professional growth and career development opportunities.

NB: Due to the high volume of applications, if you have not received a response from the Talent Acquisition team within 4 weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful.

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Delivery Consultant – Executive Search (SaaS, Cyber Security & Enterprise Software)

Join a high-growth UK-based executive search firm trusted by some of the world’s most innovative SaaS and digital consultancy brands. As a Delivery Consultant, you’ll play a pivotal role in identifying, mapping, and engaging top-tier commercial talent across global tech markets – from venture-backed startups to major public enterprises. This role is ideal for someone with strong recruitment experience in tech sales or marketing, who thrives on market research, candidate engagement, and high-impact hiring.

• Client Needs Analysis : Work closely with senior consultants to interpret client briefs, hiring needs, and candidate profiles.
• Market Mapping & Research : Conduct deep-dive research into niche verticals across SaaS, cyber security, and enterprise software.
• Talent Identification : Use LinkedIn Recruiter, CRM systems, headhunting techniques, and Boolean search to source high-quality candidates.
• Candidate Engagement : Reach out via InMails, direct calls, and emails to approach, qualify, and assess passive and active talent.
• Shortlisting : Present structured, high-quality shortlists tailored to the client’s specific growth stage (Seed, Series A/B, PE-backed, Scale-up, or Global Corp).
• Candidate Management : Maintain long-term relationships, ensuring excellent communication and candidate experience.
• Market Intelligence : Track emerging hiring trends, competitors, and salary benchmarking to guide search strategy.
• Collaboration : Coordinate seamlessly with consultants and partners to ensure successful delivery across regions (40% USA, 40% Europe, 20% Asia).

• 3-5 years’ experience in recruitment within executive search or technology/SaaS sales hiring .
• Strong understanding of different organisational growth stages (Seed, Series A/B, PE-backed, Scale-up, Global).
• Prior experience recruiting sales, GTM or marketing talent within SaaS, cyber security, or enterprise software industries.
• Proficiency in using LinkedIn Recruiter , Boolean search , CRMs , and talent mapping tools.
• A research-driven mindset with an analytical approach to sourcing and shortlisting.
• Confident communicator with strong written and verbal English.
• Must have a reliable internet connection and own laptop for remote work.

• Seniority level: Not Applicable
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Consulting
• Industries: Staffing and Recruiting

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Join a visionary UK-based recruitment consultancy that partners with global brands to place board-level and VP executives. We’re looking for a strategic, self-motivated Senior Talent Partner to lead the full 360 recruitment cycle – from sourcing and client development to executive-level placement. This is an exceptional opportunity to be mentored directly by the founder, with a long-term view on growth and development.

In your first year, the focus is not on targets or pressure, but on learning, refining your craft, and becoming a trusted expert. If you are a curious thinker, loyal collaborator, and experienced recruiter with international exposure and a niche specialism, we want to hear from you.

Responsibilities:

• Manage end-to-end recruitment for senior and executive-level roles, including VP and C-suite placements.
• Develop and nurture warm business development leads; no cold calling required.
• Build long-term relationships with clients and candidates across international markets.
• Conduct detailed candidate assessments, interviews, and briefing/debriefing sessions.
• Collaborate closely with leadership to understand client needs and contribute to bespoke hiring strategies.
• Use your niche expertise to deepen industry insight and enhance talent acquisition efforts.
• Maintain up-to-date records on CRM and ATS systems, ensuring data integrity and transparency.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Minimum of 8 years’ experience in a full-cycle recruitment or executive search role.
• Proven international recruitment experience across senior or board-level roles.
• Possess a niche specialism (industry agnostic – your depth of knowledge matters more than the sector).
• Strong business development skills with the ability to grow client relationships organically.
• Demonstrated loyalty and commitment to long-term success in previous roles.
• Analytical, curious, and independent thinker – ideally someone with a “logician” mindset.
• Access to a reliable laptop and stable, high-speed internet connection.
• Based in South Africa and comfortable working remotely with UK time zones.

