You are an experienced Talent Acquisition lead who brings deep recruitment expertise and has led recruitment activity and people within an in-house, recruitment or resourcing environment. You know how to set direction, create clear standards, manage priorities across a small team and build capability in others.

You combine senior recruitment delivery with strong operational judgement. You understand what effective recruitment looks like in a complex organisation and can operate as a strategic partner to the business, connecting hiring activity to workforce priorities, commercial needs and longer-term talent planning.

You bring structure, challenge and practical problem-solving to hiring activity. You are confident shaping hiring plans, improving sourcing approaches, managing agency use effectively and strengthening recruitment process discipline from requisition through to offer, while maintaining quality, service and fair, inclusive hiring practices that widen access to talent and support meaningful progress against EDI goals.

Minimum criteria:

•  Significant Talent Acquisition, recruitment or resourcing experience, including operating at Senior Partner, Lead or equivalent leadership level within an in-house function.
•  Experience leading or managing a small Talent Acquisition, recruitment or resourcing team, including balancing direct recruitment delivery with team leadership, workload management, coaching, service quality and continuous improvement.
•  Experience helping to shape, build or embed a Talent Acquisition strategy, roadmap, service model or consistent set of recruitment standards.
•  Experience operating as a strategic Talent Acquisition partner to business leaders and hiring managers, including shaping hiring plans, constructively challenging approach, improving assessment quality and supporting better recruitment decision-making.
•  Experience managing agency relationships, external hiring activity and direct sourcing approaches, with a focus on quality, control, cost effectiveness and reduced agency reliance.
•  Experience assessing contractor engagements for IR35 purposes and ensuring appropriate compliance, governance, decision-making and record keeping.
•  Strong understanding of recruitment process control, candidate data management, governance and compliance within a Talent Acquisition environment.
•  Experience using recruitment data, service insight, source effectiveness, quality-of-hire information and retention outcomes to monitor performance and support evidence-based recommendations.
•  Experience leading recruitment delivery through periods of high demand, reduced cover or competing priorities, while maintaining service quality and candidate experience.
•  Strong organisational judgement and influencing skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities, maintain delivery momentum and uphold high standards of accuracy and professionalism.