Talent Acquisition Business Partner

Talent Acquisition Business Partner

Location: London, hybrid with travel to other UK locations

This role focuses on headhunting/recruiting best-in-class talent from leading consultancies and technology related industries. The ideal candidate will excel in understanding requirements, identifying top talent, and delivering a seamless recruitment process that ensures an outstanding candidate experience. You will work as a strategic partner to our Project Services business, understanding business objectives and talent needs, to deliver a customised recruitment solution. By aligning talent strategies with project goals, the role holder will play a key role in enhancing project outcomes and fostering long-term client relationships.

Key Responsibilities:

• Headhunting Top Talent: Proactively identify, engage, and attract high-calibre professionals with relevant experience at leading consultancies and/or in relevant industries.
• Project and Programme Manager Partnership: Collaborate closely with Project and Programme Manager to understand their strategic goals, cultural fit, and specific role requirements, creating tailored vacancy profiles.
• Technical Expertise: Develop a deep understanding of the skills, competencies, and technical language relevant to each project's needs, ensuring precise candidate matching.
• Recruitment Excellence: Deliver a top-quality recruitment service, ensuring timely, effective, and professional hiring solutions.
• Engagement Knowledge: Demonstrate a solid understanding of different employment types, including permanent positions, limited company contractors, and umbrella company engagements.
• Visa and Compliance Support: Work closely with HR to facilitate visa applications for skilled workers when required, ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.
• Candidate Experience: Manage the end-to-end recruitment process to provide a smooth, transparent, and positive experience for all candidates.
• Reporting: Provide regular, insightful updates to Project and Programme managers on vacancy progress, candidate pipelines, and market feedback.
• Talent Landscape Mapping: Conduct comprehensive market mapping to understand talent availability, competitor activity, and industry trends.

Skills, Knowledge & Experience:

• Proven experience in talent acquisition, headhunting and contractor recruitment, preferably within consultancy and technology environments.
• Strong ability to understand and articulate technical skill sets and competencies.
• Excellent client-facing and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to identify transferable skills and think creatively in candidate sourcing.
• Strong knowledge of different employment contract types and engagement models.
• Exceptional communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills.
• Organised, detail-oriented, and capable of managing multiple recruitment projects simultaneously
• This role requires travel to UK locations, so flexibility and willingness to travel are essential

What Can We Offer You?

• A competitive salary package
• 25 days annual leave plus public holidays, and your birthday off
• Company pension
• Benefits
• An environment where your learning and development is supported through a range of various learning tools and courses

With ambitious people at our heart, we're driven by our ability to facilitate positive change. Connecting engineering specialists with the right talent, we go the extra mile to create bespoke solutions and powerful collaborations that support and accelerate the ever-evolving engineering industry, today and tomorrow.

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We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy or maternity or age.