Senior Talent Business Partner - Leadership Hiring
Project Duration: 5 months (2021/2022)
Location: London / Austin (remote)
Company size: 1,500 employees
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet (online dating)
Characteristics: Fiercely scaling after multi-billion dollar IPO in 2021
About
Bumble Inc. is the parent company of Bumble, Badoo, and Fruitz. The Bumble platform enables people to connect and build equitable and healthy relationships. Founded by CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd in 2014, Bumble was one of the first dating apps built with women at the centre. Badoo, which was founded in 2006, is one of the pioneers of web and mobile dating products. Fruitz, founded in 2017, encourages open and honest communication of dating intentions through playful fruit metaphors.
Achievements
Lead senior leadership (VP-level) hiring in the areas of Crypto, Web3 and Blockchain Technology, Data Science and Machine Learning, Product Design, Research and Customer Care, as well as hiring for Bumble’s newly created incubator and new product integration function, Bumble Studio. Partnered with the Global Head of Talent Acquisition, CPO, CCO and VP & GM of Bumble Studio.
The project was completed remotely from the Evertalent HQ in the Netherlands, working closely with hiring teams and the TA team based out of London, Austin and Madrid.
Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist
Project duration: 6 months (2021)
Location: Skellefteå, Västerbotten, Stockholm (Sweden)
Company size: 1,500 employees
Industry: Battery Manufacturing
Characteristics: Unicorn, hypergrowth mode
About
Northvolt is a Swedish unicorn in battery development and manufacturing, specializing in lithium-ion technology for electric vehicles, on a mission to build the greenest battery in the world with a minimal carbon footprint and the highest ambitions for recycling to enable the European transition to renewable energy.
Northvolt Ett is Europe’s first homegrown battery gigafactory and a direct response to the new industrial revolution. Fully built, it will produce enough battery cells for over one million electric vehicles every year, but it will also deliver cells to other industries shifting away from combustion engines, fossil fuels and emissions, including heavy industrial machinery, grid energy storage, electric ferries, scooters and much more.
Achievements
Established a world-class leadership team for Northvolt Ett in Sweden. Focus on sourcing, attracting and recruiting senior executives, managers and battery specialists to prepare the factory launch and the first shift, as well as contributing to initiatives to further develop and implement Northvolt's talent acquisition strategy.
Successfully closed 29 highly specialised positions and director roles in 6 months.
The project was completed remotely from the Evertalent HQ in the Netherlands, working closely with hiring teams and the TA team based out of Skellefteå, Vasterås and Stockholm (Sweden).
Global Talent Acquisition Specialist
Project duration: 14 months (2019-2020)
Location: Sonos EMEA HQ Hilversum (Netherlands)
Company size: 1,500 employees
Industry: Consumer Electronics
About
Sonos is a sound experience company, connecting millions of listeners all around the world to the content they want, where and how they want it. Since inventing multiroom wireless audio in 2005, Sonos has continuously innovated the listening experience, designing hardware and software that celebrates sound, empowers their customers, and brings the home to life.
The Sonos team is made up of passionate players united by a culture of respect, transparency, collaboration, and ownership who want to inspire the world to listen better.
Achievements
Developed and implemented global sourcing strategies, building talent pipelines for current and future hiring. Managed the full cycle recruiting process for senior positions/leadership roles in the EMEA/US region. This included hiring for all business functions in Marketing/Digital/Communications/PR/Business; Development/Commercial Management/Program Management/New Initiatives, Global Brand/Design/Advertising, eCommerce/CRM/DTC, Operations/Supply Chain, People/HR and Finance & Facilities.
Partnered with Global HR/TA, EMEA MD/LT, ELT/Global VPs/Directors and hiring teams to identify/deliver best talent, map future hiring needs and drive improvement.
Designed, implemented and executed the redeployment process as part of an EMEA RIF.
Developed and implemented processes to ensure diversity and reduce bias in global hiring and establish better gender parity in the EMEA Leadership Team.
Acted as an advisor/coach to an associate in developing into a full-cycle Recruiter.
Talent Acquisition Lead
Project duration: 6 months (2017-2018)
Location: Wehkamp HQ, Zwolle (Netherlands)
Company size: 1,000 employees
Industry: eCommerce / online retail
About
Wehkamp is one of the largest online retailers in the Netherlands, operating in a fast paced and highly competitive eCommerce market.
Achievements
Acted as a coach to a team of 2 TA Specialists.
Together we established a world-class Talent Acquisition practice and talent-obsessed organisation (North Star), significantly raising the bar on talent, focusing on 3 main pillars: Wehkamp’s EVP implementation and career site launch (Learn, Laugh, Lead), KPI and TA dashboard implementation in Tableau and SmartRecruiters (ATS).
Designed and implemented NPS-based candidate journey/candidate experience tracking and overall process optimization.
Designed and executed recruiting and sourcing strategies, building talent pipelines for current and future hiring, and managing the full-cycle recruiting process for leadership roles, and senior positions in Product/eCommerce/Digital, Marketing and Brand.
