Booking Holdings Romania-Senior Technology Recruiter

Booking Holdings Romania is a Center of Excellence based in Bucharest, Romania and was created to support the increasing business demands of the Booking Holdings Brands. The Center of Excellence provides access to specialized and highly skilled talent, leading industry best practices, and collaboration opportunities across all of our Brands.

As part of our Booking Holdings Romania team, you will have the opportunity to be a part of the world's leading provider of online travel, with a mission of making it easier for everyone to experience the world through six-primary consumer facing brands: Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, KAYAK, OpenTable and Rentalcars.com.

Role description

Booking Holdings Romania is looking for a Senior Recruiter to join our Recruitment team in Bucharest. The ideal candidate should be ready to hit the ground running in our fast-paced technical environment with strong interpersonal skills that allow you to develop lasting relationships with both candidates and hiring managers. As a Senior technology Recruiter, you will be responsible for executing the talent acquisition strategy and delivering hiring results for technical and non-technical roles within the IT department. You will collaborate with your colleagues, senior members of the business functions, and HR colleagues to ensure quality, quantity, and timely communication.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties

• Act as a talent advisor, providing strategic guidance to hiring teams. Shape their talent needs to best match the needs of Booking Holdings COE and the external market.
• Find ways to improve the recruitment process--not just incremental improvements but also long term changes that influence our business.
• Manage and execute the full recruitment cycle. Develop sourcing models and plans to generate a talent pipeline; create and execute robust search strategies that will attract the best and brightest local talent.
• Build and maintain a network of potential candidates through ongoing relationship management.
• Develop a deep understanding of the candidate's experience, competencies, background, motivation, and specific fit for the role and company.
• Represent and promote the Booking Holdings COE culture to potential candidates.
• Responsible for data to create, measure and scale smart recruiting strategies
• Maintain recruitment databases, effectively using the applicant tracking and reporting system.
• Work with Hiring Managers, HR Business Partner & Compensation & Benefits on defining hiring criteria and mapping the jobs.

Role Qualifications and Requirements

• Bachelor Degree
• Five to eight years of relevant experience
• Minimum 5 years of international staffing experience in IT industry (in-house and agency)
• Strong passion for Tech recruitment
• A good understanding of job market, industry trends and the ability to adapt quickly when needed
• Broad knowledge of programming languages, web technologies, software development process and emerging technologies
• Wide range of experience and expertise on current external recruiting policies, practices, and trends.
• Knowledge of relevant and creative sourcing tools and methods in the IT market
• Proactive and able to manage and influence key internal stakeholders.
• Commercial awareness and results-driven with hands-on mentality
• Ability to work in a team environment with a high sense of urgency and flexibility
• Demonstrated personal accountability and integrity
• Strategic thinking and tactical execution anticipate roadblocks and proactively create solutions to ensure success
• Excellent English communication skills and proven ability to sell and close candidates

Benefits and Perks

• Chipping in to a high scale, sophisticated, world-class product and seeing real-time impact of your work on millions of travelers worldwide
• Working in a fast-paced and performance driven culture
• Technical, behavioral and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences and active community participation
• Competitive compensation and benefits package
• Vast amounts of data to validate your ideas and the opportunity to experiment with real users

Booking Holdings is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We strive to move well beyond traditional equal opportunity and work to create an environment that allows everyone to thrive.

Pre-Employment Screening:

If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.