Manuel Heichlinger

I am leading a fantastic team and my role is to closely partner with the business and the global talent function to ensure successful delivery against key initiatives, coach and develop my team, lead strategic core programmes for the region (such as Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging) and run workshops for the wider Talent Acquisition team.

Leading a team of talent acquisition specialists in London and Dublin to deliver outstanding talent to the growing LinkedIn business in UK & Northern Europe.

Leading Talent Acquisition for Northern Europe and absolutely loving it!! I am supported by a Rock Star team of experienced talent acquisition professionals who cover all Sales, Customer Success and Media Solutions roles across our three lines of business in the UK, Nordics, Benelux and DACH.

My current position sounds fairly easy: finding the best story tellers, solution sellers, problems solvers and client delighters in the EMEA market and hire them for LinkedIn. It is a fantastic role in a truly inspirational and innovative organisation & it fills me with excitement and satisfaction to tell others about the transformational opportunities LinkedIn is able to offer.

I was parachuted into HSBC for their most prestigious recruitment project. The task sounds simple: fill 400 compliance roles with the best talent in the market in less than 6 months. The execution was more complicated. Leading a team of 14 people in 4 locations in 3 countries, weekly reporting to the board, identifying top talent in a highly competitive market plus constant analysis, review & adjustment of our resourcing & attraction strategy were just a few of the challenges I faced during my first months.

I was fortunate enough to play different roles and add value to the business in various ways. I was responsible for the recruitment of all support staff into Deloitte with a volume of 500+ hires per year. Additionally, my responsibilities included the day-to-day management of the business intelligence team which delivered operational and strategic insights to the recruitment function and the overall business. I was involved the roll-out of an upgrade to the ATS used at Deloitte: Taleo.

I helped global players such as ebay, Masterfoods and Olympus to find multi-lingual accountants in the middle of nowhere, exceptional Finance Directors for growing business areas or simply an HR Manager from an automotive background with extensive international resourcing expertise - basically the needle in the proverbial haystack. :) I built, led, coached and developed teams of up to 6 employees in Berlin, Hamburg and London which gave me great pleasure and was among the TOP 5 performers in the company.