backmarket - Global Talent Scout

Paris, France - Hybrid3w ago

In Office Senior EMEA Higher Education Tourism Recruiter Talent Acquisition Manager Talent Sourcing Content Creation Content Strategy Succession Planning Brand Strategy

Requirements

• 8 years at least in senior sourcing, talent scouting, and talent marketing • Proven experience building long-term pipelines for rare profiles • Excellent marketing and networking skills, highly engaging in both digital and in-person settings • Experience designing and managing a referral programme • Community presence: events · networks · social media · content creation • Advanced sourcing tools mastery: LinkedIn Recruiter, specialist communities • A keen eye for talent : ability to assess potential beyond CVs and job titles • Fluent French/English • Long-distance runner, not a sprinter, this role has no monthly closing KPI and requires patience and persistence • Boundary-holder: must resist pressure to handle urgent open requisitions • Naturally curious about people, trajectories, and deeper motivations • Entrepreneurial mindset : able to build a content and community engine from scratch • Excellent communicator : engaging storyteller who makes people want to be part of Back Market before a role even exists

Responsibilities

• LONG-TERM PIPELINE • Proactively search for and identify high-potential individuals long before job openings arise targeting passive candidates • Build and animate a pipe of 80–120 profiles in active relationship across priority families • Maintain 20–30 profiles at advanced maturity (availability within 6 months) at all times • Define talent requirements in collaboration with the Head of TA and hiring managers and anticipate future skill gaps before they affect productivity • Develop talent pipelines that ensure continuity in leadership and expertise, supporting succession planning efforts by identifying future leaders in line with D,E&I rules • Maintain relationships with past and current candidates to build a durable, reactivable network • Design and animate the internal referral programme and make every Back Maker a talent ambassador • Track conversion by source and vertical • EMPLOYER BRAND & CONTENT STRATEGY • Deliver Back Market’s employer brand narrative across all talent-facing channels • Build and execute the LinkedIn content strategy: posts, articles, employee spotlights, behind-the-scenes stories (in line with External Comm) • Launch and produce a Back Market talent podcast, video, youtube channel… : interviews with internal leaders, industry voices, and future talent • Track Back Market’s reputation on Glassdoor and specialist forums : respond, engage, improve • Develop recruitment marketing strategies that position Back Market as a destination employer in tech, product, and data • Build and animate talent communities around Back Market’s key hiring verticals (tech · product · design · data · exec - D,E&I) • Represent Back Market at industry events , not just conferences where top talent gathers informally • Attend tech meetups, product conferences, exec forums, and unconventional networking spaces to discover potential talent • Network with universities, bootcamps, professional associations, and industry institutions • Build and animate an internal ambassador programme : equip Back Makers to represent the company in their own communities • Engage with potential candidates through social media and face-to-face meetings : build genuine relationships, not transactional exchanges • MARKET INTELLIGENCE • Map competitor hiring activity and talent movements • Identify availability signals for key profiles (movements · fundraising · restructurings · layoffs) • Maintain continuous monitoring of tech, product, and exec talent ecosystems

Benefits

• At Back Market, we’re committed to hiring and supporting diverse teams of people from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives — it’s one of the reasons we’re such a high-scoring certified B Corp company (93.2). • No matter your role and seniority level, you’ll enjoy impact-driven work with hands-on career development in an innovative, driven, and fast-paced environment — with benefits to match, like: • A mission driven work environment where your day to day makes an impact on the planet. Seriously. • Hybrid work environment, with 2 remote days a week and 1 remote work week per quarter, plus 3 flex days. • Employee Resource Groups, including mentorship programs, comprehensive accessibility policies, and cultural competency training. • At Back Market, we strive to create a workplace that embodies the world we’re trying to change. We’ve embedded our diversity, equity, and inclusion principles into our DNA — from dedicated staff to employee resource groups to our company values. • We know that the perfect background for a role doesn’t mean the perfect fit — we encourage you to apply for a role even if you think you may not have all the qualifications. • If reasonable accommodations are needed for the interview process, please do not hesitate to discuss this with the Talent Acquisition Team.