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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