Ingenia Global Partners
Head of Talent Acquisition
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Location: London or Manchester (Hybrid) with regular travel across our portfolio businesses
Reports to: COO
Ingenia Global Partners
Ingenia Global Partners brings together a fast-growing portfolio of 15 high-performing, specialist recruitment businesses, each with its own identity, specialism and culture united by a shared ambition to build the best talent-led businesses in the industry.
By combining shared infrastructure, technology, leadership, and operational expertise, we help each partner business grow faster, diversify further, and build lasting value.
As we grow, so does our need for exceptional people. That's where you come in, to build the function that will underpin our next phase.
The role
We're looking for a Head of Talent Acquisition who genuinely understands recruitment because you'll be recruiting for all our partner businesses. This is a specialist, relationship-led role for someone who has lived and breathed the recruitment industry and knows what exceptional talent, managers, and leaders in the industry look like.
You'll work together with the CEOs across the portfolio to understand their growth plans, operate proactively in anticipating their hiring needs, and identify and nurture the best people in their respective markets to shape the future of their businesses. You'll also have a wider lens across the whole portfolio, identifying talent that might not be right for one business but could be the perfect fit for another.
The relationships and market insight you build will make you one of the best-connected recruitment talent experts in the industry and a source of intelligence on where the next acquisition opportunities might come from.
While senior-level hiring will be your primary focus, you'll also support hiring at all levels across the portfolio as needed.
What you'll be doing
- Partnering with CEOs: Working closely with the leadership of all 15 businesses to understand their hiring priorities, team gaps, and growth ambitions, and translating those into proactive talent plans
- Market mapping: Building and maintaining a live, structured view of senior-level talent across the recruitment sector, who's who, who's moving, and who would be excellent additions to the businesses
- Relationship building: Building credible relationships quickly, growing a strong network across the recruitment industry and becoming a trusted adviser on people's careers within that network
- Cross-portfolio matchmaking: Knowing when a great person you've met isn't right for the business you originally had in mind but is exactly what another one of the other portfolio businesses needs
- Running a structured process: Keeping yourself and your pipeline organised, disciplined, and on track, with all leads being treated warmly and effectively managed, and bringing both pace and commitment to providing an excellent candidate experience
- Acquisition intelligence: Using the strength of your network and the conversations you have to spot early signs of businesses or teams that could be a fit for future M&A activity and feeding that back to the leadership team
- Brand ambassador: Positively managing the communication and messaging for Ingenia and all portfolio partner brands to be recognised as leaders in their respective market sectors
- Travel across the portfolio: Regularly visiting our 15 recruitment businesses to build relationships with their leaders and teams in person, alongside weekly time in our London office
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What you'll bring
- Demonstrable experience as a recruiter, with a successful track record of recruiting within the recruitment industry, and a deep understanding of the market, its language and its talent
- A sophisticated understanding of how to position a role and a business to senior professionals, with the credibility to engage confidently at senior and Director level
- Proven ability to build long-term, credible relationships with senior and Director-level professionals across the recruitment sector
- Strong capability in market mapping and structured approach methodologies, applied with precision and discretion
- A structured, disciplined approach to pipeline and relationship management, with the rigour to manage a complex, multi-business remit
- Sharp commercial instincts and sound judgement, and the ability to identify opportunity, whether that's a person, a team, or a business
- A tech-savvy mindset, with confidence using data, tools and platforms to inform decision-making, and support volume and speed
- Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the gravitas to operate as a trusted advisor to CEOs and senior leadership
- Willingness and enthusiasm to travel regularly to see the portfolio businesses
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Why join us
- A genuinely unique role which sits at the centre of a fast-growing, ambitious portfolio with real influence over how it grows
- Direct exposure to 15 CEOs and leadership teams, and a seat close to the group's wider strategic and M&A thinking
- The chance to build a market-leading network in the recruitment industry, backed by a business that's investing in doing this properly
- A forward-thinking, entrepreneurial environment that moves fast, values initiative, and gives you the autonomy to build the role your way
- Hybrid working with a strong central London or Manchester base, balanced with time with the businesses you're supporting
We are investing heavily in people, leadership capability, technology, and the infrastructure that will support our growth over the next three years. This role sits at the centre of that investment: a genuine opportunity to build a strategic talent function from the ground up, with the scale, ambition and backing to make it matter.
If you are excited by the challenge of helping ambitious businesses grow through exceptional people, we would like to hear from you.
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