Talent Acquisition Partner - Lisbon

Talent Acquisition Partner - Lisbon

💸Salary: Up to €40,000 per annum (depending on experience). 

📍Location: You’ll have flexibility around when you work from the office, but you will be expected to be based near Lisbon, Portugal. Occasional visits to see the team.

🧠Interview process: Two rounds. 1: Get to know you chat with one of the Talent Team; 2: Competency interview with the Hiring Lead and another Team Member. 

🤝Our Values:  Advancing, Come as you are, Zero burnout, Level Up and Transparency  

Learn more about us: YouTube, read our Blogs & understand our values! 

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Who Are We?

Advancing Analytics is a multi-award-winning data consultancy specialising in modern, scalable Data and AI platforms for customers all over the world. To thrive in today's market, businesses need to implement AI built on a solid, reliable Data Platform, and we are looking for you to help us build it!  

Who are we looking for?

We're looking for a proactive and commercially minded Talent Partner to join our Talent Team in Portugal. This is an exciting opportunity to take ownership of most of our hiring across Portugal, partnering closely with hiring managers and senior leaders to attract and hire exceptional talent. You will also work closely with our Chief Innovation Officer, supporting the growth of our Innovation function and help shape the future of our Data & AI capabilities in Portugal.

🧩 What Makes You Great for This Role

• Proven experience managing end-to-end recruitment processes, either in-house or agency-side.

• Experience recruiting for technical roles, ideally within Data, AI, Software Engineering, Cloud, or Consulting environments.

• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence and partner with leaders at all levels.

• Ability to assess candidates for both technical capability and cultural alignment.

• Proactive and resourceful, with strong sourcing and talent mapping experience.

• Confident communicator who excels at building relationships with candidates and stakeholders.

• Comfortable managing multiple vacancies simultaneously while maintaining a high-quality candidate experience.

• Passionate about inclusive hiring and creating a positive employer brand.

• Experience using an ATS (we use Teamtailor!).

• Excited by the opportunity to help shape and scale our talent function as we continue to grow globally.

As a Talent Partner, you'll be responsible for helping drive recruitment across Portugal, acting as a trusted advisor to hiring managers. You'll own the full recruitment lifecycle, from talent attraction through to offer management.

You'll work particularly closely with our Chief Innovation Officer to support the growth of our Portugal office, helping identify and attract top talent within the Data & AI market.

🧩Key Responsibilities:

• Own and deliver the majority of hiring across Portugal, ensuring an efficient, high-quality recruitment process.

• Partner with hiring managers to understand business needs.

• Work closely with the Chief Innovation Officer to support hiring across Innovation, Data & AI functions across our Portugal team.

• Source, engage, and build relationships with high-quality candidates through LinkedIn Recruiter, networking, referrals, events, and other sourcing channels.

• Conduct screening and competency-based interviews to assess candidate suitability.

• Build and maintain strong talent pipelines for current and future hiring needs.

• Deliver an exceptional candidate experience throughout the recruitment process.

• Support employer branding initiatives and represent Advancing Analytics within the Portuguese talent market.

• Partner closely with the wider Talent Team on talent attraction, hiring best practices, and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Champion diversity, equity, and inclusion across all hiring activities.

What will it be like to work for Advancing Analytics?

As a consultancy with strong partnerships across Microsoft, Databricks, AWS, Sigma, Tabular Editor and dbt Labs, you’ll get hands-on access to some of the most exciting technology and learning opportunities in the industry. We know this market moves quickly, so we invest in our people for the long term, giving you the space to build real expertise, keep developing, and stay ahead of what’s next.

We’re also genuinely active in the wider data and AI community. That means speaking at events, sponsoring major industry moments like Big Data London, and showing up at some of the biggest stages in the space, including Databricks Data+AI Summit, Data+AI World Tour, and the Global AI AgentCon London.  

We encourage our team to get involved in the community, whether that’s in the form of a personal blog or an initiative you are passionate about advocating, we will support you!     

Aside from offering a competitive salary, we have a great set of benefits and perks including, but not limited to:

• Industry matching Maternity & Paternity policy 🐣

• Private Medical & Dental Care 🩺

• Meal Allowance (Subsídio de Alimentação) via card or payroll, in line with Portuguese practice 🍴

• Health & Well-being supplement 🩺

• 25 Days Annual Leave, Birthday Leave & Charity Leave 🌴

• Away days with the team 🚃

• Flexible Working Hours

• Accident insurance as standard under Portuguese employment laws

Our company values define us:

🚀 Advancing – Being part of a team that drives innovation and pushing boundaries of what’s possible. Our work redefines industry standards and challenges the status quo in the data world every day.

❤️ Come as you are – we are an inclusive company. When you work with us, rest assured you're working in a safe environment.

❌ Zero burnout – We have seen it happen, and we never want to be a company that pushes our staff to breaking point.

⬆️ We all level up together – we have each seen the benefit that being part of a community can have, it is transformational.

💡 Transparency – We are big believers that there are no secrets in Advancing Analytics, and we try to live this day to day.

You can read about our values in more detail here - https://www.advancinganalytics.co.uk/values 

Equal opportunities for everyone

At Advancing Analytics both diversity and inclusion are a priority. We are all committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels valued, respected and empowered to be their authentic selves.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer; all applicants will be considered without regard to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran status, neurodiversity or disability status.

This role profile is intended to provide an overview of the responsibilities and qualifications required for the Talent Partner role. It is not an exhaustive list and may be subject to change to meet the needs of the organisation.