Broadgate
Talent Aquitsition Specialist
London
Posted about 13 hours ago
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Talent Acquisition Specialist – London (6-Month Contract)
Key Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end recruitment delivery across the business, managing assignments from role briefing through to offer, onboarding, and post-placement engagement.
- Act as a trusted recruitment partner to Hiring Managers and senior leaders, providing market intelligence, talent insights, hiring strategy, and advice on candidate attraction.
- Proactively identify, engage, and attract high-calibre passive talent through headhunting, direct sourcing, networking, referrals, competitor mapping, and targeted search methodologies.
- Build, develop, and maintain talent pipelines for current and future hiring requirements across key business areas and specialist skill sets.
- Conduct market mapping exercises to identify talent pools, competitor landscapes, succession pipelines, and emerging talent trends.
- Utilise LinkedIn Recruiter, databases, social platforms, events, and professional networks to engage hard-to-find candidates and generate talent leads.
- Qualify candidates through detailed screening, competency-based assessment, and motivational interviewing to ensure strong cultural and technical alignment.
- Manage and optimise the ATS, ensuring accurate candidate tracking, reporting, process compliance, and an excellent user experience.
- Deliver an exceptional candidate journey, maintaining proactive communication and acting as an ambassador for the employer brand throughout the hiring process.
- Drive recruitment marketing initiatives, including targeted talent campaigns, employer brand promotion, social media engagement, and networking activity.
- Leverage AI-powered sourcing and recruitment tools to identify talent, generate market insights, automate administrative activity, and improve hiring outcomes.
- Build and maintain relationships with external recruitment partners, ensuring service quality, commercial value, and compliance with internal processes.
- Support wider talent initiatives including succession planning, talent pooling, employee referral programmes, diversity hiring, and recruitment process improvement.
- Travel regularly across office locations to build stakeholder relationships, support hiring activity, attend recruitment events, conduct face-to-face meetings, and represent the business within local talent markets.
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Required Skill Set
- Proven experience in talent acquisition, executive search, recruitment consultancy, resourcing, or headhunting within professional services, financial services, accountancy, or similar sectors.
- Strong track record of directly sourcing and securing passive candidates through headhunting and proactive search methodologies.
- Demonstrable experience managing multiple assignments simultaneously across varying levels of seniority and technical specialisms.
- Expertise in LinkedIn Recruiter, talent mapping, candidate identification, and market intelligence gathering.
- Ability to influence, challenge, and advise senior stakeholders on hiring strategy, talent availability, and market conditions.
- Strong interviewing and candidate assessment skills, with the ability to identify both technical capability and cultural fit.
- Experience using ATS systems, recruitment technology, and sourcing tools in a fast-paced environment.
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Preferred Skill Set
- Experience working within an in-house executive search, talent attraction, or strategic resourcing function.
- Knowledge of professional services career pathways, qualifications, and industry talent markets.
- Experience supporting senior, niche, or hard-to-fill appointments through targeted search methodologies.
Soft Skills & Cultural Fit
- Commercially minded talent professional with a consultative and relationship-driven approach.
- Naturally curious and proactive, with the confidence to engage passive candidates and build meaningful networks.
- Highly organised with the ability to manage competing priorities and deliver against ambitious hiring targets.
- Exceptional communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills.
- Candidate-centric mindset with a passion for delivering an outstanding recruitment experience.
- Resilient, adaptable, and motivated by identifying and securing top talent.
- Collaborative team player aligned to the organisation's values and people-first culture.
Individual Conduct
- Uphold the highest standards of integrity, professionalism, and ethical recruitment practice.
- Demonstrate accountability, transparency, and discretion in all hiring decisions and stakeholder interactions.
- Adhere to company policies, governance frameworks, and compliance standards.
- Champion diversity, equity, inclusion, and fair hiring principles.
- Act as an ambassador for the organisation's values, culture, and employer brand both internally and externally.
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