Description

At Scede, we see recruitment as a skilled craft, and we focus on the enablement and empowerment of our teams to shape the best-in-class service for our customers.

Since our inception in 2013, we've partnered with over 100 tech companies and games studios globally. This includes scaling the teams of 27 Million Dollar Unicorns - including Klarna, Trustpilot, Mollie, Trade Republic, Supercell, Bitpanda & Automattic.

As a Senior Talent Partner, you will be partnered remotely with one customer at a time through either Scede Embedded or through Scede Source. Depending on the project you’re supporting at the time, you will be contributing to both strategic, tactical and practical initiatives to enable our clients to achieve hiring success. This specific role will be in Commercial/Go To Market space.

We are meticulous about data, we are creative with our candidate sourcing techniques and are always looking for ways to improve - teaching and learning from each other. We love collaborating with our customers to deliver exceptional service, ultimately hiring the right people on their behalf, allowing them to achieve their growth targets.

Training Period

When working at Scede you will be aligned to a team - either an embedded customer team or Scede Source. During your first few weeks at Scede, as you go through your onboarding, you will be working within our Client Scede team. Here, you will be fully responsible for the top-of-funnel activities such as creatively sourcing to support an existing client. There may also be an opportunity to support on a Scede Source engagement, where you’ll own the candidate pipeline for a specific customer. You may also be working across Scede on continuous improvement initiatives.

Expectations of this Role

Every role here at Scede has certain expectations that are used as part of a framework to measure progression within the business. As a Senior Talent Partner, these include:
Recruitment craft: You consistently deliver a Scede-level of service to our customers, considered proficient, optimising own performance
Customer Relationship Management: You engage in respectful dialogue, challenging established views while nurturing relationships across all levels. Employing structured and straightforward communication, you ensure clarity in conveying critical information, managing client expectations proactively based on their feedback.
Development and Leadership: You actively pursue learning opportunities to enhance your technical skills and share insights with the team, while utilising feedback to strengthen self-awareness and address areas of improvement. Embracing innovation and resilience-building strategies, you view feedback as a pathway for growth, soliciting input across teams and empowering others through delegation for skill development.
Dealing with Ambiguity: You exhibit agility by adapting to changing circumstances and employing critical thinking to address complex issues effectively. Utilising open-ended questions and diverse information sources, you make informed decisions and prioritise tasks based on well-reasoned judgments, ensuring comprehensive solutions and recommendations.
Delivery Approach: You demonstrate adaptability and empathy, tailoring your actions to foster meaningful connections and strengthen the brand's presence. You critically evaluate activities for their business relevance, gather diverse information for problem-solving, and leverage data-driven insights to influence decisions effectively.
Commercial Acumen: You actively engage in initiatives to enhance Scede’s image both within and outside the organisation. Utilising a deep understanding of our commercial strategy and industry domain, you effectively communicate and seek opportunities to add value to client relationships while leveraging various tools to glean insights from industry trends.

Responsibilities

You will be responsible for taking ownership of a hiring pipeline.
You’ll take initiative, be proactive and work autonomously on your pipeline
You’ll manage the candidate journey and selection process, including offer negotiation, ensuring a great experience at all times
You’ll use modern, innovative and creative approaches and technologies to identify and engage passive talent
You’ll build strong trusting relationships with customer stakeholders to understand their department, how they work and how you can best help them to achieve their hiring needs
As a more experienced member of the team, you will guide your customer to optimise their approach to recruitment: including assessments, interviewer training, employer branding, D&I initiatives and process improvements, to name just a few
You’ll monitor and report on key talent acquisition metrics and use this data to influence the decisions you make when advising your customer
You’ll actively contribute to your project team rituals from stand-ups to roundtables, and also the wider Scede team by coaching and perhaps mentoring others
You’ll be proactive in developing your own capability and skill set, continuously looking to improve
You’ll utilise and optimise the ATS, ensuring you’re continuously maintaining and updating candidate records in a timely manner
On an ad-hoc basis and of your own volition, you’ll visit clients

Desired Experience

Experience working as an accountable, autonomous recruiter in the Commercial/GTM space
A consistent track record of achieving your goals within recruitment with hiring targets and implementing improvements within a hiring process
Familiarity with LinkedIn, job boards, HR software, databases as well as candidate management systems
Evidence of innovative and creative sourcing knowledge
Experience of following a process within candidate managementInvolvement in utilising data and recruitment metrics and utilising these to make improvements
Actively participating in team and stakeholder meetings and rituals, making recommendations and suggestions for improvements
Experience working with or being accountable to stakeholders, this includes building strong trusting relationships and seeking ways to continually develop those relationships
Experience with mentoring or coaching junior recruiters, either formally or informally

About You

You enjoy building and championing relationships with key stakeholders.
You have exceptional communication and interpersonal
You adopt a can-do, positive attitude towards overcoming challenges and finding solutions with an ‘always learning’ mentality
You’ll have a growth mindset and are a team player.
You’re always looking to empower and learn from others.
You don’t have to have taught or coached others but you will have the opportunity to share your learnings here at Scede
You are process-oriented, organised and know how to prioritise your time
You think analytically and are comfortable making decisions - you may not have had the opportunity to use data or implement changes with your stakeholders, but you have those ideas and this analytical thinking is something you’d like to use within your next role
You are comfortable with change and are happy to take an agile approach to work, even when working remotely
You truly enjoy the process of recruitment and delight in helping companies to grow and scale through finding the right talent for their business

Please note that our team in Canada is employed through an Employer of Record.