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Talent Acquisition Delivery Lead - Field Sales

Berlin, Germany · People & Culture

The TA Delivery Lead is responsible for overseeing high-volume recruitment strategies, ensuring the efficient and timely hiring of top talent for Field Sales roles. This role requires strong leadership skills to manage and develop a high-performing Talent Acquisition team while optimising large-scale hiring processes. The TA Delivery Lead plays a key role in ensuring speed, efficiency, and consistency in recruitment, while fostering an engaging candidate and hiring manager experience.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead end-to-end high-volume hiring for Field Sales, ensuring alignment with aggressive business growth targets. This includes leading, mentoring, and developing a high-performing TA team, ensuring they are well-versed in Field Sales processes, tools, culture, and ways of working to effectively support hiring needs.

  • Develop and implement scalable recruitment strategies to attract, assess, and hire high volumes of candidates efficiently.

  • Monitor and improve hiring performance through data-driven insights, optimising time-to-fill, conversion rates, and overall process efficiency.

  • Collaborate with business leaders to forecast workforce needs, ensure seamless execution of large-scale hiring initiatives, and provide continuous feedback, coaching, and career development for team members.

  • Maintain transparency and accountability across all stakeholders by providing regular data-driven insights and reporting.

  • Enhance candidate experience in high-volume hiring by ensuring structured, engaging, and efficient recruitment processes.

  • Drive employer branding and sourcing initiatives tailored for high-volume talent attraction, ensuring a strong and continuous talent pipeline.

  • Build and implement Individual Development Plans (IDPs) and conduct regular team reviews to drive performance and engagement.

  • Manage the hiring and reallocation of TA team members as needed, ensuring the right capabilities are in place to support high-volume hiring demands.

Qualifications:

  • Proven experience in high-volume recruitment, preferably in Field Sales or similar roles.

  • Strong team leadership experience, including mentoring, performance management, and talent development.

  • Data-driven mindset with the ability to track, analyse, and optimize recruitment metrics to improve efficiency.

  • Ability to manage multiple priorities and large-scale hiring processes in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

  • Experience working with applicant tracking systems and recruitment automation tools.

  • Knowledge of bulk sourcing techniques, assessment methodologies, and high-volume recruitment best practices.

  • Exposure to diversity and inclusion initiatives within large-scale hiring is a plus.

Key Competencies:

  • Strong stakeholder management and ability to influence across business units.

  • Exceptional organisation and process management skills to handle high hiring volumes efficiently.

  • Problem-solving mindset with a proactive approach to overcoming hiring challenges.

  • Resilience and adaptability in a dynamic, high-pressure recruitment environment.

  • People leadership and coaching skills to build and maintain a high-performing TA team.

Success Criteria (First 90 Days):

  • Establish structured, data-driven routines to improve efficiency and reduce time-to-fill.

  • Develop and maintain a high-quality talent pipeline to meet Field Sales hiring demands.

  • Build effective communication and collaboration with hiring managers to ensure seamless, high-speed recruitment execution.

  • Assess team capabilities and implement individual development plans to strengthen TA team performance.

Why you should join SumUp

  • Opportunity to work with a truly global, multicultural team (we are 3000+ people from 93 countries, spread across 4 continents).

  • Learning & development budget for attending conferences and external training.

  • Competitive salary package and virtual stock option programme.

  • We offer a corporate pension scheme, 28 days’ paid leave, free German and yoga classes, subsidised Urban Sports Club membership and other great benefits.

  • An amazing team and work environment that works with passion and purpose to achieve incredible results.

  • We get together regularly for breakfasts, team events, office parties and sports.

  • You’ll be based in the heart of Berlin, one of Europe’s leading tech hubs and most vibrant cities.

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