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Administrative
• Industries Staffing and Recruiting

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Addesu Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Addesu Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Senior Paid Media Executive (Social & Search)

Job Type:

Full Time

Location:

Cape Town

Reports to:

The Senior Paid Media Executive will report to a Paid Media Account Manager.

Job Overview:

This is an exciting opportunity for someone with a product-led mindset and a background in paid media, with at least one year of experience actively managing client campaigns. The successful applicant would take full ownership of a number of paid media accounts across various verticals & platforms. You would lead on client contact, reporting, strategy & roadmapping for your clients, with the support of the Account Manager or other senior team members.

Alongside the regular account role, you would work directly with our tech team to develop the Addesu platform. The role would see you identifying pitfalls of existing processes and industry practices, and communicating effective solutions to further the underlying technology that powers the business.

Your role would include:

Performance/management:

• Daily checks across key clients, recognising and prioritising changes to improve performance.
• Carry out routine & detailed account audits with clear actionable insights.
• Support with building & maintaining cross-channel strategy roadmaps for clients, including new platform roll outs, technical changes, dependancies & more.
• Manage, maintain and balance personal workload via online task tracking software (Notion).
• Monitor & support team workload, delegating tasks based on priority and team resources.
• Work alongside other team members on projects and client work.

Client comms:

• Nurture client relationships, including regular reporting calls & day to day communications.
• Identify and communicate key next steps required to improve performance.
• Feedback client based areas of concern for senior leadership attention.

Leadership:

• Confidently discuss paid media with prospects, partners & clients.
• Attend and represent Addesu at events when possible.
• Deliver against team targets, regularly reporting progress back to the senior team.

Technology:

• Raise tickets for any bugs identified within the Addesu platform, communicating the reproduction steps effectively to the product/tech team.
• Submit tasks to the tech backlog, and support in prioritising new features to the Addesu platform.
• At least one year of hands-on experience with running campaigns in Google Ads & Meta Ads. Microsoft Ads and other social platforms are a bonus!
• To be comfortable leading client communication across calls, emails & instant messaging for select clients.
• Some experience with strategy & testing planning for clients.
• To be comfortable using Excel, Sheets or similar data analysis tools.
• The ability to work independently & remotely where required.
• Inquisitive mindset when tackling new challenges.
• An interest in marketing technology & the future of digital.
• To be a fluent English speaker, with other languages a bonus!
• Salary reviews every 6 months at a minimum.
• A quarterly performance bonus.
• The ability to work flexibly, with:
• - The ability to work your own schedule as long as core responsibilities & deadlines can be met.
• - Working from home (WFH) up to 3 days per week, with the ability to use the office in Rondebosch when required.
• 17 days of paid annual leave as governed by the BCEA.
• Our commitment to scale up our support for you as our company grows, with a clear & transparent roadmap towards this.

Salary scale:

About Addesu:

What do we do?

Addesu builds smart simplicity into our client’s digital growth strategy. Combining our team of digital marketing experts with the power of our platform to create tailored solutions for every stage of their journey.

How do we work?

Flexible support models tailored to our client’s business needs. From platform only, to bi-weekly consulting, to fully managed support.

Who do we work with?

• New or rapidly expanding B2C brands who need help building solid foundations from which to scale.
• B2B service providers with limited marketing knowledge looking to take their first steps.
• Established brands whose goal now is to take their digital operations to the next level.
• Large organisations where performance has plateaued who would benefit from external eyes to identify growth barriers and potential bespoke solutions.

What is the Addesu platform?

Designed as a one-stop shop for all your digital marketing reporting and ad monitoring. Our platform saves you time, offering true performance insights along the way.

Connecting to every ad platform plus other sources like Shopify and Hubspot, our technology pulls over 20 reports daily to automatically analyse performance, highlight problems & proactively suggest solutions.

Our story so far:

Since launching 3 years ago, we’ve grown to a team of 13, onboarded lots of clients (including Real Madrid, Derek Rose, Pockit & more), and almost doubled our size over 2024. We’ve got ambitious plans to grow over the coming months, and anyone joining at this stage will have a tangible impact on this growth.

