Talent Acquisition Operations Tech Project Manager

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

The Talent Acquisition Operations Tech Project Manager is a pivotal role responsible for driving operational excellence within the Talent Acquisition (TA) function. This role combines strategic oversight with hands-on execution to ensure the smooth functioning of recruitment processes, systems, tools, and reporting. The Talent Acquisition Operations Lead collaborates closely with recruiters, hiring managers, HR/People teams, and external vendors to optimize recruitment workflows, ensure compliance, and enhance the candidate and stakeholder experience.

A successful candidate will have strong project management and organization skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities across countries. Strong excel, Power BI, and tech skills are essential for this role. The TA Tech PM will serve as the primary administrator for TA systems (e.g., applicant tracking systems, recruitment tools) and ensure system configurations align with organizational and compliance requirements.

This role will operate in a global capacity and be a one year fixed term contract.

Role accountabilities:

Operations and Tech Management:

• Oversee end-to-end talent acquisition processes, ensuring efficiency, consistency, and scalability and optimization.
• Perform regular system audits to ensure data integrity and troubleshoot any issues.
• Collaborate with IT and external vendors to manage overall TA tech stack with other Enterprise systems (e.g., HRIS, payroll).
• Evaluate and recommend new tools and technologies to enhance TA processes.
• Manage relationships with system vendors, including contract negotiations and ongoing support.
• Establish standard operating procedures (SOPs) for recruitment activities, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and compliance standards.
• Act as the primary point of contact for operational issues, identifying and resolving bottlenecks in the recruitment lifecycle.
• Work to enhance our Skills Powered Platform for Talent Acquisition by working with the vendor on tech issues to come up with resolutions to move forward

Process Improvement and Integration Support:

• Lead the continued improvement of our Tech stack of tools, working on enhancements and improvements with the internal teams and partnering with the vendor to monitor enhancements
• Lead and manage new company integrations into the Arcadis TA team. This includes cutover plans, communications, leading live trainings for both TA members and hiring managers.
• Develop and deliver clear, engaging, and impactful presentations that effectively summarize complex data and process improvements.
• Present data in a compelling way, utilizing storytelling techniques to drive understanding and engagement.
• Influence stakeholders by presenting data-driven summaries and insights to support decision-making.

Data Analytics and Reporting:

• Develop, monitor, and report on key talent acquisition metrics (e.g., time-to-fill, cost-per-hire, candidate pipeline health, diversity hiring metrics).
• Create dashboards and regular reports to inform decision-making and improve recruitment strategies.
• Leverage data insights to identify trends, challenges, and opportunities for process improvements.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Minimum of 6 years’ experience in TA or HR Operations
• Minimum of 2 years managing TA or HR professionals 
• Experience in developing and delivering user training for systems and tools.
• Hands-on experience with applicant tracking systems (ATS) and other recruitment technologies (e.g., Workday, Oracle, Greenhouse).
• Experience with system administration, configuration, and troubleshooting in HR or TA platforms.
• Ability to provide ongoing technical support and resolve system-related issues effectively.
• Talent Acquisition experience in a large global organization
• Project management experience within Talent Acquisition
• Excel and Power BI competency
• Global experience within Talent Acquisitions

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.