Senior Talent Acquisition Partner - Emerging Talent

Publicis Groupe is one of the world’s largest communications holding companies, present in over 110 countries and employing about 100,000 professionals. The Groupe is positioned at every step of the value chain, from consulting to execution, combining marketing transformation and digital business transformation.

As Senior Talent Acquisition Partner – Emerging Talent, your focus will be on the recruitment, selection, and onboarding of routine annual hiring for emerging talent roles. You will not lead programme design or outreach activities but will provide critical co‑delivery support to the Senior Talent Acquisition Partner responsible for those areas. You will line‑manage a team of Recruiters who deliver full‑cycle recruitment for all entry‑level positions, ensuring rigorous, efficient, and consistent processes.

Responsibilities:

• Oversee and guide the full‑cycle recruitment process for all entry‑level roles, including sourcing, screening, interviewing, and hiring.
• Line‑manage Recruiters responsible for 360 recruitment, providing coaching, support, and escalation for complex issues.
• Play a key role in evolving selection practices, including ongoing refinement of screening and assessment centre processes, to ensure robust, fair, and effective evaluation of emerging talent.
• Ensure all recruitment processes are efficient, rigorous, consistent, and aligned with DEI principles, promoting a positive candidate experience.
• Act as the escalation point for Recruiters and hiring managers, ensuring swift and effective resolution of recruitment challenges.
• Develop and implement strategies to ensure candidates are onboarded effectively before handover to hiring teams and Talent.
• Collaborate closely with other Senior Talent Acquisition Partners to ensure seamless talent pipelining from programmes to open positions.
• Lead the development and execution of CRM strategy to support emerging talent recruitment, ensuring all candidate and event data is accurately captured and leveraged for pipeline conversion.
• Drive team engagement with CRM tools and processes, providing training, guidance, and clear accountabilities for post‑event follow‑up and candidate management.
• Collaborate with team to ensure all outreach and event activities are tracked in the CRM, enabling robust reporting and analysis of conversion rates from events into hiring pipelines.
• Oversee the integration of feedback and data from events, outreach, and candidate journeys into CRM workflows, continuously improving processes to maximize pipeline effectiveness.
• Ensure the team maintains accurate candidate records, manages tagging and segmentation, and utilises CRM to fuel their hiring pipelines.
• Ensure all candidates receive a positive, inclusive, and engaging recruitment and onboarding experience.
• Oversee onboarding processes for all entry‑level hires, ensuring readiness for handover to hiring teams and Talent.
• Gather and act on feedback from candidates and hiring managers to continuously improve the recruitment and onboarding experience.
• Build strong relationships with hiring managers, recruiters, and other Talent Acquisition colleagues across the department.
• Support the Senior Talent Acquisition Partner leading programme and outreach activity in the delivery and facilitation of events and sessions.

Qualifications:

• Passion for developing, and supporting emerging talent and promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace.
• Proven experience in hiring high volumes of entry‑level talent in a large complex organisation.
• Comfortable working in a fast‑paced, agile organisation.
• Experience line‑managing Recruiters in Talent Acquisition teams.
• Experience overseeing end‑to‑end recruitment processes.
• Familiarity with employer branding and digital outreach strategies.
• Strong understanding of recruitment best practices, tools, and systems (e.g., ATS and CRM platforms).
• Extensive stakeholder management skills, with experience working across business functions and with external partners and universities as well as emerging talent audiences.
• Exceptional organisational abilities, with strong attention to detail.
• Strong communication, presentation and facilitation skills.
• Strong problem‑solving skills.
• Experience working in Media, Advertising or tech industries (Preferred).

At Publicis Groupe we are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, and do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, nationality, religion or belief, disability, age, citizenship, relationship status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected characteristic. We are committed to providing a fair, accessible, and inclusive recruitment process.