Junior Talent Partner

Junior Talent Partner OUR MISSION To become the car-changing destination of choice. By combining technology, media and deep automotive expertise, we've turned how people buy, sell, advertise and lease cars on its head. What started as a simple reviews site is now one of the largest online car-changing destinations in Europe. Last year alone we grew over 50% with nearly £3bn worth of cars bought through our platform, while £1.8bn of cars were listed for sale through our Sell My Car service. In 2024 we went big and acquired Autovia - creators of AutoExpress and Evo magazines - doubling our audience overnight. Together we now have one of the biggest YouTube https://www.youtube.com/carwow channels in the world with almost 10m subscribers and over 1.1 billion annual views, while we sell 1.2 million print copies of our magazines and have an annual web content reach over 350 million. And we’re a long way from done! YOUR MISSION As our Junior Talent Partner you’ll be responsible for our Portugal/UK Operations and Sales teams, partnering with the Leadership Team to formulate and execute hiring strategies while promoting our brand in the industry. We also have the burning ambition to deepen our community engagement and further establish ourselves as a technology employer of choice across Europe, so we’ll be hosting and attending meetups, radically enhancing employer branding, and a lot more! You will own this area and the business partnerships within it, establishing high-trust partnerships and operating with a consultant mindset. You’ll influence and support decisions using data and promote a culture of transparency between the Talent team and the wider business. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES - Stakeholder management - partner with Hiring Managers and build high-trust relationships - Execute the Operations/Sales hiring strategy and only ever improve quality of hire - raise the bar - ATS mastery - don’t just keep a tidy house, unlock new ways to leverage one of the most powerful ATS’s available today - Hiring excellence - be the expert and level up those around you. Promote hiring discipline, enhance interview technique, onboard new hiring managers and be an ambassador for our tooling across your teams - DEI - establish goals with your hiring teams and unlock new ways to consistently achieve them - Candidate experience - don’t settle for good enough, work with your hiring teams to make it best-in-class - Always be improving - as a team we must be continuously improving things, so it is critical that new team members are too - Reporting - establish cadence and build dashboards to inform your hiring teams, always staying on the front foot KEY REQUIREMENTS - Expert sourcing capability - all of our roles require sourcing and we need to build/enhance pipelines rapidly through intelligent, precise and creative outbound efforts - Exceptional communicative ability - this is absolutely critical given the pace at which we move - Be data-driven - evidence of how you use data to drive decisions is a must, and how you leverage your ATS to gather this - Be accountable and reliable - we pride ourselves on always doing what we say we will - A track record of improving processes/ways of working and leaving things in a better state than how you found them Bonus points: - Working knowledge of Ashby and/or Metaview Why this might not be for you: The Carwow Talent team pushes hard, moves fast and we are always challenging ourselves to improve. We deliver on our promises and we care deeply about Talent experience. We’re a scaleup, so naturally we’re constantly unblocking obstacles and managing moving goalposts, with high visibility from the rest of the business. This all works for us because we find it allows us to operate at our limit while continuously developing, but this can also be uncomfortable for some people and we’d rather flag this up front. INTERVIEW PROCESS: 1. Introductory call with Talent Partner to get to know each other 2 ... (truncated, view full listing at source)