Universal Hunt Africa is a dedicated arm of Universal Hunt Group designed to cater to manpower requirements of companies in Africa across all industries, sectors, hierarchies, and nationalities.
As a manpower consultancy doing business in Africa for over 8 years now, we understand and recognize the fact that Africa is the land of opportunities and has enormous growth for professionals across the world. Africa demands and absorbs top management global professionals with most MNCs expanding aggressively in various countries of Africa with projects across all industries and sectors.
Our processes are designed keeping in mind Africa’s specific professional conditions whereby professionals need to be informed and educated about the cultural adaptability specific to the countries and organizational systems and processes.
We provide recruitment solutions across all countries, industries, sectors, and hierarchies including turnkey recruitment projects for all positions and nationalities. We are known for our speed of execution in the shortest time span possible supporting clients in meeting their project deadlines and growth targets. We are most sought after for large projects where clients look for end-to-end manpower solutions for an entire project at multiple locations.
We are recruitment partners to many companies across all levels. Our advice is sought after by client right from concept inception to actual project execution. We extend Executive and Board Search Services on an exclusive basis and conduct successful recruitment drives across best talent locations.
We have successfully worked on assignments from most prominent markets like Nigeria, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, and Ghana to the least populous countries like Libya, Botswana, South Sudan, DR Congo, Tunisia, Swaziland, and many more.
Our client portfolio is across all countries and sectors in Africa.
Exclusive workforce partner for huge steel mill projects across east & west Africa. Executed turnkey project for one of the major steel giant having operations in Mali, Congo, Gabon, Rwanda, Ghana, Senegal, and Burkina Faso.
Provided turnkey manpower solutions to cement plants starting from erection, commissioning to execution & operational stage.
Involved in the effective replacement of board through our Executive Search Arm for Asia’s leading manufacturing company having operations in Nigeria and Senegal.
Exclusive search partners for leading textile manufacturers having production and distribution facilities in Kenya, Mauritius, and Ethiopia.
Provided mid to senior level professionals of Indian, African, & Western Nationals to East Africa’s leading office automation & I.T company for technical and non-technical assignments.
Recruited professionals for a well-known organization involved in the distribution of passenger, commercial, & heavy duty vehicles across east, west, north, & central Africa.
Provided onsite and offsite staff for prominent companies involved in the mining of Gold, Copper, Iron Ore, & Gems in southern regions of the continent.
Efficiently conducted recruitment drive for a few esteemed companies involved in production and sales of commercial and industrial plants by arranging walk-in interviews in multiple domains.
Played a key role in the recruitment of Business/Vertical Heads for a leading distribution house of Uganda representing world’s most distinguished multinational company over 10 decades.
Actively involved from the entry to top level project based recruitment by referring engineers, managers, & other site staff for residential and commercial civil projects across Africa.
Specialized in the hiring of medical professionals accredited by FRCA (UK), FRCPC, RCS, MRCP (UK), DEAA, FMH-SSC, FMGEM (USA).
In addition to the above industries, we have been serving many other sectors namely Hospitality, Banking, Printing & Packaging, Logistics, Cargo, EPC, Telecommunications, NGOs/Trusts/Welfare Foundation, Agriculture/Plantations, Furniture/Saw Mills, and Pharmaceuticals.
We are acting as exclusive and a one stop manpower consultant for Executive & Board Search Permanent Placement for white collar positions as well as for blue collar workers mobilization with major manufacturing facilities, distribution houses, & conglomerates across the continent.
A few of the sample positions closed include:
Executive Director, Profit Centre Head, Vertical Head, CEO, Country Manager, CFO, HR Director, COO, GM – Technical, Project Controller, Factory Head, Plant Manager, Maintenance Head, Internal Auditor, Healthcare Professionals (Doctors For Various Specialities), General Manager, Chief Technical Officer, Chief Security Officer, Group Chief Corporate Officer.
Divisional Heads - (Sales, Logistics, Operations, Purchase, Procurement, Production, Environment, Health & Safety), IT Administrator, Shift Supervisor, Quality In-charge, Restaurant Manager, Safety Observer, Officer – Environmental Affairs, Engineers (Mechanical, Electrical, Civil, Instrumentation Etc.), Shift In-charge, Lead – Marketing & Brand Promotions.
And, many more semi-skilled and unskilled staff (Blue Collar workers) like Fitters (Pipe/Structural/Mechanical), Welders (ARC-TIG-MIG) (2G-4G-6G), Scaffolders, Cladders, Plumbers, Fabricators, Electricians, Operators, Technicians, Platters, Riggers, Carpenters, and Chefs.
In addition to the above, we have been involved in recruitment of Western & local professionals (African Nationals) for top level assignments, Arabic Nationals as well as professionals with proficiency in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Lebanese language for companies operating in MENA and Francophone African Countries.
Sample projects executed in Africa
We are known for our execution skills for turnkey recruitment solutions. We take up entire project and ensure successful recruitment for all positions of the project across hierarchies, functions, and divisions.
Below are a few sample projects executed by us:
Successfully carried turnkey recruitment project as a preferred vendor for a manufacturing plant producing 17 tons of finished home care products an hour. Efficiently provided them manpower to facilitate their expansion in provinces of West & North Africa.
Provided entry to top level professionals for a 83 Million USD consumer goods plant in Southern Africa.
Mobilized 100+ expats (multiple nationality) for a new setup of factory production of which consumes a biggest market share of FMCG products with a manufacturing capacity of 6,700 tons established in Sub-Saharan region.
Recruited technical and non-technical professionals for one of the largest construction contractor in Tanzania executing residential, commercial, roads and civil projects in the country.
Played active role in the recruitment of Manufacturing, Operations, Maintenance and Administrative Staff – Including Plant Head (Spanish National), Finance Controller (Indian National), Production Manager (French National), Camp Boss (Filipino) for a reinforcing steel bar plant.