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INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
TECHNOLOGY PLATFORMS
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Erik Broberg

Erik Broberg

Global Talent Executive
Stockholm,Danderyd

Summary

My career has been purposefully developed to become a credible subject matter expert in the entire Talent lifecycle. Coupled with my keen commercial acuity, I strive to find ways of making Talent a significant competitive advantage and enabler for achieving aspirational and functional goals. I intuitively see organisations from a people perspective and am passionate about crafting and moulding people solutions that unlock the maximum potential of a business. I have worked for some of Africa’s most respected and successful businesses (SABMiller, Dimension Data and Adcorp Holdings), plus having 11+ years’ experience working in/with European operations (Saint-Gobain). I gravitate towards driving operational efficiency and innovation, underpinned always with improving user experience. I seek out and thrive in environments that require bold and creative thinking and put people at the heart of their strategic priorities. My next goal is to take full ownership of a Talent agenda across one of the world’s most aspirational multinationals.

Overview

2026
2026
years of professional experience
3
3
Languages

Work History

Talent Acquisition

  • 20 years’ experience of translating business goals and strategic priorities into practical, actionable deliverables – from Workforce Planning to Supply Chain optimisation, to the Digital Transformation Talent teams and functions.
  • Subject Matter Expert in the design, build and management of Talent Acquisition Centres of Excellence (CoE’s) with both Regional and Global scope, within leading businesses across varied industries across the EMEA Region predominantly.
  • Recruitment policy development, entrenchment and ownership across the entire business.
  • Formulating Candidate Attraction Strategies incorporating an effective blend of established and innovative methods.
  • Leading Employer Branding Initiatives, being the business champion responsible for the vision, the conceptualisation and rollout of highly successful Employer Branding campaigns.
  • Curating and owning the internal Hiring Manager training and empowerment to ensure a consistent, effective and unbiased Recruitment Process is universal throughout the business.
  • Continuous improvement initiatives in the field of Candidate Assessment – being an early adopter of gamification, technology-based unbiased assessments, effective interviewing methodology and techniques, and weighted scoring for complete objectivity.
  • Data and Analytics – designing and creating ways of working that generate rich data which can be translated into insights to drive positive change in behaviours and effective management.
  • Key Vendor Management to support the achievement of strategic goals – including Universum (Employer Branding), LinkedIn (Recruitment tools), Technology providers (ATS, VMS, CRM), Executive Search Partners as well as contingent Recruitment Agencies.
  • Budget Responsibility and ownership of up to USD 100m.

Talent Management

  • Support local/regional execution of Performance Management methodology through embedding correct practices, and leading Performance Management annual Reviews as well as Calibration sessions across all levels of work within an organisation.
  • Highly experienced in leading Career Development discussions with employees across all levels of work within an organisation.

  • Support Mobility and Secondments in line with strategic Talent priorities, partnering with local and global mobility teams to efficiently redeploy talent in line with their career paths.
  • Recruited for, co-designed and owned specialist Graduate Programmes – particularly within the technical areas of manufacturing.
  • Avid supporter and champion of structured Succession Planning, ensuring top talent have defined career progression journeys aimed at their development and retention.
  • Advocate for ongoing Workforce Optimisation through the continuous evaluation of the blend between technology and human resource requirements.

Digital Transformation of Talent Functions

  • Market analysis and exploring channel insights, remaining at the cutting-edge of available resources, technologies and solutions to further provide a competitive advantage.
  • Procuring and customising technology architecture for business success.
  • Project scoping, design and management for multiple Digital Enhancement and Transformation initiatives including ATS, CRM, VMS and HRIS deployment and integration.
  • Building business cases for approval and funding, project managing the process from ideation through to rollout and embedding the solution.
  • Onboard required personnel and skills needed to successfully implement the technology, usually a combination of permanent and expert non-permanent resources from within and outside the organisation.

People Management & Development

  • Inspirational leader with demonstrated experience building highly effective teams able to deliver exceptional results.
  • Versatile people manager having managed small, medium and large teams of people through direct, indirect and matrixed environments.
  • Accomplished and seasoned people manager across all levels of work, having managed individuals from TA Specialist through to Directors and Regional Directors of business units.
  • Effective influencer at the highest levels of business able to steer and guide business priorities through robust and stimulating engagement.
  • Proud of having developed many past (and present) employees into more senior roles particularly within Talent Acquisition, at a range of employers.
  • A champion for Meritocracy, creating processes and practices that ensure complete fairness and transparency in hiring decisions – both within my teams, my own organisation as well as with customers.

MANAGING EXECUTIVE (TALENTCRU / DAV / KELLY / TPC)

ADCORP HOLDINGS (PTY) LTD
02.2020 - Current
  • Lead a commercial turnaround for the largest Recruitment Outsourcing company in Africa, culminating in the amalgamation of 5 businesses into 1 consolidated profitable trading entity. Oversee and manage a team of 350 permanent employees across 9 geographical locations, and multiple client sites, with full financial accountability for USD 100m (R1.5m Billion) annually. Run Africa’s only Resourcing Managed Service Provider (MSP) responsible for over 3000 senior professionals, via over 200 vendor partners.
  • Achievements:
  • Launched the first low-cost Subscription-based Recruitment offering to the African market.

