Talent Acquisition Specialist in Bournemouth

About The Role

Team – Talent Acquisition

Working Pattern - Hybrid – 2 days per week in the Vitality South Africa office in Sandton, Johannesburg or in our UK office in Bournemouth. Full time, 35 hours per week. We are happy to discuss flexible working!

Top 3 skills needed for this role:

• Experience working within global/multinational organisations
• Credibility and ability to influence senior stakeholders
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and relationship-building skills

What this role is all about:

At Vitality, we’re here to make people healthier and enhance and protect their lives. That includes our people. To achieve that, we need remarkable talent — and that’s where you come in.

We’re looking for a confident, curious, and credible Talent Acquisition Specialist to lead recruitment activity for our South African offices. Reporting to our Talent Acquisition Manager in the UK, you will be part of our global Talent Acquisition Centre of Excellence, you will be the Talent Acquisition expert for South Africa, delivering and influencing recruitment across all business areas and acting as a trusted partner to leaders.

This role could be based in our South Africa office in Sandton, Johannesburg or in our UK office in Bournemouth. This is a role for someone who’s a great team player but also energised by ownership, inspired by challenge, and motivated by delivering an exceptional hiring experience that reflects who we are: a business that puts people first.

Key Actions

As the Talent Acquisition Specialist for South Africa, you will:

• Own end to end hiring, across all functions for our South Africa offices, from advertising to offer
• Be a trusted advisor to hiring managers, coaching them to adopt best practice recruitment behaviours that lead to better, faster, more inclusive hiring choices
• Champion a world class candidate experience, ensuring every interaction is positive, timely, and reflects the Vitality purpose and brand
• Use your curiosity and insight to influence hiring decisions, challenge constructively, and raise the bar on quality
• Build strong partnerships with HR, business leaders, and the wider TA Centre of Excellence to ensure alignment, agility, and continuous improvement
• Proactively source diverse talent, developing talent pipelines and smart search strategies for our hard to fill roles
• Use data and storytelling to share insights, identify market trends, and guide leaders to make confident decisions
• Support the evolution of our recruitment processes, tools, partnerships and ways of working to ensure we’re always delivering brilliant basics and meaningful innovation

What do you need to thrive?

• Credibility — the confidence to influence senior stakeholders and challenge with respect
• Curiosity — a desire to understand the business, the market, and what great looks like for every role
• AI savvy – confidence to responsibly embrace AI, developing the right balance between technology and human interaction
• Expert TA capability — strong end to end recruitment skills across a range of business areas, with a particular passion for Tech recruitment
• A growth mindset — always looking for new ways and partnerships to improve, evolve, and elevate our approach
• Empathy and communication — you understand people, connect quickly, and communicate with clarity and care
• A passion for delivering exceptional experiences — for candidates, hiring managers, and colleagues
• A values led approach — aligned with Vitality’s purpose of making people healthier and enhancing and protecting their lives
• Experience working within a global or multinational organisation – an understanding of the South Africa talent market and culture is preferred
• Vendor management exposure

So, what’s in it for you?

• Bonus Schemes – A bonus that regularly rewards you for your performance
• A pension of up to 12%– We will match your contributions up to 6% of your salary
• Our award-winning Vitality health insurance – With its own set of rewards and benefits
• Life Assurance – Four times annual salary

These are just some of the many perks that we offer! To view the extensive range of benefits we offer, please visit our careers page.

Fantastic Benefits. Exciting rewards. Great career opportunities!

If you are successful in your application and join us at Vitality, this is our promise to you, we will:

• Help you to be the healthiest you’ve ever been.
• Create an environment that embraces you as you are and enables you to be your best self.
• Give you flexibility on how, where and when you work.
• Help you advance your career by playing you to your strengths.
• Give you a voice to help our business grow and make Vitality a great place to be.
• Give you the space to try, fail and learn.
• Provide a healthy balance of challenge and support.
• Recognise and reward you with a competitive salary and amazing benefits.
• Be there for you when you need us.
• Provide opportunities for you to be a force for good in society.

We commit to all these things because we want you to feel that you belong, and are supported to be happy and healthy.

If we are fortunate in receiving a high volume of quality applications we may need to close this vacancy early. If you are interested, please submit your application as soon as possible.