Talent Acquisition Lead

Overview

Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas, including airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refueling, special air missions, aerial firefighting and advanced simulation. It designs, builds and operates turnkey capabilities, and is headquartered in Washington, DC, with facilities across the United States, United Kingdom, Continental Europe and Asia-Pacific. It is hiring a Talent Acquisition Lead in London, United Kingdom, within Metrea Management, the global shared service that supports areas such as People, Finance, Legal, Strategy, Safety, Security and IT.

The lead partners with leaders across Metrea's European Support Groups to deliver high-quality hiring as the business scales. The portfolio ranges from senior, high-touch searches to operational and specialist hiring, and the lead also manages a small team. Metrea is investing in its Talent Acquisition function, and the lead owns meaningful parts of that build alongside peers.

Responsibilities include leading end-to-end recruitment for European Support Groups, developing a team member, shaping talent strategy with hiring managers and senior stakeholders, sourcing and building pipelines and engaging candidates with empathy and transparency, advising stakeholders using market knowledge, and building recruiting frameworks and tooling and using data to influence hiring decisions. The lead also manages multi-step hiring across European teams and time zones, champions the employer brand across Europe and works with the wider Talent Acquisition team to refine practice.

Requirements

Metrea looks for in-house recruitment experience in a scaling or fast-changing organisation across roles at varying levels, proven people leadership, and a track record of holding the line on recruiting quality. Candidates should be able to consult and influence at several levels, know European talent markets and talent pools, build diverse, high-quality pipelines at scale, manage complex hiring across dispersed teams and balance breadth and depth across role types. Experience with Greenhouse or another applicant tracking system and familiarity with support functions such as People, Finance, Operations, Legal and Strategy is expected.

Who can apply

Visa sponsorship is available for suitable candidates.