Recruiter

GrandVision is a global leader in optical retailing and delivers high quality and affordable eye care to more and more customers around the world. The high quality eye care offered by GrandVision includes a wide range of services provided by its vision expert, prescription glasses including frames and lenses, contact lenses and contact lens care products, and sunglasses both plain and with prescription lenses. These products are offered through leading optical retail banners which operate more than 40 countries across Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and Asia. GrandVision serves its customers in over 7,400 stores and with more than 37,000 employees which are proving every day that in EYE CARE, WE CARE MORE.

Some key figures:

• 7,406 stores in more than 40 countries
• 30 retail banners
• over 800,000 store visitors per day
• ~17 million prescription glasses sold
• Revenue 2019: EUR 4,037 million
• EBITDA 2019: EUR 604 million
• Over 37,000 employees

Our vision is to provide high quality and affordable eye care to more and more people around the world. By doing so, GrandVision aspires to help them realize their full potential in life.

Developing Careers & Potential

Within all GrandVision companies we recruit for a career, not just a job. We are passionate about customer satisfaction and develop our people to look for growth potential within the job and within the company. Our preference is to always promote internally where possible. So, wherever people start, there’s always somewhere else to go. We strive for continuous improvement and our new recruits help us to further raise the future potential of our company. Our whole business is full of people who have gone on to achieve a successful career through experiencing a variety of different roles in different locations and area of our business. We continually support and develop our people who have the desire, ambition and potential to grow.

With customers, stores and employees located in over 40 countries, GrandVision shows diversity to be at the core of its success. Grandvision is a global company proud and committed to be an equal opportunity employer.

Are you an experienced Corporate Recruiter? Excited to work in a fast-paced, changing environment where you can have serious impact and make a real contribution?

We are GrandVision, home to market-leading eyecare brands such as Vision Express, Pearl, Eye Wish and many more!

Join our small but amazing team of recruitment superheroes responsible for the recruitment across our HQ in Schiphol. We are responsible for the entire recruitment process across all departments including IT, Customer Experience and Digital, Product, Supply Chain and much more. We are true business recruitment partners to line managers as well as creators of a positive candidate experience.

Part of a diverse and international HR team, despite COVID we are still able to create that true team feeling.

What are we looking for? Ideally you have 5-8 years’ experience in recruitment, including the end-to-end process within a corporate company. Knowing your way around IT / tech recruitment is a big plus as this will be a key, but not the only, focus of your role. You are someone who thrives in a changing environment, where there is scope to improve processes whilst offering a wide variety of different positions to recruit for.

Job Title

Recruiter

Reports to

HR Manager HQ

Responsibilities

To recruit professionals for our global HQ who stand out through exceptional functional and leadership competencies, entrepreneurship, and interpersonal skills. Handle the end-to-end recruitment process, including but not limited to:

• Managing expectations with line managers and proving them with a clear recruitment process for their vacancies from the initial intake until the vacancy is filled.
• Advertising positions, sourcing candidates on LinkedIn and related portals, bringing them to the shortlist of vacancies.
• Liaising with agencies, making sure all agreements are in place and engage in long-term strategic partnerships.
• Tracking candidates through our systems (SAP based) and ensuring a smooth candidate journey and timely communication process.
• Advising your stakeholders on recruitment and HR related topics.
• Working with hiring managers throughout the recruitment lifecycle, from approvals and intakes to job postings or pre screenings.
• Collecting feedback throughout the recruitment process and ensuring steps are appropriately followed.
• Leverage our internal candidate pools on a global level through an internal recruitment platform, joining an international community of recruiters. Looking for new trends in recruitment and how they could be implemented within GrandVision.
• Working closely with HR Business partners on various steps of the recruitment process to ensure alignment.
• Participating in external employer branding activities, i.e. with universities.

Required qualifications/level of education

• Bachelor / Master’s degree in business administration or similar field of study

Key skills, knowledge and experience

• Professional experience in corporate recruitment with multinational organizations, preferably in a retail environment
• Preferably: exposure to IT / digital marketing recruitment, proven track record of successfully supporting digital transformation
• Interest in digital transformation and recruitment technology, can work well with systems
• Knowledge of recruitment budgets, approval processes
• Interviewing and assessment techniques
• Candidate sourcing / existing network of international candidates
• Good knowledge of recruitment technology and systems

Core competencies/ Personal attributes

• Fluent in English (written & spoken) and strong communication skills with all levels
• Good in building relationships and a collaborative mindset; connecting people to results
• Self-starting and pragmatic attitude: not afraid to take initiative and bring about more efficiency
• Enthusiasm for continuous improvement and change
• Flexible towards changing customers’ needs and ability to reprioritize in a changing, fast-paced environment

More about GrandVision: www.grandvision.com
Follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/grandvision

Find our Annual Report here: http://annualreport.grandvision.com

NB. If you have not heard back from us after 27 days, please consider your application not to be succesful.