AVEVA is creating software trusted by over 90% of leading industrial companies.
Job Title: Principal Go-to-Market Talent Acquisition Specialist
Location: London or Cambridge
Employment Type: Full-time - hybrid (50/50 split flexed in any way that suits you between home and office)
The job
As a Principal Talent Acquisition (TA) Specialist, you lead end-to-end hiring for EMEA Sales roles (with a primary focus on go-to-market roles), ensuring we attract and hire diverse, high-performing talent with pace and quality. You are a trusted advisor to Sales leaders and People Partners, bringing deep expertise in Sales hiring, market intelligence, and consultative partnering. You champion our global TA process, build proactive pipelines for priority segments, and support the regional TA team with your technical knowledge.
Key responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end EMEA Sales recruitment, delivering an inclusive candidate experience, creating compelling on-brand adverts, and championing adherence to our global TA process.
- Proactively source and engage high-calibre Sales talent and build strategic pipelines across priority segments, using targeted, data and market-led approaches and continuously optimising based on funnel performance and hiring outcomes.
- Act as a trusted advisor to Sales leaders and People Partners, co-creating hiring plans and coaching hiring teams on structured, inclusive assessment and selection to ensure the right role calibration and hiring decisions.
- Provide actionable market intelligence and use TA data/funnel analytics to inform decisions, remove hiring bottlenecks, and deliver clear insights and updates to stakeholders.
- Partner with Sales leaders to translate territory coverage needs into hiring plans, using ongoing territory and talent mapping to identify target talent pools and proactively build pipelines.
Essential requirements
- Demonstrable senior Talent Acquisition experience recruiting for Sales roles within EMEA, with depth in Go-to-Market hiring.
- Strong stakeholder management and consultative partnering skills; credible with senior Sales leaders.
- Excellent sourcing and networking capability; able to proactively identify and engage top Sales talent.
- Strong understanding of Sales profiles and assessment (e.g., quota-carrying roles, sales cycles, segment/territory fit, competencies).
- Strong understanding of regional labour markets and ability to translate insights into hiring strategy.
Desired skills
- Talent Acquisition experience ideally in-house/corporate.
- Market knowledge across a variety of EMEA countries.
- European language skills are a plus but not essential.
- Experience mentoring/coaching other recruiters and contributing to cross-functional projects.
People at AVEVA
We’re focused on the single most important part of AVEVA’s business: our employees. From recruitment and reward to experience and engagement, our partnerships across the business create and enable the conditions for every individual to thrive.
Doing the best we can for our great people requires quick thinking – and big thinking. Our team is as involved in the day-to-day activities affecting the employee experience as we are in the global transformation projects shaping AVEVA’s future. Join us and become part of a diverse and vibrant group that’s striving to make every day at AVEVA even better than the last.
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UK Benefits include:
Flexible benefits fund, emergency leave days, adoption leave, 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), pension, life cover, private medical insurance, parental leave, education assistance program.
It’s possible we’re hiring for this position in multiple countries, in which case the above benefits apply to the primary location. Specific benefits vary by country, but our packages are similarly comprehensive.
Find out more: aveva.com/en/about/careers/benefits/
Hybrid working
By default, employees are expected to be in their local AVEVA office three days a week, but some positions are fully office-based. Roles supporting particular customers or markets are sometimes remote.
Hiring process
Interested? Great! Get started by submitting your cover letter and CV through our application portal. AVEVA is committed to recruiting and retaining people with disabilities. Please let us know in advance if you need reasonable support during your application process.
Find out more: aveva.com/en/about/careers/hiring-process
About AVEVA
AVEVA is a global leader in industrial software with more than 6,500 employees in over 40 countries. Our cutting-edge solutions are used by thousands of enterprises to deliver the essentials of life – such as energy, infrastructure, chemicals, and minerals – safely, efficiently, and more sustainably.
We are committed to embedding sustainability and inclusion into our operations, our culture, and our core business strategy. Learn more about how we are progressing against our ambitious 2030 targets: sustainability-report.aveva.com/
Find out more: aveva.com/en/about/careers/
AVEVA requires all successful applicants to undergo and pass a drug screening and comprehensive background check before they start employment. Background checks will be conducted in accordance with local laws and may, subject to those laws, include proof of educational attainment, employment history verification, proof of work authorization, criminal records, identity verification, credit check. Certain positions dealing with sensitive and/or third-party personal data may involve additional background check criteria.
AVEVA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to being an exemplary employer with an inclusive culture, developing a workplace environment where all our employees are treated with dignity and respect. We value diversity and the expertise that people from different backgrounds bring to our business. AVEVA provides reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities where appropriate. If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify your recruiter. Determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis.
