Senior Talent Acquisition Lead

The Senior Talent Acquisition Lead role is a hands-on leadership position that will drive regional recruiting excellence and strategic approaches improve stakeholder relationships and manage a matrixed team of recruiters across locations. Team leadership and strategy will focus on the EMEA client delivery function with support to other functions in region. Hands-on recruitment may include IT/technical commercial and corporate positions spanning junior to manager levels.

Key Responsibilities

Team Management:

• Coaching and developing recruiters
• Driving excellence against SLAs and other performance indicators 
• Ensuring operational and process alignment

Recruitment Life Cycle:

• Job posting creation and distribution.
• Identifying and sourcing candidate profiles against position requirements.
• Creating and maintaining a pipeline of external applicants sourced profiles referrals and internal applicants in the ATS.
• Pre-screening and/or interviewing candidates for essential requirements.
• Scheduling interviews for interviewers and hiring managers.
• Obtaining approvals for offers presenting verbal offers and negotiating compensation.
• Supporting HR teams with required documentation for employment contracts onboarding or related items as needed.

EVP Maintenance:

• Maintain a strong Endava EVP voice on social channels
• Ensure a positive candidate experience across all communication touch points

Strategy Refinement:

• Raise regional challenges solutions and ideas to refine approaches
• Implement new approaches backed by market research KPIs and hiring goals

Stakeholder Advisory:

• Advise senior stakeholders on TA approaches for specific business areas
• Manage relationships with high-level decision makers to provide an excellent business partner experience

Compliance and Operational Excellence:

• Ensure compliance with relevant employment laws and internal policies.
• Maintain operational excellence within the ATS ensuring data-governance.

Qualifications :

• Minimum 10 years in talent acquisition - ideally a mix of high-volume technical recruitment plus some corporate and commercial recruitment (legal finance sales strategy consulting)
• Hands-on end-to-end recruitment experience
• Team lead or management experience (ideally teams of 10 or more)
• In-depth understanding of IT functions
• Tailored recruitment strategies to support local market needs
• Experience managing senior stakeholder relationships
• Advised on talent acquisition best practices
• Proficient in using ATS and HRIS systems
• Strong analytical skills for data interpretation and market trends
• Strong English language proficiency.

Additional Attributes 

• Thrives in fast-paced changing environments
• Aligns with company values and fosters collaboration
• Experience working in a global IT services or consulting firm is highly desired or any global technology company. 

Additional Information :

Discover some of the global benefits that empower our people to become the best version of themselves:

• Finance: Competitive salary package share plan company performance bonuses value-based recognition awards referral bonus;   
• Career Development: Career coaching global career opportunities non-linear career paths internal development programmes for management and technical leadership;
• Learning Opportunities: Complex projects rotations internal tech communities training certifications coaching online learning platforms subscriptions pass-it-on sessions workshops conferences;
• Work-Life Balance: Hybrid work and flexible working hours employee assistance programme;
• Health: Global internal wellbeing programme access to wellbeing apps;
• Community: Global internal tech communities hobby clubs and interest groups inclusion and diversity programmes events and celebrations.

At Endava were committed to creating an open inclusive and respectful environment where everyone feels safe valued and empowered to be their best. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds experiences and perspectivesbecause we know that inclusive teams help us deliver smarter more innovative solutions for our customers. Hiring decisions are based on merit skills qualifications and potential. If you need adjustments or support during the recruitment process please let us know.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time