Recruiting Lead, International Consumer Banking – Revenue

Overview

In this senior individual contributor role, you drive end-to-end recruiting for UK and European commercial, product, and strategy roles within the International Consumer Banking team. You will lead direct sourcing, engage senior professionals, and influence market-based hiring decisions in a regulated, multinational context. You collaborate with leaders to define role requirements, build talent maps, and shape the TA strategy to enable business growth. You’ll operate in a fast-paced, matrix environment, driving process improvements and delivering high-quality hires that support strategic priorities.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end recruitment for commercial and product strategy roles across the UK and European markets
• Develop and execute direct sourcing strategies with passive candidate engagement
• Manage multiple concurrent requisitions across business lines while maintaining pace and candidate experience
• Partner with hiring managers and senior stakeholders to define role requirements and market expectations
• Build and maintain talent maps across competitors and fintechs
• Stay current on organizational moves, hiring trends, and strategic priorities shaping commercial talent demand in UK/Europe
• Provide market intelligence to TA strategy and workforce planning as an in-house SME
• Conduct structured candidate assessments to improve quality of hire and reduce bias
• Build and nurture future-talent pipelines with warm relationships to high-potential candidates
• Act as trusted advisor to business leaders on role design and market trade-offs
• Ensure clear, compliant delivery across the hiring lifecycle and drive process/tooling improvements

Key requirements

• Substantial in-house or search-side recruiting experience in commercial, product, or strategy within financial services
• Deep knowledge of UK/European retail consumer banking talent market
• Ability to deliver at pace in complex, matrix environments with multiple stakeholders
• Track record of direct sourcing and passive candidate engagement at senior levels
• Strong commercial acumen to engage product and strategy leaders on talent landscape
• Experience managing end-to-end recruitment processes from brief to offer with structured assessment

• advise and influence senior stakeholders
• strong communication and relationship-building
• market awareness and strategic thinking
• direct sourcing
• structured assessment frameworks
• talent mapping and workforce planning

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