Talent Acquisition Specialist (Commerce & Technology) VML Enterprise Solutions Department: People Location: Lisbon, Portugal Last Updated: 9/12/2024 Requisition ID: 0986 At VML, we are a beacon of innovation and growth in an ever-evolving world. Our heritage is built upon a century of combined expertise, where creativity meets technology, and diverse perspectives ignite inspiration. With the merger of VMLY&R and Wunderman Thompson, we have forged a new path as a growth partner that is part creative agency, part consultancy, and part technology powerhouse.
Our global family now encompasses over 30,000 employees across 150+ offices in 64 markets, each contributing to a culture that values connection, belonging, and the power of differences. Our expertise spans the entire customer journey, offering deep insights in communications, commerce, consultancy, CRM, CX, data, production, and technology. We deliver end-to-end solutions that result in revolutionary work.
The opportunity: This is an exciting time for VML Enterprise Solutions. Due to continued growth, we are seeking to appoint a Talent Acquisition Specialist in either our Poland or Portugal offices to work alongside the Talent Team. You will be responsible for a high volume of permanent, contract, and freelance positions across our EMEA locations.
Joining as a Talent Acquisition Specialist, you will be working alongside the global VML ES talent team and internal stakeholders, ensuring you fully understand the business needs before taking the roles strategically to market.
You will be expected to manage the full end-to-end recruitment process, so a confident and consultative approach is required with a focus on identifying mainly technical resources.
What you'll be doing: Proactively sourcing and screening candidates via Job Boards, LinkedIn, and social media.
Conducting primary telephone interviews, ensuring thorough qualification that meets the requirements.
Building and maintaining healthy relationships with internal stakeholders, ensuring they are kept regularly up to date with changes and developments to the vacancies.
Collaborating with the wider talent team to ensure deadlines are met.
Building and maintaining talent pools and market knowledge.
Ensuring candidate experience is paramount and they feel connected to our culture, values, and purpose.
Focusing on achieving the monthly and annual target for the team, actively working on vacancies to maintain low agency spend.
Creating innovative ways to attract future talent, such as organizing tech meetups and finding new recruitment tools.
Maintaining recruitment CV database – Greenhouse.
Completing any recruitment administration.
What we want from you: Proven track record in IT and Technology recruitment; preferably in-house but RPO and agency experience is also considered.
Demonstrated ability of the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle in a broad range of technical and digital positions across the whole project life cycle.
Experience working in a fast-paced recruiting environment with the ability to take initiative with little direction.
Excellent working knowledge of Boolean searches.
Working knowledge of popular job boards and social media sites (such as LinkedIn).
Ability to build strong relationships across the business at all levels.
Highly developed executive search skills (e.g. attraction and selection of talent).
Work with hiring managers to create and maintain formal job descriptions.
Stay informed of trends and innovative recruiting techniques to be competitive and creative with recruiting practices.
Strong time management experience with the ability to manage and prioritize workload.
Maintain accurate and well-ordered documentation on all candidates, searches, and other recruitment reports.
IT Skills (Word, Excel).
An interest in the digital world, keen to follow industry trends and savvy enough to "talk shop" with technical people.
Attributes:
Customer oriented.
Driven, articulate, confident, and enthusiastic in order to meet demanding targets.
Interpersonal skills and an eye for detail.
If you know some of this, even better: Xray searching and advanced searching methodologies.
Previous experience recruiting the following Technical specialisms: Cloud, Data, Insight and Analytics, AI, or Commerce Platforms.
Experience of working with Greenhouse (ATS).
Previous experience working in a Multi-geographic organization.
What we can offer you: Alongside the opportunity to work with some of the most exciting brands around the world, we'll also prioritize your career development and help you grow your skills. We'll empower you to make a difference, allow you to be yourself, and respect who you are.
We offer a great benefits package including hybrid working that works for everyone, social events, training opportunities, medical and dental insurance, life assurance, meal cards, and much more.
Our personality and behaviours: We believe that we are what we do, not just what we say. Our shared values and behaviours show how to bring the VML Enterprise Solutions culture to life through the actions we all take every day:
Connect Meaningfully.
Include Purposefully.
Our brilliant, talented people are what makes VML Enterprise Solutions what we are. That's why we look for people who go beyond and always push our thinking to be better than yesterday.
AT VML Enterprise Solutions Our Enterprise Solutions division houses strategic consultants, creative and technical architects, and skilled developers and operators that together help some of the world's leading organisations to deliver outstanding digital experiences across all major routes to market worldwide: marketplaces, online retailers, D2C, B2B, and social platforms. With over 4,200 experts in 55 operational centres across 34 countries, our capabilities span the entire buying journey from customer acquisition, through engagement, to conversion and loyalty, driving multi-channel growth for world-leading brands.
In our Lisbon or Porto office, you'll join a team of other specialists who are always ready to help each other. The team is part of our Enterprise Solutions network and works in coordination with our Local and EMEA client leads.
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