🌍Location: Johannesburg

Recruitment Operations & Delivery Executive (Hybrid)
We’re hiring a Recruitment Operations & Delivery Executive to join our Johannesburg team and play critical role in enabling a fast-paced, high-performing technology recruitment hub, 60 Degrees

This is not a traditional admin role. It’s a high-impact position focused on improving delivery, driving operational excellence, and enabling consultants to perform at their best.

You’ll sit at the centre of a fast-paced contingent recruitment team, ensuring processes run smoothly, candidate and client experience remains high, and data, systems, and workflows operate to a consistently strong standard.

If you are highly organised, commercially aware, detail-driven, and excited by using technology and AI to improve how recruitment works, we’d love to hear from you.

🤩 What you will be doing

• Supporting the team with day-to-day coordination, including travel, logistics, and general operational needs.

• Keeping an eye on relevant industry events (tech, HR, etc.) and supporting event coordination, including hosting our own events.

• Staying current with recruitment tools, systems, and ways of working, with a focus on improving efficiency through technology and AI.

• Supporting the calculation and validation of total cost to company, ensuring accuracy across all placements.

• Tracking contractor lifecycle processes, including start dates, extensions, and contract renewals.

• Identifying process gaps and suggesting improvements to enhance efficiency and delivery.

• Checking in with placed candidates post-start to ensure a positive experience and supporting the collection of testimonials where relevant.

• Supporting the wider Johannesburg office with operational needs when required.

• Supporting the end-to-end recruitment process from an operational and delivery perspective across the contingent and research teams.

• Coordinating interviews between candidates, clients, and consultants with speed and accuracy.

• Managing CV formatting using AI-enabled tools, ensuring high-quality, consistent outputs.

• Coordinating background checks and ensuring all candidate information is accurate and up to date.

• Creating, posting, and quality controlling job adverts.

• Attending client briefings to understand requirements and support delivery across roles.

• Managing and maintaining data integrity across our CRM and ATS systems, ensuring all activity is accurately tracked.

• Handling inbound calls, inboxes, and general enquiries, acting as a key communication point for the team.

• Liaising closely with the central operations team to ensure all placement details are accurate, start dates are confirmed, and invoices are raised correctly.

• Acting as a bridge between consultants and operations, ensuring a smooth transition from placement to onboarding and ongoing contractor management.

🕵️ What we are looking for

• Previous experience within a recruitment agency environment.

• Tech recruitment experience would be advantageous, although it is not a mandatory requirement

• Exposure to contingent or contract recruitment preferred.

• Strong organisational skills with excellent attention to detail.

• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-moving environment.

• Confident communicator with candidates, clients, and internal stakeholders.

• Strong systems capability with CRM / ATS platforms (Vincere experience advantageous).

• Commercial awareness and understanding of how recruitment delivery supports revenue.

• Process-improvement mindset: you naturally spot gaps and solve problems.

• Interest in technology recruitment markets such as software, data, cyber, cloud, or digital hiring is highly desirable.

• Curiosity around AI and automation tools.

📍 Working Style

• Based in Johannesburg, within close proximity to our office (1 Bompas).

• Hybrid working environment (typically three days in office), with flexibility required based on team and business needs.

🏆 Perks and benefits

• aston holmes, we focus on building high-performing teams and delivering quality outcomes for clients. You’ll be part of a team that values quality, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

• You’ll join a growing business where your contribution is visible, your ideas matter, and you’ll have the opportunity to help shape scalable, modern recruitment operations.

• This is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to grow into operations leadership, delivery management, or broader commercial recruitment roles over time.