Talent Acquisition Partner, Relex
Supply chain & retail planning platform
Posted today
Supply chain & retail planning platform
1001+ employees
Posted today
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase adaptability and efficiency in the consumer goods value chain
Role
Who you are
- Prior experience hiring into the US market isn’t a requirement, but it’s a big plus, as is a flexibility to work across those time zones if needed
- Business acumen and stakeholder influence. You understand how engineering and product organisations work and build credibility with their leaders, operating effectively across a global organization
- Full-cycle recruiting delivery. You’ve managed complex, niche, senior hires under time pressure without losing the quality bar, delivering directly, or alongside TA colleagues and delivery partners
- Proactive, global sourcing and talent attraction. You market-map and source actively across platforms and geographies instead of waiting for inbound, and you close senior hires against competing offers
- Hiring manager coaching and assessment quality. You guide hiring managers through scoping and calibration, and you challenge requirements when the evidence points elsewhere
- Data literacy and market insight. You use pipeline and funnel metrics to show hiring health and your own impact, and you present that comfortably to senior stakeholders
- AI orchestration and process improvement. You already work AI-first rather than doing recruiting tasks by hand, and you bring structure to ambiguity instead of waiting for someone else to define it. You’re equally comfortable stepping outside your own remit when the team needs it, and you’ve owned work at a broader scope than your own patch. You’ve designed something, driven it to adoption, and made it work for other people, in collaboration with TA colleagues, People Business Partners, Compensation, and People Operations
- You’ll need to be fluent in English
What the job involves
- You own end-to-end recruiting for a designated set of Technology & Product teams (R&D, as we call it internally), operating as a strategic partner to the leaders you support
- The job isn’t just filling requisitions; it’s raising the quality of every hiring decision made across those teams
- Your area is clearly defined, but not a boundary: we work as one TA team, so you’ll be expected to support colleagues on other areas and pick up wider TA work when priorities shift
- This is an AI-native role. You’re expected to orchestrate AI across the recruiting lifecycle (sourcing, screening, deliverables, quality checks) and build the systems that make that possible
- It reports to the Head of Talent Acquisition, R&D. The role is ideally based in Finland, Sweden, or the UK, and the remit is global
- Own the full recruiting cycle for your Technology & Product teams, from role scoping to offer acceptance: delivering personally where it counts and drawing on TA colleagues and our RPO and consultancy partners where that gets a better result. You own the outcome either way, including the quality bar
- Build sourcing pipelines so key roles have engaged candidates before the urgency hits, and sell RELEX credibly to senior, passive candidates, closing offers in competitive markets
- Coach hiring managers on role definition, interview design, and selection, and how candidates are assessed: on evidence, through a process you keep sharpening
- Deliver market intelligence (talent availability, comp benchmarks, funnel metrics) and spot upcoming hiring needs early, so they’re in the plan before they become urgent
- Design and run AI-native recruiting workflows, piloting new approaches and updating the standard based on evidence
- Work in collaboration with our colleagues, in eg. People Business Partner, Compensation, People Operations, and Employer Branding teams, connecting hiring to the wider employee lifecycle
- Take named ownership of initiatives that reach beyond your own teams, such as assessment frameworks, interview standards, AI workflows and drive them to global adoption, working through the wider TA team, People Business Partners, Compensation, and People Operations to make them stick
Our take
Relex offers a software platform deployed by retailers to help decide which products to buy and when. By leveraging AI-driven demand forecasts, and by automating retail supply chains, grocers are empowered to meet consumer demand whilst reducing food waste.
Retail food waste accounts for a good chunk of the millions of tonnes of food wasted each year, contributing a significant amount to global greenhouse gas emissions. With Relex, retailers can greatly reduce their own impact to this problem - which is becoming increasingly attractive in the wake of accelerating environmental concerns.
Boasting a valuation in the billions, and serving renowned clientele such as Lidl, Marks & Spencers and WHSmith, it is clear that Relex has found its place in the market. The company has been investing in refining its product so it can better meet retailers’ changing supply chain needs, including with the addition of AI tool Relex-GPT which makes client operations even more efficient.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
22% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Feb 2022
$581.9m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Feb 2019
$200m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $816.9m
Company benefits
- Hybrid, office and fully remote options (hybrid and office as standard)
- Health Insurance, Occupational Health Services and Employee Assistance Programme
- Modern offices with free snacks, drinks and a warm welcome for dogs
- Two paid charity days every year for volunteering
- An annual bonus
- Two paid team days every year
Company HQ
Pasila, Helsinki, Uusimaa
Leadership
Johanna Småros
(Co-Founder & Chief Sustainability Officer)Formerly worked as both Director and CMO for the company. Before this, spent nearly 7 years at Helsinki University of Technology as a Researcher.
Michael Falck
(Co-Founder)Formerly acted as President of the North America branch of Relex. Has experience in Research at both Helsinki University of Technology and Eindhoven University of Technology.
Mikko Kärkkäinen
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously acted as Project Manager for Helsinki University of Technology and as a Supply Chain Consultant for Sedecon Consulting.
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