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Marketing, Public Relations, and Writing/Editing
• Industries Advertising Services

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PracticeAptitudeTests.com is one of the world’s leading platforms for online test preparation. Each year, millions of job seekers use our site to practice for aptitude tests used by top employers. We're part of Picked Group Ltd, a fast-growing digital company with a portfolio of niche career sites.

We’re looking for a data-driven SEO Executive to help us grow our organic reach, improve search rankings, and optimise content performance across the site. This is a hands-on role with the opportunity to make a direct impact on a high-traffic platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the day-to-day SEO strategy and execution for PracticeAptitudeTests.com
• Conduct regular keyword research and use data to inform content creation and updates
• Audit and optimise on-page SEO: meta tags, internal linking, headers, URL structure, etc.
• Identify and fix technical SEO issues in collaboration with our development team
• Monitor SEO performance, provide insights, and report regularly on rankings, traffic, and visibility
• Support link-building initiatives and outreach campaigns
• Collaborate with writers, developers, and marketing to implement best practices across content
• Stay up to date with SEO trends, algorithm updates, and competitor movements

Requirements

• 1–3 years experience in an SEO role, ideally within a content-heavy or e-learning business
• Expert in SEMrush for keyword tracking, competitor analysis, and technical audits
• Expertise in using AI tools to streamline SEO research, content optimisation, and productivity
• Strong knowledge of SEO tools like Google Search Console, Screaming Frog, and GA4
• Comfortable working with large content archives and identifying optimisation opportunities at scale
• Analytical mindset with the ability to turn data into actionable insights
• Basic understanding of HTML/CSS and technical SEO fundamentals
• Self-starter who’s comfortable working independently and managing their own roadmap
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

What We Offer

• Fully remote working
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Opportunity to work on a high-traffic, high-impact website
• Autonomy and flexibility in your role
• Friendly and fast-moving team

• Seniority level Associate

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Marketing
• Industries Marketing Services

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Are you passionate about building high-performing teams that create real impact? Our prestigious client based in the CBD, a trailblazer in their industry, is on the lookout for an experienced HR Talent Partner to help shape the future of their growing organisation.

In this pivotal role, you’ll lead end-to-end talent acquisition across technical, operational, and corporate functions.

Partnering closely with hiring managers and the Executive team, you’ll craft and execute inclusive, values-driven recruitment strategies that attract top talent.

Requirements:

• National Diploma or bachelor’s degree in human resource management, Industrial Psychology, Business Administration, or a related field
• Minimum of 4 years’ experience in full-cycle recruitment, including high-volume, multi-skilled hiring
• Previous Experience Required
• Proven ability to manage multiple roles and stakeholders across various teams
• Strong knowledge of South African labour laws and transformation goals (EE, BBBEE, SDA)
• Proficiency in Microsoft 365 and experience with ATS and HRIS platforms (e.g., BambooHR, Sage 300 and any ATS)
• High attention to detail, accuracy, and confidentiality
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines as we are a growing organisation with high recruitment demands
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build trust with both hiring managers and candidates
• Passion for recruitment and contributing to a diverse, inclusive workplace

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end recruitment across all Teams– from job requisition to onboarding
• Partner with hiring managers to understand workforce plans and forecast talent needs (specific team and talent mapping)
• Write and manage job advertisements, screen CVs, conduct interviews, and facilitate technical assessments when necessary
• Coordinate panel interviews and final selection processes, especially for technical teams and project-based roles
• Maintain and update job descriptions and recruitment trackers
• Source candidates using job boards, LinkedIn, ATS, industry networks, and direct outreach Attend clean energy job fairs, networking events, and industry conferences to build talent pipelines
• Support hiring managers with interview preparation, role benchmarking, and market insights in collaboration with the Rewards Specialist
• Work with HC Team and the People Partners and cross-functional teams to ensure seamless onboarding for both head office and site-based employees
• Maintain onboarding lists and support the handover process from offer acceptance to start date
• Ensure hiring processes comply with labour laws, POPIA, EE, and internal policies
• Track and report on diversity, EE metrics, and other recruitment KPIs for the Employment Equity Committee
• Support Employment Equity initiatives to increase representation of underrepresented groups within the organization
• Stay up to date on labour market trends, compensation benchmarks, and competitor hiring practices in the renewable energy and infrastructure sectors
• Drive improvements in recruitment policies, systems, and processes
• Contribute to people-focused projects such as onboarding, talent mapping, and workforce planning

