About Heroes

Heroes buys, operates, and scales baby and juvenile brands. We are ambitious multi-brand developers combining operational excellence with customer-centricity to support parents and children through every milestone of their journey. Built by a team with a background in investment banking, venture capital, and D2C eCommerce, we have the right experience to nurture and grow brands and develop products that simplify, support, and enrich everyday family experiences.

At Heroes, we leave our egos behind, get our hands dirty, and push through obstacles to get things over the finish line. If this sounds like you, you should join us.

About the role

The Talent Acquisition Lead reports into the Head of Talent Acquisition and leads day-to-day recruitment activities. This role involves multi-stakeholder management and cross-functional work and will be key in ensuring Heroes brings the best talents on board.

This is a varied and exciting role, involving partnering with hiring managers, understanding business and team needs, defining requirements, and delivering a high-quality selection process and candidate experience while keeping your timelines in mind. This person will be the first point of contact and the face of Heroes for a large number of candidates. We are therefore looking for someone with great communication skills and a palpable passion for the business and the product.

Responsibilities

Understand business and team needs from hiring managers and assist them with job description writing.
Put job descriptions live and share on social media.
Screen applications, headhunt using LinkedIn, and diverse job boards where relevant.
Conduct phone screenings with candidates.
Ensure a structured and smooth recruitment process for both candidates and hiring teams, keeping all parties in the loop at every stage.
Ensure strong diversity & inclusion practices throughout the recruitment process.
Liaise with our Senior People Manager for offers, reference checks, and contract drafting.
Proactively build talent pools for future hiring needs and grow Heroes' talent pool.
Report on your performance (time to fill, D&I, quality of hire) through data.
In times when recruitment will be quieter, support the rest of our HR teams with generalist tasks such as payroll, office management, and social organization for our South African employees.

About you

You have at least 2 to 3 years of experience within an in-house recruitment team.
Ideally, you have experience recruiting for various departments such as Finance, Data Engineering, Supply Chain, Marketing, and Creative.
You are a people person who gets a kick from finding someone their dream job, as well as the best fit for Heroes.
You are organized and understand how to prioritize your workload.
You work autonomously but are a team player. You know when to ask for help and advice.
You can think outside the box on how to find the best candidates out there.
You represent and showcase Heroes' values every day.
You are keen to keep learning and happy to help on other topics than recruitment should the opportunity arise.

Our benefits

Hybrid working - 3 days per week in office
25 days holiday
Public holidays
Friday afternoons off in August

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