Martin Veasey Talent Solutions
Director of Talent Acquisition
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Director of Talent Acquisition
Central London | Permanent | New office launch | £120,000 to £150,000 plus uncapped bonus
A highly successful, privately owned UK finance group is opening a brand new London office next spring, and needs a Director of Talent Acquisition to build the talent function that will get it staffed and trading. This is a rare chance to stand up an in-house recruitment operation from the ground up, in the city, with real backing and the autonomy to shape what it becomes.
This is a founding hire, not a role that inherits a mature machine. Reporting to the C Suite, you will own recruitment end to end for the new operation. You will not be directing a large team from a distance. You will be the engine that personally delivers the founding cohort at pace, then builds the function around you as the office scales.
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This is a hands-on, delivery-led role for someone who wants to build and is happy to do the hard yards themselves. In the early months the hiring will be weighted heavily toward high-volume sales appointments: sales directors, sales executives, brokers, and underwriters. You will headhunt, screen, interview at the first stage, and present clean shortlists to the COO, who makes the final decision. This is sleeves-rolled-up recruitment in a sales-led business. If that energizes you, you will thrive. If you are looking to oversee others doing the work, this is not the role for you.
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What you will do
- Build the London talent acquisition function from the ground up and shape what the division becomes.
- Personally deliver high-volume, multi-function hiring across sales, broking, underwriting, operations, technology, governance, and corporate functions.
- Run full search and advertised campaigns, headhunt, interview at the first stage, and present shortlists to the executive team.
- Build talent pipelines and grow an employer brand in a city where the business is not yet established.
- Hire and lead one senior direct report, a talent partner brought in at a senior level, with budget and scope to grow the team as the operation expands.
- Design pragmatic, scalable recruitment processes that keep quality high while moving at speed.
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What you will bring
- A track record of growing or standing up a recruitment operation, rather than running a large steady-state function with plenty of resource behind you.
- Genuine hands-on delivery. You are as comfortable interviewing a high volume of sales and broker candidates as you are engaging at senior level.
- Ideally a background in boutique or search recruitment, or in-house talent, where you have personally owned delivery rather than orchestrated it.
- Strong London networks and the ability to build presence and brand from nothing.
- Financial services or other regulated hiring experience is an advantage.
- The drive and appetite to be based in the city, hands-on, in a fast-moving and demanding environment.
Location
London-based, ideally five days a week in the city as the office launches. There is some flexibility for the right person who is commutable to London, including time spent at the head office during onboarding. Exceptional candidates may be considered above the advertised range.
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