Talent Acquisition Specialist

About us:
Pioneering trusted medical solutions to improve the lives we touch: Convatec is a global medical products and technologies company, focused on solutions for the management of chronic conditions, with leading positions in advanced wound care, ostomy care, continence and critical care, and infusion care. With around 10,000 colleagues, and a promise to be forever caring, our products and services are available in over 100 countries. Our solutions provide a range of benefits, from infection prevention and protection of at-risk skin, to improved patient outcomes and reduced care costs. The company is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index (LSE: CTEC) and in 2021 revenues were over $2 billion.

Change is everywhere at Convatec. It’s transforming our business, and helping us improve millions of lives. And we’re nowhere near finished. Across every part of our business, we’re pushing for better. Join us on our journey to #ForeverCaring as a Talent Acquisition Specialist, and you’ll do the same.

We are transforming our HR function at Convatec and are now looking for great people to fill our newly created roles as part of our international HR Service Delivery Team, based in Lisbon. This role is a fantastic opportunity to join us at the start of this journey as we continue our ambition to finding and selecting the best talents to join Convatec, across multiple geographies and functions. It will also give you the opportunity to help to shape and optimise the talent acquisition services.

Do you thrive in a global growth company with a strong purpose of improving people’s lives? Are you ready to take your next career step to work with business partners and strengthen your recruitments skills? Then you might be our new Talent Acquisition partner.

**Job Summary**

The role of Talent Acquisition partner has been created to support and deliver our talent acquisition services for entry to junior manager roles This role offers great development and the opportunity to support the build of tomorrow’s Convatec.

You will report to the Shared Services Talent Acquisition Admin Lead with a dotted line to the Regional Talent Acquisition Lead for Europe, and your primary job location will be working from home, with 1 day/week in our Lisbon office.

You will be part of a strong and dedicated HR community as well as the global talent acquisition team, helping Convatec to build an inclusive culture, finding the best diverse talent for our key vacancies.

As part of your role, key responsibilities include:

- Running the recruitment briefing calls for new vacancies
- Advising on the sourcing strategy to fill new vacancies
- Advising on shortlisting process, supporting thinking on what will be assessed, by whom and how.
- Allocating roles to the junior talent acquisition team where appropriate
- Coordinating the selection process from interviews and assessments to feedback
- Building talent pools for key roles to create pipelines for key future vacancies
- Ensuring our Convatec brand is lived and breathed at every recruitment touchpoint

Other opportunities in this role include:

- Shaping the build of our new talent acquisition processes as part of a shared service including optimisations to continuously improve our offering
- Supporting Talent Acquisition queries and requests as they arise, finding solutions where needed
- Ensuring we do what’s right in terms of local market legislation throughout the talent acquisition process
- Capturing, inputting relevant data and managing the talent acquisition reporting for your areas, to showcase our quality, cost and time to hire KPIs
- Along with the wider HR team, driving the ongoing development and improvement of our knowledge bases to support the development of shared services.

**Your key stakeholders will include**:
**What you can expect**:
We will be providing a 4-week induction and training period to engage you in everything that Convatec represents for our patients, customers and employees and to upskill you in all the tools and systems you will leverage to be successful in this role.

You will be joining a newly former talent management team, with opportunities to grow, within talent acquisition or wider talent and human resources areas.
- Experience in talent acquisition full cycle recruitment
- Strong communication skills
- A customer-first mindset to fit with our “forever caring” brand with strong stakeholder management: seeking to understand and adapting to the needs of each.
- Ability to prioritise and navigate a variety and volume of talent acquisition activity
- Ability to deal with ambiguity and change
- Proactivity and an “own it” mindset
- Team player and good collaboration
- Attention to detail
- If you have some international experience, either personally or professionally, adapting to different and diverse cultures, this will be an added bonus.

**Language skills required**
- Good written and spoken English is essential
- If you have other lan