Strategic Talent Acquisition Leader - Workforce Planning

Sodexo Group; Ireland; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Sodexo Group in Ireland is seeking a senior Talent Acquisition Manager to turn workforce demand into a clear talent plan and lead a team delivering it. You will partner with senior leaders to translate plans into prioritised hiring and mobility actions, while ensuring governance and delivery excellence across portfolios.

This role is a high-impact partnership position, demanding strategic thinking, strong commercial sense, and frequent on-site collaboration with operations to optimise talent

Qualifications

• Significant Talent Acquisition leadership of complex, multi-service portfolios.
• Strong strategic workforce-planning capability translating plans into prioritised actions.
• Credibility with senior Business and People leaders to influence and hold others to account.
• Strong commercial and analytical judgement using data and market intelligence.
• Experience deploying resources against changing demand balancing capacity and risk.
• Track record of improving portfolio-level recruitment performance beyond activity.
• Proven people leadership, building capability through significant change.
• Willingness to travel regularly across the allocated portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Own workforce planning and Talent Acquisition strategy across your designated portfolio, creating a forward view of demand, critical skills and talent risk.
• Build trusted partnerships with senior Business and People leaders, influencing decisions before requirements become live vacancies.
• Translate business plans and workforce forecasts into prioritised hiring, sourcing, pipeline and internal-mobility plans.
• Differentiate the recruitment response according to need, directing volume, specialist or executive requirements through the right delivery route.
• Lead, coach and deploy approximately five to six Talent Acquisition Consultants, matching capacity and capability to changing business priorities.
• Use labour-market intelligence, recruitment data and portfolio insight to challenge assumptions and recommend practical talent solutions.
• Create clear accountability for delivery against hiring plans, direct-sourcing, conversion, experience and time-to-offer measures.
• Intervene early where demand, candidate supply, stakeholder behaviour or team capacity puts delivery at risk.
• Bring Talent Acquisition closer to the business through regular on-site presence, visible ownership and direct engagement with operational teams.

Skills

Leadership

Workforce planning

Stakeholder influence

Data analytics

Talent mapping

Portfolio management

Job description

Sodexo Group in Ireland is seeking a senior Talent Acquisition Manager to turn workforce demand into a clear talent plan and lead a team delivering it. You will partner with senior leaders to translate plans into prioritised hiring and mobility actions, while ensuring governance and delivery excellence across portfolios.

This role is a high-impact partnership position, demanding strategic thinking, strong commercial sense, and frequent on-site collaboration with operations to optimise talent