Elizabeth Lar
Elizabeth Lar

Senior Talent Acquisition Professional

Open to offers · Member since 18 Sep 2026
Location
Lagos, Nigeria
Desired salary
Confidential
Work preference
Remote Only / Full Time, Part Time, Contract
Experience level
Senior

About

Professional summary

I am a Talent Acquisition professional with over five years of experience delivering end-to-end, high-volume, and cross-border recruitment across Africa, Europe, Latin America, the GCC, and North America.

I specialize in technical, product, commercial, sales, marketing, finance, and executive hiring. I partner closely with hiring managers and business leaders to define role requirements, build talent pipelines, and deliver strong candidate experiences.

I have managed recruitment for more than 100 vacancies annually and have consistently improved time-to-hire through proactive sourcing, structured processes, and data-driven recruitment decisions.

I am experienced in implementing and optimizing ATS platforms, recruitment automation, AI-enabled candidate screening workflows, recruitment dashboards, and assessment processes.

I have led talent operations initiatives including employer branding, university partnerships, internal mobility, succession planning, onboarding frameworks, hiring-manager training, and recruitment KPI improvement.

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Senior Recruiter Scale Army

Manage high-volume recruitment across the United States, Africa, Latin America, and Europe for technical, customer success, sales, and executive functions. Lead the end-to-end hiring lifecycle from sourcing and screening through offer negotiation and onboarding.

Develop targeted sourcing strategies for engineering, product, QA, and IT roles, maintaining an 80% close rate. Source candidates through LinkedIn Recruiter Lite, Apollo, GitHub, Behance, Discord, and referral networks; partner with clients on role definition, conduct salary benchmarking, review KPIs, and mentor recruiting team members.

Talent Operations Lead Hugo

Led talent operations and implemented the company ATS within 30 days, establishing scalable recruitment infrastructure ahead of schedule. Introduced an AI-powered recruitment chatbot to automate candidate screening and accelerate pipeline progression.

Built university and technical institute partnerships across Nigeria to strengthen early-career and technology talent pipelines. Developed recruitment dashboards, conducted candidate assessments, supported onboarding and new-hire check-ins, and introduced succession planning and internal mobility initiatives that helped reduce time-to-hire by 30%.

Talent Operations Lead Jaza Energy

Developed recruitment strategies and policies to improve sourcing efficiency across Nigeria, Tanzania, and Canada. Led ATS implementation and deployed AI-enabled recruitment workflows and chatbot tools to create a more structured, automated hiring process.

Managed bulk hiring across functions and locations while improving candidate experience and hiring-manager collaboration. Established candidate NPS tracking with a 90% score, improved the Glassdoor rating from 3.1 to 4.6, and developed succession planning, internal mobility, and 30/60/90-day onboarding frameworks.

Talent Acquisition Partner Kuda

Managed end-to-end recruitment across technology, microfinance, and retail entities in Nigeria, the United Kingdom, Canada, and South Africa. Partnered with hiring managers and stakeholders to align workforce requirements, sourcing activity, candidate pipelines, and recruitment reporting with business objectives.

Reduced time-to-fill for key roles by 42%, from 60 to 35 days, through proactive candidate pipelining and structured recruitment processes. Managed screening, interview coordination, assessments, and university career fairs, and partnered with Learning and Development to deliver quarterly skills-based interview training for hiring managers.

Talent Acquisition Specialist - Technical Cavista

Managed technical sourcing and screening for software engineering, QA, and IT roles across Nigeria, the United States, and Canada. Worked with hiring managers to define technical requirements, candidate profiles, and detailed job briefs.

Built qualified talent pipelines through GitHub, Stack Overflow, and social media sourcing. Conducted preliminary candidate assessments and coordinated hackathons, technology events, and university partnerships to strengthen technical talent attraction.

Talent Acquisition Specialist Jumia

Delivered end-to-end recruitment across marketplace, logistics and warehouse, fintech, and technology functions in Nigeria and Ghana. Recruited for software engineering, data science, product, commercial, marketing, operations, logistics, and third-party logistics roles.

Managed high-volume hiring under tight timelines, built talent pipelines through LinkedIn Boolean search, referrals, industry networks, and direct sourcing, and coordinated screening, interviews, assessments, background checks, and pre-boarding. Supported internal mobility, standardized job descriptions, employer branding, campus recruitment, and recruitment reporting.

Education

Learning history

Warwick Business School

MBA

MBA program in progress.

University of Education, Winneba

BBA, Human Resource Management

Bachelor of Business Administration in Human Resource Management.

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