Head of Talent Acquisition

Role Overview

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of 8-10 TABPs across multiple countries and time zones.
• Set clear priorities, workload distribution, and performance expectations.
• Run regular 1:1s, team meetings, and performance conversations.
• Enable the team to work effectively across different divisions, understanding the varying needs and contexts of each stakeholder group.
• Identify development needs and create growth opportunities within the team.
• Foster a collaborative, high-trust team culture that balances accountability with support.
• Own a personal requisition load alongside team leadership responsibilities.
• Ensure the team manages the full recruiting lifecycle: intakes, candidate management, sourcing, assessment, offer, and onboarding handover.
• Hold quality standards across all stages, including job intakes, candidate shortlists, and structured interviews.
• Act as an escalation point for complex or sensitive hiring situations.
• Ensure SLA adherence and proactively address bottlenecks in the pipeline.
• Build strong, trusted relationships with hiring managers and senior stakeholders across different divisions.
• Understand the distinct hiring needs, business context, and culture of each division, and translate that into clear direction for the team.
• Act as the main point of contact for divisional stakeholders, ensuring they feel well served by a central TA function.
• Drive hiring manager enablement: set expectations, share market data, and support good decision-making throughout the process.
• Represent TA credibly in senior stakeholder conversations.
• Ensure consistent application of TA methodology and standards across all divisions.
• Contribute to the ongoing development of group-wide TA frameworks and best practices within the CoE.
• Share knowledge, tooling, and process improvements across the CoE.
• Support the broader HR CoE in connecting TA to workforce planning and people strategy.
• Own and continuously improve TA processes, workflows, and ways of working.
• Administer and optimise the ATS (TeamTailor), including workflows, templates, and reporting.
• Ensure accurate and timely data capture across the team for reporting and analytics.
• Identify and implement efficiency improvements across the recruiting funnel.
• Track and report on key TA metrics.
• Provide regular updates to HR leadership and relevant business stakeholders.
• Use data to drive team priorities and identify areas for improvement.

Requirements

• Solid end-to-end in-house recruiting experience, ideally in a high-volume, multi-country environment.
• Comfortable owning roles across a range of functions and seniority levels.
• Strong sourcing capability and knowledge of effective candidate attraction approaches.
• Experience with structured interviewing and assessment design.
• Familiarity with ATS platforms; experience with TeamTailor is a plus.
• Experience leading a TA team, whether formally or in a senior individual contributor role with mentoring responsibility.
• Able to manage a distributed, remote team effectively across different cultures and time zones.
• Comfortable giving direct feedback and holding the team to a high standard while staying supportive.
• Brings energy and structure to a team operating at a pace.
• Track record of building credible relationships with hiring managers and senior stakeholders.
• Able to push back constructively, manage expectations, and influence without authority.
• Clear, confident communicator in both written and verbal form.
• Highly organised and able to manage complexity across multiple brands, entities, and stakeholders simultaneously.
• Genuinely flexible: able to shift focus and adapt approach to the different needs and rhythms of each division.
• Data-informed: uses metrics to prioritise, report, and improve.
• Pragmatic and solutions-oriented; finds ways to move things forward without waiting for perfect conditions.
• Experience in tech, SaaS, or digital-first organisations preferred.
• Right to Work At any stage, please be prepared to provide proof of eligibility to work in the country you’re applying for. Unfortunately, we are unable to support relocation packages or sponsorship visas.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Global team events