Improved hiring team interviewing capabilities/candidate experience awareness.
Talent Acquisition Project Manager & Executive Search / Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist for Marketing & Merchandising
Project duration: 11 months (2016-2017)
Location: Staples EMEA HQ, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Company size: 1,500 employees
Industry: eCommerce
About
Staples Solutions is the leading provider of workplace products, services and solutions to small, mid-sized, and large European businesses. Headquartered in Amsterdam, the company operates in 15 countries in Europe.
Achievements
Introduced and executed EMEA recruiting and sourcing strategies for executive hiring, managing the full-cycle recruiting process for Executive / Director level roles in Customer Operations, Supply Chain and eCommerce.
Closely collaborated with Cerberus Capital Management in the recruitment process for leadership roles, through the company's transition process after the firm acquired Staples Inc's European Operations.
Reviewed and redesigned TA reporting to improve insight of TA contribution, recruitment metrics, funnel and provide accountability and transparency to stakeholders (HRLT/ELT) through optimized dash-boarding in Business Objects / Taleo, partnering with Head of TA, Recruiters, HRBP, HR Systems and business leaders.
Led B2B salesforce recruitment process standardisation across Europe to improve TA operations and effectiveness, partnering with country TA teams in the Benelux, UK, Germany, France, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Poland.
Developed and executed global recruiting and sourcing strategies, building talent pipelines for current and future hiring, managing the full-cycle recruiting process for senior-level and mid-career level roles in eCommerce, Marketing & Merchandising, Pricing and Data Analytics.
Global Talent Acquisition Specialist
Project duration: 6 months (2015)
Location: TomTom HQ Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Company size: 5,500 employees
Industry: Consumer Electronics
About
TomTom designs and develops innovative products that make it easy for people to keep moving towards their goals. Best known for being a global leader in navigation and mapping products, TomTom also creates a revolutionary action camera, wearable sports devices, as well as state-of-the-art fleet management solutions and industry-leading location-based products.
Achievements
TomTom faced a challenge expanding their senior product management and product marketing management teams for the Drive and Sports divisions of TomTom Consumer. We worked directly with the TomTom Managing Board and Founders to identify and hire the best product people in the wearable devices space globally in order to secure continuity for their product roadmap in both divisions.
Established strong talent pipelines, identified and hired multiple international candidates for senior roles in Product and Product Marketing for the Drive and Sports divisions of TomTom Consumer HQ in Amsterdam, including VP Product Management, Senior Product Manager Sports, Global Senior Product Marketing Manager Sports, Product Manager Content & Services Drive, Product Marketing Manager Sports.
Drove the full life-cycle recruiting process for senior Sales, Marketing and eCommerce roles within TomTom Consumer globally. Hires include E-Commerce Manager, E-Commerce Conversion Manager, Global Trade Marketing Manager Bandit & Sports, Category Sales Manager EMEA & LATAM, Head of Business Development.
Selected world-class graduates in product management and product marketing for the TomTom Global Graduate Program.
Contributed to Talent Acquisition process improvement and ATS/HRIS vendor selection
Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist EMEA
Project duration: 29 months (2011-2014)
Location: Sonos EMEA HQ Hilversum (Netherlands)
Company size: 1,500 employees
Industry: Consumer Electronics
About
In 2002, Sonos set out with a goal – to reinvent home audio for the digital age. The vision was simple – fill every home with music and make listening a valued experience again. Sonos is making it easy for everybody to listen to the music they love in every room of their home. To hear the songs they love, to discover new music they never knew existed, and to appreciate it all with the highest sound quality.
Sonos is doing it all over the world – In more than 60 countries, in seven languages through thousands of retailers. They’re constantly looking for ways to improve the experience – with new products, new software and continually investing in ways to provide our customers with the best experience possible. They’re doing what they set out to do. Changing the way people listen to music – one home at a time.
Achievements
Managed the full life-cycle recruiting process in a hyper-growth scenario for the EMEA region and HQ covering all roles in Regional Management, Marketing, Sales, Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, Legal, HR/TA, Facilities, Technical Support/Customer Care, New Product Introductions & IT.
Partnered with hiring managers, EMEA Leadership Team and SONOS VPs and Directors to identify talent needs, hire best talent and deliver a legendary candidate experience.
Built organisational strength in key areas across EMEA and established candidate pipelines and succession pools for leadership roles in EMEA;
Hired the 35-person country marketing and sales team for the SONOS UK launch in an initial 5-month recruitment drive and stayed on to ramp up hiring for local SONOS teams in the Netherlands, France, Germany and the Nordics.
Eliminated agency dependency and instead established an in-house sourcing engine, leveraging cost-efficient direct sourcing strategies, social recruiting, referral and networking activities.
Expanded video recruiting for Technical Support volume hiring. Nominated for the UK Recruiter Awards for Excellence 2014: Innovation in Recruitment.
Improved quality on all fronts: extremely focused on candidate experience, quality of hire and hiring manager relationships.