LEGO Hiring for Head of Global Talent Acquisition at London Full Time

Are you an innovative, creative and driven Talent Acquisition Leader able to curate and propel our TA strategy and plans forward?

Harness your innovative thinking, with both broad and deep expertise, and passion around how we continue to build outstanding recruitment and onboarding experiences for both candidates and hiring managers Group-wide.

Play Your Part in Our Team Succeeding

The Talent Organization is made up of Talent Development & Management, Learning, Leadership & Cultural Development, Talent Operations, and Global Talent Acquisition (GTA).

Each area plays a unique and critical role in defining a core arm of the strategy that enables the LEGO Group to attract, retain, and develop talent at all levels and around the world.

The GTA team is responsible for developing and shaping how we go to market to attract, source, identify, onboard and connect outstanding Talent to the LEGO Group’s organizational growth strategy. Working hand in hand with our regional operations team across the LEGO Group’s 5 core Hubs, partnership with our global talent colleagues is key in succeeding together.

This position can reside in either our Billund, Denmark Headquarters or our London Hub. Unfortunately, relocation is not offered for this role.

Core Responsibilities

• Guardianship of the global approach to talent acquisition, policy, processes and framework and curator of the bio-sphere within.
• You will be accountable for embedding first-class critical thinking and approach around Executive Hiring, Strategic Sourcing, full value chain Recruitment, Talent Attraction & Employer Brand plus Child Safeguarding, Onboarding and DE&I strategies and processes.
• Collaboration will be front and centre in everything that you do, working closely in partnership with the immediate team and the regional Talent Operations teams across our five core LEGO Hubs in the Americas, Northern Europe, EMEA, China and APAC.
• Encouraging working practices that are balanced with alignment globally across key areas such as HR partnering, Procurement, IT, Business Insights and Reporting, and Shared Services.
• Deep critical thinking is desirable, with the ability to infuse data to drive critical insights and performance decisions.
• Stewardship of how experience is felt and perceived by both hiring managers and candidates throughout the recruitment process, followed though by fast and supportive pre-hire and onboarding experience.
• In this role, you will have a fantastic opportunity to play a key part in defining how new innovation will get results and improve processes.
• You will find joy in turning data into meaningful insights that will help to shape and inform decision making around Talent.
• Proactively and systematically seek inspiration from sources of internal and external methodology, working to make them relevant and practical, globally.
• Leading and inspiring the team to outstanding performance, well-rounded influencing skills, and the dedication to gaining followership across a sophisticated agenda and organization is critical.

Do you have what it takes?

• Combined experience across multiple aspects of the Talent agenda, with a majority of experience in Talent Acquisition (attraction, selection, retention, onboarding). Critical to have experience creating and successfully implementing ground-breaking strategies in a global context with regional nuances.
• Compelling leadership style that engages and inspires the broader talent acquisition teams and critical partners by providing the tools, methodologies, process, and leadership, Enabling them to advance the recruitment function.
• Deep expertise in both operationalizing, optimizing and redefining key areas within the talent acquisition field.
• Unique blend of strategic and forward-thinking approach, with an ability to focus relentlessly on priorities, and systematically deliver extraordinary and sustainable results.
• Individual needs to be both brave and curious. With a demonstrated ability to successfully solving challenges with high levels of complexity, providing palatable, simple solutions.
• Must have well honed cross border collaboration and communication skills and the skills to juggle and lead effectively across multi-cultures and different time zones.
• Experience working with changing priorities and ambiguity is key, alongside navigating sophisticated matrix structures and delivering through others towards a common agenda.
• The joy of using and understanding data to generate user driven insights, trends and patterns to drive effective performance discussions and changes as and when required.

Nice to have:

• Previous experience with Cloud based recruitment platforms, and the understanding of best-in-class tools and platforms across all elements of TA.
• End-to-end recruitment value chain experience that can shape and refine a global agenda.
• Travel is a minimal requirement.

Join the global LEGO® team

What’s in it for you? Here are some of what to expect:

• Family Care Leave – We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.
• Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.
• Wellness – We want you to be your best self, so you’ll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programmes run by local teams where you are based
• Colleague Discount – We know you’ll love to build so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.
• Bonus – We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached, you’ll be rewarded through our global bonus scheme.
• Your workplace – Our offices will be your primary workplace with flexibility to work from home during your working week. Your People Leader will discuss the principles of our hybrid work model, role eligibility and frequency with you.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

The LEGO Group is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay regardless of e.g. race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity.

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

Build your career brick by brick at the LEGO Group.

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Location

• United Kingdom, London, Greater London
• Denmark

Job ID

GB6446

Category

Language

EN