Head of Talent Acquisition, CEMEA

About the Role
The Senior Director of Talent Acquisition, CEMEA will lead the talent acquisition strategy and execution across the company’s Central Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Africa business. This role is pivotal in enabling growth by building organizational capability through exceptional talent. The leader will drive regional recruitment strategy across professional hiring while collaborating with executive hiring for early careers, employer brand, and talent marketing. The successful candidate will work closely with cross-functional HR, Global Talent Acquisition, Global Talent, and central TA operations teams to deliver a consistent, high-quality end-to-end candidate experience.

The right candidate will possess extensive experience in Talent Acquisition and HR leadership, with the ability to set strategy, drive execution, and align a wide network of stakeholders around a modern, best-in-class TA function. This role calls for a transformational mindset, strong business acumen, and the capacity to advance capability growth, channel strategy, operating model effectiveness, and the adoption of innovative tools and practices that enhance productivity, candidate experience, and quality of hire.

Key Responsibilities
If you are the successful candidate, you will have the opportunity to:

• Deliver top talent aligned to the company’s People Team priorities, focusing on internal mobility and inclusion, while ensuring remarkable experiences for both candidates and hiring managers.
• Lead, coach, and develop the TA team, ensuring they are set up for success and able to deliver optimal outcomes for their respective businesses.
• Serve as the point of contact for all hiring across the region, leveraging subject matter experts as needed and providing data to senior leaders.
• Foster a culture of partnership, support, transparency, and shared ownership, promoting best-practice sharing, problem-solving, and consistent execution across the TA team.
• Drive hiring manager enablement by clarifying responsibilities, strengthening assessment processes, and equipping managers to represent the company effectively while making inclusive hiring decisions.
• Lead and manage the company’s employment brand execution in alignment with market and business unit needs, ensuring the employer value proposition is accurately represented.
• Develop talent attraction plans to ensure critical skills are available to support the company’s objectives across each business.
• Partner with HRBPs on internal talent alignment, role requirements, assessment expectations, and mobility opportunities, advocating strongly for internal talent.
• Collaborate with Global Talent and Global Talent Acquisition teams to continuously enhance the company’s assessment and evaluation processes.
• Work alongside global compensation and benefits teams to ensure the offer process is managed effectively and competitively, conforming to applicable requirements.
• Play a leadership role in global Talent initiatives and projects that drive best-in-class TA outcomes.
• Advance the adoption of AI-enabled talent acquisition tools and workflows to improve recruiter productivity, assessment consistency, and overall quality of hire.
• Ensure compliance with audit, regulatory, and legal requirements across the TA function.
• Administer and resolve employee matters effectively, mitigating risk to the company.
• Oversee talent attraction initiatives aligned with global strategy to meet the region’s strategic goals.
• Support early careers program hiring and management.

Key Qualifications
You will have the following characteristics:

• Transformational mindset with the capability to define, plan, and execute a vision for world-class Talent Acquisition.
• Intellectually curious with knowledge of best practices and emerging Talent Acquisition trends, able to benchmark the company’s strengths and opportunities against leading competitors.
• Data-driven and outcome-oriented, with a focus on continuous improvement, capable of making decisive actions and measuring impact.
• Strong operational oversight of the end-to-end TA process, with experience in critical role recruitment as necessary.
• Ability to bridge Global TA initiatives and regional implementation, translating enterprise priorities into practical execution across CEMEA.
• Digitally fluent and comfortable leading the adoption of AI and automation tools to enhance the talent acquisition lifecycle.
• Strong relationship builder and influencer, with sound judgment in engagements with senior leaders, demonstrating organizational understanding and introducing change successfully.
• Values-driven leader, aligned with the company’s principles, committed to motivating and developing teams, and fostering internal talent growth.
• Resourceful, results-oriented, client-focused with a positive, service-oriented mindset.

Contract and Travel Details
This is an on-site position requiring daily commutes to the assigned company office location.

Qualifications

• 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 10 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g., Masters/MBA/JD/MD), or a minimum of 5 years of work experience with a PhD.
• 15+ years of recruiting experience, including leading CEMEA regional recruitment teams in multinational corporate environments.
• A blend of corporate recruiting and search or agency experience is advantageous.
• Relevant industry experience in fintech, digital, technology, and/or financial services is highly desired.
• Advanced ability to develop recruiting strategies for sourcing, evaluating, and selecting talent with the support of advanced technologies.
• Strong understanding of strategic HR practices, including talent management and organizational development.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, negotiation, presentation, and organizational skills.
• Prior consulting experience regarding workforce planning topics such as salary equity, internal movement, and staffing level planning is desirable.
• BA/BS degree or equivalent experience is required.