Talent Acquisition Manager

**Description**

**Overview of the Role**

Alvarez & Marsal has, over recent years, become one of Europe’s most vibrant and dynamic provider of Operations, Performance Improvement and Value Creation advisory services to a multitude of clients across the region. As a result of several high profile and headline worthy acquisitions of senior staff, new clients and leadership mandates recently, A&M is now considered a market leading and highly sought-after professional services firm. Indeed, our French practice has been one of our fastest growing European offices, tripling in size over just the last 3 years.

Therefore, a role now exists to join our Talent Acquisition team based in Paris, to be responsible for devising and executing the sourcing strategy and subsequent recruitment process across several core pan-European business units - ultimately being a prime influencer and contributor to the ambitious growth plans in this region. Acting as a trusted adviser to the business whilst providing input and guidance at Senior Stakeholder level; you will be absolutely central to the identification & attraction of talent into A&M across Europe.

**Scope of job**:

- To work closely in partnership with the business units to contribute to identifying skills gaps and assessing against utilisation levels and general client pipeline outlook to agree the resulting recruiting priorities.
- Your role will also be to champion and manage rigorous screening process to continue to ensure high quality hiring delivery; to include interviewing as well as any managing appropriate skills testing and referencing.
- To manage and support all aspects of the offer stages of the process and to be an effective conduit between HR, Legal and the wider Talent Acquisition teams based in London, Munich and Frankfurt.
- You will work closely with a broad spectrum of hiring managers across different teams on their talent requirements, collating and sharing market intelligence on the competition, promoting employee branding, our diversity and inclusion policies and standards; as well as managing the relationships and terms and conditions of external search firms and contingent agencies.

**Experience**
- 10+ years’ experience of retained search or proactive sourcing engagements with an Executive Search firm or contingent recruitment agency;
- Demonstrable experience of effective communications, within complex organizations, in particular with geographically dispersed staff;
- Experience of successfully influencing staff and hiring managers at all levels within an organization;
- A combination of external and in-house recruiting experience would be highly valuable;
- An established relevant network and track record of hiring in France and ideally some wider European territories, ideally to include knowledge of local employment custom and practice to include, to an extent, local employment law;
- Proven experience recruiting and managing offer negotiations at all levels up to Managing Director/CEO/Partner;
- Ability to identify, attract and approach job seekers through networking, referrals and direct sourcing methods required;
- Demonstrable ability to take ownership of selection processes and successfully manage challenging and time pressured assignments, often with competing client deadlines;
- Strong customer focus, business acumen, process management, communication and negotiation skills;
- Ability to absorb and assimilate information quickly, getting to grips with new roles and business areas;
- Be tenacious and thorough with a highly organized and structured approach to work, prioritizing and expectations management;
- Experience managing talent acquisition across multiple business disciplines and sometimes geographies;
- Demonstrated success with using best practice recruiting methods

**Knowledge and skills**
- Fluent French to a native level is essential as is fluent business English (both written & verbal);
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills;
- Demonstrable strength in organizational skills, as a quick responsiveness to stakeholders, are both essential;
- Experience of building relationships with a variety of stakeholders including senior international leadership;
- A sound knowledge of the French market, employment law & contracts;
- Able to work on own initiative;
- Strong diplomacy skills and ability to adapt your style to different personalities and approaches to work;
- Experience of using web-based applicant tracking systems; (Jobvite experience a huge advantage)
- Proficiency using MS Office with good skills in Excel and PowerPoint;
- An active advocate for and experience of adopting an approach to recruiting that successfully captures the power of diversity and inclusion in the workforce;
- Ability to think laterally and strategically;
- Team player with strong interpersonal skills; you will be enthused by the opportunity to work as part of a high performing and fun European Talent Acquisition function.
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