Executive Talent Acquisition Partner

Who we are

At Sonova, we envision a world where everyone can enjoy the delight of hearing. This vision inspires us and fuels our commitment to developing innovative solutions that improve hearing health and human connection - from personal audio devices and wireless communication systems to hearing aids and cochlear implants. We're dedicated to providing outstanding customer experiences through our global audiological care services, ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to engage fully with the world around them.

Guided by a culture of continuous improvement that fosters resilience and self-motivation, our team is united by a shared commitment to excellence and a deep sense of pride in our work, each of us playing a vital role in creating meaningful change,

Here you’ll find a diverse range of opportunities that span both consumer and medical solutions and the freedom to shape your career while making an impact on the lives of others. Join us in our mission to create a more connected world, where every voice is heard and every story matters.

Barcelona, Spain

Executive Talent Acquisition Partner

The Executive Talent Acquisition Partner is responsible for leading the end-to-end selection process and external pipeline building efforts for executive-level roles across multiple functions globally while partnering and advising the senior leadership (inc. Management Board and ExCo members) on critical hiring matters. You will play a key role in identifying, engaging, assessing, and hiring the next generation of leaders at Sonova, ultimately driving the company’s key 2030 strategic priorities through impactful executive hiring decisions.

The Executive Talent Acquisition Partner role can be based either in our Alicante, Barcelona, Milan, or Warsaw office, with a hybrid work schedule.

Your Responsibilities:
Lead the hiring of a pre-selected population of senior leadership roles (top 250) from briefing meetings to offer extension (advisory, sourcing, selection, and offer negotiation).
Build, nurture, and manage external talent pipelines for business-critical roles to enhance succession bench strength.
Work closely with senior leadership, Talent CoE and global HRBPs to understand skill gaps and the readiness of internal pipelines in order to assess, define, and advise risk areas where external talent pipelines would be required.
Partner with senior stakeholders (inc. MB and ExCo) to identify critical business needs, translate external benchmarks, and propose solutions for executive hiring-related challenges in line with strategic and organizational goals
Drive the external scouting management activities by optimizing the usage of all required channels (Social Networks, Candidate Databases, Professional Associations and Industry Conferences)
Provide market intelligence data to support talent strategy course corrections, and act as enterprise-wide subject matter expert on external talent trends and executive search strategies for senior stakeholders (VP up to MB) and HR.

More about you:
8+ years of experience in executive or end-to-end leadership recruiting across global markets such as EMEA, APAC, and the Americas regions.
Proven track record in successfully collaborating and advising ExCo, Management Board and functional leadership teams on talent insights, market trends and critical hiring needs.
Confident in managing high-impact and critical hiring needs individually, with a major focus on talent sourcing, pipelining, and candidate assessment.
Data-driven, open-minded, with an affinity and interest in applying AI on a daily basis.
Fluent in English (other languages like German and French are a plus).
Comfortable with tools like MS Office, ATS (SAP SuccessFactors), CRM (Phenom), and other recruiting platforms.

More about what we offer
As one of the world’s leading hearing care providers headquartered in Switzerland, we’re committed to building an inclusive culture. We want to create an environment where you can balance a successful career with your commitments and interests outside of work, through our flexible hybrid working model. We offer a wide range of training opportunities for both your professional and personal development, and there are exceptional growth opportunities with individual development plans.

Sonova is an equal opportunity employer.

We team up. We grow talent. We collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds to win with the best team in the market place. We guarantee every person equal treatment in regard to employment and opportunity for employment, regardless of a candidate’s ethnic or national origin, religion, sexual orientation or marital status, gender, genetic identity, age, disability or any other legally protected status.

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