Senior Strategic Sourcer

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with kindness and humility, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions that make people look and feel good. There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with. Dive into varied, flexible, and stimulating environments. Meet empowered professionals to partner with, befriend, and stretch your skills alongside. Every day, your energy, your creativity, and your determination will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.  
 

Senior Strategic Talent Sourcer, 1-year assignment  – Your Future Position?

The role of Senior Strategic Talent Sourcer within our Executive and Strategic Talent Sourcing Function is created to harmonize our combined approach to workforce planning, talent engagement, selection, and assessment efforts across the European region. The position will play an instrumental role in continuing to develop the operating model as a proactive talent engagement and attraction force that is capable of anticipating short and long-term business needs by building and managing Talent Communities, leveraging on market intelligence, and partnering with the senior leadership in our key functions on a regional and global scale.

This is a strategic advisory function, focused on global stakeholder management and project management of high-priority and niche recruiting assignments while combining market intelligence that ensures we offer a new scale of recruitment solutions. 

Your main responsibilities in this position comprise these 4 key elements:  
Strategic Sourcing

•    Designing and executing a roadmap of talent identification and engagement measures of senior leadership roles in close alignment with Regional Business Leads and with HR Business Partners

Assessment and Selection

•    End-to-end project management of niche recruitments: Maintaining regional oversight of the progress of international recruitment initiatives to ensure hiring activities are synchronized with business needs. Driving the execution of candidate engagement regionally to identify, attract, engage, and assess best-in-class talents. The main focus areas are the commercial and technical positions. 

Stakeholder Advisory

•    Involve and include senior stakeholders in relationship building where appropriate. Develop and maintain business acumen and fruitful relations with top stakeholders to simultaneously understand the changing dynamics of the organization and align hiring-related business priorities in line with our diversity goals.

Network Engagement

•    Act as a Talent Acquisition Ambassador and contact person to key talents interested in joining Givaudan today or in the future. You’ll be responsible for mapping and looking after networks and hidden talent pools for key recurrent roles in close collaboration with the Global Talent Acquisition team.
 
Your talent profiles for this role:

•    A minimum of 6 years’ recruitment experience ideally gained combining recruitment agency and in-house recruitment experience
•    At least 4 years of end-to-end life-cycle management experience in the FMCG, Pharma, or Biotech industry and a proven track record in a multinational organization in a Senior Stakeholder facing position
•    Experience creating and managing search strategies, mapping markets, and gleaning industry insights •    Knowledge of social media and social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, job boards, and professional organizations •    Strong analytical, and research skills and ability to leverage tools and technology to analyze data
•    Highly developed Influencing and relationship-building skills in a matrix environment
•    Business fluency in the English language

At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives.
You work within an inspiring teamwork culture – where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions.
Every essence of you enriches our world.
Diversity drives innovation and creates closer connections with our employees, customers and partners.
Givaudan embraces diversity and is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone impacts our world.