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 7,000 stores and with more than 37,000 employees which are proving every day that in EYE CARE, WE CARE MORE.

Some key figures:

• 7,000+ stores in more than 40 countries
• 30 retail banners
• over 800,000 store visitors per day
• ~17 million prescription glasses sold
• Revenue 2018: EUR 3,7 billion
• EBITDA 2018: EUR 576 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.

Recruiter, Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam Area

As the Recruiter for the Global HQ at GrandVision you will be responsible for the entire recruitment cycle for all departments and functions. You will be able to co-create the operational excellence for recruitment. This is why we are looking for a structured and experienced recruiter who can successfully handle a changing work environment and manage the expectations of hiring managers and department leaders with ease.

At the HQ we have up to 30 outstanding vacancies at any given moment in time. You will have an end to end responsibility to fill vacancies for professional- and manager level roles. You will be manage expansion- as well as replacement roles, leadership positions as well as interns.

Since you are strong in operational excellence and excel in time management, volume is not a problem. Your recruitment experience has made you fast and client focused, and you know how to prioritize your work well. You are comfortable being budget responsible as you are strong on numbers. You feel comfortable advising and challenging various layers of the organization. You can read between the lines and you are by nature a forward-looking person. You love tech recruitment and you are a digitally savvy. You are always business friendly, very knowledgeable when it comes to the latest trends and developments and therefore line managers appreciate you challenging them on their choices.

You will be part of a professional and international People & Culture team at the HQ. You will further improve operational excellence with clear processes, system integration and smart solutions. You enjoy proactive communication with the business to ensure transparency and consistency of your deliveries. The People and Culture team currently consists of 10 FTE in total, among them are colleagues with global and local responsibilities. You report to the Senior Recruiter Global HQ.

Within our P&C team, we are dedicated to enabling GrandVision’s success through partnering with leaders and addressing their HR-related priorities and challenges. Coming from different cultural backgrounds and looking back at years of professional experience in various environments, we are always able to see things from different perspectives to identify the right approach. As we are still a small team, we need to be agile and join hands to collaborate on a number of projects and topics, which makes working here exciting and also challenging. There is a lot of room to bring in new initiatives and develop our work further, which is where we would like you to come in and shine!

Reports to

Sr. Recruiter

Main purpose of the role

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, preferably with a focus on HRM

Core competencies/ Personal attributes

• You can work well with both technology and people
• You build relationships and have a collaborative mindset; connecting people to results comes naturally to you
• You have a self-starting and pragmatic attitude: your flexibility allows you to come up with new ideas, you show enthusiasm for continuous improvement and change
• You understand how your work contributes to the internal / external customers of the organization
• You pay attention to changing customers’ needs and keeps your work relevant
• You understand the company vision and adjust your priorities accordingly
• You are aware of risks, threats and opportunities, you are able to calculate these risks and take decisions; reflect on your own mistakes
• You know what is needed to achieve results
• You keep promises and elicit trust from others through honesty and dependability

Key skills, knowledge and experience

• Minimum of 5 years professional experience in corporate recruitment with multinational organizations
• Fluent in English (written & spoken) and strong communication skills with all levels
• Interest in digital transformation and recruitment technology, can work well with systems

Future potential/ learning agility/ growth opportunities

GrandVision has experienced rapid growth over the past years, and naturally our HQ has expanded significantly alongside the global developments. We expect this direction to continue and therefore new career opportunities to be created for all our functions and departments.

Our global success and growth naturally entail constant change, which reflects not only in the organizational structures, but also in the work scopes of our colleagues. In order to successfully navigate this agile environment, it takes a great deal of flexibility and determination to achieve results.

Having mentioned this, the many opportunities available to bring in new initiatives and ideas, as well as the fast growth of our organization provides a fantastic platform for a true professional to add value, develop further and finally take on bigger challenges. Next to additional roles to be created within the P&C team at our HQ, we are interconnected with more than 40 countries and share international career opportunities through an internal recruitment platform. We are recruiting for a career, not a job, which means that we will encourage and support you to achieve your professional objectives with GrandVision!

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.