Talent Specialist

Roles and responsibilities

We have a new opening for an individual who can use their professional talent sourcing experience to educate our most senior VP level Hiring Executive team on how to hunt for suitable candidates to fill own senior leadership positions within their teams. Your key skills will be:

• Professional experience of identifying and approaching talent from either a search firm or in-house talent team
• Experience of training senior stakeholders on the art of headhunting
• Ability to interview candidates using behavioural interviewing techniques (competency based and psychometric assessments)
• Strong analytical problem solving ability to identify trends and patterns from data, with strong performance of Maths at High School
• An exceptional academic background including a Bachelors or Masters degree in a Psychology or people based subject
  

Location: EMEA - Fully Remote

The role entails

• Coach our senior leadership teams to drive hiring outcomes, enabling them to become expert at approaching and attracting exceptional talent for their Management and leadership positions.
• Drive talent analytics to provide our business with real-time insight, partnering with the business to help them move through their hiring processes efficiently.
• Conduct in-depth behavioural talent interviews providing considerable insights into motivations and behaviours.
• Build key relationships with global stakeholders to ensure we deliver against our hiring agenda, closely monitoring hiring activities, driving results and ensuring that there is consistency in our operational processes
• Drive data driven insights, making sure our decision making process is robust and supportive to inform our decisions.
• Consider our employer brand and how our interactions with a candidate impacts their experience
• Review and streamline hiring processes and tools to drive continuous improvement.
• Bring a passion for diversity and inclusion, ensuring we remove unconscious bias from our hiring process and ensuring our sourcing strategy underpins this.

Desired candidate profile

• Professional experience of headhunting future talent on LinkedIn, with an informed opinion of strategies and experience of successfully sourcing senior talent in the Tech industry.
• Experience of working with senior stakeholders, creating learning programmes to develop their ability to successfully identify and engage with passive talent.
• Exposure or appreciation of psychometric assessments.
• Experience of conducting behavioural, competency based interviews with the ability to train stakeholders and advise on how to get the best out of an interview.
• An exceptional academic background including a Bachelors or Masters degree in a Psychology based subject.
• Strong analytical problem solving ability to identify trends and patterns from data.
• A high level of personal organisation to work remotely and be effective.
• Willingness to travel to company events 2-4 times a year, for up to two weeks each.
  

Other Skills You May Bring

• Experience of more advanced analytical and statistical analysis to interrogate data.
• Exposure to the following tools: LinkedIn Talent Insights, Greenhouse, DISC profiling.
• Psychometric validity and reliability metrics