Head of Talent, GTM at Omnea in London

Job description

Our Mission: Omnea is the agentic operating system for procurement. Procurement touches every pound a business spends, yet requests still stall for weeks and approvals get lost in inboxes. Our AI-first platform changes that: our agents capture requests, route approvals, onboard suppliers, flag risk and track every renewal, while anyone in the business can ask a question and get an answer grounded in their own company’s data. Buying becomes painless for everyone, procurement gets a seat at the table, and our customers have saved more than 100,000 hours of manual work so far. Companies like Spotify, PayPal, T. Rowe Price, JustEat, Adyen and S&P Global run procurement on Omnea. We’re backed by $75M from Khosla Ventures, Insight Partners and Accel, and we’ve been named the UK’s number one startup in the Startups 100, ranked 11th on Sifted’s 2026 list of Europe’s fastest-growing companies, and recognised as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies. Talent density matters more to us than almost anything else. We keep the bar high in every team, so everyone here has real ownership and real impact. Our team is full of former founders and operators who’ve scaled unicorns, and we’re looking for people who want to do the best work of their careers alongside them. Find out more about the team and life at Omnea here. What we're looking for Omnea is scaling fast after our Series B, and Sales hiring is one of the biggest levers on our growth. We're looking for a Head of GTM Recruitment to own how we hire across Sales. You'll lead a team of recruiters across the UK and US, while still running your own searches. Your focus starts in the UK and EMEA, and grows with us as global roles open up. This is a 50/50 player-coach role. Half your time goes on building the team, the playbook and the partnerships with Sales leadership. The other half goes on doing the work: mapping, outreach, screening and closing the most senior and critical hires yourself. We're building a very different kind of talent function, focused on quality and care over volume and speed. You'll set the standard for what that looks like. What can you expect? Lead the team • You'll lead, coach and grow a team of recruiters across London and New York, setting clear goals and holding a high bar on quality. • You'll hire into your own team as hiring scales, deciding where we need recruiters, sourcers or coordinators. • You'll take the time to differentiate the UK and US hiring engines to reflect local challenges and optimisation. Build the engine • You'll own the hiring plan with sales leadership, forecasting headcount, prioritising roles and keeping us on target. • You'll build the Sales hiring playbook: role specs, success profiles, interview stages, scorecards and closing approach. • You'll own the numbers. Pipeline health, conversion by stage, time to hire, offer acceptance and quality of hire, reported to leadership and used to make decisions. • You'll raise the interviewing bar by training interviewers, calibrating scorecards and pushing back when the bar slips. • You'll get the most out of our tooling and AI so the team spends its time on candidates, not admin. • You'll prepare the function for global hiring as we open roles in new markets. Hire the best • You'll personally run the most senior and critical sales searches, from mapping to close. • You'll be a trusted partner to our sales leaders, shaping role specs and challenging hiring decisions with data. • You'll craft outreach like a great salesperson and close top candidates against strong competing offers. • You'll build Omnea's reputation in the GTM talent market: invite-only events, investor networks, and becoming the go-to person for exceptional sales hires. About you • You've got 8+ years in recruitment, with a strong GTM focus in high-growth startups or agencies placing into them. At least 2 of those years were spent leading recruiters. • You've built or scaled a GTM hiring function before, ideally across more