Talent Acquisition Team Lead - Switzerland

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Talent Acquisition Manager, Motion

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This position reports to

Regional Talent Acquisition Head Europe
 

Your role and responsibilities

Reporting to the Regional Talent Acquisition Head Europe, this role is responsible for leading the Talent Acquisition team in Switzerland and driving the execution of ABB’s Talent Acquisition strategy across the country.

The Talent Acquisition Team Lead partners closely with business leaders, HR Business Partners, and the wider Talent Acquisition organization to ensure efficient, high-quality, and compliant recruitment delivery. The role combines people leadership, operational oversight, stakeholder management, and hands-on recruitment support for critical hiring needs.

Key ResponsibilitiesTalent Acquisition Team Leadership

• Lead and develop a team of Talent Acquisition Partners responsible for end-to-end recruitment delivery across Switzerland.

• Provide coaching, operational guidance, prioritization support, and performance feedback to the team.

• Oversee and support full lifecycle recruitment activities across a broad range of positions, from individual contributor to senior leadership roles.

• Foster collaboration, knowledge sharing, continuous improvement, and a strong customer-oriented mindset within the team.

End-to-End Recruitment Delivery

• Personally manage selected strategic, senior, or complex recruitment assignments.

Recruitment Strategy & Business Partnership

• Partner with Business and HR leaders to understand hiring priorities, workforce needs, and market challenges.

• Advise stakeholders on recruitment strategies, talent availability, market trends, and realistic hiring expectations.

• Support workforce planning discussions and proactively identify recruitment risks and opportunities.

Talent Sourcing & Market Intelligence

• Drive effective sourcing strategies across internal and external talent markets.

• Support proactive talent pipelining and talent mapping activities for key business areas.

• Utilize recruitment data and market insights to improve hiring effectiveness and decision-making.

Employer Branding & Early Talent Activities

• Support local employer branding initiatives to strengthen ABB’s market visibility and attractiveness as an employer.

• Collaborate on university relations, early talent programs, trainee initiatives, recruitment campaigns, and local branding activities.

Process Excellence & Continuous Improvement

• Drive consistency, operational excellence, and process compliance across recruitment activities.

• Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, and improve Talent Acquisition processes and ways of working.

• Contribute to global and regional talent acquisition initiatives, projects, and system enhancements.

Compliance & Data Management

• Ensure recruitment activities comply with local labor legislation, GDPR, ABB policies, and recruitment governance standards.

• Monitor recruitment metrics, pipeline health, workload distribution, and operational KPIs to support effective decision-making and service delivery.

Qualifications for the role

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree, combined with substantial experience in Talent Acquisition within a global organization, RPO, or similarly dynamic environment.

• Proven expertise in end-to-end recruitment delivery across multiple functions and seniority levels.

• Proven track record of leading and mentoring direct reports.

• Strong understanding of recruitment strategies, sourcing methodologies, recruitment marketing, stakeholder management, and candidate experience.

• Experience utilizing recruitment systems, sourcing platforms, and recruitment analytics to drive hiring outcomes.

• Ability to work effectively in an international, matrixed, and multicultural environment.

• Strong communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build trusted partnerships across business and HR functions.

• Solution-oriented mindset with strong organizational and prioritization capabilities in a fast-paced environment.

• Fluency in English and (Swiss)German (written and spoken) is required.

More about us

Ready to make an impact? Apply now and bring your passion for talent acquisition and leadership to our dynamic team. We value people from different backgrounds. Apply today for your next career step within ABB and visit www.abb.com to learn about the impact of our solutions across the globe. #MyABBStory ABB is a supplier of critical infrastructure. Personnel safety is therefore important to ABB and our customers.

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