Senior Manager - Talent Acquisition - Commercial Recruiting

Who We Are:

Wayfair's commercial teams provide our customers with a best-in-class experience by understanding & addressing local market needs throughout the shopping experience. You’ll be working as part of a well-supported, 50+ strong Talent Acquisition team who are dedicated to building a world-class recruiting experience for candidates. As our Operations further expand, it will open further career-growth opportunities, this is just the beginning!

If you are comfortable creating and executing hiring strategies, leading Talent Acquisition teams, feel comfortable managing stakeholders with high expectations, and are well versed commercial hiring within a fast-paced retail or ecommerce context, we’d love to hear from you.

What You'll Do:

You'll be responsible for leading our TA efforts across our commercial teams in Europe and Asia as we both scale teams in London and Berlin, and plan for further category and geographical expansion. This means both leading teams of recruiters, thinking about long term hiring strategies while remaining able to execute too. 

• Act as a partner, consultant, and advisor with Commercial leadership teams by developing, driving, and executing strategies to recruit talent in a highly competitive market
• Lead a team to deliver outsized hiring results in an effective and efficient way
• Design, execute and iterate hiring strategies across our offices with our Operational Leadership and wider cross-functional partners
  
• Lead projects to improve efficiency across the TA lifecycle from attraction, selection & hire
• Develop, drive, and manage strong relationships with our very supportive Hiring Managers to ensure successful placements
• Ensure a strong Wayfair brand and presence
• Take ownership for growing your career with the business as we continue to scale
• Use your experience to design/tweak assessment processes as required to evaluate candidate qualifications and culture alignment
• Provide regular reporting and updates to management and stakeholders, made much easier with our TA Analytics tool Visier. 

What You'll Need:

• Experience leading/managing direct reports - Developing, mentoring, coaching, driving high performance, and goal setting
• Ability to diagnose and coach teams through ups and downs of recruiting cycles and continue to motivate your team within a hyper-growth environment
• Experience (and ideally a network in Commercial) having recruited senior talent, both individual contributors and leaders
• Experience designing sourcing strategies, assessment processes, and improving areas of TA with a holistic approach (attraction, selection, hire, onboarding)
• Strong relationship management skills with a proven track record of building trust and credibility with both candidates and senior leaders
• Prioritisation skills - balancing day to day recruiting and projects with management and development of the team
• Day to day usage of TA data to solve problems, provide reporting, actionable insights, and to build solutions. Experience using metrics to track success
• Either to be in, or happy to relocate to one of London, Berlin (and we’ll support your relocation)
• An interest in working in a data focused, fast-paced, TA team with room to grow your career in future
• Experience in designing and conducting in-depth competency and behavioral based interviews and evaluating candidate profiles
• Proven success delivering recruiting results
• Fluency in written and spoken English