Talent Acquisition Specialist in Reading

Our Client is keen to recruit a Talent Business Partner into the People Team, where they will focus on Talent Acquisition and Talent Management.

Before reading on, it is ESSENTIAL that anyone applying to this role:

• Is currently resident in the UK,
• Speaks French and / or Spanish fluently (or to a business level as a minimum),
• In addition to having a depth in the skills described below.

Our client has approximately 1,200 employees (Sales & Go To Market, Software and IT Engineers and Support functions) who work across 18 countries in EMEA delivering Software and SAAS solutions to B2B customers.

Your role as Global Talent Business Partner will bring immense added value as an expert in talent acquisition & management. You will do so by coaching the business on how to leverage talent tools and principles, all of which are relatively new to the business. You will be the talent management specialist & trusted advisor to the business, taking & seeking direction whilst being a self-starter who can work independently by building strong partnerships whilst working remotely with colleagues across EMEA.

Key Responsibilities:

• Recruitment

• Ownership of global headcount forecasting.
• Build relationships with each country’s managers, keeping connected to upcoming vacancies in order to coach them in direct attraction (using LinkedIn Recruitment).
• Ensure that where agencies are used, the terms and conditions of delivery meet expectations.
• Embed a standardised interview process across the business.
• Design a hiring process which makes use of psychometrics as suits the job type/level.

• Become the owner of the global digital learning platform (currently LinkedIn Learning).
• Promote the importance of continuous learning/learning agility.
• Digitise & automate global onboarding, without leaning on custom tools and platforms.
• Create targeted learning paths, pushing them organisation wide in line with the groups learning strategy.
• Onboard external learning partners, ensuring their content aligns with the standards of the business & insisting all programmes promote the Values & Competencies of the business.
• Create/leverage learning analytics to ensure ‘healthy’ learning behaviour and routines.
• Support countries who may need help accessing reports for statutory learning reporting.
• Be connected to the business to gather information on training trends/needs as well as be predictive about them.

• Promote use of listening and feedback principles.
• Take ownership of our Employee Listening process (via the Qualtrics platform).
• Push ownership of results, coach managers in how to talk about key messages and create improvement actions with their team.

• Be a champion of employer branding, evolve tools and collateral to enforce promotion of the company with existing/incoming/outgoing talent.
• Partner with Corporate Marketing by providing ideation for storytelling and key facts that help promote our business to the exiting workforce & future talent.

• Be passionate about HR & Talent Data/Analytics.
• Creation of the first HR & Talent dashboard gathering data from multiple sources, creating key analytics to inform the CPO of critical trends.
• Play a critical role in the upcoming global project to create a single platform with global employee data for both HR & Talent analytics as well as business process automation.
• Post project you will be the owner/go to data lead for the platform for all HR elements.

Key skills & experience:

• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.
• Apply learnings to continuously innovate and evolve the talent landscape.
• 7 years+ experience in a multi-country and multi-language environment.
• Some experience in the use of power BI, ATS’s etc.
• Strong working knowledge of GDPR to ensure compliance of talent processes & platforms.

Ideal Candidate Profile:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and digital tools, with a high degree of digital fluency.
• Exceptional communication skills in English, both written and spoken AND IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT YOU ARE FLUENT IN EITHER FRENCH OR SPANISH.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to prioritize tasks effectively.
• Ability to work at distance yet stay connected globally – every day.
• An attitude of confidence balanced with humility.