Job title : Talent Acquisition Officer

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Minimum Requirements

Talent Acquisition Specialist

• National Diploma or Degree in Human Resources Management or related Business Sciences qualification.
• Minimum of 5 years experience in full-cycle recruitment, ideally in a high-volume or complex hiring environment .
• Proven ability in sourcing, headhunting , and managing diverse talent pipelines .
• Demonstrated success in improving recruitment systems , workflows, and operational efficiency.
• Sound understanding of labour legislation , hiring practices, and transformation policies.
• Experience in developing and executing recruitment strategies , policies, and talent attraction initiatives.
• Strong computer literacy and hands-on experience with HRIS or ATS platforms .

• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build trusted relationships.

• Develop and execute talent acquisition strategies aligned with organizational goals and workforce plans.
• Partner with hiring managers to understand business needs and build targeted talent pipelines for key roles.
• Continuously improve recruitment tools, systems, and processes to enhance efficiency and candidate experience.
• Serve as a brand ambassador , leveraging employer branding to position The Company as an employer of choice.
• Manage and analyse recruitment data , identify trends, and provide insights to inform decision-making.
• Ensure all recruitment activities are conducted in compliance with labour laws , internal policies, and transformation objectives.

The Talent Acquisition Manager will join our local South Africa People team and work within our international talent acquisition team, report directly to the local People lead you will also have a dotted line to our Global Head of Talent Acquisition. You will own local hiring in South Africa and support international hiring demand when required. You will be a data driven, innovative and passionate recruiter, who wants to continuously raise the bar for how we deliver best in class recruitment practices.

What will this role look like on a day-to-day basis?

• Lead full-cycle recruitment processes for diverse roles across Sales, Tech, Product, and Corporate functions, from sourcing to onboarding.
• Design and implement market and function talent acquisition strategies to meet organizational hiring goals and improve efficiency and quality.
• Manage relationships with key stakeholders, providing data driven, market specific insights and collaborating on hiring strategies.
• Analyse recruitment metrics and market trends to optimise talent acquisition processes and inform strategies and decision-making.
• Leverage AI and other cutting-edge technologies to enhance, sourcing, attraction, assessment, and overall recruitment strategies. Championing our referral scheme to ensure all managers promote their vacancies on social media platforms.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in full-cycle recruitment, preferably in a fast-paced, multi-country and high-growth environment.
• Proven track record of successfully hiring for a diverse range of roles, including Sales, Tech, Product, and Corporate positions.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and make data-driven decisions to improve recruitment processes.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work autonomously and collaborate with a global team across different countries.
• Demonstrated experience in utilising AI and other innovative technologies to enhance recruitment strategies and processes.

Additional Information

We are a community here that cares as much about your life outside work as how you feel when you’re with us. Because your job shouldn’t take over your life, it should enrich it. Here are some of the benefits we offer :

• Hybrid working (60% in office, 40% at home)
• 20 days annual leave
• Company closure between Christmas and new year (over and above annual leave)
• Maternity leave benefits
• Group life Cover including disability and Funeral cover
• Employee Assistance Programme

Our Commitment

Equal opportunities are important to us. We believe that diversity and inclusion at The Stepstone Group are critical to our success as a global company, so we want to recruit, develop, and keep the best talent. We encourage applications from everyone, regardless of background, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, ethnicity, belief, age, family or parental status, and any other characteristic.