Talent Consultant (6 Month FTC) in London

The Talent Consultant is a reliable in‑house recruitment specialist, responsible for attracting, engaging, and hiring top talent across our core capabilities: Design, Delivery, Technology, and Data. This role focuses on operational excellence throughout the recruitment lifecycle, ensuring the company can meet its multidisciplinary digital workforce needs while delivering an exceptional candidate experience. You will be responsible for managing the full recruitment lifecycle from attraction through to onboarding, including initial screening and structured assessments across a varied portfolio of vacancies. This role sits within a wider collaborative People team, offering a fantastic opportunity to contribute to TPXimpact’s cross‑capability growth.

Responsibilities

• Lifecycle Management: Manage full‑cycle recruitment workflows across a diverse portfolio of vacancies spanning Design (e.g., Product, Interaction, Service Design), Delivery (e.g., Agile Delivery, Product Management), Technology (e.g., Engineering, Architecture, Testing), and Data (e.g., Analytics, Data Science).
• Assessment: Screen, interview, and assess candidates effectively against predefined business, technical, and practice‑specific requirements.
• Data Integrity: Maintain accurate, GDPR‑compliant recruitment data, applicant tracking pipelines, and analytics within the ATS (ePloy) and HR systems.
• Sourcing: Execute proactive sourcing strategies, including Boolean searches, LinkedIn Recruiter outreach, and passive candidate engagement across different disciplines to effectively pitch the benefits of TPXimpact.
• Talent Pipelining: Support the maintenance of robust talent pools and pipelines for critical, frequently hired digital roles.
• Stakeholder Management: Provide localised market data, benchmarking context, and hiring updates to hiring managers across various business units.
• Hiring Guidance: Guide and support hiring managers on structured interview techniques, objective assessment rubrics, and candidate evaluation best practices.
• Process Optimisation: Partner with line managers and coordinators to ensure seamless interview scheduling and look for continuous improvements in candidate touchpoints.
• Candidate Experience: Deliver an exceptional, candidate‑centric experience across all stages of the recruitment lifecycle, tailored to different professional communities.
• DEI Integration: Implement and support diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives within recruitment workflows (e.g., using bias‑free language, ensuring diverse slates).
• Project Support: Support the delivery of the wider People Plan on specific recruitment‑led projects and initiatives.

About You

• Professional Knowledge and Experience: Proven experience in end‑to‑end recruitment lifecycle within Digital, Design, Delivery, Ops, Technology, Development, with a demonstrated track record of hiring professionals within a digital transformation, consulting or professional services environment from an agency or internal perspective.
• Broad, competent understanding of the distinct talent landscapes across design, delivery, tech, and data disciplines.
• Proven track record of applying proactive direct sourcing and headhunting methods to attract talent across multiple competitive fields.
• Experience working collaboratively with a diverse group of hiring managers and cross‑functional project teams to achieve operational targets.
• Familiarity with tracking baseline recruitment metrics to maintain high data accuracy and inform stakeholder syncs.
• Practical understanding of inclusive hiring frameworks and experience applying DEI principles to sourcing and selection across different disciplines.
• Experience with Talent Acquisition projects such as Employee Value Proposition, hiring manager capability improvements or reporting refinements or a desire to work on such projects is desirable.

Technical Skills:

• Competency working with Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS); prior experience with ePloy is a distinct advantage.
• Strong proficiency in advanced sourcing methodologies.
• Comfort navigating digital collaboration suites.
• Knowledge of relevant UK Employment Laws and compliance baselines.

Behaviours:

• Learning and Development: You shape the learning development plan for your role, actively seeking out opportunities to grow, upskill, and keep pace with cross‑capability digital recruitment trends.
• Ownership of Work and Tasks: You own individual specialist recruitment tasks and vacancy tracks without requiring day‑to‑day oversight.
• Giving and Receiving Feedback: You provide objective, evidence‑based feedback to hiring managers and peers, and openly accept and action feedback provided to you.
• Presenting Yourself in Stakeholder Situations: You are confident, clear, and able to communicate and facilitate effectively across candidate screens and manager syncs.
• Dealing with Challenges: You act to solve immediate issues, sourcing bottlenecks, and operational blockers independently.

Pact Values:

• Purpose: The beating heart of our organisation—the impact we make on people, places, and the planet.
• Accountability: As we apply flexibility, pace and growth through our self‑organisation, we are accountable to all of our stakeholders.
• Craft: Craft highlights our dedication to bringing precision, problem‑solving, and creativity to our work.
• Togetherness: Togetherness is ‘how’ we work – it captures the energy, fun, and user‑centred approach that we embrace.

About Us: We're a purpose driven organisation, supporting organisations to build a better future for people, places and the planet. Combining vast experience in the public, private and third sectors and expertise in human‑centred design, data, experience and technology, we’re creating sustainable solutions ready for an ever‑evolving world.

Benefits Include:

• 30 days holiday + bank holidays
• 2 volunteer days for causes that you are passionate about
• Maternity/paternity – 6 months Maternity Leave, 3 months Paternity Leave
• Life assurance
• Employer pension contribution of 5%
• Health cash plan
• Personal learning and development budget
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Green incentive programmes including Electric Vehicle Leasing and the Cycle to Work Scheme
• Financial advice
• Health assessments

We are committed to having a positive impact on the clients and the communities we serve. We actively encourage applications from all genders, ethnicities, disabled people, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, and those from lower socio‑economic backgrounds. Don’t meet 100% of the criteria? We still want to hear from you. Please let us know if you require any adjustments during the recruitment process.