Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist, Flink
€51-60k
Grocery delivery service
Posted today
Grocery delivery service
1001+ employees
Posted today
€51-60k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To deliver organic fresh fruit, vegetables, and other groceries directly to the homes of customers, within 10 minutes, at supermarket prices.
Role
Who you are
- You have 5+ years of Talent Acquisition experience, including at least 3 years as an internal recruiter within a tech startup or scaleup business
- You have a proven ability to attract and hire talent across different departments and channels while maintaining an outstanding candidate experience, and can give examples of the different business functions you've worked with and what makes hiring different between them
- You have strong analytical skills and use data to influence and shape hiring strategy across a department or, ideally, a whole business
- You have experience working with senior leadership stakeholders, with clear examples of when you've had to persuade and navigate tradeoffs
- You are comfortable using AI to improve recruitment processes, and know what works versus what's hype, with examples of both
- You have high proficiency in recruiting platforms and tools; SmartRecruiters experience is a plus
- You are fluent in English, with German being an advantage
What the job involves
- Full-cycle Recruitment: Own and lead the end-to-end recruitment process, with a focus on our crucial business functions. Using data, market insights, and candidate feedback to guide your hiring managers to hire the right talent for Flink
- Hiring Strategy: Own hiring strategy for a diverse range of roles, being the key player in shaping how hiring decisions are made at Flink
- Talent Sourcing: Leverage your sourcing skills to attract and win the best talent for Flink while building long-term relationships with talent pools and communities across the industry
- Recruitment Analytics: Define the data and metrics that guide hiring decisions across all business areas, using insights to shape recruiting strategy rather than just improve individual processes
- Stakeholder Management: You will work closely with senior leadership, becoming a trusted advisor on hiring strategy and decision making
- Candidate Experience: Set the bar for candidate experience at Flink, shaping how we design and continuously evolve the recruitment journey for future Flinkers — not just delivering it, but improving it structurally
- AI Utilisation: Utilising the latest AI tooling you will streamline the company-wide process, making hiring a seamless experience for both hiring managers and candidates
Our take
Online grocery delivery services in Europe range from early supermarket-specific services to the more recent success of mobile food-ordering applications. However despite their proliferation grocery delivery services still face long waiting lists and logistic bottlenecks, with faster solutions coming with a compromise on the range and quality of products.
Flink provides an online website and mobile application for the delivery of fresh fruit, vegetables, and other organic-quality groceries to European homes. The company provides its services to over 100 different European cities across Germany,and the Netherlands and claims that its grocery deliveries are provided at supermarket prices within 10 minutes of ordering.
Flink is one of the few remaining independent grocery delivery startups in Europe, with most of the others either having been acquired or shut down. German rival Gorillas for instance ate through its initial investments and was taken over in 2022. Flink has been playing a more conservative strategy, aiming for more steady growth, but had to receive a fresh investment round of 100 million euros in 2024 to help it outlast competitors. Rumors of a potential merger with competitor companies indicate the lengths that Flink is going to maintain its dominance in a market that, at present, is suffering from lower demand and higher costs.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
346% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Mar 2026
$100m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Sep 2024
$120.5m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1.6bn
Company HQ
Mitte, Berlin, Germany
Leadership
Oliver Merkel
(Co-Founder & Managing DIrector)Partner at Bain & Company. Co-founded Flink in December 2020.
Julian Dames
(Co-Founder & Managing Director)Consultant at Bain & Company before founding foodora, where they served as MD and Global CMO. Also served as CMO at Rappi.
Christoph Cordes
(Co-Founder & Managing Director)Began career at Adidas before becoming Manager Director at fashion4home GmbH.
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