Responsibilities - Take ownership of hard‑to‑fill, ageing, and business‑critical roles, often requiring immediate intervention.

- Build pipelines from scratch through proactive, targeted sourcing and direct search.
- Identify why roles are not moving (pipeline, role clarity, stakeholder alignment, market reality) and actively reset the approach.
- Work at pace to create momentum, driving roles from stagnation to shortlist.
- Partner with hiring managers and HR to challenge assumptions, recalibrate expectations, and unblock decision‑making.
- Operate across multiple roles simultaneously, prioritising impact over activity.
- Leverage market intelligence to reshape search strategies and unlock previously inaccessible talent pools.
- Collaborate closely with sourcing teams to deliver high‑quality, ready‑to‑hire pipelines.
- Reduce reliance on agencies by owning and delivering sourcing outcomes internally, aligned with broader TA sourcing priorities.
- Drive visible progress on backlog and contribute to improving speed and effectiveness of hiring across the region.




- Act as a catalyst for change — influencing how we approach difficult hiring challenges in the future.

Requirements - Strong experience across in agency (search/headhunting) and in‑house environments - A proven track record of delivering on hard‑to‑fill or business‑critical roles, not just standard hiring - A genuine passion for sourcing, headhunting, and building pipelines from zero - The ability to operate at pace and manage multiple complex roles in parallel - Confidence to engage and challenge stakeholders to unblock stalled processes - Strong judgement in identifying when the issue is talent inflow vs expectations vs process - A resilient, action‑oriented mindset — you do not wait for momentum, you create it - Experience of hiring within the Energy/ Power / Transmission and Distribution sectors - Experience of hiring niche Engineering roles.

- Strong understanding of EMEA markets, with the ability to adapt sourcing strategies accordingly - Fluency in English (additional European languages including German, Spanish, French, Italian or Swedish are advantageous).

📌 Senior Talent Acquisition Partner – EMEA (Barcelona)
🏢 Jobtailor
📍 Barcelona