London, United Kingdom
Hybrid – 3 days onsite per week
Role Overview:
This Leadership role sits at the heart of a high performing RPO team embedded within a global investment bank. You’ll own the front office recruiting remit across capital markets and asset management while leading and developing a small team of specialist recruiters. If you thrive on complex senior mandates and want genuine scope to shape how recruitment is delivered, then this is the role.
At Hudson Talent Solutions we deliver innovative, forward thinking talent solutions, outsourcing and recruitment on a global scale. Currently operating in over 20 countries our successful RPO business is responsible for delivering and supporting our varied client base with high touch, strategic resourcing.
Role Purpose:
Reporting into the RPO Resourcing Director you will carry dual accountability, driving delivery of senior and critical hires across the front office business lines and providing day to day leadership and coaching to your team. This is not a hands off management role, you will be working an active desk alongside your recruiters, holding key stakeholders relationships and owing the more complex searches.
As a Recruitment Lead you will have responsibility for:
- Managing the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle for experienced hire recruitment across capital markets and asset management
- Lead, coach and develop a team of embedded recruiters across the front office portfolio
- Set the standard for quality, speed and stakeholder engagement across the team
- Establishing and nurturing relationships with key client stakeholders to build credibility and delivery capabilities
- Acting as a trusted Advisor to the business/client to negotiate & influence strategy and outcome
- Build and maintain deep talent networks across the front office disciplines ( EMEA market)
- Proactively sourcing and networking with candidates directly utilising a range of innovative sourcing methods
- Promoting the employer brand within the external talent market, consistently delivering key messaging from the firm’s Employer Value Proposition
- Providing stakeholders with market data and insights to assess talent pipeline for current and future needs as well as facilitate feedback conversations with key stakeholders and candidates
- Building strong partnerships with hiring leaders, establishing the credibility to provide a truly consultative service to the business on how to improve process and enhance the candidate experience
- Delivering exceptional candidate care through all stages of the recruitment process, ensuring that successful and unsuccessful candidates alike have a positive experience engaging with the brand
- Partner with the RPO Resourcing Director on capacity planning performance and continuous improvement
Required Experience and Competencies:
- An experienced recruitment leader with a strong track record across front office financial services either inhouse or RPO. You understand the roles, the talent landscape and the nuance
- Comfortable owning senior searches independently while also developing others
- A credible, confident presence with senior stakeholders, you know how to manage expectations, push back when needed and earn trust quickly
- A natural leader who motivates through example and genuinely invests in the people around them
- Commercially minded, with a solutions first mindset
This is an RPO role that sits within a truly embedded model, offering real access, real relationships and real influence. Its a leadership role without losing your desk, a rare opportunity for a Front Office SME looking to further grow their career.
A little bit about us:
At Hudson Talent Solutions, we’re shaping the future of talent. From recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) to employer branding and across the complete talent life cycle, we thrive on delivering world-class customer and candidate experiences.
People are at the centre of everything we do. We deliver innovative, customised recruitment services and talent solutions to organisations worldwide. We’re an innovative and diverse team that works hard and thinks smart. Led by accomplished and inclusive leaders, our people are always open to trying new things to continuously deliver excellence to our clients.
At Hudson Talent Solutions we don’t just accept difference—we celebrate it, support it, and thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our clients, and our community. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and commit to fairness and equality for all during the hiring process and throughout your time with us.
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