Global Talent Acquisition Team Lead

Join AXA Partners as a Global Talent Acquisition Team Lead - Maternity Cover, 7 months and Shape the Future of Recruitment

At AXA Partners, we are committed to protecting what matters most. Through innovation, expertise, and a people-first approach, we provide solutions that support individuals and businesses around the world. Our success is driven by our diverse and inclusive workforce. We believe that different experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds strengthen our ability to innovate, collaborate, and deliver exceptional service to our customers globally.

What you’ll be doing

This is an exciting opportunity to lead an established international Talent Acquisition team during a maternity cover of 7 months. As Talent Acquisition Team Lead, you will oversee recruitment delivery across Europe and the Americas, leading a distributed team of recruiters and coordinators while partnering with senior business leaders to attract and hire talent across a broad range of functions.

Operating within our Global Talent Acquisition Shared Service model, you will play a critical role in ensuring hiring excellence, driving recruitment performance, supporting strategic talent acquisition initiatives, and maintaining a high-quality experience for both hiring managers and candidates. This role offers exposure to senior stakeholders across multiple regions and functions, with the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on the performance and effectiveness of our Talent Acquisition organization.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Talent Acquisition Partnership

• Partner with Talent Acquisition Business Partners, HR teams, and business leaders to deliver talent acquisition strategies aligned with business needs.

• Lead strategic hiring discussions activities across supported regions and functions.

• Provide market intelligence, hiring insights, and recruitment expertise to support informed decision-making.

• Advise hiring managers on best practices in recruitment, assessment methodologies, diversity considerations, and candidate attraction strategies.

Talent Acquisition Delivery Leadership

• Oversee end-to-end recruitment delivery across multiple countries and business functions, ensuring recruitment objectives are met effectively and efficiently.

• Monitor hiring activity, recruitment performance, and resource allocation across the team.

• Ensure service continuity and delivery excellence across approximately 200 hires annually, spanning professional, specialist, operational, and executive-level recruitment.

• Identify risks, escalations, and delivery challenges, implementing solutions proactively.

People Leadership & Team Management

• Lead, develop, and coach a distributed team of 10 recruiters and recruitment coordinators located across Western Europe and the Americas.

• Manage team performance, workload allocation, and prioritization to ensure balanced capacity and consistent delivery.

• Conduct performance reviews, provide regular coaching, and support individual development plans.

• Foster an inclusive, collaborative, and high-performing team culture where colleagues feel empowered to succeed.

• Support onboarding and integration of temporary recruitment resources when business demands require additional capacity.

Stakeholder Management

• Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, including Regional Leadership Teams, Global Function Heads, and HR leaders.

• Partner closely with the Head of Global Talent Acquisition and Talent Acquisition Business Partners to drive hiring outcomes and continuously improve recruitment effectiveness.

• Contribute to recruitment performance reviews and present relevant hiring insights and metrics to leadership stakeholders as required.

Data, Reporting & Continuous Improvement

• Leverage recruitment data and dashboards to monitor key performance indicators, including time-to-fill, pipeline health, recruiter productivity, and hiring outcomes.

• Provide regular reporting and actionable insights to stakeholders.

• Drive continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to optimize recruitment processes, improve efficiency, and enhance service delivery.

• Collaborate with Talent Acquisition Operations and broader HR teams to support ongoing improvements in systems, tools, and ways of working.

Employer Brand & Candidate Experience

• Champion an exceptional candidate experience throughout the recruitment lifecycle.

• Support employer branding initiatives in partnership with sourcing and attraction teams.

• Act as an ambassador for AXA Partners, representing the organization at industry events, networking activities, and talent engagement initiatives when required.

What you bring:

• Proven experience leading Talent Acquisition or Recruitment teams within a complex, international environment.

• Demonstrated success managing geographically distributed teams, including senior recruiters, junior recruiters, and recruitment coordinators.

• Strong people leadership experience, including coaching, performance management, team engagement, and development.

• Experience operating with centralised and local teams.

• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence and challenge senior leaders constructively.

• Experience managing recruitment delivery across multiple countries and functions.

• Strong analytical and reporting capabilities, with the ability to translate data into meaningful business insights.

• Solid understanding of the full recruitment lifecycle and talent acquisition best practices for volume and non-volume recruitment.

• Experience recruiting for a variety of business functions, including operational and corporate roles, with exposure to executive hiring.

• Experience using ATS platforms and recruitment technologies, including iCIMS.

• Fluent professional proficiency in English, French, and Spanish.

What we offer:

You are joining a company that is deeply committed to the well-being of its employees and offers numerous employee benefits:

• Individual variable remuneration

• Profit-sharing / Performance-related pay / Employee share ownership

• Company Savings Plan

• Comprehensive health and provident insurance

• Preferential banking and insurance products

• Advantageous parental policy

• A hybrid working model

• Reimbursement of public transport subscription

• Meal allowance

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Who we are:

We’re AXA Partners, experts at designing and delivering assistance solutions and specialised insurance, credit, and lifestyle protection – with and for our partners worldwide. What sets us apart? The expertise and passion of our 8,500+ people, and a strong network of over 55,000 professionals all over the world. Powered by them and our sector-leading technology, we continuously evolve, adapt and thrive – offering solutions and services that make sure we’re always at people’s side, no matter what. Helping others is our passion. Combining the best digital technology with our warm, human touch, we’re always looking at new ways to offer seamless and reassuring experiences when it really matters. Join a company that helps protect the forests! At AXA Partners, we plant a tree for every new recruit (with a permanent contract).