Talent Acquisition / Recruitment Business Partner

Company Description

Be part of a global consulting powerhouse, partnering with clients on their most critical strategic transformations.

We are Wavestone. Energetic, solution-driven experts who focus as much on people as on performance and growth. We are an ambitious firm with a worldwide reach and an ever-expanding portfolio of clients, topics, and projects. Hand in hand, we share a deep desire to make a positive impact.

Are you a true team player, living strong values? Are you a passionate learner, aiming to grow every day? Are you a driven go-getter, tackling challenges head-on? Then we could be the right fit for you. Join Wavestone and thrive in an environment that’s empowering, collaborative, and full of opportunities to turn today’s challenges into tomorrow’s solutions.

Job Description

We are looking for a Recruitment Analyst to actively contribute and quickly develop skills in our recruitment operations.

Within the HR Development Department, they will join our Recruitment team (approximately 60 people), whose mission is to remain a sustainable reference employer in the consulting market in France and on an international scale. In a competitive sector, the team acts as a trusted partner to management and operations. It supports the company’s growth, implements the recruitment strategy, and promotes the employer brand across all our geographies

Main responsibilities:

Talent acquisition :

You are responsible for the quality of recruitments, managing the entire recruitment process autonomously, ensuring proper assesment and candidate experience. Your added value lies in being an active decision-maker. Through a personalized recruitment approach, you support talents wishing to join Wavestone from their identification to their integration across all our professions aligned with Wavestone’s  priorities, HR and CSR policy (disability, diversity & inclusion, etc.). Specifically:

• You manage the entire sourcing system (social networks, corporate site, cooptation, school relations, headhunting) and proactively identify innovative practices with the aim of attracting as many of the best talents in the market as possibleYou conduct interviews, support your candidates through the process with regular feedback, and manage the decision-making process until job offers are secured, highlighting our HR policy by ensuring the selectivity of recruitments and the absence of false promises.
• Finally, you manage the probation period follow-up of the new joiners you have recruited, guaranteeing the success of the onboarding process and a positive employee experience.

Campus Management

• You are responsible for developing the visibility and attractiveness of Wavestone among students, recent graduates, and alumni from top engineering schools, business schools, and universities. You develop the campus management action plan with relevant operational actions and drive performance in terms of recruitments and talent pool of futurs candidates. For this, you need to know the school, the competitors present, the trends, and align campus strategy with Wavestone’s recruitment priorities.
• You establish strong relationships with all key contacts (school Directors, corporate relations Managers, student or alumni association board members, teachers, etc.) in top schools. You mobilize key internal resources to challenge the school strategy, to support the organization of actions and to directly engage with students or shool administration.
• You are the firm's ambassador and organize actions on campuses like mentorship program, open days, recruitment forums, hackathons, educational partnership to attract students, recent graduates and Alumni. You also use social media and professional platforms to promote our actions.

In addition, and provided you are contributing at the highest level, you will have the opportunity, alongside a Manager or Senior Manager from the team, to engage in transformation projects for the function. Current priorities include: optimizing the recruitment process, revamping onboarding, professionalizing campus management, integrating artificial intelligence in recruitment, and optimizing investments without compromising on recruitment quality.

Qualifications

Profile

• Graduated from top Business schools
• Successful 1st  experience in Talent acquisition

Key expectations

• Analytical, with ease in thinking outside the box, and solution- and goal-oriented rather than process-oriented, demonstrating self-control and resilience
• Trustful relationships with any type of interlocutors, ability to communicate effectively and confidently, both orally and in writing (clarity and simplicity)
• Agility and flexibility in the way of working and in organization : desire to work on multiple topics simultaneously, ability to prioritize, and manage short- and medium-term deadlines.
• Ability to understand the consulting profession and sector, to engage with stakeholders, and to show curiosity about market practices and competitorsBeing an ambassador of the Positive Way to contribute to spreading Wavestone’s values within their scope and serve as a role model (>> Positiveway book
• Ability to work in an international, multicultural environment, and able to work in English

Additional Information

Why joining us ?

• Talent & recruitment-Centric Approach: Wavestone places talent and corporate social responsibility (CSR) at the heart of its strategy. The HR Director of Wavestone, the Recruitment Director and the Head of CSR are members of the Executive Committee of the firm.
• Strategic Recruitment Function: The Recruitment function is strategic, expected to add value, promote organizational values, and stay at the forefront of recruitment practices — not merely a support function.
• Ambitious Business Project: The company is experiencing significant growth both in France and internationally, driven by an ambitious business project.
• A culture of personalized development and career path : Close and individualized career management is part of our DNA to support employees in fully grasping these responsibilities
• Demanding Work Environment: Employees operate in a challenging work environment, engaging with high-level stakeholders.
• Great Place To Work: The company is recognized as a Great Place To Work, ranking top 3 in its category among organizations with over 2500 employees.