Global Talent Acquisition Specialist in Church Fenton

The Talent Acquisition Specialist is responsible for attracting, sourcing, and hiring high-quality talent across multiple regions (EMEA, APAC, US and Canada) and business functions. Operating as a strategic partner to hiring managers and senior leaders, the role plays a critical part in shaping workforce capability, ensuring exceptional candidate experience, and delivering against global growth objectives.

This is a high-impact, fast-paced role with visibility across the organisation, requiring strong stakeholder management, commercial awareness, and deep recruitment expertise.

Key Accountabilities / Responsibilities

• Act as a global ambassador for the employer brand in all candidate and market interactions
• Develop and deliver attraction strategies for core skill areas and hard-to-fill roles
• Build proactive talent pipelines through market mapping, networking, and direct sourcing
• Support early careers, diversity, and inclusion recruitment initiatives globally
• Drive direct sourcing strategies and reduce agency dependency where possible
• Support EVP and employer branding initiatives

Stakeholder Partnership

• Build trusted relationships with Executive leadership, HRBPs, and hiring managers
• Translate business strategy and workforce plans into effective recruitment delivery
• Provide expert guidance on hiring strategies, market conditions, compensation benchmarking, and assessment methods
• Challenge hiring decisions constructively to ensure quality and consistency
• Partner with business leaders to forecast hiring demand and manage recruitment pipelines

End-to-End Recruitment Delivery

• Manage the full recruitment lifecycle from role briefing through to offer and handover to the HR teams for onboarding
• Deliver full-cycle recruitment across corporate, technical, commercial, and leadership roles globally
• Lead direct sourcing strategies using LinkedIn, job boards, referrals, and headhunting
• Conduct structured screening and interview processes to ensure high-quality assessment
• Manage offer process in line with reward and governance frameworks
• Ensure exceptional candidate experience across all touchpoints
• Support onboarding and early engagement for new hires

Recruitment Operations & Governance

• Ensure recruitment activity is compliant with employment legislation and GDPR across all locations
• Maintain clean, accurate data within the ATS
• Manage agency relationships and ensure adherence to PSL and cost frameworks
• Monitor recruitment spend and deliver cost-efficient hiring solutions
• Manage agency performance, fees, and service delivery
• Ensure compliance with recruitment policy, employment law, and data protection

Performance & Continuous Improvement

• Track key recruitment KPIs including time-to-hire, cost-per-hire, and quality-of-hire
• Continuously improve recruitment processes, tools, and candidate experience
• Implement best-practice sourcing, assessment, and selection methodologies globally
• Use data and insight to influence hiring strategy and decision-making
• Contribute to global talent strategy and workforce planning activity

Outputs/Deliverables

• Qualified talent pipelines for critical and hard-to-fill roles
• Successful hires across all role types and seniority levels globally
• Recruitment forecasts and pipeline reports aligned to workforce plans
• Market intelligence reports on talent availability, compensation trends, and competitor activity
• Candidate experience feedback and satisfaction metrics
• Recruitment KPI dashboards and performance reporting for senior leadership
• Updated and accurate ATS data and candidate records
• Agency performance scorecards and cost analysis
• Compliant recruitment documentation and audit-ready records
• Employer brand content and candidate engagement campaigns
• Diversity recruitment outcomes and early careers intake
• Process improvement recommendations and implementation plans
• Onboarding support documentation and new hire engagement materials

Core Values & Competencies

Mpac Core Values

• Integrity
• Drive
• Collaboration
• Expertise
• Innovation

Knowledge and Experience

• Proven experience as a Corporate Recruiter within a global or multi-site organisation.
• Strong experience hiring across multiple job families including commercial, technical, and leadership roles.
• Track record of partnering with senior leaders and managing complex stakeholder groups.
• Strong direct sourcing and market mapping capability.
• Experience managing high-volume and specialist recruitment simultaneously.
• Knowledge of global employment practices and recruitment compliance.
• Experience delivering recruitment in fast-paced, scaling, or transformation environments

Technical Skills and Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in LinkedIn Recruiter, job boards, and ATS platforms.
• Skilled in competency-based interviewing and assessment methodologies.
• Strong knowledge of recruitment legislation, GDPR, and hiring governance.
• Excellent communication, influencing, and negotiation skills.
• Strong data analysis and reporting capability.
• Microsoft suite experience including Excel
• Commercial acumen

Reporting Line
Reports to: Global HR Director

Direct Reports (if applicable): N/A

Working relationships with: Global HR teams, hiring managers SLT and ExCom