Head of Talent Acquisition (Emergn)

Your Move, a Latvia-based international recruitment platform, in partnership with Emergn, a global IT services company with offices in Riga, St. Petersburg, Dublin, London, Porto, and Boston, is looking for Head of Talent Acquisition. We’re looking forward to your application!

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Emergn strives to improve the way people and companies work. Forever.

It is a different type of services firm. It is passionate about helping companies build better products.

Emergn does this by helping them place their customers at the heart of what they do, by improving the way their work works and generating lasting capability within their organizations. Emergn is privileged to work with interesting companies all over the world and the work done is fast-paced, rewarding, often fun and never boring!

The work is complex. Helping Emergn customers solve their hardest problems so that they can build better products, is both stimulating and challenging. To serve its clients well, the company is building a diverse and talented, global team, who focus on supporting their colleagues, delighting the clients and upholding the Emergn Way with pride. In return, Emergn is focused on providing its people with interesting and meaningful work in an environment where they feel respected, appreciated and rewarded for their contributions.

How will you contribute to making this a reality?

The company’s ability to recruit well is critical to achieving these ambitions. Reporting to the Chief People Officer, Emergn Head of Talent Acquisition is responsible for building and leading a world-class talent acquisition team that enables the organization to secure the new talent it needs to thrive and grow.

You will lead Emergn global team of recruiters and with them, craft sourcing strategies for all of the company’s roles, from entry-level to executive-level positions. You will be responsible for ensuring that Emergn provides an excellent candidate experience and filling the company’s vacancies in line with business demand. In partnership with Emergn Marketing team, you will help to build a strong employer brand for the company so that it can develop strong talent pipelines for current and future hiring needs. You will also work hand in hand with Emergn hiring managers to implement effecting and engaging ways of assessing and selecting talent.

Specifically, the key responsibilities are:

• Design and execute a Talent Acquisition strategy that enables Emergn to attract, assesses and hire excellent talent for every role;
• Partner with the Marketing team to establish Emergn position as an ‘employer brand of choice';
• Partner with resourcing functions and hiring managers to proactively identify and address hiring needs;
• Develop talent pools with the capabilities Emergn needs and in the locations that are critical to its strategy;
• Find innovative and reliable ways of searching for and evaluating candidates in accordance with the standards established by the company and the locations Emergn operates in;
• Define and manage end to end talent acquisition processes, practices, and policies, including the underlying tools and metrics, that put the candidates and hiring managers at the heart of what Emergn does and how it is done;
• Build and lead Emergn’s global talent acquisition team as the ‘engine room' of the company’s talent acquisition function;
• Build and support the team to build productive relationships with its internal and external partners in talent acquisition e.g. Marketing, Talent Development, Hiring Managers, employees, and agencies) to build the wider team responsible for talent acquisition;
• Provide input to the Capability and Reward strategies based on market experience;
• Input to and ownership of the budget of Talent Acquisition function;
• Make Emergn’s work, successes, and blockers visible to the company’s internal partners in Talent Acquisition. This may include developing reports and metrics dashboards and routinely communicating status and progress to leadership.

There is a lot to be done and some of it will be complex. You will learn and utilize Emergn proprietary VFQ guiding principles and essential practices to ensure value is delivered early and often and you will be a role model for the Emergn Way principles and behaviors.

What skills, capabilities, and experiences do you have that make you a great fit for this role?

• You have proven success in senior Talent Acquisition role (s) in software delivery organizations;
• You have hands-on experience with candidate sourcing, interviewing and evaluation in global organizations — Europe and Russia are an advantage;
• You build strong relationships within your team and with stakeholders across the organization and externally to execute talent acquisition plans;
• You have demonstrated how technology can be deployed to improve talent acquisition processes e.g. sourcing solutions, candidate management systems, HR information systems etc.;
• You have been successful in leading teams and developing competence in others in Talent Acquisition functions;
• You thrive in a developing organization, driving the implementation of new practices in a way that supports the local teams to do their best work and build the global culture of the organization;
• You work well in global teams, know how to contribute to the development of global practices and be responsible for their local implementation.

More info:

The position can be based either in Riga, Latvia, or Saint Petersburg, Russia. This application will be screened by Emergn’s recruitment partners Your Move. Please reach out to us if you have any questions regarding the company or the role — we’re happy to help!

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One kind note. Unfortunately, due to our workload these days, we’ll be able to contact only the candidates selected for further interviews. If you don’t hear from us within two weeks after applying please assume that we weren’t able to advance your application. We hope you understand. Thanks!

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