REGIONAL HEAD OF TALENT ACQUISITION / ACTING HEAD OF TALENT MANAGEMENT (COVERING MATERNITY)

SAINT-GOBAIN (SOUTHERN AFRICA)
06.2018 - 01.2020
  • Established a Centre of Excellence (CoE) for African operations with regards to Talent Acquisition. Directly managed a team of 5 individuals tasked with supporting the expansion of operations across Angola, Ivory Coast, Namibia, Ghana, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Pioneered the introduction of a fully customised ATS Talentlink, supported by a cost-saving reengineered vendor supply chain. Championed transformation agenda across demographics and gender in line with Group policy and acted in the capacity of the Talent Manager covering for maternity leave of a colleague.

GLOBAL HEAD OF TALENT ACQUISITION

DIMENSION DATA (NOW NTT INTERNATIONAL)
04.2017 - 03.2018
  • Employed on a 1-year assignment in London to align Global recruitment operations and prepare for the absorption into the NTT International business. Designed the global Recruitment Policy for Workday customisation and rollout across 30 000 employees. Worked closely with marketing to leverage the Tour de France sponsorship, from an Employer Branding perspective with great success. Project managed the launch of a new Shared Service in Prague to house European Customer Service agents. Revised global vendor agreements with existing and new suppliers to generate USD 1m annual savings through the Recruitment channel. Restructured the global reporting lines of Talent Acquisition, and successfully introduced a multi-year Skills repurposing initiative to fundamentally change the make-up of the organisation’s Skills composition.

REGIONAL HEAD OF TALENT ACQUISITION (AFRICA)

SABMILLER (NOW ABINBEV)
01.2015 - 03.2017
  • Managed the integration of SAB (South Africa) into SABMiller (Africa) from a Talent Acquisition perspective, ensuring Regional alignment of Recruitment Operations and Ways of Working. Led a team of 10 Specialists and Managers in managing arguably South African’s finest Talent Acquisition team.
  • Achievements:
  • Successfully led an award-winning Employer Branding campaign titled “Brewing the Best” for Graduate Recruitment and won multiple industry awards as an Employer of Choice and most Admired Employer.
  • Managed to reduce agency 3rd spend to 2%, generating over USD 1m of additional savings through cost avoidance.

MANAGING DIRECTOR

KELLY GROUP LTD
06.2013 - 12.2014

FOUNDER / MANAGING DIRECTOR

BRANNON RECRUITMENT
12.2008 - 06.2013

REGIONAL MANAGER

SUPERCARE
03.2007 - 12.2008

FOUNDER / DIRECTOR

FRESH MEDICAL
03.2003 - 12.2006

Education

Bachelor of Commerce Honours - undefined

Regent Business School
01.2020

MREC - undefined

REC (United Kingdom)
01.2004

Bachelor of Commerce - Law

University of Stellenbosch
01.2001

Matric / A-Levels - undefined

Grey High School
01.1997

Skills

  • Bold and Decisive Decision Making

  • Leading Digital Transformation of HR

  • Commercialisation of Ideas

  • Strategy Creation and Execution

  • People Management and Development

  • Continuous Improvement

  • Ambassador of Company Culture

  • Commercial Acuity

Websites

ATTRIBUTES

  • Big Thinker / Visionary
  • Inspirational Management Style
  • Change Management Specialist
  • Innovative

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

  • Construction Products / Building Materials
  • FMCG (Beverages)
  • Technology / ICT Professional Services
  • Executive Search
  • Recruitment Professional Services (MSP/RPO)

TECHNOLOGY PLATFORMS

  • Workday
  • Salesforce
  • Smart Recruiters
  • Talentlink
  • LinkedIn Recruiter
  • Power BI

KEY LOCATIONS

  • Central & Northern Europe
  • Republic of Ireland
  • The United Kingdom
  • Southern Africa
  • East & West Africa

Timeline

MANAGING EXECUTIVE (TALENTCRU / DAV / KELLY / TPC)

ADCORP HOLDINGS (PTY) LTD
02.2020 - Current

REGIONAL HEAD OF TALENT ACQUISITION / ACTING HEAD OF TALENT MANAGEMENT (COVERING MATERNITY)

SAINT-GOBAIN (SOUTHERN AFRICA)
06.2018 - 01.2020

GLOBAL HEAD OF TALENT ACQUISITION

DIMENSION DATA (NOW NTT INTERNATIONAL)
04.2017 - 03.2018

REGIONAL HEAD OF TALENT ACQUISITION (AFRICA)

SABMILLER (NOW ABINBEV)
01.2015 - 03.2017

MANAGING DIRECTOR

KELLY GROUP LTD
06.2013 - 12.2014

FOUNDER / MANAGING DIRECTOR

BRANNON RECRUITMENT
12.2008 - 06.2013

REGIONAL MANAGER

SUPERCARE
03.2007 - 12.2008

FOUNDER / DIRECTOR

FRESH MEDICAL
03.2003 - 12.2006

Talent Management

Digital Transformation of Talent Functions

People Management & Development

Bachelor of Commerce Honours - undefined

Regent Business School

MREC - undefined

REC (United Kingdom)

Bachelor of Commerce - Law

University of Stellenbosch

Matric / A-Levels - undefined

Grey High School

Talent Acquisition

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