Director, Executive Talent Acquisition - Europe Job Listing at Mastercard in London, England (Job ID R-235422)

Description

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.

Title and Summary

Director, Executive Talent Acquisition - Europe Overview:
We are seeking an experienced, highly motivated Director, Executive Talent Acquisition with a track record of success to join our team to drive executive hiring strategy and execution across the Europe region. Reporting into the Vice President, Talent Acquisition - Executive Recruitment, this role is an individual contributor position that plays a critical role in building a best-in-class Executive TA function, serving as a strategic talent advisor, and recruiting for executive positions across the Mastercard organization.

Role:
- Lead and deliver a seamless executive search process that effectively attracts, assesses, selects, and on-boards talent for SVP and above level positions.
- Develop tailored recruiting strategies for each client group and execute by utilizing knowledge of internal and external talent pools to generate a robust and diverse pipeline of qualified candidates.
- Build a trusted advisor relationship with executive-level hiring managers and key stakeholders across the People & Capability organization to understand and anticipate executive hiring needs, as well as provide market insights and recommendations.
- Maintain strategic relationships with external search partners and related vendors, ensuring there is an effective partnership resulting in the acquisition of exceptional executive talent.
- Partner with Total Rewards team to develop and communicate executive compensation package to final candidates, considering pertinent external market data, internal equity, and skills and experiences brought to the role by the selected candidate.
- Manage reporting of executive talent acquisition metrics including effectiveness of processes, candidate experience, and hiring manager satisfaction.
- Partner with the VP Executive Talent Acquisition and Talent Management team on assessing potential Talent Succession plan gaps and projecting future pipeline talent needs at the executive and pre-executive levels.
- Drive inclusive hiring practices across the talent acquisition lifecycle.
- Stay informed of industry trends, competitive intelligence, and market conditions to effectively target top talent.

All About You:
- Extensive experience in Talent Acquisition working for a multi-billion dollar, global, matrixed organization.
- Experience in corporate executive talent acquisition working with the most senior levels of the organization. Executive search firm experience is preferred.
- Proven track record of successfully recruiting senior-level executives in a corporate or executive search firm environment.
- Results-driven with a strong sense of urgency. Adaptable and able to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. High degree of business acumen.
- Experience fostering collaborative working relationships advising and influencing stakeholders at all levels.
- Results driven, seeks accountability. Comfortable in dealing with ambiguity.
- Knowledge of employment laws as well as associated human resources and hiring practices.
- High level of professionalism, integrity, and confidentiality.
- Highly proficient with all Microsoft office products particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
- Familiarity with Workday ATS strongly preferred, but not required

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• Abide by Mastercard's security policies and practices;

• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;

• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and

• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.

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