Recruitment Lead

Reporting to our Head of Talent Acquisition EU you will be responsible for a team of recruiters / recruitment operations in Hungary. For this role your background in any variety of recruitment functions is valued. While this role is not focused on hands-on recruitment you may occasionally step in as needed. Your primary focus will be on developing and implementing recruitment strategies managing client escalations and leading the team from both a people management and operational perspective. You will act as a change agent continuously improving the quality of our recruitment practices.

Culture is everything to us at Wise and identifying attracting and selecting the best talent to support our highly collaborative and non-hierarchical culture is key to our continued growth.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic Leadership: Develop and implement recruitment strategies that align with our business goals. You will not just follow existing strategies but will be instrumental in figuring them out and adapting them to meet evolving needs.

• Operational Excellence: Ensure that our hiring follows the companys hiring location strategy and work with hiring managers to sequence their hiring needs to balance both demand and capacity.

• Team Leadership: Lead develop and grow a team of recruiters as per our talent advisory model. Your leadership will extend beyond people management to include operational and strategic guidance.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Meet with department heads regularly to discuss their quarterly hiring plans provide data and market insights that help guide their hiring decisions.

• Process Improvement: Work with your global peers to drive a high-performance hiring culture across Wise; incubate and scale new processes and tools accordingly. Ensure that were building robust and scalable processes prioritizing automation where possible.

• Stakeholder Experience: Ensure that your team delivers the best possible candidate and stakeholder experience and that we are adhering to our values every step of the way.

• DEI Best Practices: Role-model DEI best practices to ensure that we embed diversity into the DNA of our recruiting philosophy.

• Regional and Global Initiatives: Lead regional recruitment projects and contribute to Wises global recruitment initiatives.

• Local Leadership: Act as a lead in our Budapest People / Talent team community participate in local events and drive a collaborative culture in our Budapest office.

Qualifications :

About You:

• You have extensive experience in building and developing recruitment teams especially within the Volume space recruitment functions hiring for roles in KYC FinCrime Payment Operations and ideally in Finance and CS.

• You have strong leadership experience (5 years).

• Youre a subject matter expert in recruitment able to transform ideas and best practices into embedded new ways of working.

• You have experience in creating and executing extensive strategies.

• You have strong knowledge of managing senior stakeholders needs and are able to manage their expectations effectively.

• You are comfortable working in matrixed environments and able to engage and inspire multi-cultural teams.

• Youre a coach a negotiator and a servant leader all in one; youre focused on solving for the business whilst nurturing your team to be the best version of themselves.

Key Attributes:

• Data Driven: Youre able to use data to build narratives and influence change. You can make evidence-based decisions and youre able to use data to measure impact.

• Flexible & Adaptable: Youre able to switch effectively between tasks and deal with a constantly-changing workload and priorities.

• Growth Mindset: You role-model curiosity always seeking to understand.

• Big Thinker: You understand the impact of your work on the success of the company. Youre able to create well-thought-through action plans built around the big picture. You consider others and youre aware of the impact your work has on other teams. Youre always thinking and planning for scalable and sustainable solutions.

• Change Enabler: You promote deliver and facilitate change; driving adoption across our team and the business.

Additional Information :

Salary: 1260000.00 -.00 HUF Monthly 

For everyone everywhere. Were people building money without borders  without judgement or prejudice too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse equitable and inclusive.

Were proud to have a truly international team and we celebrate our differences.
Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time