Senior Recruitment Manager

About the role

Join us in our mission to transform the way people shop and eat, where impact, innovation, and growth drives everything we do. Our People team are the architects of a great workplace where brilliant minds come together to do their best work. From discovering diverse talent and nurturing future leaders, to creating spaces that spark collaboration and crafting rewards that celebrate success - we're passionate about building a culture where everyone can thrive.

We are bringing our recruitment teams together into one EMEA organisation aligned to the business departments we support. We are looking for a Senior Recruitment Manager to lead recruitment for Marketplace for Wolt and Deliveroo, the B2B space and SevenRooms, building a team that combines strong business partnerships with consistent hiring delivery across both brands.

 

Based in Helsinki, you will lead a geographically distributed team of recruitment managers and recruiters across EMEA. You will set the strategy for your portfolio, develop the leaders and specialists in your team, and work with senior business, Finance and People leaders to translate hiring demand into a clear delivery plan.

This role combines leadership through managers with direct leadership of selected individual contributors. You will bring together different markets and business needs, make informed choices about capacity and priorities, and help the team establish effective ways of working in the combined organisation.

 

What you will be doing:

Lead through managers. Coach and develop recruitment managers and individual contributors, set clear expectations and build a team with strong judgement, accountability and room to grow. Develop leadership capability and succession within your portfolio.

Own the recruitment strategy for your portfolio. Translate business plans for Marketplace, B2B and SevenRooms into short- and longer-term recruitment priorities across Deliveroo and Wolt. Balance department requirements with country, language and role-level needs.

Advise senior business leaders. Build trusted partnerships with the leaders of the areas you support. Bring an informed perspective on talent availability, hiring priorities and trade-offs, and challenge plans constructively when demand, resources or market conditions do not align.

Plan capacity against demand. Partner with Finance and People colleagues to forecast hiring, maintain the position and capacity plan, and allocate recruitment resources using productivity, hiring complexity and business priorities. Surface delivery risks early and recommend practical responses.

Deliver measurable hiring outcomes. Hold your teams accountable for agreed hiring goals, conversion, time to fill, offer acceptance and candidate experience. Use data and talent-market insights to diagnose issues, improve delivery and explain progress to senior stakeholders.

Build consistent hiring practices. Work with Talent Acquisition colleagues and recruiting operations to improve sourcing, assessment and interview practices. Support effective adoption of shared tools and standards while retaining the local expertise needed to hire well across EMEA.

Lead the team through change. Bring recruiters from both brands together around clear responsibilities and effective working routines. Protect valuable business relationships, coordinate handovers and help people build the knowledge and connections they need.

Champion fair and inclusive hiring. Embed inclusive sourcing, structured assessment and consistent decision-making throughout your portfolio. Partner with business leaders to maintain a high hiring bar and a respectful candidate experience.

What you will need to thrive

Essential :

Leadership at scale. Experience leading recruitment managers and geographically distributed recruiting teams, with evidence of developing leaders and improving team performance.

Business and commercial recruitment expertise. A strong track record delivering recruitment across commercial or business functions in a complex, fast-moving organisation, with the judgement to support distinct business models and hiring needs.

Senior stakeholder influence. Experience advising senior business leaders, challenging assumptions with evidence and aligning stakeholders around realistic priorities and delivery commitments.

Strategic workforce and capacity planning. The ability to translate a hiring forecast into a recruitment plan, assess resource requirements and make clear trade-offs across competing needs.

A practical command of recruitment data. Confidence using funnel, productivity and delivery metrics to identify causes, guide action and communicate business impact.

Experience across markets. An understanding of the complexities of hiring across EMEA, including how language, local market conditions and role requirements affect sourcing and delivery.

 

Nice to have: 

Change leadership. Experience helping teams adopt new structures, processes or systems while maintaining trust, continuity and hiring delivery.

Integration experience. Experience combining recruitment teams or operating models across brands, countries or acquired businesses.

Why join us

You will shape recruitment for several distinct business areas at an important point in the integration of Deliveroo and Wolt. The role offers the opportunity to influence senior leaders, develop managers and recruiters across EMEA, and build a sustainable delivery model grounded in business demand.

You will work with colleagues across the broader DoorDash organisation, sharing expertise and improving how we identify, assess and hire talent. We value the different perspectives people bring and want everyone to have the opportunity to do their best work.