Talent Acquisition Director

Job Description
Are you a Talent Acquisition leader with global recruitment expertise and proven experience managing diverse and distributed teams?

The LEGO® Group is seeking a Talent Acquisition Director to build and drive recruitment strategy, capacity & demand planning and recruitment operations globally. Reporting into the Global Head of Talent Acquisition, this role will lead the Northern Europe ~20 person team and be based in our headquarters in Billund.

No relocation assistance is offered for this position.

Play your part in our team succeeding!
The Talent function is responsible for leading and implementing a global agenda, including talent attraction and employer brand, talent acquisition, talent management, learning & development right the way through to cultural augmentation and organisational development.

The Talent Operations function supports the development and implementation of the global TA strategy and owns the overall recruitment capacity planning for The LEGO® Group.

Core responsibilities

• Build and implement a global operational hiring strategy to support talent acquisition needs
• Champion and implement TA activities globally including attraction, employer brand, sourcing, pipelining, selection and assessment, D&I and onboarding, all while delivering a premium candidate and hiring leader experience
• Demonstrate in depth knowledge of global market trends, insights and challenges, to inform into the global TA strategy
• Build, manage, coach, empower and develop a successful geographically dispersed team whilst driving high team impact and development of the team itself
• Role model how data and insights can be used to influence hiring and enhance overall effectiveness across the TA function
• Build multi-channel go-to-market strategy to deliver D&I targets, using an insight driven approach based on speed and cost of acquisition
• Optimise hiring processes, ensuring alignment to company objectives, coupled with delivering high quality hires at speed (including tailored testing/assessment approach)

Do you have what it takes?

• Outstanding leadership of diverse and global recruitment teams, with proven experience role-modelling as strong leader (both formally and informally) and creating a culture of impressive employee engagement and team collaboration
• Demonstrable experience in leading an international recruitment agenda and achieving operational excellence
• A strategic vision with the ability to identify future business needs and adapt/develop accordingly
• A confidence with data and the ability to use insights to drive performance and decision making
• Proven ability in fostering strong internal rapports with the confidence to drive and facilitate conversations with senior leaders, whilst delivering results in a rapid and ever evolving environment
• Curious and brave in exploring new ways of hiring

What’s in it for you?
Here are some of what to expect:

• Family Care Leave – We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.
• Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.
• Wellness – We want you to be your best self, so you'll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programmes run by local teams where you are based.
• Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.
• Bonus – We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.
• Your workplace – When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

The LEGO Group is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay regardless of e.g. race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity.

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

Just imagine building your dream career.
Then make it real.
Join the LEGO® team today.

• Location
  Billund, Denmark
• Job ID:
  0000017052
• Category
  Human Resources