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.
  
• Flag any pattern of margin erosion across a role type or client account, not just individual cases, so pricing or sourcing strategy can be adjusted.
  
• Support offer negotiation, security clearance/vetting coordination, onboarding and mobilization.
  
• Maintain full, accurate recruitment records in Zoho Recruit in real time.
  
• Operate within each respective jurisdictional labor law, government contract governance and BSL recruitment compliance standards.
  
• Contribute to market intelligence, salary bench-marking, talent availability and competitor activity to support workforce planning conversations with clients.
  
• Identify opportunities to extend BSL's footprint within existing contracts, additional roles, adjacent departments or scope growth and flag these commercially rather than treating them purely as requisitions.
  
• Manage a high volume, concurrent vacancy load without loss of pace or accuracy.
  

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
  

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.