TA Specialist – Luxury Retail

Overview

In this Talent Acquisition Partner role, you’ll own end-to-end recruitment for in-store and field-based retail roles, shaping future talent for a premium retailer. You will partner with hiring leaders to understand needs, design effective assessment methods, and build early-career pipelines. You’ll lead proactive sourcing, market insight, and onboarding processes, ensuring a high-quality candidate experience. This is a ground-up build role with impact on talent strategy, employer branding, and workforce readiness.

Pay / Benefits

• generous pay & benefits
• Long term development opportunity

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end recruitment for retail roles across levels, from entry to senior management.
• Partner with hiring leaders to define capability needs, timelines, and succession gaps.
• Proactively attract retail professionals through direct outreach, networking, and market mapping.
• Develop and run group assessments and structured hiring activities to improve quality of hire.
• Establish partnerships with schools and universities to build junior/graduate pipelines.
• Enhance employer branding and candidate journey to reflect a high-quality experience.
• Maintain visibility of hiring demand and refresh talent pools for readiness.
• Support structured onboarding to improve engagement and role effectiveness.
• Monitor market trends (salary, competitor activity) and share insights to inform strategy.

Key requirements

• Solid experience in Talent Acquisition, ideally within Retail
• Ability to recruit across multiple role levels simultaneously
• Experience contributing to or leading assessment-based hiring approaches
• Strong stakeholder management with the confidence to challenge and influence
• Proactive, resilient, and commercially minded
• Genuine interest in developing early talent and sustainable pipelines

• stakeholder management
• proactivity
• resilience
• assessment design
• group assessments
• market mapping

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