Senior Talent Acquisition Partner

Overview

As Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, you will lead leadership recruitment across multiple sites, partnering with senior stakeholders and People teams to shape hiring strategies. You build proactive leadership pipelines and support expansion projects, including new site openings, to fuel growth. You’ll combine hands-on delivery with strategic workforce planning and market intel to enable evidence-based hiring decisions. You’ll coach colleagues to uplift best practices and improve the leadership hiring experience, driving sustainable leadership capability.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end recruitment for operational leadership roles across multiple locations
• Partner with senior stakeholders to understand current and future leadership hiring needs
• Define assessment and selection criteria for leadership positions
• Act as subject matter expert for leadership assessment methodologies
• Provide guidance to hiring managers to improve hiring decisions
• Coach recruitment colleagues and share best practices
• Lead recruitment planning and delivery for new site openings and growth projects
• Build and maintain proactive leadership talent pipelines
• Use market insights to inform recruitment strategies and workforce planning
• Partner with People teams to align external attraction with succession and workforce plans
• Identify talent gaps and risks and implement solutions
• Drive continuous improvement of leadership hiring processes and candidate experience

Key requirements

• Significant experience managing complex recruitment processes, ideally in a multi-site environment
• Proven experience partnering with senior leaders and influencing hiring decisions
• Strong expertise in competency-based interviewing and behavioural assessment techniques
• Demonstrated success sourcing and attracting high-calibre leadership talent
• Experience developing and maintaining external talent pipelines and talent communities
• Strong understanding of talent market trends and translating insight into action
• Excellent stakeholder management and relationship-building skills
• Commercial awareness and understanding of workforce planning and organisational growth
• Coaching and mentoring experience with a collaborative approach to team development
• Passion for delivering exceptional hiring outcomes and continually improving recruitment practices

• Stakeholder management
• Relationship-building
• Coaching and mentoring
• Competency-based interviewing
• Behavioural assessment techniques
• Talent pipelining and external talent communities

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