Senior Talent Partner
Job Description
Purpose
As a Senior Talent Partner, you are a strategic advisor, talent strategist, and data-informed decision-maker who partners with the business to shape the future workforce. In alignment with our vision to build a forward-thinking, data-led Talent Acquisition (TA) function, you will lead high-impact hiring across critical business areas, delivering proactive, insight-driven recruitment solutions.
You will own the end-to-end hiring lifecycle; from strategic role design and market mapping to candidate engagement and experience, while building sustainable pipelines, improving processes, and driving excellence across sourcing, assessment, and employer branding. As a senior member of the TA team, you will contribute to enterprise-level initiatives, lead talent acquisition projects, and mentor team members, all while anchoring your work in data, collaboration, and innovation.
Core Responsibilities
Act as a trusted strategic advisor to business leaders and hiring managers, aligning hiring plans with business goals and workforce strategy.
Lead role design, profile definition, and talent planning conversations, bringing insights from external markets and internal capability frameworks.
Drive candidate attraction through advanced sourcing strategies, talent mapping, and the development of proactive pipelines.
Deliver personalised, inclusive candidate experiences that reflect our EVP and support long-term engagement.
Guide the use of assessment methodologies, including psychometrics and structured interviews, tailored to role seniority and complexity.
Own end-to-end recruitment for a range of functions, applying commercial understanding and adaptability to prioritise across portfolios.
Use talent intelligence and competitor insights to shape hiring decisions and regional sourcing strategies.
Lead or contribute to TA-led strategic projects and programs; including DEI, onboarding transformation, talent tech, or early careers aligned with our future-focused TA roadmap.
Partner with People & Culture to support internal mobility, leadership hiring, and succession planning initiatives.
Continuously review and enhance recruitment operations and ATS usage to improve scalability, compliance, and candidate experience.
Track and analyse individual and team KPIs, using insights to self-coach, drive improvement, and support a performance-led culture.
Mentor and coach Talent Partners to support their development and embed best practices across the team.
Champion and role model the TA team’s values and principles in how you lead, collaborate, and influence change.
What Success Looks Like
- You are a trusted talent advisor to senior business leaders, actively shaping hiring plans based on workforce priorities and external talent insights.
- You consistently deliver high-quality hires across a variety of roles and regions, with a strong focus on candidate quality, speed, and experience.
- You build and maintain strategic pipelines for future and critical roles, reducing time-to-hire and increasing talent readiness for key business areas.
- You lead with data, using KPIs, funnel analytics, and market intelligence to influence stakeholders and continuously improve recruitment strategies.
- You design and implement inclusive, high-impact assessment processes, including the integration of structured interviews, psychometrics, and executive evaluation frameworks.
- You drive meaningful progress on talent initiatives (e.g., DEI programs, process innovation, or employer brand campaigns), demonstrating clear business impact.
- You elevate the candidate and hiring manager experience, implementing improvements that are visible in feedback, NPS, and process efficiency.
- You proactively coach and develop peers, helping raise the capability and maturity of the TA function across the region.
- You are seen as a champion of Valtech’s values and TA principles, influencing the team culture, ways of working, and stakeholder relationships through your leadership.
The SHARE value is our commitment to foster collaboration, transparency and teamwork driving increased productivity, growth, and employee satisfaction within Valtech:
- We share freely our knowledge, ideas and feedback to continuously grow ourselves, our colleagues and clients all over the world.
- We share the joy of our successes and the pain of our failures together.
- We share the ambition of building and nurturing diverse, inclusive teams and a supportive work-out-loud culture.
- We share our unique perspectives to give birth to breakthrough ideas – the catalyst for successful innovation.
- To share is to pay it forward
The DARE value is our commitment to challenge status quo, push boundaries, be open and take calculated risks to drive imagination, creativity, and excellence within Valtech:
- We dare to go into unknown, ambiguous territories, embrace the risk of failure, take ownership, learn and then succeed
- We dare to speak up, respectfully challenge assumptions and be honest with each other
- We dare to show our weaknesses, ask for help when needed and be open for others feedback and ideas
- To dare is our key to innovation
The CARE value is our commitment to support and value the well-being of human beings both within and outside our organization and by that nurture a positive, emphatic, and accountable work environment within Valtech:
- We care for the quality of human experiences in everything we do
- We care for and respect our colleagues
- We care for the growth and sustainability of our client’s business
- We care about building diverse, inclusive teams performing in a safe and respectful culture with equal opportunities for everyone
- We care about making the world a better place with the solutions we create and the company culture we nurture
- To care is just simply human