Specialist, Talent Acquisition (12 Month FTC)

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.

Title and Summary

Specialist, Talent Acquisition (12 Month FTC)

Who is Mastercard?
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential.
Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.
Overview of the Team
The Talent Acquisition team is looking for a Specialist, Talent Acquisition on a 12 month fixed term contract to support our Services organisation as they continue to hire and grow across Europe. Reporting into the Manager, Talent Acquisition (Europe) you would be responsible for hiring across our AC&S function in some of our key hub locations (Budapest, Warsaw and Athens) as well as other markets across Europe. You would be responsible for managing the end to end hiring process for our candidates, sourcing great talent for our teams and proactively delivering a high quality experience for both candidates and hiring managers alike.
The ideal candidate is passionate about the candidate and hiring manager experience journey, highly motivated, intellectually curious, loves engaging and sourcing new talent, and possesses an organised mindset (with the ability to navigate complex matrix environments).
All About the Role |
In this Talent acquisition position you will:
• Collaborates with hiring managers and other internal Talent Acquisition
stakeholders (Talent Discovery) on developing hiring strategies across the
AC&S organisation in Europe.
• Build a trusted advisor relationship with hiring managers and key
stakeholders across the People & Capability organisation.
• Manage end to end recruitment processes for passive, active and internal
candidates (including sourcing, screening and offer preparation). With a
key focus on delivering key performance indicators such as (Time-to-Fill,
Hires Per Year, Direct Source hires etc.)
• Maintain and develop strong talent pipelines through tools such as
LinkedIn and our CRM tool.
• Drive inclusive hiring practices across the talent acquisition lifecycle.
• Upholding designated processes and procedures (ATS management etc.)
• Stay informed of industry trends, competitive intelligence, and market
conditions to effectively target top talent across Europe.
All About You |
The ideal candidate for this position should:
Have experience in 360 recruitment, direct sourcing as well as candidate assessment.
Feel comfortable managing 60 hires per year and a requisition load of 20 roles at a time (ideally with experience in a matrix environment)
Highly organised, high sense of urgency with a proactive approach to both hiring manager and candidate experience.
High level of professionalism, integrity, and confidentiality.
Fluent English is required.
Experience working across multiple European markets is preferred but not required
Knowledge of Workday as an ATS is preferred but not required.

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;

• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;

• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and

• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.