Who We Are:

The Wayfair Talent Acquisition team is strategically important to our company's overall success and continued, rapid growth in Europe. Our Recruiters are true business partners, charged with finding, attracting, and hiring top talent into all parts of the company.

We’re looking for a Senior TA Manager to drive our mission of growing our Technology and Engineering organisation across Europe. You’ll be managing a team of Recruiters. You’ll be working as part of a well-supported, 70+ strong Talent Acquisition team who are dedicated to building a world-class recruiting experience for candidates. As our Technology recruitment team further expands, it will open even more career-growth opportunities, this is just the beginning!

If you are comfortable using data to inform decisions & strategy, have some experience in team management, feel comfortable managing stakeholders with high expectations, and are well versed in owning the E2E recruitment process for senior-level hires we’d love to hear from you. 

What You'll Do:

• Act as a partner, consultant, and advisor with Technology leadership by developing, driving, and executing strategies to recruit talent in a highly competitive market
• Lead a small team to deliver outsized hiring results in an effective and efficient way
• Drive top of the funnel activity including sourcing, screening, interviewing, evaluating, and offer negotiating processes for highly critical roles, while advising your business partners along the way
• Lead projects to improve our Technology hiring across the TA lifecycle from attraction and selection to hire
• Conduct research to map out talent within target companies and markets
• Develop, drive, and manage strong relationships with our very supportive Hiring Managers to ensure successful placements within our Technology organisation.
• Build and maintain strong professional relationships with candidates by providing a great candidate experience; clearly defining position requirements and recruiting process, timely updates on progress, interview preparation and debriefing, from strategy kick-off through successful new hire onboarding 
• 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 add.
• 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 strong network in Technology) 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, Berlin (we 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
• To be comfortable multi-tasking and managing multiple priorities simultaneously
• Fluency in written and spoken English