Talent Acquisition Excellence and Strategy Lead

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Date: Aug 19, 2025

Location: Wien, AT Ceske Budejovice, South Bohemian Region, CZ Ansbach, DE Birmingham, GB Bekescsaba, HU Breda, NL Bystrzyca Kłodzka, PL

Company: Mondi AG

Role Summary

 

As the Global Talent Acquisition Excellence & Strategy Lead, you will be the strategic architect behind the transformation of our global recruiting operations. This role is responsible for designing and executing scalable, data-driven, and technology-enabled talent acquisition strategies that drive business performance. You will lead global initiatives to optimize systems, structure external partnerships, and build internal capabilities, ensuring our recruitment function is future-ready, efficient, and aligned with enterprise goals.

Roles & Responsibilities:

 

  • Strategic Leadership & Transformation: Define and execute a global roadmap for recruitment excellence, aligned with business priorities. Act as a strategic advisor within the TA function and broader HR organization on talent acquisition performance, risks, and opportunities. Work closely with HR Talent leads and HR Analytics team.  
  • System Optimization & Technology Enablement: Drive global adoption and optimization of SuccessFactors (SF) Recruiting and other TA technologies (including roll out to SF to additional countries). Contribute to the evaluation, implementation, and integration of new recruiting tools, Partner with to enhance sourcing, automation, and candidate experience. Ensure technology solutions are scalable, user-friendly, and deliver measurable ROI.
  • Operational Excellence & Process Innovation: Standardize and simplify recruitment processes to reduce time-to-fill and improve hiring manager experience. Benchmark performance against industry standards and set aspirational targets (e.g., reducing time-to-fill etc.) Lead global process improvement initiatives using Lean, Six Sigma, or similar methodologies.
  • Data, Analytics & Reporting: Build and maintain KPI dashboards to measure KPIs (e.g., time-to-fill, source effectiveness, quality of hire, diversity, offer acceptance rates). Ensure data integrity and leverage insights to inform strategic decisions, problem-solving, and investment cases.
  • External Partnerships: Establish governance frameworks, SLAs, and performance metrics to ensure accountability and value delivery. Partner with procurement and legal to structure contracts that support agility and scalability. Understand the benefits of recruiter on demand and RPO service design and contribute to long term TA model design thinking.
  • Capability Building & Enablement: Develop and deliver training, playbooks, and toolkits to upskill in-house recruiting teams and hiring managers.

 

Your Qualifications:

  • Significant TA leadership experience in recruitment operations, RPO organizations, leading regional delivery teams.
  • Designing solutions through continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Proven success in leading transformation initiatives, implementing technology, and managing external partnerships.
  • Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills with experience in KPI development
  • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills in matrixed orgs
  • Experience in process improvement methodologies (e.g., Lean, Six Sigma) and change management

 

Benefits: Remote work flexibility 

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Do you want to know more about Mondi? We are a global leader in packaging and paper, contributing to a better world through innovative solutions that are sustainable by design. Our global team of 24,000 people works across 100 production sites in more than 30 countries.

Our strength lies in our diversity. We are dedicated to creating a team that reflects the diversity of the world we operate in. We encourage applications from traditionally underrepresented groups, including women, visible minorities, LGBTQI+ individuals, and people with disabilities. Even if you don't meet all the listed qualifications, we still want to hear from you. We believe in your potential and are committed to supporting you as you grow and learn at Mondi. If you need any accommodations during the recruitment process, please reach out to the contact person listed above.

Only CVs uploaded onto our online career platform will be taken into consideration. With your application, you will be redirected to our recruiting platform. After creating an account, you will receive an activation link. If you do not find the email in your inbox, please check your spam folder or add the address no-reply@mondigroup.com “safe list” or address book.

Awards: AT_2024_Best Recruiters AUT Award; AT_2024_LinkedIn Top Company AUT Award; PL_2025_Top Employer Polska Award 

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