Talent Acquisition Team Leader - Europe

Your mission

As Talent Acquisition Team Leader Europe, you will lead and develop the European recruitment function, partnering closely with business leaders and HR teams to build the talent capabilities required for Sungrow's growth.
You will own the regional recruitment strategy, lead a team of recruiters and ensure an efficient, scalable and high-quality hiring approach across European markets.

Key Responsibilities
European Recruitment Strategy

• Develop and execute Sungrow's European recruitment strategy in alignment with business growth plans.
• Translate workforce plans and business priorities into effective recruitment strategies.
• Establish scalable recruitment processes, standards and best practices across European markets.
• Monitor recruitment performance, market trends and talent availability to support strategic workforce planning.
• Advise senior leaders on talent-market conditions, recruitment challenges and hiring strategies.
• Partner with European business leaders, HR Business Partners and regional management.
• Provide data-driven recruitment insights and regular reporting to leadership.

Team Leadership

• Lead, coach and develop the European recruitment team.
• Set clear objectives, KPIs and priorities for the recruitment function.
• Build a high-performing, collaborative and commercially focused TA team.
• Support recruiters in complex and critical hiring processes.
• Identify opportunities to improve team capability, productivity and use of recruitment technology.

Talent Acquisition

• Oversee end-to-end recruitment for key positions across Europe.
• Partner with hiring managers to define role requirements and effective sourcing strategies.
• Ensure a strong candidate experience throughout the recruitment process.
• Develop talent pipelines for critical and hard-to-fill positions.
• Strengthen Sungrow's talent pools within renewable energy and energy storage markets.

Employer Brand & Talent Market

• Strengthen Sungrow's employer brand across European talent markets.
• Develop relationships with universities, professional networks, industry communities and specialist recruitment partners.

Your profile

Alright, alright — that sounded pretty exciting, didn't it? Now, to truly thrive in this role and feel at home here for a long time, your ideal background should look a lot like this:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience in Human Resources, Business Administration or a related field.
• 7 years of recruitment/talent acquisition experience, ideally within a multinational organisation.
• Previous experience managing or leading a recruitment team.
• Strong experience developing and implementing recruitment strategies across multiple European markets.
• Demonstrated ability to recruit specialist, technical and commercial profiles.
• Strong understanding of European talent markets and recruitment practices.
• Data-driven approach with experience using recruitment KPIs and analytics.
• Strong communication skills in English; additional European languages are an advantage.

Why us?

This decade might be overshadowed by Covid19, but sooner or later we will beat and overcome that son of a germ, am I right?
But the true topic for this decade lies in energy！
We are more than happy to state that not only We are leading this discourse, we also offer the fitting solutions for it. We have the strongest PV-Inverter R&D there is and became the world`s biggest Inverter Manufacturer, which we are extremely proud of! And now, for this decade, we are increasing our game, and You, You might become part of it! Besides that, many things await You:

• Mobility package: in case you want a Job-Rad, we got you covered (E-bikes! we need more E-bikes! fueled by solar-power!)
• Bonus payments: we agree on Smart KPIs with You, an You receive a nice Bonus at the end of the year, isn`t that something!?
• A multinational team awaits You with lots of European and transeuropean exchange!
• Possibility for technical and commercial knowledge enhancement in regard to string inverters, central inverters, inverter stations including transformer and switch gear and storage solutions
• Technical and commercial training in our headquarter in Germany and even visits to the big R&D facility in China!

About us

We are a green tech company with young creative minds.
We are fighting every day to make our mission happen – Clean Power for All!

With 870+GW of clean power presently installed worldwide, we are on the road to success!

Welcome at Sungrow

Founded in 1997 by University Professor Cao Renxian, Sungrow is a leader in the research and development of solar inverters with the largest dedicated R&D team in the industry and a broad product portfolio offering PV inverter solutions and energy storage systems for utility-scale, commercial & industrial, and residential applications, as well as internationally recognized floating PV plant solutions, NEV driving solutions, EV charging solutions and renewable hydrogen production systems.

Want to know more? Check out what working with us is like!