The Talent Acquisition Business Partner will lead end-to-end recruitment processes and act as a strategic partner to business leaders. Responsibilities include developing proactive sourcing strategies, managing complex vacancies, and utilizing data to drive recruitment improvements.
This is a remote position.
We are looking for a Talent Acquisition Business Partner to lead high-quality, commercially focused end-to-end recruitment and act as a strategic recruitment partner to business leaders. The role combines hands-on recruitment delivery with workforce planning, talent pipelining, market insight, stakeholder management, and continuous improvement.
You will manage complex and business-critical hiring, advise stakeholders on recruitment strategy and market conditions, build strong talent pipelines, and support the development of junior recruitment team members.
Your Duties
Partner with business leaders, hiring managers, and HR Business Partners to understand current and future hiring needs.
Develop proactive recruitment strategies aligned with workforce plans, business growth, and operational priorities.
Manage specialist, senior, complex, and business-critical vacancies from approval through to onboarding.
Lead end-to-end recruitment processes, including sourcing, screening, interviewing, offer management, negotiation, and pre-employment checks.
Develop sourcing strategies using direct search, headhunting, referrals, job advertising, networking, and talent pools.
Build and maintain talent pipelines and communities for critical and hard-to-fill roles.
Engage passive candidates through proactive outreach and relationship management.
Provide expert advice on candidate availability, salary expectations, market conditions, and hiring strategy.
Challenge unclear requirements, delayed decisions, and recruitment risks while providing practical solutions.
Influence hiring managers on effective interviewing, assessment, and evidence-based hiring decisions.
Monitor recruitment KPIs, including time-to-hire, cost per hire, source effectiveness, pipeline conversion, and vacancy ageing.
Prepare recruitment reports, dashboards, hiring forecasts, and market insights for stakeholders.
Use recruitment data and market intelligence to identify risks, bottlenecks, and opportunities for improvement.
Support role profiling, job evaluation, career frameworks, job families, and appropriate job titles.
Ensure recruitment processes comply with employment legislation, internal policies, GDPR, and relevant requirements.
Maintain accurate candidate records, approvals, interview documentation, and audit trails.
Identify opportunities to improve recruitment processes, efficiency, candidate experience, and hiring outcomes.
Champion the use of AI, automation, and digital recruitment tools.
Represent Talent Acquisition as a trusted partner to business leaders and stakeholders.
Mentor junior recruiters, support new starters, and share recruitment best practices.
Support wider People initiatives related to business growth, transformation, and organisational change.
Requirements
5+ years of experience in end-to-end recruitment or Talent Acquisition, preferably within high-volume, technical, operational, or complex recruitment environments.
Proven experience partnering with hiring managers, business leaders, and HR teams on workforce planning and recruitment strategy.
Strong experience managing specialist, senior, complex, or business-critical vacancies.
Advanced sourcing skills, including direct search, headhunting, market mapping, talent pipelining, and passive candidate engagement.
Strong stakeholder management, communication, influencing, and negotiation skills.
Experience using recruitment data, KPIs, reporting, and market intelligence to improve hiring outcomes.
Strong understanding of recruitment compliance, including employment legislation, right-to-work checks, GDPR, and internal recruitment policies.
Experience managing offers, salary negotiations, candidate objections, and competing opportunities.
Strong organisational skills and ability to manage multiple complex vacancies and priorities simultaneously.
Excellent interviewing, candidate assessment, and selection skills.
Strong commercial awareness with the ability to balance quality, speed, and cost.
Excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills with a proactive approach to identifying and resolving recruitment risks.
High attention to detail and strong commitment to governance and compliance.
Proficiency with ATS platforms, LinkedIn Recruiter, job boards, Microsoft Office, Excel, PowerPoint, and Power BI.
Experience mentoring junior recruiters or supporting recruitment capability development.
Comfortable working in a fast-paced, changing environment.
Continuous improvement mindset and interest in AI, automation, and emerging recruitment technologies.
Strong awareness of current Talent Acquisition trends, sourcing techniques, tools, and market practices.
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