Talent Acquisition Specialist

Date Posted:

2025-02-03

Country:

Netherlands

Location:

OTIS Papendorpseweg 83, 3528 BJ Utrecht, Netherlands

Since 1853, we have dedicated ourselves to a single goal: moving the world. Our cities are reaching new heights. Our customers are demanding new solutions. Our world is becoming more connected. For more than a century and a half, we’ve been pushing the world onward. It all started more than 168 years ago when Elisha Graves Otis invented the modern elevator and forever changed the urban landscape. Today, the company that bears his name is the world’s leading provider of elevators, escalators and moving walkways, moving more than 2 billion people every day.

We strive to be the best. To us this means we set big goals, rise to achieve them, and win as a team.
At Otis, we move the world forward and our people the most important asset.

What are we looking for?
We are recruiting for a Talent Acquisition Specialist, to work as part of a high performing in-house recruitment team delivering across the Netherlands. The objective of this role is to optimize our delivery across a variety of engineering, sales and non-technical roles: driving forward speed and quality of hire and creating a talent pipeline, by developing strong relationships with hiring managers and candidates.

We are the largest manufacturer of people moving products, moving 2 billion people every day.  In the TA team, we impact our company’s competitive position by attracting and hiring the best talent, through strategic and innovative talent acquisition solutions.  If you are a driven and ambitious individual, looking to make a difference within talent acquisition, we want to hear from you.
 

As Talent Acquisition Specialist, some of your key responsibilities will be to:

• Undertake workforce planning meetings to accurately forecast resourcing activity

• Establish excellent working relationships with hiring managers to ensure alignment in approach

• Act as a true partner to the business through the end-to-end hiring process

• Create innovative attraction strategies, reflective of role requirements and market conditions

• Attend networking events to increase brand awareness

• Participate in identifying and implementing process improvements across the operation

To be successful in this role you will have:

• Successful recruitment or HR industry/ agency or in-house experience in a corporate environment

• A passion for Talent Acquisition and best-in-class service delivery

• A proven background proactively sourcing candidates and building strong working relationships with hiring managers

• Specialist HR/TA knowledge ideally within engineering/ technical and be familiar with nationwide recruitment activity

• The ability to manage and prioritize a demanding workload

• Effective communication skills and be able to grasp commercial concepts and complex procedures

• The capacity to work in Dutch and English.

What can we offer you?

• Competitive salary package, additional benefits

• Ownership of your role and accountability for each recruitment project

• Access to funded learning and training

• The chance to work for an industry leading company and a global brand

Our commitment to diversity and inclusion helps ensure the ideas, perspectives and experiences of individual employees support a culture of learning and attract world-class talent.   We welcome applications from all sections of the community and candidates will be equally assessed and selected based on objective criteria.

If you live in a city, chances are we will give you a lift or play a role in keeping you moving every day. 

Otis is the world’s leading elevator and escalator manufacturing, installation, and service company. We move 2 billion people every day and maintain approximately 2.2 million customer units worldwide, the industry's largest Service portfolio.  

You may recognize our products in some of the world’s most famous landmarks including the Eiffel Tower, Empire State Building, Burj Khalifa and the Petronas Twin Towers! We are 69,000 people strong, including engineers, digital technology experts, sales, and functional specialists, as well as f