Director, Talent Acquisition, DACH & Other Europe in Düsseldorf bei Danaher Corporation

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The Director, Talent Acquisition, DACH & Other Europe will play a critical role in using various recruiting strategies and deploying TA services for the DACH and Eastern Europe. You’ll design and implement strategies to create a diverse talent pipeline, lead a recruiting deployment team, and advise clients to fulfill the business recruiting needs.

• Create and implement a recruiting strategy for assigned function/sub-region: Define and implement the TA strategy, including attraction strategies for recruiting, sourcing, and pipelining critical talent. Provide support for restructuring, growth projects and M&A activities.

• Partner with Talent Management and HR on pipeline growth initiatives.

• Serve as TA Business Partner to specified OpCo; consulting with business and HR leaders to understand the recruiting demand, gathering VOC, educating them on talent trends, and sharing key performance metrics and insights

• Manage headcount and capacity across team. Partner with RPO to drive delivery on O- and B-level roles. Assign requisitions for direct reports.

• Lead operational rigor through mature utilization of DBS to drive team performance and process improvements.

• Organize communities of practice across functions to enable best practice sharing, leverage talent communities, and problem-solve.

• Create and implement diversity recruiting strategies, including assessing talent gaps, understanding funnel data, identifying countermeasures, and implementing action plans (partner organizations, ARG involvement, brand channels, campaigns)

• Enforce and consult on standard work, deploy and drive adoption of new technology

• Apply available framework and tools to activate employer brand in region

• Onboard new team members, coach and develop for current and future roles, complete people management tasks (P4G, D4G, compensation planning)

Preferred Background and Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

• Minimum 3 years experience leading teams; experience as a leader of people leaders preferred

• Depth of professional experience working within an in-house Talent Acquisition model working across multiple countries

• Authentic leader and good coach; previous success with scaling a talent team preferred

• Experience and facility working in a lean /continuous improvement culture, with a track record of utilizing proven methodologies as a business practice.

• Use data to glean insights and design strategies to meet recruiting demands

• Able to shift nimbly between “50,000 ft. and 500 ft.” levels to develop strategies and drive flawless execution with a pragmatic approach

• Gain understanding of the business to act as a sought-after advisor to business and HR clients

• Able to navigate through ambiguity and change while still getting results

• Sophisticated stakeholder management capability with ability to communicate effectively and work collaboratively in a global matrix

Language Skills

English fluency required. Additional language skills within DACH and Eastern Euro are beneficial.

Travel

25% travel (domestic & international)

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