Team Lead Talent Acquisition

About this job

We are currently looking for a Team Lead Talent Acquisition to join the team in Delft.

As a Team Lead Talent Acquisition, you will be part of our High-Tech Consulting (HTC) domain and will be leading a small team of go-getters Talent Acquisition Consultants and finding amazing new colleagues to join S[&]T.

In this position, you will have the chance to interact with people from diverse backgrounds, and you will be the one supporting them in their job hunt journey, ensuring that the best match between the vacancies and the candidates is achieved. Working with partners and colleagues from impactful projects and fields such as Environment [&] Sustainability, Space [&] Science, Defence [&] Security, and High-Tech, your work will reflect on a contribution to improving our lives in today’s society and on our planet.

At HTC, we do not have a dull moment, and with such variety in your job, it is guaranteed that you will be learning non-stop. Working with a wonderful team of professionals in an international environment will be the motivation to keep on even when the challenges come.

Main responsibilities

As a Team Lead Talent Acquisition, your main responsibilities are leading the Talent Acquisition team and finding new colleagues to join S[&]T. To accomplish that, your role will be composed, but not limited, to the following tasks:

• Talent Acquisition: You will source, screen, and qualify candidates for internal, external, and consultancy projects, focusing on improving their experience with us throughout the process.
• Team Work: Finding suitable candidates is just a part of your tasks, and that is why you will be cooperating with the team, sharing potential candidates with them, and following up on all the candidate-related subjects within our processes, ensuring that interviews and follow-ups are scheduled with our candidates and hiring managers. You will be interacting directly with the hiring managers and discussing with them the feedback on the candidates and the processes themselves.
• Leadership: Guiding the Talent Acquisition team members is your top priority! Defining the team's daily priorities, supporting them in their responsibilities, and arranging training sessions on a bi-weekly basis are some of the most precious moments of interaction with your team.
• Employer Branding: Attracting the most suitable candidates for our projects is a must, and that is why you will be working alongside Marketing to improve our Employer Branding and attract suitable candidates for our projects within different platforms and events.
• Strategy: You are the process owner for Talent Acquisition, and you will define processes related to the operations executed by Talent Acquisition, such as the team's onboarding, workflow and the GDPR Procedure. In addition, you will prepare and lead all the leadership meetings in which you will share data and information, collected and transformed by you, related to the Talent Acquisition Team.
• Administration: It is extremely important to have all of our administration to facilitate teamwork among the HTC team. You are, therefore, responsible for registering your candidates in our CRM (Odoo), updating their information, and uploading their documents such as CVs and Motivation Letters.

Requirements

To match this position you have to tick the boxes below:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Human Resources Management, or a similar field
• 5+ years of experience working as a Recruiter or Talent Acquisition Consultant and mixed experience in both agency and corporate is a plus
• Experience sourcing candidates for complex technical and scientific vacancies
• Experience with leading small teams, especially with high-performing juniors
• Experience working in Technical, Scientific, and/or Defence industries, and especially interest in exploring them
• Outstanding communication skills, as well as an entrepreneurial mindset and solution-making attitude
• Teamwork-oriented but with the capacity to work independently
• Analytical and data-driven
• Fluency, both written and spoken in English and preferably in Dutch

Our story

At S[&]T we contribute to a safer life on earth by translating space data into valuable and actionable insights. We oversee data from instruments to application, and apply our expertise within our software frameworks, information products and consultancy.

Our society relies on space and scientific instruments for climate change monitoring, navigation, defence and national security, and other crucial services we all use in our daily lives. These instruments produce an enormous quantity of complex data, and our goal is to unlock its value.

We have more than 20 years of experience working on instrument calibration, the creation of data quality monitoring tools, the development of real-time data processing frameworks, and the development of application-specific algorithms. With this, we help organisations, governments and industries to strengthen their information position and thereby improve their decision making. We focus on the following domains: Space & Science, Defence & Security, Environment & Sustainability, and High-Tech Consulting.