The Role
As Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition, EMEA, you will lead talent acquisition across the region while helping define the future of the function globally.
Working in a matrixed model, you will partner closely with EMEA People & Culture leadership and the Global Talent Acquisition Centre of Excellence (COE) to align hiring priorities with workforce needs, market realities, and long-term capability goals. You'll lead a team of Talent Acquisition professionals across EMEA while strengthening how we assess, select, and hire talent.
This role is well suited to a leader who combines business partnership, assessment expertise, and people leadership. You'll help hiring teams make better decisions through structured, evidence-based hiring practices while building the capability of a Talent Acquisition team that acts as trusted advisors to the business.
What you'll be doing
- Contribute to the global Talent Acquisition strategy by leading initiatives related to assessment excellence, recruiter capability, recruiting technology, AI adoption, talent intelligence, and process improvement.
- Establish consistent assessment and selection practices across the region, including competency-based interviews, interview scorecards, work samples, and other job-relevant evaluation methods.
- Partner with senior business and People leaders to build hiring strategies that support workforce plans, business priorities, and future capability needs across EMEA.
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of Talent Acquisition professionals, strengthening capability in advisory skills, sourcing, assessment, stakeholder management, and data-informed decision-making.
- Use labour market insights, hiring data, and talent intelligence to provide clear recommendations on hiring trends, talent availability, recruiting effectiveness, and workforce planning decisions.
What we're looking for
- Significant leadership of recruiting teams across EMEA. Ideally within complex, matrixed, or global organisations.
- Strong expertise in structured interviewing, skills-based assessment, and selection methodology.
- Experience designing or implementing interview frameworks, assessment processes, evaluation criteria, interviewer training, or talent assessment programs.
- Experience partnering with senior and executive stakeholders to translate business priorities into hiring strategies and workforce plans.
- Ability to interpret recruiting data and translate it into practical insights and recommendations for business leaders.
- Experience using AI-enabled recruiting tools and workflows responsibly and effectively.
- Ability to coach hiring managers, recruiters, and business leaders on assessment quality, interviewer calibration, and hiring decisions.
Preferred qualifications (Advantageous but not essential)
- Certification in assessment, selection, interviewing, talent management, or related disciplines.
- Familiarity with psychometric assessments, validation principles, and modern talent assessment technologies.
- Background in workforce planning, talent intelligence, talent management, or organizational capability initiatives.
- Experience supporting financial services, investment, technology, data, or professional services organizations.
The Group
The People & Culture team helps Morningstar attract, develop, and retain the talent needed to challenge convention and create better outcomes for investors. Talent Acquisition plays a central role in that work by helping leaders make informed hiring decisions and building processes that are fair, consistent, and grounded in evidence.
As part of the Global Talent Acquisition Leadership Team, you'll work with colleagues across regions to strengthen hiring practices, share ideas, and shape how the function evolves. Your work will influence not only who joins Morningstar, but also how we build the capabilities needed for the future.
Morningstar's hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to collaborate in-person each week as we've found that we're at our best when we're purposely together on a regular basis. In most of our locations, our hybrid work model is four days in-office each week. A range of other benefits are also available to enhance flexibility as needs change. No matter where you are, you'll have tools and resources to engage meaningfully with your global colleagues.
Skills Required
- Significant experience leading recruiting teams across EMEA, ideally in complex, matrixed, or global organizations
- Strong expertise in structured interviewing, skills-based assessment, and selection methodology
- Experience designing or implementing interview frameworks, assessment processes, evaluation criteria, interviewer training, or talent assessment programs
- Experience partnering with senior and executive stakeholders to translate business priorities into hiring strategies and workforce plans
- Ability to interpret recruiting data and translate it into practical insights and recommendations
- Experience using AI-enabled recruiting tools and workflows responsibly and effectively
- Ability to coach hiring managers, recruiters, and business leaders on assessment quality, interviewer calibration, and hiring decisions
- Certification in assessment, selection, interviewing, talent management, or related disciplines
- Familiarity with psychometric assessments, validation principles, and modern talent assessment technologies
- Background in workforce planning, talent intelligence, talent management, or organizational capability initiatives
- Experience supporting financial services, investment, technology, data, or professional services organizations
What the Team is Saying
Morningstar Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Policies include a paid sabbatical every four years and flexible PTO covering vacation, sick, and personal days, alongside paid volunteer time. Feedback suggests these features create meaningful flexibility and rest opportunities beyond standard leave plans.
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Parental & Family Support — A global minimum of 16 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers (up to 8 weeks for secondary) and at least six weeks of paid caregiving leave are publicly stated, with adoption assistance also available. These provisions indicate robust support for families during key life events.
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Retirement Support — U.S. materials document a 401(k) match of $0.75 per $1 up to 7% of pay and no‑cost access to Morningstar retirement tools. This combination strengthens long‑term savings and planning for employees.
Morningstar Insights
What We Do
We are a global investment research and financial data company with 40-plus offices across North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. Our products and services are used daily by individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, retirement plan providers, and institutional investors. We provide data, research, and analysis across managed investment products, publicly listed companies, private capital markets, debt securities, and real-time global market data. The financial system can have real barriers—hidden information, friction that can slow decisions, and forces that can limit transparency and access. We work to remove them, bringing independent research, connected data, and investor-first tools to a system that needs more clarity. The people doing this work span research, technology, design, product, sales, and functional areas. We build many of our products in-house, so the work can connect directly to the tools investors use to make real financial decisions.
Why Work With Us
Morningstar’s missing is to empower investor success. We can only do that if our people feel empowered. That means finding people who think independently, bring a wide range of backgrounds with analytical rigor and genuine intellectual curiosity to the work.
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