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Head of Talent Acquisition
CarTrawlerIrelandfull_timeVerifiedPosted 3 Mar 2023
About the role
CarTrawler is the leading B2B technology provider of the car rental and mobility solutions to the global travel industry. Our purpose is to drive successful partnerships. CarTrawler’s end-to-end technology platform expands our airline and travel partners’ offering to their customers, creating substantial ancillary revenue opportunities. We provide unrivaled breadth and depth of content worldwide, including car rental, private airport transfer, and ride-hailing services.
CarTrawler creates innovative, data-led solutions for some of the largest travel brands in the world, including United Airlines, American Express, EasyJet, Alaska Airlines, SWISS, Hotels.com, and Emirates. As a B2B company, we focus solely on helping our airline and travel partners build their brands, not our own.
For our people, they get to work in an indigenous Irish tech company, in healthy, high performing teams, solving interesting problems.
One of CarTrawler’s unique differentiators is its value-based culture. We only hire the best in market and proactively search for people who authentically embody our SHARC values -Shared Wins, Hunger, Active Choices, Relationships Make the Difference, and Craic.
Role Purpose:
Our Head of Talent Acquisition plays a key role as our cultural custodian ensuring we hire only the best, ensuring both cultural fit and potential. You will also be responsible for shaping the talent acquisition strategy, and talent pipeline programs, and driving alignment of strategic diversity partnerships and initiatives to enable and build a competitive advantage through the attraction and acquisition of high-caliber diverse talent.While you will be at the forefront of building our talent acquisition strategy, you will also need to be comfortable helping with the on-the-ground recruitment as CarTrawler continues to build its people capability.
LeadershipYou will be a strong leader and people manager who has a track record of leading successful Talent Acquisition teams. Part of the wider Talent team (which also encompasses Talent Management), you will lead a team of TA Specialists as well as manage relationships with external and offshore vendors. You enjoy developing, retaining, and coaching your team and inspiring them to hit their personal and team goals as well as contributing to the overall success of the Talent Acquisition function. You are passionate about Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and have experience building and supporting diverse teams and organizations. You enjoy having fun, creating a positive work environment, and seeing your team thrive!
StrategyYou will have experience building recruiting strategies that are supported by metrics and data and enjoy building recruiting processes and innovative initiatives that ensure that we source, attract, and hire incredible and diverse talent. You will also be driven by continuously identifying ways to create efficiencies and best practices and you will be courageous and pioneering in experimenting with new, innovative recruitment strategies.
Telling the story with Data You will have a passion for data and enjoy utilizing it to influence stakeholders, understanding the importance of core recruitment metrics and their impact on influencing decisions. You also have experience managing headcount, and partnering with Finance and can navigate senior stakeholder prioritization of roles.
People Leadership TeamYou will be part of the People Leadership team as well as our Extended Leadership team and report to our Director of Talent. You will also work closely with the Chief People Officer as well as liaise and partner with a wide range of stakeholders including the CEO and Leadership Team, our senior leaders, and the wider People team.
CarTrawler creates innovative, data-led solutions for some of the largest travel brands in the world, including United Airlines, American Express, EasyJet, Alaska Airlines, SWISS, Hotels.com, and Emirates. As a B2B company, we focus solely on helping our airline and travel partners build their brands, not our own.
For our people, they get to work in an indigenous Irish tech company, in healthy, high performing teams, solving interesting problems.
One of CarTrawler’s unique differentiators is its value-based culture. We only hire the best in market and proactively search for people who authentically embody our SHARC values -Shared Wins, Hunger, Active Choices, Relationships Make the Difference, and Craic.
Role Purpose:
Our Head of Talent Acquisition plays a key role as our cultural custodian ensuring we hire only the best, ensuring both cultural fit and potential. You will also be responsible for shaping the talent acquisition strategy, and talent pipeline programs, and driving alignment of strategic diversity partnerships and initiatives to enable and build a competitive advantage through the attraction and acquisition of high-caliber diverse talent.While you will be at the forefront of building our talent acquisition strategy, you will also need to be comfortable helping with the on-the-ground recruitment as CarTrawler continues to build its people capability.
LeadershipYou will be a strong leader and people manager who has a track record of leading successful Talent Acquisition teams. Part of the wider Talent team (which also encompasses Talent Management), you will lead a team of TA Specialists as well as manage relationships with external and offshore vendors. You enjoy developing, retaining, and coaching your team and inspiring them to hit their personal and team goals as well as contributing to the overall success of the Talent Acquisition function. You are passionate about Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and have experience building and supporting diverse teams and organizations. You enjoy having fun, creating a positive work environment, and seeing your team thrive!
StrategyYou will have experience building recruiting strategies that are supported by metrics and data and enjoy building recruiting processes and innovative initiatives that ensure that we source, attract, and hire incredible and diverse talent. You will also be driven by continuously identifying ways to create efficiencies and best practices and you will be courageous and pioneering in experimenting with new, innovative recruitment strategies.
Telling the story with Data You will have a passion for data and enjoy utilizing it to influence stakeholders, understanding the importance of core recruitment metrics and their impact on influencing decisions. You also have experience managing headcount, and partnering with Finance and can navigate senior stakeholder prioritization of roles.
People Leadership TeamYou will be part of the People Leadership team as well as our Extended Leadership team and report to our Director of Talent. You will also work closely with the Chief People Officer as well as liaise and partner with a wide range of stakeholders including the CEO and Leadership Team, our senior leaders, and the wider People team.
Main accountabilities and key tasks
- Determines the strategic direction and objectives of the Talent Acquisition team to best support CarTrawler’s growth leveraging both internal and external talent pipelines.
- Oversees the full recruitment cycle to support all functions.
- Accountable for exploring, identifying, and implementing practices that allow the business to attract top talent
- Accountable for developing materials to communicate EVP through CarTrawler’s employment advertisements, career sites, job descriptions, and other employment materials.
- Identifies recommendations for streamlining the recruiting processes and oversees the screening and selection processes.
- Responsible for handing over successful candidates to the People Operations Team to kick off the onboarding process.
- Responsible for monthly talent acquisition reporting to the Leadership team
- Managing, coaching, and developing our exceptional Talent Acquisition team
- Ownership and management of the annual Talent Acquisition budget
- Responsible for end-to-end recruiting on certain senior positions
- Minimise spending o
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