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Permanent, full-time
London (City of London) - hybrid, 2 flexible days per week in office
£48,000 - £58,000
Benefits: not specified
Overview
A talent and employer brand consultancy is hiring a Talent Acquisition Partner based in London, working a flexible two days per week in the City of London office. The salary is £48,000 - £58,000.
This role exists because the business needs someone who spots top performers, not someone who processes CVs. You will own end-to-end hiring across a portfolio of two to three embedded client accounts, sitting close to founders and people leaders and shaping how those businesses hire. The team is small and senior, which means your work is visible quickly and your influence is real: you are not executing a playbook someone else wrote. The measure of a great year here is 60 hires with sub-10% attrition, which tells you everything about how quality and speed are balanced. If you want a role where you can point to the people you placed and say they made a genuine difference, this is it.
Key Responsibilities
- Run full-cycle hiring across your client portfolio: role kick-offs, market mapping, direct sourcing, structured screening, and offer management through to close
- Partner with hiring managers to turn vague briefs into evidence-based scorecards and interview plans they will actually use
- Build outbound pipelines with well-crafted, targeted outreach - the expectation is that most hires come from people who were not actively looking
- Own the candidate experience at every stage, including rejections: fast, honest, and human
- Use data to track and improve hiring quality, not just activity
- Leave each client account meaningfully better at hiring than you found it
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Requirements
Must-haves:
- Proven full-cycle in-house or embedded recruitment experience
- Experience working in or alongside a growth business, where you shaped things rather than followed a set process
- Strong direct sourcing skills and a track record of hiring people who were not on the market
- Genuine comfort with recruitment technology and using data to inform decisions
- Ability to manage complex stakeholder relationships across clients with different levels of hiring maturity
Nice-to-haves:
- Experience switching between deep outbound search and high-volume applicant sifting within the same role
- Background in a consultancy or embedded recruitment model
- Familiarity with employer brand or talent advisory work
What Success Looks Like
- 60 hires completed in year one, with attrition below 10% across those placements
- Client hiring managers are running better, more consistent processes than when you joined their account
- Your pipelines are predominantly built through direct outreach, not inbound applications
- Stakeholders at different levels of hiring maturity are engaged and aligned, not frustrated
- You are seen by clients as a genuine partner who challenges briefs and adds strategic value, not someone who fills orders
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Team and Culture
- Small, senior team where everyone is close to the work and the impact is visible quickly
- High standards are the baseline: the business holds itself to the same hiring experience it sells to clients
- You will work directly with founders and people leaders, with real proximity to decision-making
- Autonomy is built in: this is a role for someone who shapes things, not someone who waits to be told what to do
Challenges
- The range of work is genuinely wide: you may move from a deep, patient outbound search for a specialist hire to high-volume applicant sifting within the same week, and the bar on both needs to stay high
- Client stakeholders come with very different levels of hiring maturity, and part of the role is managing those expectations while still delivering quality
- The embedded model means your work is transparent: clients feel the difference between a good and a poor hire quickly, so there is nowhere to hide and no reason to want to
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