Talent Aquitsition Specialist

Talent Acquisition Specialist – London (6-Month Contract)

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end recruitment delivery across the business, managing assignments from role briefing through to offer, onboarding, and post-placement engagement.
• Act as a trusted recruitment partner to Hiring Managers and senior leaders, providing market intelligence, talent insights, hiring strategy, and advice on candidate attraction.
• Proactively identify, engage, and attract high-calibre passive talent through headhunting, direct sourcing, networking, referrals, competitor mapping, and targeted search methodologies.
• Build, develop, and maintain talent pipelines for current and future hiring requirements across key business areas and specialist skill sets.
• Conduct market mapping exercises to identify talent pools, competitor landscapes, succession pipelines, and emerging talent trends.
• Utilise LinkedIn Recruiter, databases, social platforms, events, and professional networks to engage hard-to-find candidates and generate talent leads.
• Qualify candidates through detailed screening, competency-based assessment, and motivational interviewing to ensure strong cultural and technical alignment.
• Manage and optimise the ATS, ensuring accurate candidate tracking, reporting, process compliance, and an excellent user experience.
• Deliver an exceptional candidate journey, maintaining proactive communication and acting as an ambassador for the employer brand throughout the hiring process.
• Drive recruitment marketing initiatives, including targeted talent campaigns, employer brand promotion, social media engagement, and networking activity.
• Leverage AI-powered sourcing and recruitment tools to identify talent, generate market insights, automate administrative activity, and improve hiring outcomes.
• Build and maintain relationships with external recruitment partners, ensuring service quality, commercial value, and compliance with internal processes.
• Support wider talent initiatives including succession planning, talent pooling, employee referral programmes, diversity hiring, and recruitment process improvement.
• Travel regularly across office locations to build stakeholder relationships, support hiring activity, attend recruitment events, conduct face-to-face meetings, and represent the business within local talent markets.

Required Skill Set

• Proven experience in talent acquisition, executive search, recruitment consultancy, resourcing, or headhunting within professional services, financial services, accountancy, or similar sectors.
• Strong track record of directly sourcing and securing passive candidates through headhunting and proactive search methodologies.
• Demonstrable experience managing multiple assignments simultaneously across varying levels of seniority and technical specialisms.
• Expertise in LinkedIn Recruiter, talent mapping, candidate identification, and market intelligence gathering.
• Ability to influence, challenge, and advise senior stakeholders on hiring strategy, talent availability, and market conditions.
• Strong interviewing and candidate assessment skills, with the ability to identify both technical capability and cultural fit.
• Experience using ATS systems, recruitment technology, and sourcing tools in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred Skill Set

• Experience working within an in-house executive search, talent attraction, or strategic resourcing function.
• Knowledge of professional services career pathways, qualifications, and industry talent markets.
• Experience supporting senior, niche, or hard-to-fill appointments through targeted search methodologies.

Soft Skills & Cultural Fit

• Commercially minded talent professional with a consultative and relationship-driven approach.
• Naturally curious and proactive, with the confidence to engage passive candidates and build meaningful networks.
• Highly organised with the ability to manage competing priorities and deliver against ambitious hiring targets.
• Exceptional communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills.
• Candidate-centric mindset with a passion for delivering an outstanding recruitment experience.
• Resilient, adaptable, and motivated by identifying and securing top talent.
• Collaborative team player aligned to the organisation's values and people-first culture.

Individual Conduct

• Uphold the highest standards of integrity, professionalism, and ethical recruitment practice.
• Demonstrate accountability, transparency, and discretion in all hiring decisions and stakeholder interactions.
• Adhere to company policies, governance frameworks, and compliance standards.
• Champion diversity, equity, inclusion, and fair hiring principles.
• Act as an ambassador for the organisation's values, culture, and employer brand both internally and externally.

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