Senior Recruiter, Germany

Country

Germany

Job Family

Human Resources

For over 80 years, GfK has been a reliable and trusted insight partner for the world’s biggest companies and leading brands who make a difference in every consumer’s life - and we will continue to build on this. We connect data, science and innovative digital research solutions to provide answers for key business questions around consumers, markets, brands and media. With our headquarters in Germany and a presence in around 60 countries worldwide, you benefit from our global company with a diverse community of ~9,000 employees.

Harnessing the power of our workforce, the greatest asset we have is our people. As part of GfK, you can take your future into your own hands. We value talent, skills and responsibility and support your development within our international teams. We are proud of our heritage and our future: Currently we are in the latter stages of a transformational journey from a traditional market research company to a trusted provider of prescriptive data analytics powered by innovative technology. This is only possible with extraordinary people and this is why we are looking for YOU to help create our future. For our employees as well as for our clients we pursue one goal: Growth from Knowledge

**Job Description**:
Reporting to our Recruitment Manager, Europe (Non-Tech) and working closely with both Recruitment Shared Service colleagues as well as other colleagues across our European recruitment hub and wider local HR community, the Senior Recruiter, Germany is a proactive, engaging professional who strives for quality of service in their day-to-day tasks. The Senior Recruiter, Germany is also able to 'own' key process and projects manage as well as contribute to strategic European & Global recruitment initiatives (across D&I, recruitment education, employer branding etc).

**Responsibilities**:

- Collaborate with German business and HR colleagues to fully understand resource requirements, role profiles and take detailed job briefs with emphasis on both technical & soft competencies.
- Manage the full recruitment lifecycle of designated vacancies from job advertising and sourcing, through interviewing, to offer.
- Maintain relationships with critical talent pipelines, internal business partners, hiring managers & stakeholders.
- Identify, inform and educate the German non-tech business on appropriate improvements to their recruitment practices.
- Contribute to system efficiency /development of recruitment technologies.
- Analyse UK recruitment data and informing wider team to inform our recruitment strategy.

**Requirements**:
Essential
- Minimum 5 years talent acquisition/recruitment experience - either agency or ‘in-house' environment (preferably within a B2B business)
- Significant knowledge of recruitment and sourcing tools and techniques (LinkedIn Recruiter).
- Ability to prioritise workloads and manage multiple relationships.
- Strong stakeholder experience.
- High level of drive, a self-starter who can deal with significant ambiguity.
- Proven senior stakeholder management experience.
- Strong track record in placing mid-senior level professionals
- Ability to prioritise workloads and manage multiple relationships.
- Pro-active approach, able to adapt to ambiguity.
- Fluent German and English language skills (written and spoken).

Preferable
- Experience recruiting within Data Insight, Market Research or related Consulting industry.
- Agency side ‘360’ role experience or full acquisition lifecycle In-house experience.
- Managed senior and leadership level offer processes
- Additional European language skills

This is a hybrid working role based in either Nuremberg or Munich (maximum 2 days per week in office)

LI-Hybrid

We are an ethical and honest company that is wholly committed to its clients and employees. We are proud to be an inclusive workplace for all and are committed to equal opportunity in employment which focuses on all of our employees reaching their full potential. At GfK we work collaboratively with our colleagues but offer a flexible working approach, including dividing our time between office & remote working as well as the opportunity to flex our working hours around team core hours.

We offer an exciting work environment that brings people together. We encourage an entrepreneurial and innovative spirit. We make use of the latest digital technologies. We are looking for self-starters, who accept challenges and create solutions.

Can there be a better place to take center stage in the digital revolution? We are excited to get to know you