TALENT ACQUISITION PARTNER EUROPE - 12 MONTHS MATERNITY COVER

TA Partner, Europe – TA Centre of Excellence - 12 months fixed term contract Hybrid role– linked to one of our European GKN Automotive sites in Porto (Portugal) Olesnica (Poland) or Miskolc (Hungary) Application closing date.
Sunday 30th March “If you are an experienced recruiter, well organized, enjoy multi-tasking and using some creativity to try new things – then this may be the job for you!! You MUST like communicating with people and be highly customer focused.
“ Karen, hiring manager GKN Automotive is a world-leading global automotive technology company at the forefront of innovation.
Its origins date back to and for the last 70 years it has been putting key technologies into series production.
We are the trusted partner for most of the world’s automotive companies, specialising in developing, building, and supplying market-leading drive systems and advanced ePowertrain technologies.
GKN Automotive is part of Dowlais Group plc, a specialist engineering group focused on the automotive sector.
What will you be doing in this role? Support global and regional stakeholders to build and deploy recruitment attraction strategies aligned with our employer value proposition (EVP) Create interesting and attractive adverts to SELL our job opportunities both internally & externally Engage with hiring managers to clarify the scope of the role, develop a role profile, and build a candidate specification Complete full 360 degree recruitment processes – stakeholder meeting, advert creation, screening cvs, setting up interviews, sometimes participating in interviews and working through the offer process with candidates – using ORACLE Provide analytics and insights that help us shape future campaigns Your remit will be focused on all roles in Porto – our Shared Service Centre, along with additional global positions in Finance, Procurement and Engineering.
Experience and values you will have that will set you up for success in this role.
Proven experience in Talent Acquisition recruiting for a shared services environment – recruiting full 360 degrees from advert to offer Self motivation to cover up to 25 roles at a time, this requires an outcome focus, high prioritization and smart working to be as efficient as possible An authentic interest in Talent Acquisition, how we can weave Diversity and Inclusion elements into our process and an ability to role model in the processes that you lead Business English language skills with the ability to create interesting advertisements and LinkedIn posts to promote our EVP to the market whenever possible High focus on customers – our customers are our stakeholders and our candidates – the way in which we communicate with them is the key to our success NOTE.
Please submit your resume in English.
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The team at GKN Automotive would encourage you to apply if our advert has taken your interest, rather than ruling yourself out based on any self-limiting beliefs.
You never know, you may be exactly who we’re looking for!