Senior Talent Acquisition Lead - Iberia

Description

The EMEA talent acquisition team, which brings together several cultures, is hiring a Senior Talent Acquisition Lead for Iberia. The role reports to the Talent Acquisition Manager.

You will run hiring from start to finish, design talent acquisition plans that match business and workforce goals, and advise business leaders and HR on hiring needs, pipelines, and market data. You will also lead and develop the recruiters, manage cross-functional projects, track recruitment performance, and improve the function through analytics, technology, and new methods, while keeping candidate experience inclusive and high quality and strengthening the employer brand.

The role has broad impact: it affects large functions and leads large, cross-division teams or projects. You will find innovative answers to complex problems, working within established policy.

Responsibilities

• Run the full hiring process, from approving requisitions and sourcing through selection, offer negotiation, and handover to onboarding.
• Hire across many professional profiles, functions, and seniority levels, including senior and leadership roles.
• Make recruitment processes efficient and consistent, in line with company policy.
• Create proactive sourcing approaches to reach both passive and active candidates.
• Build and maintain talent pipelines for critical and hard-to-fill roles.
• Advise stakeholders as a consultant, aligning them at every level.
• Shape talent acquisition strategy around business priorities and workforce plans.
• Run recruitment across several functions and levels, senior and leadership roles included.
• Turn business hiring needs into concrete recruitment plans.
• Track recruitment market trends, including talent availability, salary benchmarks, and competitor moves, and share the insights.
• Work with hiring managers and senior leaders to understand current and future talent needs.
• Offer recruitment advice, market data, and guidance on candidate selection.
• Push back on unrealistic hiring expectations and suggest other sourcing options where needed.
• Keep stakeholders regularly updated on hiring progress and priorities.
• Own cross-functional hiring initiatives end to end, covering scope, timelines, risks, and stakeholder updates.
• Assign recruitment work based on business priorities and team capacity.
• Set performance expectations and track individual and team results.
• Share good practice and drive continuous improvement across the talent acquisition function.
• Track recruitment KPIs such as time-to-fill, offer acceptance rate, and quality of hire.
• Write recruitment reports and turn them into actionable insights for the team and business leaders.
• Find ways to improve processes, candidate experience, and recruiter productivity.
• Assess and roll out recruitment technology, automation, and AI-enabled tools where suitable.
• Support employer branding to strengthen the company's standing in the talent market.
• Keep candidate experience positive and professional throughout.
• Promote equity and inclusion in sourcing and selection.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree in HR, business administration, or a closely related discipline.
• 10+ years of talent acquisition experience, preferably gained in a complex, international, or multinational organization.
• 4, 5 years leading recruitment teams across several business units and running recruitment delivery.
• Proven record of influencing senior stakeholders and balancing competing hiring priorities.
• Solid grasp of recruitment analytics, market intelligence, and data-driven decisions.
• Background in talent acquisition transformation work, such as process change and technology adoption.
• Strong leadership, communication, and change management skills.
• Growth mindset and commitment to ongoing learning, personal development, and building team capability.
• Strong project management skills, including leading cross-functional recruitment initiatives and handling priorities, timelines, risks, and deliverables.
• Experience with HR and talent acquisition systems such as Workday and Eightfold, used for recruitment processes and data management.

Conditions

Hybrid working: a mix of home office and office days, depending on the role and function.

Flexible working hours to support work-life balance.

Benefits

• Work with colleagues from 60+ nationalities across cultures and regions.
• Internal mobility and career moves, plus access to the company's learning platform.
• Health and life insurance.
• Meal vouchers or discounted canteen lunches on site.
• Flex programme with kindergarten vouchers and a transport card.
• Discounts on company products for employees, friends, and family.
• Join global employee networks, including Women, Pride, Inclusion, NextGen, Sustainability, and DisAbility, with local involvement options.
• Volunteering opportunities and an annual charity day held on site.
• On-site sports centre, indoor and outdoor, with 25+ organised activities.
• On-site medical team for annual checkups, nutrition, oral hygiene, physiotherapy, and general health.
• Printing happy hours and hands-on workshops with current printing technology, from photos and large posters to wall coverings and 3D printing.
• Free parking or easy access by nearby trains.
• Women's network events covering networking, STEM promotion, business talks, work-life sessions, and future-skills development.