Through this, we have the rare opportunity to join us as a Talent Acquisition Partner – Head Office.
The role of the Talent Acquisition Partner is critical to delivering best‑practice Talent Acquisition, with a strong focus on diverse talent, direct sourcing and meaningful candidate and colleague experiences. You’ll be keen to contribute to an ambitious roadmap that strengthens employer brand, embraces technology and continuously elevates what we do.
As a trusted partner aligned to functional and executive stakeholders, you’ll have your eye and expertise over all recruitment needs and be accountable for shaping and delivering effective recruitment and hiring strategies. You’ll enjoy using data and insight to tell compelling stories, promote success and address talent challenges with clear plans and communication. You’ll work closely with People, Talent and Culture colleagues, drawing on workforce capability, talent and succession planning to ensure the right skills and capabilities are delivered through Talent Acquisition.
Our Talent Acquisition Partners recruit for more complex and senior hiring requirements, while working closely with our Recruiters and IT Technical RPO. Acting as a visible advocate for employer brand, you’ll be keen to represent at industry events and beyond, actively seeking opportunities to build awareness and strengthen the organisation’s reputation as an employer of choice.
This role can operate from our Head Offices in Manchester or Binley, Coventry. As a Group role, travel to both locations will be required and a team‑led hybrid working arrangement is in place.
Benefits
- 28 days holiday a year plus bank holidays and a holiday buy/sell scheme
- Annual discretionary bonus scheme
- Personal pension with enhanced contributions
- Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
- Life assurance (6 times annual salary)
We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.
Qualifications
For this role you’ll need to have:
- Strong recent experience in an equivalent in‑house Talent Acquisition role.
- Partnering experience with senior business leaders across Head Office functions e.g finance, legal, commercial (we have an RPO for IT Technical vacancies)
- Ability to drive your approach and recruitment strategy with accountability, impact and influence.
- Direct sourcing experience at all levels including at Senior Leadership.
- A strong team ethos with experience in supporting and developing others.
- Evidence of building creative and effective recruitment strategies to seek talent using different means (professional networks, social media, talent pools, headhunting etc).
- Experience in developing selection processes and materials to ensure best practice, and an inclusive and positive experience.
- Experience and knowledge of Talent Acquisition technology, industry developments, best practice, policy, end to end process and an awareness of appropriate legislation.
Additional Experience
Experience in these areas would be helpful:
- Eploy and Workday knowledge
Equal Opportunity
We’re serious about equality, of race, age, faith, disability and sexual orientation and we celebrate diversity.
Disability Confidence
We’re proud to offer an interview or assessment to every disabled applicant who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies. As part of the application process, disabled applicants can opt in for the Disability Confident Interview Scheme. If there are ever occasions where it is not practicable to interview all candidates that meet the essential criteria, such as when we receive a high number of applications, we commit to interviewing disabled candidates who best meet the minimum essential and desirable criteria.
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The role of the Talent Acquisition Partner is critical to delivering best‑practice Talent Acquisition, with a strong focus on diverse talent, direct sourcing and meaningful candidate and colleague experiences. You’ll be keen to contribute to an ambitious roadmap that strengthens employer brand, embraces technology and continuously elevates what we do.
As a trusted partner aligned to functional and executive stakeholders, you’ll have your eye and expertise over all recruitment needs and be accountable for shaping and delivering effective recruitment and hiring strategies. You’ll enjoy using data and insight to tell compelling stories, promote success and address talent challenges with clear plans and communication. You’ll work closely with People, Talent and Culture colleagues, drawing on workforce capability, talent and succession planning to ensure the right skills and capabilities are delivered through Talent Acquisition.
Our Talent Acquisition Partners recruit for more complex and senior hiring requirements, while working closely with our Recruiters and IT Technical RPO. Acting as a visible advocate for employer brand, you’ll be keen to represent at industry events and beyond, actively seeking opportunities to build awareness and strengthen the organisation’s reputation as an employer of choice.
This role can operate from our Head Offices in Manchester or Binley, Coventry. As a Group role, travel to both locations will be required and a team‑led hybrid working arrangement is in place.
Benefits
- 28 days holiday a year plus bank holidays and a holiday buy/sell scheme
- Annual discretionary bonus scheme
- Personal pension with enhanced contributions
- Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
- Life assurance (6 times annual salary)
We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.
Qualifications
For this role you’ll need to have:
- Strong recent experience in an equivalent in‑house Talent Acquisition role.
- Partnering experience with senior business leaders across Head Office functions e.g finance, legal, commercial (we have an RPO for IT Technical vacancies)
- Ability to drive your approach and recruitment strategy with accountability, impact and influence.
- Direct sourcing experience at all levels including at Senior Leadership.
- A strong team ethos with experience in supporting and developing others.
- Evidence of building creative and effective recruitment strategies to seek talent using different means (professional networks, social media, talent pools, headhunting etc).
- Experience in developing selection processes and materials to ensure best practice, and an inclusive and positive experience.
- Experience and knowledge of Talent Acquisition technology, industry developments, best practice, policy, end to end process and an awareness of appropriate legislation.
Additional Experience
Experience in these areas would be helpful:
- Eploy and Workday knowledge
Equal Opportunity
We’re serious about equality, of race, age, faith, disability and sexual orientation and we celebrate diversity.
Disability Confidence
We’re proud to offer an interview or assessment to every disabled applicant who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies. As part of the application process, disabled applicants can opt in for the Disability Confident Interview Scheme. If there are ever occasions where it is not practicable to interview all candidates that meet the essential criteria, such as when we receive a high number of applications, we commit to interviewing disabled candidates who best meet the minimum essential and desirable criteria.
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