Talent Acquisition Lead, UK

Overview

Talent Acquisition Lead, UK – Full time

Responsibilities

• Shape and deliver the talent acquisition strategy across UK businesses, ensuring attraction, engagement, and hiring of exceptional talent in competitive and specialist markets.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders and senior business/HR leaders, translating complex talent challenges into actionable recruiting solutions.
• Own and evolve market‑specific TA strategies, balancing global frameworks with local UK labor market dynamics, regulations, and competitive intelligence.
• Build and inspire a high‑performing TA team, setting clear expectations, coaching leaders, and driving accountability for delivery, quality, and experience.
• Partner closely with Global TA leadership, contributing to enterprise TA strategy, sharing best practices, and supporting ongoing transformation initiatives.
• Drive continuous improvement across recruiting processes, candidate experience, and hiring manager engagement, using data, insights, and market trends.
• Ensure strong governance and compliance, including adherence to hiring policies, employment regulations, and internal controls across all hiring activity.
• Use data to inform decisions, providing transparent reporting on hiring performance, market challenges, and progress against SLAs and business outcomes.

Qualifications

• Extensive leadership experience in Talent Acquisition, ideally within complex, matrixed, or global organisations.
• Deep understanding of the UK talent market, including specialist, professional, and niche roles.
• Proven ability to partner with senior business leaders, influencing outcomes and navigating competing priorities.
• Experience leading and developing TA leaders and teams with a track record of building capability and driving performance.
• Demonstrated success operating within global TA models, balancing enterprise standards with local execution.
• Strong commercial and analytical mindset, using data, insights, and market intelligence to shape hiring strategies.
• Comfort leading through change, including TA transformation, process evolution, and operating model shifts.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, with confidence to engage at executive level.

Work Arrangement

Team members are expected to work primarily in the office to support collaboration and teamwork.

Benefits

Our Total Rewards Program offers comprehensive benefits focused on health, wellbeing, and financial security, along with professional development opportunities.

Equal Opportunity Statement

We provide equal opportunity to all qualified individuals regardless of race, color, religion, age, gender, gender expression, national origin, veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected categories, and commit to reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities.

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