Talent Acquisition Partner in Leeds

To lead and deliver Progeny’s talent acquisition strategy, ensuring the attraction, selection and onboarding of high-calibre talent that supports current and future business objectives. The role is responsible for developing recruitment practices, employer branding, talent pipelines, workforce planning support, candidate experience and recruitment analytics, whilst ensuring a cost-effective and inclusive approach to hiring.

Working closely with stakeholders across the business, the role provides insight and guidance on hiring strategies, helping to identify talent needs, support business growth and drive continuous improvement across the end-to-end recruitment process.

• Develop and deliver Progeny’s talent acquisition strategy, ensuring it supports business objectives, growth plans and future capability requirements.
• Partner with senior leaders to understand current and future hiring needs, providing insight into talent availability, market trends and recruitment approaches.
• Build and maintain talent pipelines for critical, specialist and hard-to-fill roles, reducing reliance on reactive recruitment activity.
• Contribute to succession planning initiatives by identifying internal talent opportunities and external talent pools.
• Lead the end-to-end recruitment process across business areas, ensuring a high-quality, professional and consistent approach to hiring.
• Direct sourcing activity across a range of channels, including LinkedIn Recruiter and professional networks, while managing relationships with external recruitment partners where appropriate.
• Ensure recruitment processes remain efficient, compliant and aligned to best practice, driving improvements in quality of hire, time-to-fill and overall hiring effectiveness.
• Oversee onboarding activity in partnership with the People team to support a positive candidate transition into the business.
• Collaborate with People Business Partners and business leaders on workforce planning initiatives.
• Provide market intelligence, salary benchmarking and talent insights.
• Support organisational growth, restructuring and change initiatives through effective talent planning and recruitment support.
• Develop and strengthen Progeny’s employer brand, ensuring it reflects the organisation’s culture, values and employee experience.
• Champion a positive candidate experience, ensuring candidates receive clear communication, professional engagement and timely feedback throughout the recruitment process.
• Enhance attraction through social media, careers content, employee advocacy and recruitment marketing.
• Ensure diversity, equity and inclusion principles are embedded throughout the recruitment process, helping to attract and retain a diverse workforce.
• Develop and promote early careers initiatives, including apprenticeships, graduate programmes, internships and work experience opportunities.
• Build relationships with external partners, educational institutions and professional networks to support diverse talent attraction.
• Monitor, analyse and report on key recruitment metrics, including time-to-fill, source of hire, offer acceptance rates, agency spend, internal mobility and diversity data.
• Use recruitment data and market insight to identify trends, measure performance and recommend improvements.
• Regularly review recruitment processes, systems and tools to enhance efficiency, effectiveness and the overall hiring experience.
• Build strong, credible relationships with senior leaders, hiring managers and People colleagues across the business.
• Act as a trusted partner, providing guidance on recruitment approaches, market conditions and talent strategies.
• Influence and challenge stakeholders where appropriate to ensure recruitment decisions support both immediate requirements and longer-term organisational goals.

Benefits:

• Wellbeing day: As part of Progeny’s ongoing commitment to wellbeing, all team members are given a paid day off to focus on themselves.
• Employee Assistance Programme: A programme via Health Assured providing counselling, legal support, bereavement support and more.
• Private Healthcare Scheme: Provided by BUPA, this includes a digital GP, a 24-hour helpline and counselling support.
• Group Pension Scheme: We operate a personal pension plan and will match team members contributions up to 5% with the option for team members to pay in more if they choose.
• Volunteering day: Team members are entitled to a paid volunteering day each year to spend supporting your community.

Experience:

• Developing employer branding initiatives.
• Proven use of recruitment data and analytics to improve outcomes.
• Managing multi-site and senior-level recruitment.
• Knowledge of UK employment legislation relating to recruitment and selection.
• Managing talent acquisition within a small to medium organisation.
• Strong understanding of recruitment technology and applicant tracking systems.
• Managing graduate, academy or apprenticeship programmes.
• Experience within professional services, financial services or regulated environments.
• Commercially minded, with an understanding of business and workforce priorities.
• Focused on continuous improvement, innovation and the effective use of technology.
• Skilled at managing competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Able to build credibility and trusted relationships at all levels.
• Data-driven, with strong analytical and decision-making skills.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.