Global talent acquisition team lead

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. This is an exciting opportunity to lead an established international Talent Acquisition team during a maternity cover of 7 months.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

• 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.

• 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