About Convatec
Pioneering trusted medical solutions to improve the lives we touch: Convatec is a global medical products and technologies company, focused on solutions for the management of chronic conditions, with leading positions in Advanced Wound Care, Ostomy Care, Continence Care, and Infusion Care. With more than 10,000 colleagues, we provide our products and services in around 90 countries, united by a promise to be forever caring. Our solutions provide a range of benefits, from infection prevention and protection of at-risk skin, to improved patient outcomes and reduced care costs. Convatec’s revenues in 2024 were over $2 billion. The company is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index (LSE:CTEC). To learn more please visit http://www.convatecgroup.com
About the Role
The role of Regional Lead for Talent Acquisition has been created to manage, support and deliver our talent acquisition services for the Europe Talent Acquisition team. You also have an operational responsibility, owning the recruitment of senior, complex positions across Europe, if needed.
This role offers great development and the opportunity to support the build of tomorrow’s Convatec.
You will report to the Business Services Talent Acquisition Global Senior Lead, and join a strong and dedicated HR community as well as the global talent acquisition team, helping Convatec to build an inclusive culture and finding the best diverse talent for our key vacancies.
Key duties and responsibilities
- Supporting service delivery with and through a team supporting talent acquisition activities
- Line management of the team members
- Allocating and managing workloads across the Europe Talent Acquisition team
- Allocating roles to the talent acquisition team where appropriate
- Making sure the team responds appropriately to Service Now tickets, regarding Talent Acquisition topics
- Managing any escalations from the team linked to hard-to-fill roles or business critical recruitment projects across Europe
- Managing the team’s performance
- Making sure the team is engaged and motivated
- Leading recruitment efforts, including:
- Briefing calls for new vacancies
- Sourcing and shortlisting candidates for your hiring manager to support hiring the best diverse talent
- Coordinating the selection process from interviews and assessments to feedback
- Aligning and extending the offers to successful candidates
- Talent pooling to create pipelines for key future vacancies
- Ensuring relevant data is captured on KPIs for talent acquisition and pulling together weekly, monthly and annual reporting for the Europe region
- Ensuring our Convatec brand is lived and breathed at every recruitment touchpoint
Other opportunities in this role include:
- Shaping the build of our talent acquisition team and processes as part of a shared service including optimizations to continuously improve our services
- Supporting Talent Acquisition escalated queries and requests as they arise, finding solutions where needed
- Ensuring we do what’s right in terms of local market legislation throughout the talent acquisition process
- Capturing, inputting relevant data and managing the talent acquisition reporting for Europe, to showcase our quality, cost and time to hire KPIs
- Along with the wider HR team, driving the ongoing development and improvement of our knowledge bases to support the development of business services.
- Foster a strategic partnership with the Talent Acquisition Center of Excellence team
- Driving internal change management by supporting internal change initiatives, ensuring smooth transitions and stakeholder alignment across teams and functions
Your key stakeholders will include:
- Internal – Talent acquisition (TA Center of Excellence), HR colleagues, hiring managers across multiple functions and markets including marketing, sales, finance, HR, Operations, IT and Technology & Innovation, internal candidates
- External – External candidates and recruitment agency partners.
About you
You’re a strategic thinker with a passion for Talent Acquisition and leading people. You know how to connect the dots, influence stakeholders, and drive meaningful people engagement.
Skills & Experience:
- Excellent written and spoken English is mandatory
- Portuguese fluency is highly preferential
- Experience in managing Talent Acquisition teams with both junior and senior roles
- Experience in talent acquisition full cycle recruitment, ideally as part of a shared service team (specifically in the Europe region)
- Experience in optimizing processes to drive efficiencies and added value for Talent Acquisition
- Strong communication skills, ability to adapt to different styles and at different levels
- A customer-first mindset to fit with our “forever caring” brand with strong stakeholder management
- Ability to prioritize and navigate a variety and volume of talent acquisition activity
- Ability to deal with ambiguity and change
- Proactivity and an “own it” mindset
- Team player both within Talent Acquisition and across the wider HR business services teams
- Attention to detail
- Availability to work in a hybrid model and cover local bank holidays
Qualifications & education
- Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Talent Acquisition, Human Resources, or a related field.
What you’ll get:
- Hybrid role based in Lisbon
- Competitive salary + bonus
- Training & development
- Collaborative, supportive culture
Ready to join us?
At Convatec, we’re pioneering trusted medical solutions to improve the lives we touch. If you’re ready to make a real impact, apply today and help us bring our Forever Caring promise to life.
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