Senior Talent Partner

<span>We're looking for a Talent Acquisition Specialist to join our team. Ideally you'll have worked in a fast paced role, within a fast scaling company. You should have experience recruiting a variety of non-tech roles and thrive in an innovative environment, can roll up your sleeves to get the job done, but most importantly have fun. </span><br/><span>The best people will bring previous knowledge of recruitment and have a passion to continually learn and grow.</span><br/><span>You will work closely with hiring managers across areas within the Octopus Energy but also work super collaboratively with our Recruiters - we share ideas and look to continually evolve the way we do things to improve candidate experience and help hiring managers hire amazing people for Octopus. </span><br/><span>At Octopus Energy we're super passionate about attracting amazing talent to join us on our exciting journey. Maintaining an excellent candidate experience throughout the entire recruitment journey is key for us.</span><br/> <h3>What you'll do </h3> <ul> <li>Partner with hiring managers in Spain to understand their hiring needs and role requirements</li><li>Build great long term relationships with candidates - from screening to offering candidates (that's the best bit!) to deliver a diverse range of candidates </li><li>Constantly provide an amazing candidate experience and look to always improve this across the team </li><li>You'll need to source, attract and recruit the best candidates</li><li>Interview candidates for Octopus. Providing a different view and insight for hiring managers is really important... especially if we want to hire the best people for the role and the way we work here</li><li>Work closely with stakeholders in the UK and with our Head of Talent in London </li></ul> <h3>What you'll need</h3> <ul> <li>You do need to know your stuff - this role is for a Senior Talent Partner so, you’ll need to know how to do attract the best talent</li><li>You love to work with all kinds of people - you’ve got no functional shoulder pads - it’s not ‘my team versus other teams’, it’s ‘we’re all working together to change the energy system globally, and I’ll lend anyone a hand’</li><li>Often, we can only give you the question and not the answer, because if we knew the answer, we wouldn’t be hiring - are you someone who not only finds answers, but creates value by coming back and asking better questions? </li><li>You focus on output not input, what’s important versus what’s not important and obsessively strive to make things better</li><li>Previous experience hiring in a fast paced business</li><li>You'll need to interview candidates, so previous experience screening and assessing candidates for both hard skills and cultural qualities is needed</li><li>To speak fluent Spanish and English at a business level. The 80% of the interviews are in Spanish so it's necessary a good level of Spanish as well.</li></ul> <h3>Why else you'll love it here</h3> <ul> <li><b>Our company culture - </b> we won <a href="https://www.b.co.uk/companies/octopus-energy">best company to work for</a> in 2022, on Glassdoor we we're voted <a href="https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Award/Best-Places-to-Work-UK-LST_KQ0,22.htm">50 best places to work in 2022</a> and our Group CEO, Greg has recorded<a href="https://octopus.energy/blog/podcast/"> a podcast about our culture</a> and how we empower our - this is the same here in Spain</li><li><b>Flexible working environment </b></li><li><b>Relaxation</b> - we don’t count your holidays here, we work hard, and so we know you need to play hard as well (within reason of course) </li><li><b>Equity Options Scheme - </b>you own your own part of the business, share options in the whole Octopus Energy Group so we all work together towards success </li><li><b>Office culture - </b>have a certain tech requirement? We’ll do our best to get it. Our offices are also stocked with fruit, breakfast, great coffee and soft drinks. Weekly on a Friday we all get together (this happens virtually too) for company updates and drinks - we call it Family Dinner </li></ul>