Job Description:

Job Title: 6-month FTC German Senior Recruiter

Location: Krakow

Contract Type: Full time, Fixed Term

Introduction

We're looking for an experienced Senior Recruiter who speaks both German and Polish to join our team, helping our clients find exceptional talent across complex, niche, and high-volume roles up to executive level. You'll bring a consultative, brand-led approach and the problem-solving skills to create strategies that truly solve our clients' recruitment challenges.

The Role

As a Senior Recruiter at PeopleScout, you'll be the go-to expert for your clients, taking full accountability for consulting on and delivering complex recruitment processes from briefing through to onboarding. You could be exclusively embedded with one large client or managing a portfolio of project-based assignments across a variety of sectors and industries.

You'll:

• Own end-to-end recruitment campaigns with full autonomy – from vacancy briefings and sourcing strategies through to offer management, onboarding, and vetting.
• Use your expertise to design creative sourcing and attraction strategies that reach active and passive candidates, regardless of market or industry.
• Consult with senior stakeholders and hiring managers, providing market insight, candidate feedback, and trusted advice to achieve the best outcomes.
• Manage multiple complex projects simultaneously, balancing priorities, deadlines, and KPIs while maintaining quality and compliance.
• Build and sustain productive relationships with candidates, hiring managers, HR teams, and internal stakeholders throughout the full recruitment lifecycle.
• Use data, research, and market knowledge to inform strategies, track performance, and deliver commercially successful campaigns.
• Challenge and improve current processes, making recommendations to your line manager where appropriate.
• Attend client meetings and pitches to support the sales process as required.

Who we're looking for

You'll be a highly credible recruiter who thrives on solving complex challenges and takes full ownership of your outcomes. You're confident advising senior stakeholders, comfortable working at pace across multiple projects, and passionate about delivering an exceptional experience for both clients and candidates.

As a minimum, you'll need:

• English, Polish and German language capability
• Proven experience owning end-to-end recruitment processes from briefing to hire, using your own initiative to solve problems and deliver results.
• Experience designing and executing complex sourcing and attraction strategies that deliver appointable candidates across a range of markets.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to consult, influence, and build credibility at all levels, including with senior hiring managers.
• A research and data-driven approach, with the ability to generate market insights and prepare recruitment reports and statistics.
• Experience managing productive professional relationships with stakeholders over time, including candidate selling and objection handling.
• Proficiency with ATS, CRM and other sourcing technologies, with a strong understanding of GDPR, employment legislation, and recruitment best practice.
• Commercial awareness and an understanding of the costs associated with resourcing projects.

Ideally, you'll also have:

• Experience within an RPO, agency, in-house, or executive search recruitment environment.
• Specialist sector knowledge, such as public sector, finance, IT, or manufacturing.
• Experience building and maintaining productive relationships with partner organisations to grow client accounts.
• Experience using social media and digital tools to attract and engage candidates.
• Relevant recruitment qualifications (e.g., Certificate in Recruitment Practice, Social Talent Blackbelt) and/or a university degree.
• Excellent copywriting skills.

What's in it for me?

As a PeopleScout employee, you're set to gain so much from being part of our team, including:

• Time off to rest, recover or conquer items on the bucket list through our 27 days holiday (+ 8 bank holidays, pro rata for part time staff) and our holiday purchase benefit
• Great company paid benefits including private medical insurance*, health cash plan, life assurance, company pension and access to an Employee Assistance Programme
• Look after your health and get cash back on your everyday healthcare costs with our flexible dental and cash plan benefits or grab some great discounts at your local gym
• A strong care for the community and planet with opportunities to give back and care for our environment with eco-friendly benefits like our cycle to work scheme
• Development plans with customised learning solutions, including tuition reimbursement and degree sponsorship
• A group of diverse, passionate people to socialise and build your career with
• If you're still reading then you are definitely a fit for us

*available to people managers & senior professional roles

About us

PeopleScout is an industry award winner and leader in the development of best-in-class recruitment outsourcing and talent consultancy. Annually, we hire over 200,000 people for our client organisations from nurses to lecturers, from engineers to hotel cleaners. What sets us apart is our talent advisory heritage, this enables us to reframe, evaluate and assess how organisation and application behaviour can be modified and improved to deliver the very best talent for our clients.

We are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourage applications from persons regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.

Next steps / Call to action

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