What's the role?
Are you a passionate, dynamic and versatile Talent Acquisition Business Partner with the proven ability to nurture strong relationships and influence positive experiences for candidates and hiring managers?
As a Talent Acquisition Business Partner, you will play a pivotal role in recruitment across volume areas, including Sales and Graduate hiring at Hilti GB.
Working in partnership with the Talent Acquisition Lead and Talent Sourcers, you will be responsible for attracting and hiring diverse sales, channel and technical talent, where you will create and embed appropriate TA strategies and ensuring a best-in-class candidate experience for all candidates and hiring managers.
Who is Hilti?
At Hilti, we are a passionate global team committed to making construction better. As a trusted partner for productivity, safety, and sustainability, we provide our customers innovative solutions that impact the buildings, roads, and infrastructure people rely on every day. Hilti is where individuals grow lasting careers by exploring possibilities, maximizing their potential, owning their development, and making a real difference every day.
What does the role involve?
- You will own the delivery of recruitment processes for your designated areas, including field and specialist sales and technical roles across our Construction and Energy & Industry divisions, as well as the Hilti Graduate Programme.
- Collaborating with your team and stakeholders, you will develop and optimise proactive resourcing strategies and lead the shortlisting and selection process, while ensuring the process is fair, unbiased and strengths-based, in line with our Hiring the Best People principles.
- You will lead weekly or bi-weekly divisional meetings with Sales Directors, Regional Managers and HR Business Partners, to provide data driven insights and updates, seek feedback and build strong relationships.
- With hands-on proactive sourcing for priority roles, you will utilise our ATS and CRM, LinkedIn and job boards, ahead of conducting screening and interview preparation calls with all candidates, while representing Hilti as an employer of choice.
- You will co-own the co-ordination and delivery of Hilti Graduate Programme assessment centres, by taking responsibility for candidate attraction, assessor preparation/education, as well as facilitating the assessment day and offer process.
93% of our people say they’re proud to work for Hilti, thanks to the way we look after our people. We are ranked number 5 in the world in Great Place to Work®.
What do we offer?
We really value our people and we've worked hard to develop a reward package that reflects this. Some of our benefits include:
- Genuine career advancement (more than 80% of all leadership roles are filled internally)
- 6% employer pension contributions
- Private Health Insurance and Employee Assistance Programme
- 33 days' holiday (inc. Bank Holidays) plus the ability to purchase 5 days more annually
- Paid leave to work on charitable projects
- Hilti Benefits Box, a reward platform offering a cycle to work scheme and shopping and lifestyle discounts/cashback
- Different ways to work flexibly, including working from home and compressed hours
- Employee resource groups focused on gender, mental health, race, disability, LGBTQ+ and sustainability topics
- Trips to locations such as Milan, New York and global HQ for high performers across all teams
What you need is:
- Proven experience of end-to-end sales and/or volume recruitment as a Talent Acquisition Business Partner, or similar, with a solid understanding of volume sales recruitment, ideally in a similar industry and experience of graduate hiring.
- Passion for talent acquisition and desire to create a best-in-class function within a high volume, always-on recruitment cycle, with the resilience to deal with multiple and sometimes competing priorities.
- A thorough understanding of what makes a great candidate experience and the ability to put this at the heart of everything you do.
- Excellent teamwork and collaboration mindset, with strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
- Experience in utilising recruitment and HR technologies, including ATSs, candidate CRMs, HR Systems, LinkedIn, and job boards.
- Experience of maintaining high levels of data quality to drive candidate pipelines, build insights and provide a narrative that drives new and effective decision-making.
- Exceptionally strong written and verbal communication, with the ability to write compelling copy for job adverts/employer branding, as well as confidence presenting in front of large audiences.
Who should apply?
If you have a proven background in talent acquisition, in a fast-paced sales-focused environment, where you have delivered excellent results while prioritising candidate and hiring manager experience, this opportunity will be ideal for you. We’re proud of our caring and performance-oriented culture at Hilti and we’ll ensure you have all the support and tools you need to be successful.
Click through the 'Apply Now' button where you will be asked to upload your CV and answer a couple of short questions – the whole process should take around 90 seconds.
If you need any support with your Talent Acquisition Business Partner application, please contact gbcareers@hilti.com .
What you can expect when applying to a position with Hilti:
1. We are committed to having all applications reviewed by a human and while nobody is infallible, we stand by our people centric approach to everything we do
2. Once you submit your application you can expect to receive automated notifications from our system (triggered by our recruiting team)
3. Applications that do not make it to the interview stage (with a hiring manager) will not receive personalized feedback.
4. Our end-to-end recruitment process (including evaluation time and interviews) may last between 3 and 6 weeks. You can expect to hear back from us within 2-3 weeks (on average) regardless of outcome 5. We wish you the best in your application process. Check out our career frequently asked questions for application and interview tips.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value the contributions of all our team members regardless of sex, gender identity/expression, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, age, religion or family status.
