Senior Talent Acquisition Manager

Inspired to grow with your experience, learn and share with new colleagues? Huhtamaki is a key global provider of sustainable packaging solutions for consumers around the world, enabling wellbeing and convenience. Our innovative products protect on-the-go and on-the-shelf food and beverages, ensuring hygiene and safety, and help prevent food waste. We are committed to protecting food, people and the planet and are on the lookout for passionate and consummate professionals to join our growing team to help us deliver on our ambitious 2030 Strategy. We look for colleagues who Care, Dare and Deliver. We are transforming the way that we support hiring at Huhtamaki to meet the demands of our business and to ensure a great experience for our candidates and colleagues. As a result, we are now building a small, specialist internal Talent Acquisition team in our Global HR organization. This is an exciting time to join an international and transforming organization who is laying the foundations for world-class Talent Acquisition, and where you can truly have an impact on shaping the future of recruiting in Huhtamaki. As a Senior Talent Acquisition Manager, you will be responsible for the end-to-end recruitment process of senior level global and segment function positions, supporting our Senior Leaders all around the world to source, assess and hire the best talent into Huhtamaki. You will lead and advise hiring teams and bring innovative ideas and strategies to their recruiting processes as well as create and drive strong sourcing strategies with proactive candidate outreach to develop our talent pools. You will have significant recruiting and candidate sourcing experience, ideally working as a recruiter for an agency as well as within a business organization. You will be based in Europe, ideally in one of the following countries: Germany, Netherlands, Finland, UK, Poland, Czechia, Spain. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES Take full responsibility for the end-to-end lifecycle and coordination of the recruitment process, from defining requirements with hiring managers to screening, interviewing, and making offers as well as ensuring a smooth entry to our onboarding process Partner and coach hiring managers to create and execute against recruitment strategies and influence hiring decisions Build and maintain strong networks and relationships to develop strong candidate pipelines and talent pools Be a strategic and trusted thought partner to global business leaders and other internal organizations across Huhtamaki Develop and manage effective relationships with key recruitment agencies and vendors, setting KPIs, tracking performance and measuring quality Effectively track and analyse key recruiting metrics and market insights for responsibility area, ensuring highest data quality is captured in all systems and regular analytics are shared with business lines to inform data driven decisions Actively collaborate with Global and Local HR Ops teams to create visibility of ongoing recruitment activities, receive advice and support on local recruitment considerations and find synergies amongst recruiting processes Participate in global TA development projects related to systems/tools and processes; piloting, testing and scaling new ways of workings within your responsibility area Be a role model for great recruiting, through sharing your knowledge with others, being a source of guidance & expertise KEY SUCCESS FACTORS AND QUALIFICATIONS Significant recruiting experience for senior positions in an international organization Experience recruiting in a packaging or FMCG organisation is highly preferred Understanding of recruitment best practices and methodologies. Demonstrated knowledge of sourcing and networking Experience with recruitment sourcing tools, including LinkedIn and applicant tracking systems; Workday preferred Strong interviewing experience and an understanding of diverse candidate assessment methodologies Proven ability to work under pressure in a transforming environment, with the ability to juggle multiple clients and recruitment engagements Highly resourceful, collaborative and self-driven with the ability to develop strong relationships quickly and remotely across multiple geographies and cultural teams Strong communications and change management skills Excellent written and verbal communication skills (English is a must, others are advantage) Be passionate about improving the imperfect – we are constantly looking for ways to work smarter! Minimal travel may be required (up to 15%) WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU? An exciting and unique opportunity to join a newly established Talent Acquisition team in a global and sizeable business with sustainability at the core of the strategy. You will get to work with experienced, skilled colleagues and stakeholders, and have meaningful recruiting responsibility across our whole organisation. Please send your CV and application through the link no later than 22nd June 2023. Join us to shape the future together! We are global specialists in packaging for food and drink, dedicated to making every consumer experience enjoyable, consistent, and safe. We understand that packaging is about so much more than just what goes round a product. It's about building brands, protecting reputation, and opening up new opportunities in new markets. We have 78 manufacturing units in 34 countries with approximately 18,000 employees dedicated to supporting our customers' growth.