Senior Manager Global Executive Hiring

Senior Manager, Global Executive Hiring

Are you passionate about identifying and engaging exceptional leadership talent? Do you thrive in partnering with senior stakeholders and navigating complex leadership hiring in a global environment?

Carlsberg is looking for a Senior Manager, Global Executive Hiring, to strengthen how we identify, attract, and engage senior leadership talent across the organisation. In this role, you will work closely with senior leaders and People & Culture stakeholders to lead high-impact leadership searches and bring external market insight into our leadership hiring decisions.

At Carlsberg, we believe that great leadership drives great businesses. If you are excited about proactively identifying senior talent, advising stakeholders on complex hiring decisions, and shaping leadership pipelines in a global organisation, we would love to hear from you!

What You’ll Be Doing

You will be part of the Group People & Culture team, reporting into the Global Talent Acquisition function, and contribute to strengthening our leadership hiring capabilities by:

• Leading and delivering complex leadership searches across Carlsberg’s global organisation
• Proactively identifying and engaging senior leadership talent through direct search, market mapping, and talent intelligence
• Acting as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders on leadership hiring strategies and candidate selection
• Partnering closely with executive leaders and People & Culture teams to shape search strategies and define leadership profiles
• Bringing external market insight and talent intelligence into leadership hiring decisions
• Managing professional and high-quality engagement with senior candidates throughout the search and selection process, including confidential searches where required
• Supporting strategic leadership talent initiatives, including leadership pipeline development and succession-related hiring activities
• Supporting Carlsberg’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion by ensuring diverse leadership talent pipelines and balanced candidate slates in leadership searches
• Partnering with People & Culture stakeholders to support broader talent strategy priorities and future leadership capability needs.

What we’re looking for

To be successful in this role, we imagine that you possess:

• Significant experience in executive search or senior leadership hiring, either in-house or within a leading executive search firm
• Proven experience managing complex leadership searches in international and matrix organisations
• Strong experience partnering with senior stakeholders and navigating executive-level hiring processes
• Deep understanding of executive sourcing strategies, leadership assessment approaches, and selection methodologies
• Experience working with external executive search firms and managing executive search engagements
• Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to build credibility with senior leaders
• Excellent communication and influencing skills
• High level of professionalism, discretion, and integrity when handling sensitive leadership hiring matters
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities
• Understanding of succession planning and talent acquisition synergies.
• Strategic-oriented mindset with a proactive approach.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced and dynamic global organisation.

What you can expect:

In Carlsberg, we are brewing for a better today and tomorrow and what we can offer you is an equal opportunity to grow across our company. We believe that each employee drives their own seat in designing their career path and we fully support them in endeavouring to create as many development opportunities as possible through internal promotions, Short / Long Time Assignments (STA/LTA), and horizontal moves within different markets.

All of this is taking place in a culturally diverse environment, where we celebrate our successes together and where no matter where you are from, who you are, or what experiences you bring to the table, all we say is: WELCOME YOU!

Our strategy, Accelerate SAIL is all about building a culture of growth at every level of our organisation. It means approaching everything we do with a growth mindset, setting ambitious goals and achieving them.   

To do this, we will empower our people to make the best decisions, giving them the tools and support they need to take calculated risks and stay ahead in a fast-moving and ever-changing landscape.  

If you join our team, some of the benefits you’ll enjoy are:

• Flexible, hybrid work model
• Annual bonus based on company and individual performance
• Monthly beer and soft drink allowance
• Well-equipped and comfortable office in the heart of Carlsberg City District in Valby, Copenhagen
• Opportunities to have fun together during regular Friday bars
• Being part of a company with an enormous heritage and a strong connection with Denmark’s Capital City

Interested?

Apply through the link. Please notice that this is the only way we accept applications.

The deadline for applying is the 12th of April 2026. For questions about the position, please contact Talent Acquisition Partner, Justyna Kochanowska, at justyna.kochanowska@carlsberg.com

We read applications continuously, and vacancies may be filled sooner than the deadline, so we encourage you to apply as early as possible.

We look forward to receiving your application.

Carlsberg Group: Brewing for a better today and tomorrow

For us success has always been in the diverse mix of our people, our beers and our brands. At Carlsberg, we want to recruit and develop people with a global mindset, cultural understanding, and international experience to ensure that our organization stays agile, inclusive and prepared for future growth. Only by acknowledging and harvesting from different perspectives and experiences, will we gain competitive advantage and leverage the effect of diversity for business growth. Carlsberg aims to create equal access to opportunity regardless of social identity, and we encourage everyone to apply regardless of gender, nationality, race, religion or any other characteristics protected by law.