JOB OBJECTIVE
Talent Acquisition ensures Thales has the right talent for both current and future needs, aligning recruitment strategies with global objectives. The team manages the full recruitment lifecycle across the region, from sourcing to on boarding, and is accountable for all outcomes.
As a Talent Acquisition Partner for Thales AMEWA, your main responsibility is to fill roles efficiently by providing expert advice and guidance to hiring managers and candidates, based on industry best practice and market insights. You own the recruitment process end-to-end, ensuring quality, candidate & stakeholders experience, and inclusion are central throughout.
The team delivers external talent for open roles quickly and effectively, balancing speed, quality, and stakeholder service. You also help foster a positive team culture that encourages ownership, accountability, innovation, and continuous learning.
ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES
- Manage the end-to-end recruitment process for assigned roles.
- Collaborate with Hiring Managers to define role requirements, selection criteria, and decision-making, ensuring high-quality hires.
- Prioritize candidate experience and act as a Thales brand ambassador.
- Support and advise Hiring Managers throughout interviews, coaching and promoting best recruitment practices.
- Build and manage external talent pools and source candidates for current and future needs.
- Stay updated on and leverage effective advertising and sourcing channels.
- Represent Thales at external events to maintain strong networks and market insight.
- Promote and embed Diversity & Inclusion initiatives within the team.
- Ensure compliance with Thales policies and maintain accurate records in key systems.
- Align recruitment with broader business objectives, including diversity and employer branding.
- Embrace and contribute to agile team practices.
- Utilize global Talent Acquisition resources and collaborate with the TA Project Support and Global Support Teams.
- Work closely with the wider HR function as needed.
WORK EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS
- Proven experience as a Talent Acquisition Specialist or similar role in a large, complex organization, recruiting across multiple disciplines.
- Strong team player with a track record of delivering business outcomes.
- Skilled in full-cycle recruitment, including diverse sourcing, assessment, and evaluation methods.
- Demonstrates resilience, tenacity, and accountability in resolving issues and completing tasks.
- Experienced in assessing candidate skills, cultural fit, and motivation.
- Proficient with multiple HR systems, ensuring data accuracy and effective candidate management.
- Familiar with agile principles and supportive of agile working practices.
- Adept at sourcing both passive and active candidates through a variety of channels for immediate and future needs.
Desirable
- Experience in the Engineering and Technology skills market
- Experience of influencing within a globally matrixed environment
- Prior experience working for the Saudi Arabia market
QUALIFICATION, CERTIFICATION & EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS
- Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Human Resources Management or similar
PREFERRED SKILLS
- Able to assess how business strategy changes affect talent needs, and help identify skills gaps and relevant talent pools.
- Builds strong relationships with Hiring Managers and candidates; skilled in stakeholder management, challenging misconceptions and bias to positively influence outcomes.
- Leverages credibility and knowledge of strategic business priorities at country and group level to build partnerships.
- Interprets and analyzes data, identifies talent acquisition trends, and reports through Workday and other systems.
- Understands Thales’ structure, operations, and key business drivers.
Skills Required
- Proven experience as a Talent Acquisition Specialist or similar role in a large, complex organization recruiting across multiple disciplines.
- Full-cycle recruitment experience including sourcing, assessment, and evaluation methods.
- Experience assessing candidate skills, cultural fit, and motivation.
- Proficient with multiple HR systems, ensuring data accuracy and effective candidate management (e.g., Workday).
- Familiarity with agile principles and supportive of agile working practices.
- Skilled at sourcing both passive and active candidates through a variety of channels.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Human Resources Management or similar.
- Experience in the Engineering and Technology skills market.
- Experience influencing within a globally matrixed environment.
- Prior experience working for the Saudi Arabia market.
Thales Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Thales and has not been reviewed or approved by Thales.
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Retirement Support — Retirement plans with employer contributions and matches, profit sharing, and share purchase opportunities are emphasized across multiple regions. These elements are positioned as competitive components of total rewards.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Generous PTO that increases with tenure, paid holidays, and paid military, maternity, and paternity leave are described. This breadth supports work–life balance across locations.
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Flexible Benefits — Hybrid work options, flexible schedules, and parental supports such as childcare benefits and leave for sick children are available in several markets. Flexibility is presented as a core part of the employee experience.
Thales Insights
What We Do
Thales is a global high technology leader investing in digital and “deep tech” innovations – connectivity, big data, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and quantum technology – to build a future we can all trust, which is vital to the development of our societies. The company provides solutions, services and products that help its customers – businesses, organisations and states – in the defence, aeronautics, space, transportation and digital identity and security markets to fulfil their critical missions, by placing humans at the heart of the decision-making process.
