Talent Acquisition Professional

Role Summary

We are looking for an experienced Talent Acquisition Professional to independently manage end-to-end recruitment for IT and technology roles. This is an individual contributor role suited to someone who is a strong, hands-on sourcer, comfortable owning requisitions independently, and who brings creative, non-traditional approaches to finding talent in a competitive market.

Key Responsibilities

IT / Technology Recruitment

• Own end-to-end recruitment lifecycle for IT and technology positions from intake briefing with hiring managers through offer closure and onboarding handoff, reporting to TA Manager.
• Build and manage a strong pipeline of active and passive candidates for niche and hard-to-fill technology roles.
• Partner with hiring managers to define role requirements, market mapping, and hiring strategy for each requisition.
• Manage offer negotiations, competing offer scenarios, and candidate experience through the hiring process.

Sourcing & Channel Innovation

• Demonstrate strong, independent sourcing capability across job portals, LinkedIn, referrals, professional communities, and niche technical forums.
• Explore and pilot new and non-traditional sourcing channels (developer communities, hackathons, open-source contributor networks, social/technical content platforms, etc.) to build differentiated talent pipelines.
• Bring innovative thinking to recruitment marketing and employer branding activities that support pipeline building.

Stakeholder & Process Management

• Work independently with minimal supervision, managing a portfolio of open requisitions with strong ownership and prioritization.
• Provide hiring managers with market intelligence, talent availability insights, and realistic hiring timelines.
• Maintain hygiene of ATS/recruitment data, ensure compliance with hiring processes, and contribute to recruitment reporting and dashboards.
• Collaborate with the broader TA team and share sourcing techniques, market insights, and best practices.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• 5-8 years of total recruitment experience, with a significant portion in IT/technology recruitment.
• Strong, proven sourcing skills across multiple channels job boards, LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean search, referrals, and niche communities.
• Track record of working independently and owning requisitions with minimal hand-holding.
• Experience recruiting for a mix of technical roles (e.g., software engineering, data, cloud, embedded, or similar) preferred.
• Bachelor's degree required; MBA/PG in HR or related field preferred.
• Experience with ATS platforms and recruitment analytics/reporting.

Key Competencies

• Strong ownership mindset and ability to self-manage a full requisition load.
• Innovative and resourceful approach to sourcing and channel exploration.
• Excellent stakeholder management and consultative skills with hiring managers.
• Strong communication and candidate engagement skills.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced, matrixed, global organization.

Who we are and what we believe in 
We are committed to shaping the future landscape of efficient, safe, and sustainable transport solutions. Fulfilling our mission creates countless career opportunities for talents across the group’s leading brands and entities.

Applying to this job offers you the opportunity to join Volvo Group. Every day, you will be working with some of the sharpest and most creative brains in our field to be able to leave our society in better shape for the next generation. We are passionate about what we do, and we thrive on teamwork. We are almost 100,000 people united around the world by a culture of care, inclusiveness, and empowerment. 

At Group People & Culture, a part of Volvo Group, we create the foundation and frameworks for people growth and organizational development, to drive the people agenda that enables the realization of the Volvo Group aspirations through people strategy and commitment. You will be part of a global and diverse team of highly skilled professionals who work with passion, trust each other and embrace change to stay ahead.