Are you a Talent Acquisition professional who enjoys sourcing, market intelligence, and identifying specialist candidates in competitive markets? Do you enjoy identifying and engaging passive candidates, building talent pipelines and turning market insight into targeted attraction strategies? Are you inspired by supporting the business in understanding the market, candidate priorities, and more effective attraction strategies? If so, come and join our collaborative global Talent Acquisition team.
Create the solutions that will enable a better tomorrow
You will become part of COWI’s global People & Organisation function, which consists of more than 100 HR professionals across the globe. Together, we support COWI’s culture, build our employer brand, optimize our processes, and attract, develop and retain our most important asset – our people.
As a Talent Acquisition Consultant, you will join our international team of more than 30 recruitment professionals across Sweden, Denmark, UK, India, Canada and Norway. Reporting to the Global TA and Onboarding Manager, you will work closely with colleagues and business stakeholders across countries and functions.
In this role, you will play an important part in improving how we identify, attract and engage candidates in specialist and niche markets. You will support the business with targeted sourcing strategies, market analysis, talent mapping and pipeline building, while also contributing to selected end-to-end recruitment processes. Your ability to combine sourcing expertise, market insight and stakeholder collaboration will be key to helping us attract the right talent for COWI’s current and future needs.
Your key responsibilities will be:
- Develop and execute proactive sourcing strategies for specialist, business-critical and hard-to-fill roles across selected markets.
- Identify, engage and attract passive candidates through LinkedIn Recruiter, sourcing platforms, professional networks and other relevant channels.
- Build and nurture talent pipelines for current and future hiring needs, with a particular focus on niche skill areas and competitive talent markets.
- Conduct talent mapping and market analysis to provide insights into talent availability, competitor activity, candidate expectations, location opportunities and attraction challenges.
- Support hiring managers and TA colleagues with market intelligence that enables more informed recruitment decisions and sourcing strategies.
- Partner with hiring managers and stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into targeted sourcing and recruitment plans.
- Support selected end-to-end recruitment processes, ensuring a strong candidate experience from first engagement through to selection and offer.
- Collaborate closely with the Global Talent Acquisition team, sharing sourcing insights, market knowledge, best practices and lessons learned across countries.
- Ensure all sourcing and recruitment activities are conducted in accordance with applicable labour law, legislation, GDPR and COWI’s Global TA Code of Conduct.
Your skills. Our team. Together we design the future.
The first step to success in this role is that you are eager to collaborate with the people around you, whether they are colleagues, partners or customers. Developing ties with others is something you do by acting respectfully and delivering on your promises. You are curious by nature, enjoy exploring new ways of finding candidates, and bring a solution-oriented mindset to solving recruitment challenges in competitive markets.
On top of that, you also bring:
- A degree in Human Resources or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 3+ years of recruitment experience within an international organisation with exposure to proactive sourcing.
- Demonstrated experience in sourcing, talent pipelining and engaging passive candidates within specialist, technical or niche talent markets.
- Demonstrated proficiency in LinkedIn Recruiter and a range of sourcing techniques, such as search optimization, talent mapping, and market analysis.
- The ability to analyse talent markets and translate insights into practical recommendations for hiring managers and TA colleagues.
- Experience supporting end-to-end recruitment processes and creating a positive candidate experience throughout the hiring journey.
- Effective stakeholder management skills and the ability to translate business needs into effective sourcing and recruitment strategies.
- A good understanding of compliant recruitment practices, including GDPR and ethical candidate engagement.
- Good written and verbal English communication skills.
- An initiative-taking mindset, clear ownership and a genuine interest in improving sourcing, attraction, recruitment processes and candidate experiences.
A place to work and so much more
At COWI, we work together with our customers to shape a sustainable and liveable world. We do it by applying our knowledge and curiosity – and sometimes even our courage – to create the solutions the world needs today to enable a better tomorrow. That is why we say no to fossil-based projects and aspire to have 100% of our revenue come from activities that move our customers towards sustainability.
We value differences and development and cultivate an environment of belonging and having fun. Because that is what brings out the best in you, at work and at home.
With offices primarily located in Scandinavia, the UK, North America, Asia and Poland and other European countries, we are currently 7,300 people who bring their expertise in engineering, architecture, energy and environment into play.
Got more questions?
Get to know us even better at our website, www.cowi.com, where you can learn more about our projects, our strategy, what we want to achieve and what life is like at COWI.
Before you apply
All you need to include in your application is your CV – no photo or application letter. At an interview, you can tell us everything we need to know about why you’re interested in joining COWI. As for the photo, we prefer to form our first impression in person rather than from a picture.
Equal opportunity employer
We are committed to creating a respectful and fair work environment where all employees have a sense of belonging and equitable opportunities to thrive and grow. We ensure that our leaders are role models for inclusive leadership by cultivating a culture where diverse perspectives and thoughts are seen as strengths. And we take diversity and inclusion into account in all relevant decisions and processes and when setting teams and fora. We do it because it is part of our values and because it is simply the right thing to do.
