Do you want to be a valued part of the critical infrastructure that serves communities across Europe and beyond? Are you looking for a position in which you can set direction and help shape our company? If so, then you could be the newest addition to our team as Talent Acquisition Consultant. Are you the one to help us on our mission to find the future talented employees of DFDS?

Be part of the movement - and play your part.   

You will join our Talent Acquisition Team consisting of three Talent Acquisition Consultants and a student assistant. Our main purpose is to attract and hire new office-based employees to our headquarter, including positions on all levels and to all kinds of functions in HR, Finance, IT, Procurement etc.

We act as trusted advisors for our hiring managers and to succeed the best with this partnership, each of us are responsible for recruitments in different areas. This role will mainly focus on recruitments in our Technology & Innovation organization (T&I), where more than 400 employees is working to support innovation, growth, and excellent customer experience – and more employees are with no doubt going to take part in this journey with your help.

Key Responsibilites

As a Talent Acquisition Consultant to the Technology & Innovation organization, your key tasks include:

• The full recruitment cycle from job add, search (if necessary), screening, interviews, assessment feedback and finally, to securing contract closure
• Advisory to the hiring managers in T&I
• Cultivate a culture of diversity and inclusive hiring
• Support with various ad-hoc tasks    

Furthermore, we are soon looking forward to implementing a new recruitment system. You can therefore also expect to be part of this process and to ensure that we gain the best outcome of all the new functionalities the system will provide us with.

About you 

We believe the strongest teams are built on diversity and inclusivity. Contrasting opinions, varied skills and strong characters bring out the best in us all. With this in mind, we believe that the ideal person for this position will have the following qualifications:     

• A genuine interest in people and excellent communication skills in English
• Experience with recruitment from an internal position or as external consultant, including experience with search
• Preferably experience with recruiting tech-profiles.
• Experience with using personal and -logical assessments in interviews. In DFDS, we use DISC and GIA from Thomas International, but we don’t expect you to have experience with these specifically.
• A service minded approach towards applicants as well as hiring managers and an eye for supporting the employer brand of DFDS.

Join the movement and grow with us. 

While you’re with us, we want you to develop, and we will encourage you to challenge yourself to acquire new skills and perspectives. 

The position is based at our new DGNB-gold-certified headquarters in Nordhavn. Aside from the stunning view over our ferry terminal, our office offers access to the fitness centre, yoga classes, gamer room with table football and PS, and other recreational activities with our employees.

Note that the position is a maternity cover with a duration of 15 months. If the match is there, we will of course look into continuing the good collaboration in a permanent position.

Are we a match? Then what are you waiting for? Apply Now.   

If you believe your personality, skills, and experience match this role, we’d love to hear from you. Send us your resume as soon as possible as we’re keen to meet potential candidates on an ongoing basis. The expected start date is as soon as possible.   

Is there something you need to know, we haven’t covered here, please do not hesitate to reach out to HR Consultant, Sarah Krolack, at sakro@dfds.com or on +45 2098 8445.

We look forward to hearing from you.