Talent Acquisition Specialist - Emerging Talent Lead (Copper Industrial Assets)

The Emerging Talent Lead supports the design, delivery and operational execution of structured assessment and talent identification programmes that support:

• External recruitment of early career, specialist and leadership talent

• Identification and evaluation of internal talent across Africa and Latin America

Working closely with the Head of Emerging Talent, the role helps ensure assessment and selection processes are structured, fair, data-driven and aligned to Glencore’s workforce planning, capability development and succession objectives.           

Primary responsibilities in this role are:

Assessment Programme Delivery:

• Support the development and delivery of structured assessment centres and selection

• Implement assessment methodologies applicable to:

• Graduate and early-career recruitment

• External leadership and specialist hiring

• Internal promotion, succession and talent identification

• Support the design of assessments that reflect real operational and leadership challenges within the mining environment

Internal Talent Identification & Succession:

• Support the assessment of internal employees to evaluate potential, readiness and development needs

• Contribute to succession planning and internal mobility discussions through assessment insights

• Partner with HR and business leaders to identify emerging and high-potential talent pools

• Help ensure consistency between internal and external assessment standards

Stakeholder Partnership:

• Work closely with HR Business Partners, recruitment teams and business leaders to support hiring and talent identification initiatives

• Assist stakeholders in understanding assessment outcomes and candidate evaluation insights

• Support alignment of assessment approaches across regions and functions

Assessment Tools, Governance & Fairness:

• Maintain and support assessment tools, scoring matrices and behavioural indicators

• Help ensure consistency, fairness and governance in assessment processes

• Support the calibration and training of assessors where required

Data, Insights & Reporting:

• Maintain assessment data and documentation

• Support reporting and insights that contribute to:

• Recruitment decisions

• Succession planning

• Workforce and capability planning

Assist in identifying trends in talent quality, readiness and pipeline strength

Continuous Improvement:

• Support ongoing refinement of assessment methodologies

• Contribute to building internal capability in assessment and selection

• Help reduce reliance on external providers over time where appropriate

• Ensure assessment processes support diversity, equity and inclusion principles

Executive and Mining Recruitment Support:

• Partner with recruitment teams and business leaders to evaluate candidates for critical technical, operational and leadership roles

• Contribute to structured evaluation approaches used in executive and senior specialist recruitment processes

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field of study (Master’s degree is a plus)

• 8 -10+ years of experience in talent, recruitment, assessment or early careers programmes

• Experience supporting or delivering assessment centres

• Exposure to both external recruitment and internal talent identification processes

• Ability to partner effectively with senior stakeholders

• Experience working across multiple geographies is desirable

• Exposure to the mining, resources or heavy industry sector is advantageous

• Familiarity with psychometric and leadership assessment tools

• Exposure to Africa and/or Latin America labour markets

Travel Requirements

Occasional travel to sites, regions and universities

Who we are

Glencore is one of the world’s largest global diversified natural resource companies and a major producer and marketer of more than 60 commodities that advance everyday life. Through a network of assets, customers and suppliers that spans the globe, we produce, process, recycle, source, market and distribute the commodities that support decarbonisation while meeting the energy needs of today.

With over 150,000 employees and contractors and a strong footprint in over 35 countries in both established and emerging regions for natural resources, our marketing and industrial activities are supported by a global network of more than 50 offices.

Glencore’s customers are industrial consumers, such as those in the automotive, steel, power generation, battery manufacturing and oil sectors. We also provide financing, logistics and other services to producers and consumers of commodities.

Glencore is proud to be a member of the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights and the International Council on Mining and Metals. We are an active participant in the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative.

We will support the global effort to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement through our efforts to decarbonise our own operational footprint. We believe that we should take a holistic approach and have considered our commitment through the lens of our global industrial emissions. Against a restated 2019 baseline, we are targeting to reduce our Scope 1, 2 and 3 industrial emissions by 15% by the end of 2026, 25% by the end of 2030, 50% by the end of 2035 and we have an ambition to achieve net zero industrial emissions by the end of 2050, subject to a supportive policy environment. For more information see our 2024-2026 Climate Action Transition Plan and the About our emissions calculation and reporting section in our 2023 Annual Report, available on our website at glencore.com/publications.​

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