Location: Paço de Arcos, Portugal In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible. Thales Portugal is a Competence Centre of the Thales Group, whose mission is to integrate and develop solutions and products for Thales projects worldwide. Having around 220 specialized human resources Thales Portugal has a strong capability to design, develop, and deploy systems and services efficiently in the Defence, Security (Critical Information Systems, Critical Infrastructure and Banking) and Transportation markets.

Primary Purpose of the Role

The Talent Acquisition Partner will sit in the Portugal working for the TA structure. The Talent Acquisition Partner will provide the business with the highest quality talent, within the right timescales and at the right cost. He or she will hold full accountability for all stages of the hiring process, from attraction to onboarding whilst ensuring the candidates have a quality experience throughout every step.

Principal Relationships:

<li>HR Director Portugal</li>
<li>Management teams across Thales Portugal and other Thales countries managed by the structure</li>
<li>Global sourcing Team</li>

Key Responsibilities and Tasks:

Recruiting and Sourcing

<li>Implement and deliver the resourcing strategy within the assigned perimeter</li>
<li>Responsible for the full recruitment lifecycle for all personally assigned requisitions from requirements definition, sourcing, selection, through to onboarding</li>
<li>Support hiring managers in defining their needs and specifying requirements</li>
<li>Coach, challenge and advise Hiring Managers using recruitment and market data to inform and influence local and key hiring decisions</li>
<li>Manage all channels to the active candidate market including employee referral, e-sourcing, on and off line advertising, events and agencies</li>
<li>Accountable for proactively building talent pools and pipeline for future recruitment needs identifying new channels and bringing innovative ideas</li>

Change Management & Continuous Improvement

<li>Champion compliance with Group policies and procedures throughout the resourcing lifecycle, including ensuring comprehensive and accurate information is maintained in key systems (e.g. Workday) to consistent standards across the team</li>
<li>Collaborate with the other Talent Acquisition Partners of the European Talent Acquisition Centre of Excellence as required and share best practices and innovative solutions which could benefit to all.</li>
<li>Work in a collaborative manner with the various Talent Acquisition Centres of Excellence in the Group and the Global Resourcing Team to build a cohesive approach to managing talent across the Group</li>

Employer Branding

<li>Ensure all marketing channels used meet Group Global employer branding guidelines</li>
<li>Represent the Group at industry events in line with the company strategy</li>
<li>Participate actively to HR Communication actions: Career Fairs, internal or external events, campaign, etc.</li>

Competencies required for role

<li>Proven resourcing experience within a complex environment</li>
<li>Experience in the engineering and Technology skills market</li>
<li>Experience of identifying both passive and active candidates across a variety of attraction channels</li>
<li>Lead, model, manage and coach the organisation in best practice selection techniques Able to positively influence at all levels of an organisation up to senior levels, and to develop valued relationships with managers and Candidates alike</li>

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