Talent Acquisition Sourcer

Company Description

Wolt is a technology company that makes it incredibly easy to discover and get the best restaurants, grocery stores and other local shops delivered to your home or office. Since launching 7 years ago, Wolt has expanded from a restaurant food delivery platform in the Nordics to a leading player in the delivery of everything across EMEA. Wolt works together with tens of thousands of restaurant and retail partners, as well as with over a hundred thousand courier partners across 23 countries and 250+ cities. In November 2020 Wolt and DoorDash announced they are joining forces, and the transaction is expected to close in H1 2022. We continue to expand rapidly and are looking for more talented individuals to join us.

Wolt not only offers great apps to customers and partners, but is also developing a broad range of technologies and solutions. Our apps (iOS and Android) have the industry’s highest reviews, largely because of our customer-centric approach to how we build our products and operations. For example, our customer service team responds in a matter of minutes, in the customer’s own language.

So, why work at Wolt?

At Wolt, we’re about getting things done.
You’ll probably enjoy it here if you like taking ownership, developing yourself and being around friendly, humble and ambitious people.
We work hard to make cities into better places, and it’s pretty cool seeing us grow every week. If you’re passionate about building things that just… work, Wolt might be for you!

Job Description

Our Talent Acquisition team has been on an incredible journey throughout this time too. We’re now a global team of 100+ people, based across multiple European countries, Japan (Tokyo) and Tel Aviv. As part of our phenomenal growth, we are now looking for an experienced Talent Sourcer to join our Japan Talent Acquisition Team, responsible for finding exceptional talent for non-tech focused roles spanning from Sales, Marketing, Operations, Brand, PR & Communications to Finance, Strategy, Legal, People etc.

As a Talent Sourcer, you will conduct deep, proactive research into Japan talent availability, bring market insights, be aware of competitor activity, understand local working conditions/comp & benefits, investigate diverse talent pools and more. You will help strengthen the long-term talent attraction strategy at Wolt, bringing intricate data & insights in current, as well as possible new locations.
Whether you are sourcing for entry level or executive talent, you will bring a scientific
approach to talent identification, adopt a high-touch approach, carefully headhunting talent and offering an outstanding candidate experience, considering each and every candidate as a first class citizen.

Responsibilities

• Help to build sourcing team processes, tooling & ways of working, ensuring seamless interaction with recruiting and coordination teams for a slick candidate and stakeholder experience

• Identify, search and interest potential Talent for positions all across Japan

• Support with hiring kick-off meetings by gathering sample profiles

• Participate in hiring kick-off meetings together with the Talent Acquisition Partner

• Utilize tools like TalentNeuron, LinkedIn Insights and more, to produce detailed research that informs the talent strategy for multiple roles types. 

• Partner closely with your TA Partner peers and, aligning on who owns what in the attraction work for shared-ownership vacancies and ensuring a joint-up approach in communicating with your shared customers/stakeholders

• Maintain evergreen pipelines for critical-mass roles such as Sales, Finance, HR and Marketing (non-tech).

• Lead deep-dive research projects, for example finding and analyzing role specific job, candidate and hiring market data

• Build mechanisms for rapid response to volatility in the market, changing direction quickly to opportunistically scoop up top talent from companies announcing slowdowns or layoffs.

• Use funnel pass-through ratios (screens to interview to assessments to offers to accepts etc) to calculate sourced volume needed at the top end of the funnel to generate high-quality hires

• Contribute to a weekly and monthly reporting with actionable recommendations

• Support social media attraction campaigns, in partnership with Talent Acquisition Partners

• Participate in ‘diversathons’ and ‘sourcathons’ with all hands on deck across TA, everyone in it together to source for the trickiest roles

• Stay up to date on the latest AI-based sourcing tools, online & offline events and other opportunities to efficiently attract passive talent

• Build a valuable talent networks & communities that Wolt can leverage for long term branding, networking, direct-sourcing and referrals

• Get creative on where to find talent for niche roles, using advanced scraping/other techniques to pull leads from multiple online and offline sources.

• Be a true talent advisor and competitor talent expert, building deep knowledge of the markets or domain expertise that you support.

• Conduct job board applicant CV screenings and ensure they are uploaded in our Applicant Tracking System (ATS)

• Help other team members with conducting TA screens where needed

• Support in defining the best ROI per channel used for each role

Qualifications

Required:

• Recruiting agency, inhouse or RPO experience

• Deep Recruiting expertise in either a sourcing or research/data analytics capacity

• Top notch verbal communication, writing/presentation skills: able to collaborate with TA

• English and Japanese reading and writing language proficiency 

Desired: 

• Ability to translate complex data into tangible and actionable insights for partner teams and stakeholders

• Creative approach to problem-solving, ideally with demonstrable experience of identifying and attracting talent for niche roles

• Partners in defining strategic talent plans that can be presented to senior business leaders, able to bring to life Wolt job opportunities to candidates in a compelling manners

• Experience in utilizing social media for pipeline building and candidate attraction

Additional Information

If you are excited about working in a high-growth environment, taking ownership, and being part of an extremely ambitious team, then click below to apply and get the conversation going!

Along with a competitive salary and benefits, you will also be eligible for our stock option plan.

You will fit into a truly diverse team across 23 countries - what really matters to us is a caring and welcoming environment where we embrace uniqueness and celebrate diversity. Experience a company culture where we work on eye level, decisions are made quickly and knowledge sharing, as well as mentoring, is on our daily agenda.

What you’ll get by joining us:

Opportunity to be part of building something exceptional, in an international environment
Lots of learning and growth in a globally scaling tech company.

Please note that we do not accept applications sent by mail. You should submit your application through our careers website!