Senior Talent Acquisition Lead

• Directly line manage, coach, and develop a cross-border team of 3 TA Partners: 1 in Poland and 2 in the UK.
• Centralise recruitment reporting across the Operations hiring pod, driving high performance and consistency across geographic sites while aligning with the global TA Centre of Excellence.
• Act as the strategic anchor in Zabrze to steer and execute the headcount ramp up from 300 to 600 people.
• Drive proactive workforce planning by mapping attrition trends, capacity modelling, and future site growth.
• Actively headhunt and deliver on all senior, corporate, and business critical roles across Poland and UK sites.
• Ownership of executive level pipelines to eliminate external recruitment agency spend across the Ops recruitment function.
• Build a data driven TA function tracking metrics like time to hire, pipeline health, quality of hire, and attrition conversion rates.
• Use data to spot bottlenecks early, report risks and opportunities to senior leadership, and back up strategic decisions.
• Identify opportunities to automate tasks across the international hiring workflow.
• Leverage AI tools to optimise sourcing, screening, and outreach speed so the team can focus on high value human interaction.

Key requirements:

• Proven experience in a TA leadership or management role within fast paced manufacturing, high-volume operations, or supply chain environments.
• Experience with a massive headcount ramp up and building systems to double a site’s size.
• Highly skilled, hands on headhunter confident in mapping the market and closing senior/executive level candidates in both Poland and the UK.
• Highly data literate, using metrics to influence stakeholders and solve operational inefficiencies.
• Strong interest or proven experience in embedding AI, modern ATS tools, and automation into daily recruitment workflows.
• Based locally and excited to be on-site at Sam’s Kitchen in Zabrze, with comfortable fluency in English to partner with UK SLT and UK based manager.

Additional requirements:

• You must be able to speak C2 level or fluent English, as well as fluent Polish.
• We spend 4 days a week on site at Sam's Kitchen and 1 day at home; you must be within a comfortable commutable distance to Zabrze. Quarterly travel to UK site is expected.
• You’ll need the right to work in Poland; visa sponsorship is not available for this role.