About this role
About the Role As Talent Acquisition Lead - Markets (DE), you’ll be part of the Talent Acquisition team within the People function, working closely with brilliant people across the business and reporting into the Talent Acquisition Manager - Markets. You’ll partner day‑to‑day with Retail leaders and People Partners across Germany, France, Italy and our growth market Spain, helping our stores build teams that deliver a best‑in‑class consumer experience. What You'll Do
- Enabling Store Managers to independently recruit Sales Assistant / Keyholder / Senior Sales Assistant populations through clear coaching, tools, and market right hiring approaches.
- Owning end to end recruitment for retail management roles, improving candidate calibre through structured stakeholder feedback and continuous refinement.
- Leading new store opening recruitment (when triggered), building plans, pipelines, and timelines to deliver full hiring outcomes at pace and quality.
- Recruiting across three key markets (DE, FR, IT) plus Spain as a growth market; adapting process, sourcing strategy, and messaging to local nuance and candidate expectations.
- Contributing to the wider People agenda across your markets and supporting broader talent / people initiatives and projects, including shaping EVP, careers site and LinkedIn content through insight from the field. What We're Looking For
- Fluent German and English (minimum).
- Additional European language capability is a strong advantage for multimarket delivery.
- Strong Germany recruitment landscape awareness with a retail first mindset; generalist breadth (beyond retail) is advantageous and helps you flex by market need.
- Confident head hunter; able to build pipelines and crack hard to source locations through proactive mapping, outreach, and network led sourcing.
- A natural relationship builder with genuine curiosity for what’s happening in the market. Nice to Have
- Additional European language capability is a strong advantage for multimarket delivery.
- Experience supporting multiple markets or “multimarket delivery” in a growth environment. Compensation & Benefits
- Competitive salary plus benefits