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Senior Talent Specialist
Location: Hybrid (UK-based) — combination of remote working and regular in person days at regional hubs and client sites as required Contract: Full-time, permanent Salary: Competitive, plus bonus and comprehensive benefits
About the role:
We are seeking a Senior Talent Specialist to lead and enhance our talent attraction and engagement activities across multiple sectors. The role will combine hands-on sourcing, candidate experience ownership and stakeholder partnership to deliver high-quality short and long-term hires. The successful candidate will act as a senior point of contact for hiring managers, coach more junior recruiters, and drive continuous improvement across processes and systems.
Key responsibilities:
- Lead end-to-end recruitment for assigned vacancies: manage briefs with hiring managers, design sourcing strategies, shortlist candidates, coordinate interviews and support offer negotiation to achieve time-to-hire and quality targets.
- Senior stakeholder management: build trusted relationships with hiring managers and HR partners, provide regular recruitment update meetings, and consult on workforce planning and role design.
- Candidate experience and employer brand: own the candidate journey from attraction to onboarding, ensuring consistent communication, timely feedback and positive experience that supports retention.
- Coaching and development: mentor and support junior talent team members, share best practice sourcing techniques, and contribute to team training sessions to raise capability and performance.
- Proactive sourcing and talent pipelining: use direct sourcing, networking, social media, job boards and ATS to build diverse pipelines for current and future demand.
- Data and reporting: maintain accurate ATS records, produce regular MI (weekly/monthly) including vacancy trackers, time-to-hire and pipeline metrics, and use insight to recommend improvements.
- Process and compliance: ensure recruitment activity complies with internal policies and relevant employment legislation; support continuous improvement projects and system optimisations.
- Support flexible working patterns including occasional evenings or site visits as required by hiring needs.
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Who we’re looking for:
- Experience: Significant, demonstrable experience in end-to-end recruitment or talent acquisition, ideally within staffing, in-house or agency environments at a senior level.
- Commercial acumen: Comfortable managing multiple stakeholders, prioritising vacancies and identifying opportunities to improve recruitment outcomes and reduce costs.
- Technical: Confident using ATS/CRM systems, sourcing tools and reporting platforms; able to interpret data to inform decisions and optimise workflows.
- Skills: Excellent communication and influencing skills, strong assessment and interviewing capability, proactive problem-solving and effective time management.
- Attributes: Collaborative, resilient, adaptable to change, committed to candidate fairness and continuous learning.
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What’s on offer:
- Competitive salary with performance bonus and a market-leading benefits package
- Career development and progression opportunities within a global staffing and talent business
- Supportive team culture, ongoing training and access to modern recruitment technology
Additional information:
The role requires occasional travel to regional hubs and client sites; flexibility in working hours may be required to support recruitment events or interviews.
Gi Group is committed to equality of opportunity and encourages applications from people of all backgrounds.
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