Head of Recruitment and Learning Project

Jiji is the leading online marketplace in Pan-African countries, with over 200 million users from offices in 10 countries. We work every day to make sure that people have a place for safe buying and selling cars. We constantly improve the quality of service, and we always help our customers to seal deals.That's why now, to be of even more use, the company needs talented and motivated people.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Head of Recruitment & Learning Project

Location: Ikeja, Lagos (Hybrid)
Employment Type: Full-time

About the Job

• We are seeking a highly driven and strategic Head of Recruitment & Learning Projects to lead large-scale sales recruitment and workforce training initiatives across the business.
• The successful candidate will be responsible for building a consistent pipeline of qualified sales agents, leading a team of recruitment associates, and ensuring newly recruited employees are adequately trained, productive, and aligned with the company's sales objectives.
• This role requires a hands-on recruitment leader with a proven ability to deliver high-volume hiring, manage recruitment projects at scale, develop effective sourcing strategies, and implement training initiatives that accelerate sales performance and productivity.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end recruitment of sales agents for online and offline teams.
• Develop mass recruitment strategies to meet aggressive hiring targets and deadlines.
• Build and maintain a pipeline of qualified candidates through multiple sourcing channels.
• Lead, coach, and manage Recruitment Associates.
• Set recruitment targets, monitor KPIs, and drive team accountability.
• Allocate workloads, track performance, and ensure timely delivery of hiring objectives.
• Design and coordinate onboarding and sales training programmes for new hires.
• Assess training effectiveness and ensure recruits are ready for deployment.
• Collaborate with Sales and Operations to address performance gaps.
• Translate business growth plans into recruitment targets and hiring schedules.
• Manage mass hiring campaigns, workforce expansion, and special recruitment projects.
• Identify recruitment risks and implement corrective actions.
• Use data to improve recruitment efficiency, candidate quality, and workforce performance.

What We Are Looking For

• Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Psychology, Industrial Relations, or a related field.
• 4 - 7 years of relevant recruitment or talent acquisition experience, with substantial high-volume hiring exposure.
• At least 2–3 years in a team leadership or recruitment project management role.
• Demonstrated success recruiting large numbers of sales agents within tight timelines.
• Experience in recruitment consulting, BPO, e-commerce, telecommunications, FMCG, fintech, or another high-volume sales environment is highly desirable.
• Professional HR certification and experience coordinating sales training are added advantages.