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Recruitment of a Director of Operations

Permanent recruitment

How we recruited a Director of Operations for a livestock and meat importer / exporter

Our client

Our client is an importer and exporter of premium livestock and chilled / frozen meat. They pass their livestock through a strict, veterinarian-run program to ensure health and safety.

Location - Saudi Arabia
Industry - livestock import / export
Size - 120 employees

We applied our three-phase service delivery model for this recruitment drive.

Video job advertisement

Social media algorithms favour videos over still content, so we create video advertisements for all vacancies to help source our candidates.

We take full advantage of this unique and highly effective form of candidate sourcing in order to reach the right candidate at the right time.

We post our videos on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. They are posted on these platforms 10-20 times, based on relevance. Our videos typically receive over 1,000 views within the first 24 hours.

Job advertisement

We constantly refresh, rewrite and reformat our job advertisements to optimise the quality of applications received. Our approach is aggressive - we post around 20 advertisements for every permanent job. Advertisements are posted on:

Job boards - Seek, Adzuna, Glassdoor, Indeed and Jora
Social media - LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter
11 Recruitment's website

On average, our advertisements receive over 100 applications and perform well above the market benchmark for Seek, shown in this graph

Director of Operations

Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to relocate to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Manage the entire day-to-day sheep farm operations / logistics
Excellent remuneration package - tax FREE

The role

The duties for this role will include:

Undertaking all farm management to ensure efficiency and welfare of livestock exportation
Overseeing the transportation logistics between stations
Managing a team of approximately 40 farmhands and veterinarians
Maintaining compliance with WH&S policies, and safe work practices
Undertaking regular risk assessments and implementing relevant mitigation actions
Managing the animal husbandry and welfare for the farm

About you

The successful candidate will have:

Experience running all day-to-day operations of a sheep farm
Experience in large-scale farm management
The ability to manage, organise, and operate a livestock property
The ability to conduct internal stock movement, monitoring, induction, exiting, sorting, classing, marking and healthcare / welfare supervision
Comprehensive knowledge of safe-keeping sheep
The ability to identify associated risks with the livestock exportation
Strong written and verbal communication skills to work with key decision-makers

Experience with farm logistics, including livestock exportation, would also be an advantage.

About our client

Our client is seeking an experienced Director of Operations to be responsible for farm management and logistics for sheep from Western Australia to Saudi Arabia. You will relocate to Jeddah to run the farm on-site with complete responsibility for large-scale sheep management.

The farm is 20km2 with plans of expansion into 2020. There will be an estimated 100k - 110k sheep located at the farm. 

You will be provided with flights for you and your family to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia to begin directing all farm operations. With a generous tax FREE salary package, you can enjoy the beautiful region of Jeddah whilst experiencing a new and exciting destination to call home.

Assessment Matrix design

Our in-house designed, custom made software generates an Assessment Matrix, which is our blueprint for the recruitment process. Our process consists of screening, interviews, document verification, skills testing, personality profiling and reference checks.

Ticks indicate the point at which each criteria is addressed. More importance criteria are checked multiple times throughout the recruitment process.

Selection criteria	Screen	Interview	Docs.	Skill test	Profiling	Refs.
Education
Animal health / nutrition - advantage	✓		✓
Experience
Large-scale farm management	✓	✓				✓
Livestock management	✓	✓				✓
Classing and marking sheep	✓	✓				✓
Livestock security supervision and management	✓	✓				✓
Sheep health and welfare	✓	✓				✓
Animal disease identification	✓	✓				✓
Farm logistics execution - advantage	✓	✓				✓
Livestock mortality rate reduction	✓	✓				✓
Farm management - 20km2	✓	✓				✓
Staff management - 50	✓	✓				✓
Livestock management - 100k	✓	✓				✓
Other
Relocate to Saudi Arabia	✓	✓
Proficient in / will learn Arabic	✓	✓
Current passport	✓	✓	✓
Technological aptitude to record data in electronic systems	✓		✓	✓
MS Office - advanced	✓	✓		✓
Verify LinkedIn vs CV	✓	✓				✓
Accept expected salary ($250k)	✓	✓				✓
Previous warning of termination?	✓	✓				✓
Will you pass a drug test?	✓	✓				✓
Behaviour
Dominance - 69%		✓			✓
Influence - 45%		✓			✓
Steadiness - 27%		✓			✓
Compliance - 47%		✓			✓
Forms signed
Health / police check			✓
Signed document - tell the truth			✓
Docs verified
Driver’s licence	✓		✓
Citizen AU / NZ or PR	✓		✓

