Elsevier Hiring for Global Head of Talent Acquisition, Elsevier Job at London, England Full Time

Global Head of Talent Acquisition, Elsevier

Would you like the opportunity to take ownership for the success of our global Talent Acquisition Team?

Do you enjoy creating strategies that deliver value and impact?

Lead our Global Talent Acquisition Team

Our Global Talent Acquisition Team partners with our business to provide guidance and support for the attraction, development, retention and engagement of our workforce. We deliver strategic transformation and changes to ensure an employee-oriented, high-performing culture. We ensure that we continue to learn, innovate and grow to build a diverse, inclusive and welcoming organization.

About the Role

As our Head of Talent Acquisition you will have ownership for developing and implementing strategic recruiting operations and global initiatives. You will partner with our Business, HR and TA leaders to optimize our recruitment infrastructure and deliver on recruiting metrics across our business. You will be responsible for continual improvements and transformations by delivering, high-quality optimal recruitment solutions aligned our business needs.

Responsibilities

• Designing global recruitment strategies, programs and innovations that deliver impact, value and shape operational excellence across our Talent Acquisition function

• Managing all our regional and global TA performance metrics, SLAs and KPI’s to identify improvements and future initiatives

• Utilizing reporting, analytics and leading data-driven insights to recommended solutions to our Business and HR leaderships

• Providing subject matter expertise to our business on candidate and hiring manager experience, employment brand awareness and recruitment delivery capability

• Ensuring our recruitment processes and policies are checked and updated to be compliant with laws and regulations

• Manage our Talent Acquisition budgeting and financials in partnership with Finance to ensure value and return on investments

• Promoting our organization as a diverse, attractive, inclusive and stimulating place to work through ensuring best-practice in talent acquisition

Requirements

• Have solid experience in providing recruitment operational and strategic leadership for global teams in high-volume sales and complex technical environments

• Have a natural ability to engage, influence and build relationships with stakeholders and teams across the business

• Demonstrate a collaborative approach to coordinating, negotiating and decision-making across all levels of leadership and cross-functional teams in a global-matrix environment

• Show an in-depth knowledge of the key aspects of recruiting, developing and leading global recruitment teams

• Have experience in delivering change, processes and initiatives that cross organizational lines and geographies

• Show experience in leading and implementing clear performance measures (SLAs and KPIs)

• Have excellent financial acumen and experience of managing a global recruitment budget

• Have a results-driven leadership style and the ability to drive innovation through developing and mobilizing recruitment strategies

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. With an average length of service of 9 years, we are confident that we offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

• This role can be based in the UK or The Netherlands

• Working remotely from home or any other work location

• Working flexible hours – flexing the times you work in the day

Working with us

We are an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to help you succeed. Here, you will find an inclusive, agile, collaborative, innovative and fun environment, where everyone has a part to play. Regardless of the team you join, we promote a diverse environment with co-workers who are passionate about what they do, and how they do it.

Working for you

At Elsevier, we know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

• Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days

• Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits

• Wellbeing programs

• Life assurance

• Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme

• Long service awards

• Save As You Earn share option scheme

• Travel Season ticket loan

• Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave

• Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children

• RECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you

• Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer

• Access to extensive learning and development resources

• Access to employee discounts via Perks at Work

About Us

A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. At Elsevier, your work contributes to the world’s grand challenges and a more sustainable future. We harness innovative technologies to support science and healthcare to partner for a better world.

Join Us

Are you ready to help us progress science and health? Our technology leads to innovation, so join a forward-thinking digital business that is tackling world-scale challenges and align your ambitions with our passion for driving global knowledge-sharing.

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