Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, Gousto
FTC, Marketing
Recipe boxes delivered to your door
Job no longer available
Recipe boxes delivered to your door
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be the most-loved way to eat dinner.
Role
Who you are
- To be successful in this role we're looking for someone who has experience supporting hiring for marketing teams, ideally for direct to consumer business focussed on customer acquisition and retention
- Its essential you have experience hiring for mid-senior roles across marketing, and digital, and that you've done this working directly for an organisation, not just recruitment agency side
- Other food, insights or customer teams would be beneficial
- Strong sourcing expertise, able to build robust pipelines using a mix of channels and techniques
- Trusted advisor to hiring managers, with the confidence and credibility to influence decisions using insight and data
- Comfortable managing multiple recruitment processes end-to-end, with strong prioritisation and project management skills
- Thoughtful communicator, both verbal and written, with a focus on clarity, inclusivity and professionalism
- Advocate for continuous improvement, constantly seeking ways to raise the bar for hiring at Gousto
- Passionate about creating exceptional candidate experiences and representing the Gousto brand with pride
- Collaborative and agile team player who thrives in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
What the job involves
- We're looking for a Senior Talent Acquisition Partner to join our high-performing Talent Acquisition team and focus on hiring for our Customer division
- This role reports into a Talent Acquisition Lead with a hybrid location of one day in our Shepherds Bush office
- This is an exciting opportunity to shape how we attract and hire brilliant talent across some of Gousto's most high-profile teams: including Marketing, Brand, Buying, Customer Care, Food Proposition, & Sustainability and Insight
- You'll act as a trusted partner to stakeholders, manage complex hiring campaigns, and lead best-in-class recruitment practices that deliver against ambitious goals
- Partner with hiring teams and the People function to define and execute effective recruiting strategies for roles in the Customer division, early on this will be working with the marketing teams
- Manage the full recruitment lifecycle, ensuring balanced and diverse candidate pipelines and a seamless experience throughout
- Draft engaging, inclusive job adverts that represent Gousto's culture and attract top-quality candidates
- Use advanced sourcing techniques to identify, engage and convert top talent into active candidates
- Guide hiring managers through the hiring process, from briefing through to offer, ensuring clarity, alignment and great decision-making
- Champion a high-quality candidate experience with consistent, timely and thoughtful communication
- Apply talent data and insights to inform hiring decisions, improve process efficiency, and influence stakeholder thinking
Salary benchmarks
Our take
There is an accelerating consumer need to eat healthily, sustainably, and at value. Gousto aims to meet this need with its meal-kit delivery service, which offers pre-packaged ingredients and recipe instructions. It sets itself apart with more than 200 different recipes to choose from each week - a third of which are customisable.
In 2021, Gousto sold more than 90 million meals, amounting to three meals every second, a figure that is on the rise. It is part of the UK Plastics Pact, which advocates for 100% reusable, recyclable and compostable plastic. As a member, Gousto has committed to eliminating problematic plastics, stimulating innovation and helping to build a stronger recycling system in the UK.
Gousto became a B Corp certified company for its sustainability efforts. Following huge investments in 2023, the company is now a unicorn and is sure to continue its growth over the coming years as more consumers switch to convenient online grocery shopping.
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Meet the team
4 people
Adam Harris, Director of New Markets
Our mission
To take Gousto to more markets beyond the UK.Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 13 rounds)
Feb 2023
$67.3m
LATE VC
Jan 2022
$100m
LATE VC
Total funding: $378.5m
Company benefits
- Life assurance
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Interest free loan to spend on the latest tech
- Referral scheme
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays), + a holiday day added each year (up to 30 days), + buy up to 5 days extra holiday
- 40% Gousto discount, 15% for friends and family, and first box free
- Digital GP & wellbeing apps
- Private healthcare
- Discounted gym membership
- Company pension
Company values
- Dream - We’ve got huge ambition and believe everything is possible - Curious, bold and resilient, we’ve got an insatiable appetite to learn and grow
- Deliver - We work at pace and focus on impact, taking ownership of the solution and raising the bar every step of the way
- Care - We obsess over our customers, doing the right thing for them and for the planet. We are one team, supporting and celebrating one another
Company HQ
Shepherd's Bush, London HQ, UK
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Leadership
Timo Boldt
(Founder & CEO)Spent 4 years in Finance at Rothschild and a hedge fund before founding Gousto in 2012. Sits on the Digital Advisory Board at Unilever.
People progressing
Joined as Operations Development Director, being promoted to EVP Operations after 1 year, and has since become Chief People Officer.
Joined as a Customer Care Agent in 2014, and is now Head of Customer Care.
Joined as PR Manager, being promoted to Senior Brand and PR Manager after 1 year and again to Head of Brand Marketing and PR after 3 years.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Gousto
- Whether it’s creating diversity in our recipes or building new teams, we care about our people and the opportunities they have at Gousto. Across our business we lead with inclusivity and strive for equality in all we do; working hard to ensure Gousto is an environment where you can be totally yourself.
- Our Inclusion Communities are employee-led groups that connect people with shared identities, lived experiences, and passions. They champion each other, raise awareness of what matters most, and help us build a workplace where everyone belongs. Whether it’s Pride Sports Day, an Eid feast, learning from disability advocates, or providing free period products across our sites, our communities help turn care into action and they’ve driven meaningful change, shaping policies that support our people through key life moments, from enhanced parental leave to menopause, fertility and baby loss support. They’re powerful platforms for connection, celebration and progress, and we’re always striving to do better.
- We currently have nine active communities: Gousto Mind, Gousto Women, Gousto Muslim, Gousto Black, Gousto Asia, Gousto Pride, Gousto Neuro & Gousto Parents.
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