EMEA Recruitment Centre Lead

Umicore AG & Co. KG; Wrocław; On-site; PLN 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Inclusive work culture

Job summary

Umicore AG & Co. KG in Wroclaw, Poland, is seeking a People Leader to head our Talent Acquisition team. The role focuses on building strong recruitment pipelines across multiple countries and ensuring compliant, high-quality delivery in a dynamic environment.

You will drive standardization of processes, partner with stakeholders, and leverage data to continuously improve delivery while navigating diverse markets and languages.

Qualifications

• Experience leading recruiters across multiple countries and businesses.
• Deep knowledge of end-to-end recruitment processes and offers management.
• Ability to standardize ways of working while considering legal and AI capabilities.
• Strong intercultural awareness and stakeholder relationship skills.
• Data-driven use of recruitment KPIs, workforce demand, and capacity.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the TA team to deliver safe, high-quality outcomes.
• Translate priorities into actionable plans and allocate resources.
• Ensure robust talent sourcing and pipelines with targets for quality, cost, and timeliness.
• Embed governance, controls, and compliance standards, monitor risks and take corrective actions.
• Drive continuous improvement, standardization and digital enablement in TA.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align priorities and policies.

Skills

People Leader

Recruitment Expert

Change Agent

Intercultural Communicator

Data-driven Decision Maker

English Proficiency

Job description

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Location: Wroclaw, PL

Business Unit: Corporate & SOF

About Umicore

Powering the cars of today and tomorrow. Reducing harmful emissions. Giving unique properties to high-end applications. Giving new life to used metals. As a global advanced materials and recycling group, we develop, produce, and recycle materials for a better life.

About Enterprise Functions

A global organisation. It’s not just those in our industrial sites and technical centres that are vital to Umicore’s growth. Across our enterprise functions we ensure that we continue to grow and evolve – whether it’s by making sure our decisions are commercially viable, enhancing our reputation, building new customer relationships or finding the right people who can build on what we’ve already achieved. The variety of our work means we cannot stand still. We need to find new ways to do things, discover new solutions and develop new ideas. Which is where you come in.

Your Key Accountabilities

• Leading and developing the TA team to deliver safe, high-quality outcomes, setting clear objectives, feedback, and growth plans.
• Translating functional priorities into actionable plans, allocating resources and removing delivery obstacles.
• Ensuring robust talent sourcing and talent pipeline across the department, meeting quality, cost, and timeliness targets.
• Embeding governance, internal controls, and compliance standards, monitoring risks and implements corrective actions promptly.
• Driving continuous improvement, standardization, and digital enablement in TA, tracking KPIs and delivering year‑on‑year performance gains.
• Partnering with department professionals and adjacent teams to align priorities, address escalations, and ensure consistent application of departmental policies.

Who we are looking for

• People Leader with the ability to lead, develop and engage a team of recruiters working across different countries, businesses and recruitment segments.
• Recruitment Expert with strong understanding ofend-to-end recruitment, from demand and intake through sourcing, screening, assessment, selection and offer management.
• Change Agent with experience in standardizing ways of working while recognizing legal, business-specific requirements and AI capabilities.
• Efficient Communicator with strong intercultural awareness and the ability to build relationships and operate across multiple European markets.
• Data-driven Decision Maker with experience in using recruitment volumes, workforce demand, capacity, pipeline information and recruitment KPIs to make decisions and continuously improve delivery.
• Fluent English speaker with professional working proficiency in at least one of the following languages: Dutch/Flemish, German, French or Polish.

What we offer

We aim to lead the way. Not just for our customers, but for our employees too. That is why we strive to create a collaborative environment in which we can all succeed, and a culture through which we can all share ideas, develop our expertise and advance our careers. We engage in building an inclusive work culture that offers equal opportunities for all employees irrespective of their diverse backgrounds. As you would expect from a world-leading organisation, we will also reward your contribution with a competitive salary and benefits. With all this and more, imagine what you could do?