Talent Acquisition Specialist – London

Overview

As a Talent Acquisition Specialist, you will lead end-to-end recruitment across the UK and Europe, partnering with hiring managers to shape effective sourcing and selection. You will build diverse pipelines, market insights, and a strong candidate experience to support business growth. Your role spans high-volume operational hiring and specialist roles, with hands-on sourcing and stakeholder management. You’ll contribute to an inclusive, well-being oriented culture and represent our employer brand externally. This is your opportunity to impact talent strategy across a global, people-centric organization.

Pay / Benefits

• Flexible/hybrid working model
• Industry travel discounts
• Career progression with global brand network
• Social events and conferences
• Active Hour for wellbeing
• Health cash plan

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end recruitment from role briefing to onboarding handover across UK and Europe
• Partner with hiring managers to understand needs and develop recruitment strategies
• Source and engage candidates via LinkedIn Recruiter, databases, and networks
• Conduct talent mapping and competitor research to identify market trends
• Build and maintain diverse talent pipelines for current and future roles
• Screen, interview, and assess candidates to support quality hiring decisions
• Present qualified shortlists and guide managers through selection process
• Handle 20+ live vacancies simultaneously across functions and seniorities
• Ensure recruitment activity meets service levels and timeframes
• Facilitate offers, pre-employment screening, and recruitment administration
• Support workforce planning and anticipate future talent needs
• Champion outstanding candidate experience throughout the journey
• Promote the company as an employer of choice in candidate interactions
• Represent the business at recruitment events and talent initiatives
• Maintain accurate ATS records (PageUp) and ensure GDPR/compliance
• Identify process improvements and drive better ways of recruiting
• Contribute to a safe, inclusive, and accessible work environment

Key requirements

• Previous recruitment experience in agency, in-house, or RPO
• Experience managing multiple vacancies in a fast-paced setting
• Strong direct sourcing and headhunting ability, including passive candidates
• Experience using LinkedIn Recruiter
• Experience with Applicant Tracking Systems
• Demonstrated stakeholder management with hiring managers
• Track record recruiting across multiple functions and seniority levels
• Strong candidate assessment, interviewing and selection skills
• Excellent communication, relationship-building and influencing skills
• Commercial awareness with ability to provide market insights
• Resourceful and creative talent identification approaches
• Experience recruiting sales and business development is advantageous
• Experience recruiting across multiple European markets is beneficial but not essential

• communication
• relationship-building
• influencing
• LinkedIn Recruiter
• Applicant Tracking Systems (PageUp)
• talent mapping

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