Talent Sourcing and Branding Manager at Canonical

Your role will include:

• Leading a team to deliver a roadmap of projects (Employer Branding, DEI, Recruitment Training, Process Management & hiring success) using innovative and scalable solutions to hiring as we go through a period of significant growth.
• Act as a partner to our senior stakeholders bringing an expert point of view to how an organisation builds a culture of exceptional talent.
• Use data driven analytical approaches to solve problems and innovate.

Location: EMEA - Home based
What your day will look like
In this role you will:

• Lead a team of data driven talent experts who are responsible for ensuring that our hiring teams are selecting game changing talent for our organisation.
• Drive data backed approaches to projects that enable us to develop our hiring processes focussed on selecting exceptional talent.
• Oversee our operational performance on hiring, ensuring we have the right teams in place in the business to hire that drive our processes forward against a clear set of KPIs and deliverables.
• Bring an expert point of view talent attraction with ability to train the business on sourcing, competency based interviewing and driving our process.
• Ensure our Employer Branding and DEI initiatives support and drive an inclusive environment for our people.
• Passionately conduct in-depth behavioral interviews providing considerable insights into motivations and behaviours of candidates as part of our interview process.
• Review our assessment effectiveness to drive continuous improvement.
• Build key relationships with global Hiring Leadership stakeholders to drive our hiring agenda.
• Be seen as a thought leader on talent initiatives with an inherent belief that past performance predicts future success.

What we are looking for in you

• An undergraduate or postgraduate degree in psychology/industrial psychology, or a compelling narrative about your alternative chosen path, together with an exceptional academic track record throughout your education years.
• Proven management experience inspiring and leading talent teams to deliver against strategic hiring initiatives.
• Excellent project management skills to lead roadmaps, including driving efficiency and delivering results.
• Experience of running and providing stakeholder training talent topics such as competency based interviews and sourcing.
• Experience of driving employer branding initiatives, candidate experience and DEI.
• Strong analytical mindset with evidence of where you use data to answer problems/questions to drive change.
• A thought leader in the talent space with the ability to influence best practice, bringing a solid point of how to build a high performance organisation.
• Experience of using and interpreting psychometric assessments to examine candidate drivers.
• Proven ability of working with senior stakeholders to drive a professional outlook on hiring talent as well as challenge the status quo.
• A sense of urgency with results driven approaches to deliver business critical projects
• Willingness to travel internationally up to 4 times a year for internal team and company events.

Other Skills You May Bring

• Advanced analytics to examine data and identify patterns, trends and behaviours.
• Experience on building data dashboards.
• Exposure to the following tools: LinkedIn Recruiter and Talent Insights, Greenhouse, DISC profiling/Thomas International.