Manager, EMEA General Manager Recruitment

To support the continued growth and expansion of our hotels across the EMEA region, we are looking for an experienced, proactive recruitment professional with strong executive search expertise and the ability to build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders. 

This role is responsible for attracting, engaging, and securing top talent for General Manager positions across the region. Working closely with senior stakeholders and business leaders, you will develop and execute recruitment strategies that support current and future leadership hiring needs.

As a trusted recruitment partner, you will manage both internal and external talent pipelines, acting as an advisor to hiring leaders by understanding their business objectives and delivering tailored talent solutions. You will lead executive-level search campaigns, strengthen Hilton’s employer brand, and provide a high-touch candidate and stakeholder experience throughout the recruitment process.

Success in this role requires strong relationship-building skills, strategic thinking, commercial awareness, and a passion for identifying and attracting exceptional leadership talent.

What will I be doing?

Stakeholder Management: 

• Proactively engage with senior stakeholders to gain insight into business needs.
• Responsiveness and reactiveness with an understanding and sense of urgency and importance for different stakeholders.
• Provide guidance to ensure a best-practice approach to resourcing is adopted.
• Advise key stakeholders on selection methodologies and practices.

Sourcing and Market Intelligence: 

• Provide actionable intelligence on source markets, campaigns, and innovation to improve sources of candidates for key roles, including scarce skills and diverse groups and produce business-oriented management information to inform decisions.

• Develop, agree and execute the sourcing strategy with stakeholders for each role.

• Proactively target, source and manage candidates.
• Take responsibility for the design of end-to-end resourcing plans which meet requirements for single roles and talent pipelines.
• Holding an understanding of recruitment best practice tools, methodologies and technologies (e.g. job profiling, sourcing, proactive search, selection and assessment)

 

End-to-end recruitment process management

• Ensuring all requisitions are fully specified and approved.
• Partner with hiring managers to define role requirements, agree recruitment timelines and responsibilities, and apply the most appropriate selection methods.
• Facilitating the interview and selection process to measure candidates’ skills as required.
• Negotiating rates/salaries, presenting, and selling candidates within their business areas to hiring managers while ensuring all processes are followed.

Customer Focus:

• Providing a high level of candidate care and ensuring frequent communication is deployed (e.g. debriefing candidates, keeping candidates ‘warm’). Ensuring that all process stages demonstrate Hilton Values and an engaging candidate experience.
• Creating commercial value through responsive recruitment services and the delivery of cost-effective results
• Building collaborative relationships with senior leaders and hiring managers, identifying, and managing issues appropriately.
• Maintaining a high standard of service to hiring managers and candidates and ensuring the team is constantly aware of performance against targets.
• Speculative sourcing, creating opportunities for competitor mapping and management information. 

What are we looking for?

A passionate talent professional with a proven ability to deliver high-impact recruitment outcomes that support Hilton's business objectives, strengthen our talent pipeline, and bring our vision and values to life. To be successful in this role, you will demonstrate the following skills, behaviours, and attributes:

• Proven track record in executive-level recruitment, either in-house or executive search environment, across multiple geographies and markets.

•  Proven expertise in proactive sourcing, market mapping, talent pipelining, and delivering confidential executive search assignments, with the ability to identify, engage, and secure high-calibre leadership talent across multiple markets.

• Strong organisational and project management skills, with the ability to prioritise competing demands, manage multiple concurrent assignments, and deliver high-quality results while remaining calm and effective in a fast-paced, matrixed environment.

• Experience partnering with and influencing senior stakeholders across a complex, matrixed organisation, with a track record of delivering successful recruitment outcomes.

•  A creative and consultative self-starter with strong research and problem-solving skills, capable of developing innovative talent solutions with minimal direction while maintaining high levels of professionalism and integrity.

• Experienced in producing business orientated management information. Able to collate, analyse and translate data to inform decisions, initiate action and demonstrate progress.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, able to articulate complex analytical topics to a wide audience who may or may not be familiar with the subject matter.

• The ability to identify and understand the value of an employer brand and effectively communicate the value proposition.

• Strong analytical and reporting capability, with experience leveraging ATS platforms, Excel, and Power BI to manage recruitment data, produce meaningful insights, and drive data-informed talent decisions.