Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organizations:

adidas Porto is one of the key locations of adidas in Europe, our areas of expertise are focused on GBS (Global Business Services), Tech, Supply Chain Management and Digital.

In this role, you'll take the lead in the entire recruitment process—from sourcing and screening to interviewing and extending offers. You'll work closely with HR and business leaders to be able to identify, attract, and onboard top talent for adidas.

As a Recruitment Partner, you'll collaborate also closely with hiring teams to craft tailored recruiting strategies, acting as a trusted advisor to both HR and the business.

Your focus will be on fulfilling recruitment needs for Tech, Digital and Global Business Services in Porto, driving our growth with the best talent in the industry.

Key responsabilities:

• Lead the full recruitment process, including requisition approval, job advertising, candidate sourcing, screening, interviewing, and offer management, while continuously seeking process improvements with hiring teams.

• Utilize advertising resources, marketing strategies, and various sourcing channels (e.g., databases, universities, social media, job fairs) to attract qualified candidates and proactively engage passive candidates.

• Conduct thorough screenings and interviews to assess qualifications, skills, experience, and cultural fit, building and maintaining talent pools for future opportunities.

• Collaborate with recruiting and sourcing colleagues to ensure a cohesive hiring process, advocating for diverse and inclusive recruitment strategies.

• Maintain regular communication with candidates and hiring managers to ensure a positive experience and uphold high standards throughout the recruitment process.

• Partner with business leaders for strategic planning and conduct quarterly reviews to evaluate recruitment achievements and identify areas for improvement.

• Promote adidas as an Employer of Choice by effectively communicating the brand, benefits, and career opportunities, and support the implementation of global initiatives within your function or market.

•             Lead the entire recruitment process including requisition approval, hiring manager briefing, job advertising, candidate sourcing, application review, candidate screening, interview strategy, and offer process and continuously work with the hiring teams to identify opportunities to improve the process.

•             Leverage relevant advertising resources and apply other relevant candidate marketing strategies to create local, regional and global awareness (if needed) in order to attract qualified applications for key roles within your area of responsibility.

•             Leverage candidate databases (internal and external) in addition to other sourcing channels (university, competitive research, job fairs, social) to identify prospective candidates to create awareness and invite them to apply for open positions including cold calling prospects.

•             Build, engage and maintain pre-qualified as well as prospective candidate pools of strong former candidates and new candidates within the functional area that your support.

•             Partner with recruiting and sourcing colleagues to share candidates and jobs to encourage a collaborative hiring process.

•             Advocating for and driving a diverse and inclusive recruitment strategy

•             Own responsibility for candidate and hiring manager experience results and drives standards to ensure a quality performance against all standards.

•             Effectively utilize comprehensive knowledge of adidas brand and adidas Group offerings, benefits, comp strategies, and programs to market adidas and the adidas Group as an Employer of Choice.

•             Plan and participate in strategic planning meetings with functional/market leadership and key business partners of all levels to understand current and upcoming requirements in order to build a strategy on effective recruitment activities for positions within your area of responsibility.

•             Provide guidance to the hiring teams throughout the recruitment process and conduct quarterly review meetings with business leaders and key business partners to provide an overview of recruiting achievements as well as opportunities to improve hiring performance moving forward.

•             Utilize recruitment systems effectively following key standards, documenting key actions, recommending improvements and ensuring all data is accurate for reporting purposes.

•             Act as a key point of contact to support the implementation of global initiatives within your designated function or market.

Key Relationships:

• Broader TAEE team
• Senior Leaders from different business areas
• Hiring Managers
• HRBPs

Requisite Educations and Experience/ Minimum qualifications:

• Minimum of 4-6 years’ experience in international/global recruiting, leading local, international and global recruitment mandates for all level candidates through a broad range of sourcing channels (including proactive outreach).

• Degree in HR, Business or related studies

• Specific expertise/experience recruiting for Tech, Digital or Global Business Services is strongly preferred.

• Experienced working in large, international/global matrix company is a plus.

• Demonstrated track record of driving end2end, holistic recruitment mandates (including sourcing, assessing and hiring talent in volume roles) and global recruiting initiatives (i.e. proactive recruiting, internal recruiting, diversity, etc.) to achieve hiring goals.

• Experienced in offer negotiation, awareness of local legislation and employment market/compensation trends.

• International experience, having worked on projects in multiple geographies is a plus.

• Knowledgeable about managing diversity & inclusion from talent acquisition perspective.

Key critical competencies and capabilities:

• Strong results and delivery focus
• Candidate centric mindset
• Outside of the box thinking
• Good communication and Influence and Negotiation skills
• Project management skills
• Data & Insights
• Strategic thinking
• Drive in change and transformation
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.