Corporate Recruiter

Great recruitment creates great projects. As a Recruiter at Van Oord, you connect talented people with work that shapes coastlines, ports and offshore energy around the world. You get the freedom to make an impact, build strong partnerships and help grow teams that are building the future together.

The position

This role is not about posting vacancies and waiting for applications. We are looking for a recruiter who proactively creates hiring opportunities through sourcing, stakeholder management and labour market expertise.

As a Recruiter at Van Oord, you have a key role in helping our business grow. You work closely with hiring managers and HR colleagues to attract people who want to make a difference in projects around the world. You take full ownership of your vacancies. You challenge hiring managers, define the right recruitment strategy, proactively build talent pipelines and drive the process until the right hire is made. You don't wait for applicants; you create hiring success. This is how you make an impact.

Your impact

Every great project starts with the right people. As a Recruiter, you make sure Van Oord attracts the talent we need to deliver ambitious projects around the world. You combine market insights, strong partnerships and a personal approach to find the best match for every role. By improving recruitment processes and creating an excellent candidate experience, you help our teams grow stronger every day. In this role, you will:

• Partner with hiring managers and HR colleagues to develop recruitment strategies that match business needs.
• Lead the full recruitment process, from intake and sourcing to interviews, offer management and hiring.
• Proactively identify, approach and engage scarce talent using sourcing techniques, market mapping and your professional network.
• Use labor market insights, recruitment data and tools such as Avature to improve hiring decisions and optimize recruitment processes.
• Work closely with Employer Branding, Global Mobility and HR to strengthen our employer brand and deliver an outstanding candidate experience.

Your workplace

At Van Oord, you become part of an international organization where people work together to solve complex challenges and create lasting impacts. As a Recruiter, you join a passionate Talent Acquisition team that values collaboration, knowledge sharing and continuous improvement. You are a trusted advisor who knows how to challenge and influence hiring managers, HR colleagues, and specialists across the business. You advise the business on labor market developments, recruitment strategy and hiring decisions.

We believe the best results come from working together. That is why you get the trust, freedom and support to bring in new ideas and improve the way we attract talent. With a hybrid way of working, modern recruitment tools and colleagues who are always willing to help, you have everything you need to grow your career while helping us build the future together.

About you

You enjoy connecting people, building relationships and creating the best possible candidate experience. You are curious, organized and confident in working with different stakeholders. You easily switch between strategic conversations and day to day recruitment activities, while keeping quality and results in focus. You enjoy using data and market insights to improve your approach and are always looking for better ways of working. To be successful in this role, you bring:

• A bachelor's degree and at least three years of experience in recruitment, either in house or within an agency.
• Experience managing the full recruitment cycle and partnering with hiring managers.
• Strong sourcing skills and experience using LinkedIn Recruiter, talent pools and other recruitment channels.
• You use recruitment data to influence decisions, identify bottlenecks and continuously improve hiring performance.
• Experience working with recruitment systems, preferably Avature.
• You actively contribute to improving recruitment processes, ways of working and sharing best practices with the team.
• Excellent communication skills in English. Dutch is an advantage.

We offer

A unique opportunity to help shape the future of Van Oord and influence changes that make an impact across the entire organization. You will have the trust, freedom and responsibility to make a real difference. In return, we offer:

• Attractive travel allowance (€0.31 per km) and home working allowance (€2.45 per day).
• 32 holidays (of which a maximum of 7 are collective).
• Variable bonus, partly dependent on company results.
• Attractive pension scheme.
• Option for collective health insurance (Van Oord pays for your supplementary package).
• Extensive development opportunities, including a comprehensive online academy via GoodHabitz.
• Communities to join, such as Young Van Oord, Van Oord Women and the Van Oord staff association.
• Various events and sports activities, such as skiing, sailing weekends, cycling and motorcycling.

“Show what you can do and where your ambition lies, and you’ll get every opportunity to act on it. That’s something I’m proud of!”

Renske, Category Manager Engineering