Senior Manager Talent Acquisition

As Senior Manager Talent Acquisition, you will lead global recruitment activities, with a primary focus on Europe, partnering closely with business leaders, HR teams, and our RPO provider. You will ensure effective hiring delivery while helping build scalable recruitment processes, governance, and best practices for a newly independent organization. This is a unique opportunity to shape EssCo’s talent acquisition strategy and directly contribute to its growth and success.

This position is part of the Essential Products business (EssCo) within Animal Nutrition & Health (ANH). This is one of the two standalone entities to be created from ANH, as part of the divestment to CVC Capital.

Your key responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of talent acquisition strategy, branding processes, governance, and best practices
• Lead recruitment for critical and senior-level roles across multiple geographies, partnering with business leaders on talent acquisition strategy and workforce planning
• Lead the strategic partnership with EssCo's RPO provider, ensuring effective recruitment delivery, performance against agreed service levels, and continuous improvement of recruitment processes
• Oversee day-to-day recruitment operations, stakeholder engagement, escalations, compliance, and the delivery of a consistent, high-quality candidate and hiring manager experience across regions
• Build talent pipelines, conduct market mapping, and provide talent insights to support current and future hiring needs
• Drive continuous improvement of talent acquisition through the use of recruitment analytics, market insights, and enhanced processes, tools, and partnerships

We Offer

• A unique opportunity to set the recruitment standards of the newly established Essential Products Company.
• A collaborative culture where your ideas and voice matter
• The support of a global team committed to progress and creativity.
• A workplace where you can make a real difference for millions, every day

You Bring

• 8+ years of Recruitment experience within multinational organizations including leadership and strategic setup experience in Recruitment Demonstrated success recruiting across multiple countries and cultures
• Strong experience supporting senior-level and business-critical hiring
• Knowledge of EMEA talent markets and recruitment practices
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills
• Proven background in driving process improvement and efficiency
• Experience with talent mapping, workforce planning and recruitment analytics
• Fluency in English; additional European languages are an advantage

Our application process

Interested in this position? Please apply online by uploading your resume in English via our career portal (www.dsm-firmenich.com/careers). For further information, please contact Vanessa Kolm, [email protected]

About Essential Products Company

EssCo is built on the strong vitamin heritage at the heart of our business. As a focused, stand-alone company, it can be closer to the markets, with dedicated sales and marketing teams clearly positioning the differentiating properties of our leading vitamins, carotenoids and aroma ingredients.

The stand-alone set-up further enables a fit-for-purpose production and supply organization, helping ensure cost competitiveness while maintaining the quality, reliability and sustainability standards our customers value.

Inclusion, belonging and equal opportunity statement

At dsm-firmenich, we believe being a force for good starts with the way we treat each other. When people feel supported, included, and free to be themselves, they do their best work – and that’s exactly the kind of culture we’re building. A place where opportunity is truly equal, authenticity is celebrated, and everyone has the chance to grow, contribute, and feel they belong.

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and we’re serious about making our hiring process as fair and inclusive as possible. From inclusive language and diverse interview panels to thoughtful sourcing, we’re committed to reflecting the world we serve.

We welcome candidates from all backgrounds — no matter your gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or anything else that makes you, you.

And if you have a disability or need any support through the application process, we’re here to help – just let us know what you need, and we’ll do everything we can to make it work.

Agency statement

We’re managing this search directly at dsm-firmenich. If you’re applying as an individual, we’d love to hear from you. We’re not accepting agency submissions or proposals involving fees or commissions for this role.