Talent Acquisition Lead

Job Description

The Talent Acquisition Community's mission is to enable the H&M Group to achieve outstanding business results by attracting, engaging, assessing, hiring, and onboarding the right talent, with high speed, quality, and cost-effectiveness. As part of the broader Talent Community, we partner with everyone in the H&M Group to effectively retain and mobilise the talent we need to secure our future.

As a Talent Acquisition Lead, your main responsibilities include:
Lead and mentor a team of Talent Acquisition Partners and Talent Acquisition Coordinator.
Oversee all aspects of the team's daily recruitment delivery, ensure proper processes and policy compliance, and provide training, support, troubleshooting and scalation as needed.
Serve as partner and advisor to senior business leaders in the respective competence(s) and regions and support the team in doing the same for their respective hiring managers.
Responsible for setting a clear tactical and operational plan to accomplish short & mid-term hiring goals for all roles within the competence(s) and regions of their scope.
Metrics and performance tracking, analysis and reporting, and team roadmap planning.
Team and individual goal setting, daily recruitment funnel supervision and support for the team.
Provide guidance, support, and ongoing training to ensure the team meets or exceeds performance targets.
Strengthen the team and foster collaboration in the community.
Facilitate the learning and development goal setting and planning process for the team members for professional growth.
Coach the team based on their job performance and development goals to support their professional growth.
Manage team's contribution, competence, and salary review processes.
Leading close partnering with key business stakeholders and competence representatives.
Creating engagement and participating in the broader Talent Acquisition community, whilst regionally strengthening collaboration with HRBPs and business leaders.

**Qualifications**:
You are a Talent Acquisition expert with hands-on experience and a deep understanding of the end-to-end recruitment process: from planning, intake meetings, sourcing & attraction, and assessments, to offer preparation & negotiation.

You also have excellent stakeholder management and communication skills and can advise and influence hiring managers and leaders.

In this position, you will demonstrate a strong foundation in data analytics to develop plans for talent supply and demand, establish and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs), and provide accurate performance reports. You should also have strong project management and change management skills to implement Talent Acquisition (TA) Improvement & Innovation projects, both locally and regionally.

**What you need to succeed**:
Experience managing and leading a recruitment team
In-house experience is required and previous agency experience is valued
Strong track record of stakeholder partnering and advisory
Proficiency in both German and English
Project management and understanding of agile principles
Proficiency in digital tools
**Operational planning and tracking**: KPIs/goal setting and performance management
Copywriting and social media branding
Talent acquisition strategy
Onboarding management
Formal education in human resources, business administration or organisational psychology is preferred, but not mandatory
Additional certifications in recruitment analytics and copywriting are preferred

Additional Information

This is a full-time permanent position, offered on a local contract based in Germany.

If you feel that your experience, skills, and ambitions match this role, we can’t wait to meet you

**Benefits**:
We offer all our employees at H&M Group attractive benefits with extensive development opportunities around the globe. All our employees receive a staff discount card, usable on all our H&M Group brands in stores and online. Brands covered by the discount are H&M (Beauty and Move included), COS, Weekday, Monki, H&M HOME, & Other Stories, ARKET, Afound. In addition to our staff discount, all our employees are included in our H&M Incentive Program - HIP. Find out more about our H&M Incentive Program here.

In addition to our global benefits, all our local markets offer different competitive perks and benefits. Please note that they may differ between employment types and countries. Find out more here.

Inclusion & Diversity

H&M is a part of H&M Group. At H&M Group, we’re determined to create and maintain inclusive, diverse and equitable workplaces throughout our organisation. Our teams should consist of a variety of people who share and combine their knowledge, experience and ideas. Having a diverse workforce leads to a positive impact on how we address challenges, on what we perceive possible and on how we choose to relate to our colleagues and customers all over the world. Hence all diversity dimensions are taken into consideration in our recruitment p