Annie Egbara

About Sourcerer: Sourcerer is a referral-driven hiring platform designed to help fast-growing companies tap into trusted networks and uncover high-quality talent across emerging markets in the Middle East and Africa.

• Built and managed a pipeline of 158+ prospects across MENA and Europe within 2 months while co-developing the referral-based sourcing product with the engineering and product teams.
• Partner with founders and clients to design hiring plans, define comp frameworks, and deliver strategic, data-informed recommendations on team structure and timelines.
• Lead full-cycle recruitment for clients in tech, growth, and operations, combining consultative hiring and execution to ensure both business and candidate alignment.

Mumzworld (Client Partner – GCC & India)
MENA Talent Acquisition Manager | Jan 2025 – Present

• Oversaw a cross-market hiring transformation project aligning recruitment strategy with Mumzworld’s scale-up and expansion goals across UAE, KSA, Egypt, and India.
• Closed 12+ critical roles in 6 weeks, reducing average time-to-fill by 35%, and designed a rapid backfill process ensuring zero downtime for key Finance and Operations positions.
• Partnered with Zoho team to implement and customize the company’s first ATS, creating structured interview flows and analytics dashboards.
• Revived stalling roles (Product Manager, Lead Copywriter, QA) through targeted sourcing sprints—5 roles progressed to final stage within 2 weeks.

About Hugo: Headquartered in Chicago, Hugo is reshaping Africa’s Future of Work by redefining the BPO space — from cutting-edge machine learning data annotation to transformative customer support for Fortune 500 companies and high-growth startups in FinTech, EdTech, and E-commerce. Hugo empowers young Africans by providing digital skills and meaningful career opportunities.

In my role, I played the matchmaker—ensuring alignment between the expectations of the business and candidates in terms of job fit and long-term growth potential. This involved wearing multiple hats:

• Partnered with hiring leaders across Operations, Customer Success, and IT to design tailored hiring strategies and optimize team structures.
• My scope of work extended across North and South America, where I tapped into the BPO and NGO sectors to recruit for customer relationship–focused management and senior executive investor relations roles.
• Managed high-volume recruitment for both technical and non-technical functions, maintaining a >90% offer acceptance rate.
• Collaborated with department heads to forecast talent needs, build proactive pipelines, and improve hiring velocity.
• Delivered a consistent, candidate-first experience across all hiring processes while supporting diversity and inclusion initiatives.

• Owned Moove's Talent Acquisition strategy for Sub-Saharan Africa, spanning talent attraction, assessment & selection, offer management, negotiation, and employer branding.
• Delivered launch teams in new markets (Ghana, South Africa, Kenya, Uganda), scaling each to 42, 57, 29, and 9, respectively.
• Led Moove's senior hiring globally, notably market heads for Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, East Africa, UAE, LATAM and the Philippines, and global heads of Central Operations, Fleet and Global Expansion.
• Achieved a 92% offer acceptance over 3-year tenure and 313 personal hires across Tech, Operations, Finance, Legal and Marketing.
• Originated Moove's hiring process and drove hiring manager training.
• Implemented Moove's first ATS, becoming a super user and coaching other team members to success.
• Achieved 100% reduction in agency spend by implementing direct hiring only.
• Onboarded, coached, and mentored team as it grew from a standalone role to 12 members globally.

• Led a team of 5 recruiters.
• Oversaw up to 30 active roles per month and achieved 87% ahead of time-to-hire SLA.
• Won repeat business from 60% of new clients.
• Increased department revenue by 37% during tenure.

• Collaborated with industry clients to support their recruitment needs.

• Closed 81% of open roles for Beninese government in 3-month contract.

• Boosted candidate referrals by 36% through external stakeholder relationship-building.