Talent Lead (Contract)

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead full-cycle recruitment across all levels and regions—sourcing, interviewing, selection, and onboarding—as an active contributor alongside the team, not solely in a supervisory capacity.
• Oversee global talent operations and maintain regular communication with regional leaders to ensure alignment on hiring priorities, team capacity, and delivery across all markets.
• Develop and execute proactive sourcing strategies—anticipating future talent needs before they become urgent—and maintain robust pipelines across disciplines and seniority levels.
• Regularly check in with the talent team to ensure clarity on priorities, workload distribution, and performance, fostering a well-directed and collaborative team environment.
• Attend casting meetings consistently to stay current on active and upcoming hiring priorities and new business needs, ensuring the talent function is always positioned to respond with speed and precision.
• Manage executive-level hiring end-to-end, including regular follow-up with the CEO and executive leaders to align on search progress, candidate evaluation, and hiring decisions; support interview scheduling and candidate review coordination as required.
• Collaborate with People Operations and the Executive Assistant to facilitate in-person interview logistics for executive candidates, as needed.
• Maintain regular communication with the CPO to keep a pulse on the organization's broader hiring landscape and ensure talent strategy reflects the company's big-picture direction.
• Partner closely with hiring managers to align recruitment with business goals and evolving team priorities.
• Champion employer branding, candidate engagement, and diversity initiatives across all hiring activity.
• Track and report on key recruitment metrics—time-to-fill, source effectiveness, cost-per-hire—and use data to continuously improve processes and outcomes.
• Encourage the adoption of AI tools and drive enablement across the team, actively identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and effectiveness through technology and smarter ways of working.
• Optimize recruitment processes for efficiency and quality of candidate experience.