EMEA Recruitment Centre Lead

About Umicore

Powering the cars of today and tomorrow. Reducing harmful emissions. Giving unique properties to high-end applications. Giving new life to used metals. As a global advanced materials and recycling group, we develop, produce, and recycle materials for a better life.

About Enterprise Functions

A global organisation. It’s not just those in our industrial sites and technical centres that are vital to Umicore’s growth. Across our enterprise functions we ensure that we continue to grow and evolve – whether it’s by making sure our decisions are commercially viable, enhancing our reputation, building new customer relationships or finding the right people who can build on what we’ve already achieved. The variety of our work means we cannot stand still. We need to find new ways to do things, discover new solutions and develop new ideas. Which is where you come in.

Your Key Accountabilities

• Leading and developing the TA team to deliver safe, high-quality outcomes, setting clear objectives, feedback, and growth plans.
• Translating functional priorities into actionable plans, allocating resources and removing delivery obstacles.
• Ensuring robust talent sourcing and talent pipeline across the department, meeting quality, cost, and timeliness targets.
• Embeding governance, internal controls, and compliance standards, monitoring risks and implements corrective actions promptly.
• Driving continuous improvement, standardization, and digital enablement in TA, tracking KPIs and delivering year‑on‑year performance gains.
• Partnering with department professionals and adjacent teams to align priorities, address escalations, and ensure consistent application of departmental policies.

Who we are looking for

• People Leader with the ability to lead, develop and engage a team of recruiters working across different countries, businesses and recruitment segments.
• Recruitment Expert with strong understanding of end-to-end recruitment, from demand and intake through sourcing, screening, assessment, selection and offer management.
• Change Agent with experience in standardizing ways of working while recognizing legal, business-specific requirements and AI capabilities.
• Efficient Communicator with strong intercultural awareness and the ability to build relationships and operate across multiple European markets.
• Data-driven Decision Maker with experience in using recruitment volumes, workforce demand, capacity, pipeline information and recruitment KPIs to make decisions and continuously improve delivery.
• Fluent English speaker with professional working proficiency in at least one of the following languages: Dutch/Flemish, German, French or Polish.

What we offer

We aim to lead the way. Not just for our customers, but for our employees too. That is why we strive to create a collaborative environment in which we can all succeed, and a culture through which we can all share ideas, develop our expertise and advance our careers. We engage in building an inclusive work culture that offers equal opportunities for all employees irrespective of their diverse backgrounds. As you would expect from a world-leading organisation, we will also reward your contribution with a competitive salary and benefits. With all this and more, imagine what you could do?