Global Talent Acquisition Onboarding Lead

kbr; Leatherhead; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

KBR is seeking a Global Talent Acquisition Onboarding Lead to drive strategic onboarding, candidate experience, and compliance across regions. The role coordinates between Talent Acquisition, hiring managers, and People teams to manage pre-employment requirements, background checks, drug testing, and onboarding communications.

The Global Onboarding Lead provides functional leadership to Regional Coordinators, sets global standards, monitors service delivery, and leads process improvements and

Qualifications

• Qualification in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Experience with onboarding, recruiting operations, HR operations, or related functions.
• Experience leading projects across multiple regions and coordinating work globally.
• Experience with background screening, verification, and pre-employment processes.
• Experience with ATS and HR technology platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic onboarding, coordinate pre-employment activities and ensure compliant transitions.
• Provide global leadership to Regional Onboarding Coordinators and establish standards.
• Monitor onboarding metrics, drive process improvements, and ensure consistent candidate experience.
• Collaborate with Talent Acquisition, People Operations, and Global Mobility on enhancements.
• Oversee ATS administration, reporting, governance, and system optimizations.

Skills

Onboarding

HR operations

Project leadership

Stakeholder Mgmt

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR or related field

Tools

Workday

Workable

HRIS

Job description

Global Talent Acquisition Onboarding Lead

KBR is a global provider of differentiated, professional services and technologies delivered across a wide government, defense and industrial base. Drawing from its rich 100-year history and culture of innovation and mission focus, KBR creates sustainable value by combining engineering, technical and scientific expertise with its full life cycle capabilities to help our clients meet their most pressing challenges today and into the future.

We deliver science, technology and engineering solutions to governments and companies around the world. KBR employs approximately 37,000 people worldwide with customers in more than 80 countries and operations in over 29 countries. KBR is proud to work with its customers across the globe to provide technology, value-added services, and long-term operations and maintenance services to ensure consistent delivery with predictable results.

At KBR, We Deliver.

The Global Talent Acquisition Onboarding Lead is responsible for the strategic leadership, coordination, and execution of all pre-employment and onboarding activities to ensure a seamless and compliant transition from candidate to employee. This role serves as the primary liaison between Talent Acquisition, candidates, hiring managers, People Team, People Operations, Global Mobility, and the Global Vetting Team to manage pre-employment requirements, onboarding workflows, background screening, drug testing, compliance documentation, and onboarding communications.

In addition to supporting onboarding activities within an assigned region, the Global Onboarding Lead provides functional leadership and oversight to Regional Onboarding Coordinators globally. The role is responsible for establishing standards, driving process consistency, monitoring service delivery, managing onboarding metrics, ensuring compliance, and continuously enhancing the candidate experience across all regions.

The Global Onboarding Lead plays a critical role in delivering a world-class onboarding experience while ensuring onboarding and compliance requirements are completed accurately, timely, and in accordance with company policies and local regulations. This role also supports recruiters through ATS administration, operational reporting, process governance, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Additional Leadership Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day leadership, guidance, and functional oversight for all Regional Onboarding Coordinators.
• Establish global onboarding standards, procedures, service levels, and process documentation.
• Ensure consistency in onboarding practices, communications, compliance requirements, and candidate experience across all regions.
• Review onboarding metrics and operational performance to identify trends, risks, bottlenecks, and improvement opportunities.
• Mentor, train, and onboard Regional Onboarding Coordinators.
• Facilitate regular team meetings, knowledge-sharing sessions, and best-practice discussions.
• Act as the escalation point for complex onboarding, compliance, vetting, and candidate issues.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition leadership, and People Operations and Technology teams on onboarding enhancements and system improvements.
• Lead global onboarding projects, process transformations, and ATS optimization initiatives.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience

Required

Qualification in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field, or equivalent experience.

• Relevant experience in onboarding, recruiting operations, talent acquisition operations, HR operations, or related functions.
• Experience leading projects, processes, or coordinating work across multiple regions.
• Experience managing background screening, employment verification, drug testing, right-to-work verification, and onboarding programs.
• Experience with ATS and HR technology platforms.
• Strong stakeholder management, leadership, and change management skills.
• Experience supporting regional or global onboarding processes.

Preferred

• Experience with Workable, Workday, or comparable HR technology platforms.
• Knowledge of global onboarding documentation, right-to-work requirements, and pre-employment screening practices.
• Understanding of global Employment legislation
• Experience working with external screening and vetting providers.

KBR Company Information

When you become part of the KBR team, your opportunities are endless. Through collaboration with our customers, we're defining tomorrow's challenges, then providing the solutions and services to overcome those challenges, always maintaining our commitment to total safety and reliability.

At KBR, we partner with government and industry clients to provide purposeful and comprehensive solutions with an emphasis on efficiency and safety. With a full portfolio of services, proprietary technologies and expertise, our employees are ready to handle projects and missions throughout their entire lifecycle, from planning and design to sustainability and maintenance. Whether at the bottom of the ocean or in outer space, our clients trust us to deliver the impossible on a daily basis.

Working at KBR means being rewarded for your contributions. In addition to competitive benefits and professional development, our people are empowered to use all their potential, creating meaningful change for themselves and our clients. We attract the best minds in the world because our expertise thrives on creativity, resourcefulness and collaboration. That is how we supply our clients with cutting-edge solutions and services.

As the needs of the world change, we're ready to respond and guide the way forward with strategic, sustainable, and technological advancements grounded in more than a century of practical application and execution.

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