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About the Role
We're looking for a strategic, hands-on Head of Talent Acquisition to own how Carwow attracts, hires, and builds the teams that will drive our growth. This leadership role involves full ownership of the talent acquisition function, partnering directly with senior stakeholders to understand and deliver their team's growth needs, and ensuring DEI is integrated into our hiring practices.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end workforce and capability planning, translating business needs into talent acquisition strategy, headcount plan, and budget.
- Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders to understand talent needs and translate them into hiring plans.
- Lead and influence senior and business-critical searches, including Exec-level hiring.
- Raise the calibre of talent by implementing consistent scorecards, structured interview processes, and quality-of-hire tracking.
- Build talent intelligence capability to map critical and emerging skill pools ahead of need.
- Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing talent acquisition team.
- Own the integration of AI across sourcing, process, and productivity in talent acquisition.
- Own employer brand and candidate experience in partnership with the Employee Experience team.
- Implement and embed DEI strategy within talent acquisition, ensuring inclusive hiring practices.
- Upskill hiring managers on effective hiring practices.
- Take on projects beyond the core remit as part of the wider leadership team's priorities.
Requirements
- Proven experience leading a talent acquisition function in a fast-paced, high-growth scale-up environment, ideally including significant periods of organisational change.
- Experience building, leading, and developing high-performing talent teams, with strong people management and coaching skills.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, including experience influencing senior leadership and translating business needs into talent plans.
- A data-driven approach, comfortable building and using dashboards and metrics to drive decisions.
- Confident, expert-level knowledge of AI tools and their application to talent acquisition.
- Hands-on experience implementing DEI strategy within hiring, with a track record of embedding inclusive practices.
- Experience owning senior, business-critical, or Exec-level searches.
- Experience owning employer brand and candidate experience, partnering with People/Employee Experience functions.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity, with evolving structures and shifting priorities.
- Able to balance long-term strategy with short-term delivery.
Skills
- Talent Acquisition Strategy
- Workforce Planning
- Headcount Planning
- Budget Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Executive Search
- Talent Intelligence
- Team Leadership
- AI in Talent Acquisition
- Employer Branding
- Candidate Experience
- DEI Strategy Implementation
- Hiring Manager Upskilling
- Data Analysis
- Metrics Tracking
- Ashby (ATS)
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid working (2 days working from home)
- Option to work from abroad up to 4 weeks
Experience Level
- Leadership role
- Head of Talent Acquisition
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary
Benefits
- Hybrid working (2 days working from home)
- Competitive salary
- Matched pension contributions
- Share options
- Bupa Private medical and dental insurance
- Eyecare vouchers
- Life Assurance
- Monthly coaching sessions with Spill
- Enhanced holiday package
- 28 days annual leave
- 1 day for your wedding
- 1 day off when you move house
- 30 days of annual leave per year (after third year anniversary)
- 35 days of annual leave per year (after tenth year anniversary)
- Option to buy 3 extra days of holiday per year
- The option to work from abroad up to 4 weeks
- Inclusive parental, partner and shared parental leave
- Fertility treatment policy
- Pregnancy loss policy
- Bubble childcare support
- Discounted nanny fees
- Up to £500/€550 home office allowance
- Generous learning and development budget
- Regular social events
- Refer a friend bonus
About the Company
- Carwow's mission is to become the car-changing destination of choice by combining technology, media, and deep automotive expertise.
- It has grown into one of Europe's largest online car-changing destinations, with significant growth in car sales and listings.
- The company acquired Autovia, doubling its audience and strengthening its media presence with established brands like AutoExpress and Evo.
- Carwow boasts one of the world's largest YouTube channels with nearly 10 million subscribers and over 1.1 billion annual views.
- The company also sells 1.2 million print copies of its magazines and reaches over 350 million annually through web content.
Equal Opportunity
- Diversity and inclusion is an integral part of our culture.
- We know that diverse teams are strong teams, so we welcome those with alternative identities, backgrounds, and experiences to apply for this position.
- We make recruiting decisions based on experience, skills and potential, so all our applicants are treated fairly and equally.