Talent Acquisition Specialist

Fantastic challenges. Amazing opportunities.

GKN Aerospace is reimagining air travel: going further, faster and greener! Fuelled by great people whose expertise and creativity sets the standards in our industry, we’re inspired by the opportunities to innovate and break boundaries. We’re proud to play a part in protecting the world’s democracies. And we’re committed to putting sustainability at the centre of everything we do, opening up and protecting our planet. With over 16,000 employees across 33 manufacturing sites in 12 countries we serve over 90% of the world’s aircraft and engine manufacturers and achieved sales of £3.35 bn.in 2023. There are no limits to where you can take your career.

Job Summary

As a Talent Acquisition Specialist you’ll be part of our Global Talent Acquisition team where you’ll take responsibility for an allocated business function/s in The Netherlands. The role will sit in our Civil Business Line which spans across Europe, APAC and North America. Although you’ll have your core area to support, there’ll also be the opportunity to gain exposure to the wider global business line.

As a collective, the Talent Acquisition team based in Papendrecht is responsible for a diverse range of roles from volume operational roles to niche specialist support roles and early careers opportunities. Your primary responsibility will be ensuring the very best recruitment service is delivered to your candidates, stakeholders and allocated business functions. You’ll take ownership for the end to end recruitment journey; partnering with Hiring Managers to drive best practice and carry out sourcing activities to deliver an inclusive and diverse talent pool, whilst managing your success factors data and driving time to hire. This roles reports to the Talent Acquisition Manager.

Making a Difference

Day to day you’ll own the end to end recruitment process for your performance site, which will include but be not limited to:

• Being a brand advocate - delivering the very best candidate and stakeholder experience throughout the recruitment journey;
• Building strong partnerships with onsite stakeholders and HR teams within the performance centre you support;
• Drive and support with implementing global recruitment process;
• Participation in key projects within the talent acquisition and/or HR community;
• Driving pace, efficiency and consistency throughout the recruitment journey to impact time to hire;
• Conducting vacancy launch calls with Hiring Managers to aid the accurate and very best attraction of talent in the market place and to advise on best attraction and selection methods;
• Creating compelling job advertisements in line with brand guidelines and vacancy launch specification;
• Using attraction methodologies to conduct sourcing activities to support direct sourcing strategy;
• Building talent pools to support future recruitment activity;
• Manage the offer process for successful candidates.

How you’ll contribute

You’ll bring your passion and expertise for what you do along with the following skills, experience, qualifications and attributes:

Essential

• Demonstrable experience gained in-house/agency experience within a Talent Acquisition/Recruitment Advisor/Senior Advisor/Partner or Specialist level role;
• Proven experience (in talent acquisition/ recruiting space with a strong focus on corporate function roles (e.g. Finance, HR, IT);
• Fluent in English and Dutch, both spoken and written;
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage candidates and stakeholders at all levels of the organization;
• Competent in using applicant tracking systems, ideally Success Factors to support the recruitment journey from requisition approval to offer;
• Demonstrable experience of owning the recruitment journey from briefing call through to offer for an allocated business area/function;
• Conversant with direct sourcing methods and attraction methodologies to source talent;
• Able to work at pace, prioritising accordingly to deliver an amazing service to stakeholders – keen to drive requirement needs to support time to hire
• Prepared for daily on-site presence.

Desirable

• Previous European or Global Talent Acquisition experience;
• Experience with blue collar recruitment.

What We’ll Offer

Once you’re on board you’ll get the following perks and benefits:

• A salary in Grade L and according to the CLA Metalelektro;
• 8% holiday allowance;
• 27 days holiday + 13 bank holidays (which comes with a ft contract)
• Profit sharing scheme;
• Industry Leading Pension Scheme (PME) and travel allowance;

We’ll offer you fantastic challenges and amazing opportunities. This is your chance to be part of an organisation that has proven itself to be at the cutting edge of our industry; and is committed to pushing the boundaries even further. And with some of the best training on offer in the industry, who knows how far you can go?

A Great Place to work needs a Great Way of Working

Everyone is welcome to apply to GKN. We believe that we can only achieve our ambitions through a coming together of diverse minds who enjoy collaborating in an inspirational environment. Through our commitment to diversity, inclusion and belonging and by living our five powerful principles we’ve created a culture where everyone feels welcome to contribute. It’s a culture that won us ‘The Best Workplace Culture Award’. By embracing and celebrating what makes us unique we encourage everyone to bring their full self to work.

We’re also committed to providing an accessible recruitment process, so if you require reasonable adjustments at any stage during our recruitment process please get in touch and let us know.

We are the place where human dreams, plus human endeavour, shape the future of aerospace innovation and technology. ​