DISC profiling

Similar to people, jobs have their own behavioural profile that is based on duties, environment and communication. We create a profile for every job vacancy, enabling us to match an applicant's behaviour against that of a specific role.

We use DISC, which examines the following attributes:

Dominance - accomplishing results, the bottom line, confidence
Influence - persuading others, openness, dependability
Steadiness - cooperation, sincerity, dependability
Compliance - quality, accuracy, expertise

DISC profile - Director of Operations

This role requires an individual who is able to take personal responsibility, accept accountability for their actions and decisions, be comfortable with a dynamic work environment and is able to adapt as required.

The role will require a goal focused person motivated to achieve the desired outcomes without significant management intervention or the guidance of rules. The person would need to have a resilient character such that they can cope with the challenging aspects of the role which would require strength of character and skill to adapt to changing circumstances to do the job.

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As well as being “driven”, this role also call for someone with charisma; an individual who is a good communicator, able to persuade others to their point of view as well as get their message across without appearing “pushy” or over-bearing.

The ideal personality type for this role will be an individual who has an assertive nature and is also open and socially skilled, being able to interact with others on all levels and not being too concerned about what others may think of them when making tough decisions. Essentially this person will be able to lead by having the determination to succeed.

The position requires an individual who will be comfortable with responding quickly to work demands and who will be adaptable and comfortable with change. There will be times when deadlines need to be met with little warning and the individual will need to be able to adapt to meeting tight deadlines.

This job will suit someone who is enthusiastic, energetic and confident with adapting to the changing environment, and not reliant on rigidly following a process or procedure.

The role will require a person who is self-confident, unlikely to experience doubt as to their decisions and have the ability to act on instinct rather than following the procedure. The role requires someone who is likely to be confident, goal oriented and determined to get the job done to their liking.

The person will need to be optimistic and enjoy socialising and meeting new people, a person who likes people and who is a good communicator and negotiator. This person would be happy to venture where others are more cautious and a person able to work independently; but at the same time recognising the need for conforming to certain rules or procedures in order to get the job done.

This role requires a person with an eye for detail and comfortable with following the procedures where required to get the job done. However, whereas the individual needs to be focused on getting the job done thoroughly and properly and according to the process, they need to have a degree of flexibility if necessary to get the job done.

Director of Operations

Shortlisted candidates

Candidate A

Director of Operations - 1 - Personal Style

Candidate B

Director of Operations - 2 - Personal Style

Candidate C

Director of Operations - 3 - Personal Style

Behavioural adaptation by candidates to match the job profile:

Candidate A

Candidate B

Candidate C

Results

Our aim is to produce a strong shortlist by sourcing widely. We measure every stage in our recruitment process to ensure we meet this key objective.

Our service comes with an extended 18-month replacement guarantee. This guarantee means our interests are mutually aligned - to recruit high achievers who will excel and stay.

Video views

1,077

Applications received

Interviewed by 11 Recruitment

Shortlisted

Interviewed by client

Hired

Feedback

"I was a little bit suspicious using any recruitment agencies after being burnt so many times.

One day I got an email from Christian Madsen with some tips explaining how to recruit better. I decided to go ahead with their service and was pleasantly surprised by their professional approach and attention to the process.

They offered 18 months guarantee as well as an offer to perform a profile test for the chosen one.

Overall, I wouldn't hesitate recommending 11Recruitment. Very happy."

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