Hays
Talent Partner
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Talent Partner - Contingent
Hays, Leicester
3 days in office per week
About the role:
As a Talent Partner, you will play a key role in both delivering contingent recruitment activity and building future talent pipelines across the FCA. Working closely with hiring managers and key stakeholders, you'll manage end-to-end recruitment processes while proactively identifying, engaging, and nurturing talent through data-driven sourcing and CRM strategies.
You'll act as a trusted advisor, providing market intelligence, recruitment expertise, and insights that support workforce planning, inclusive hiring practices, and successful hiring outcomes. This is a highly collaborative role that combines hands-on recruitment delivery with strategic talent pooling and attraction activity.
Who we are:
With over 50 years of business success, we have a reputation as the world leader in specialist recruitment and workforce solutions. Joining Hays isn’t just about being part of a global business leader, it’s about making a difference in the world of work.
Key responsibilities
Recruitment delivery
- Manage end-to-end contingent recruitment and contract hiring activity, from vacancy intake through to offer stage.
- Deliver recruitment activity in line with agreed SLAs and RPO performance metrics, including time-to-offer, shortlist quality, and hiring manager satisfaction.
- Screen, assess, and shortlist candidates against business requirements and role criteria.
- Advise hiring managers on recruitment best practice, market conditions, candidate availability, and inclusive hiring approaches.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders to support hiring plans and workforce objectives.
- Promote fair, inclusive, and skills-based recruitment practices throughout the recruitment lifecycle.
- Provide regular updates and recruitment insights to stakeholders, ensuring transparency and effective decision-making.
- Support and oversee contractor onboarding and compliance activities, working with candidates, screening providers, and internal teams to ensure all pre-engagement checks are completed within agreed timescales.
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Talent pooling & talent attraction
- Identify, engage, and nurture high-potential candidates through CRM-led, data-driven sourcing strategies.
- Build and maintain diverse talent pipelines aligned to current and future hiring requirements.
- Conduct screening conversations and proactively invite suitable candidates into relevant talent pools.
- Utilise recruitment marketing, social media, email campaigns, direct sourcing, and CRM technology to attract and engage talent communities.
- Act as a subject matter expert on candidate markets, sourcing methodologies, talent availability, and emerging recruitment trends.
- Partner with hiring managers to demonstrate CRM capability, monitor talent pool performance, and improve talent pool-to-hire conversion rates.
- Work closely with Employer Brand and attraction teams to develop engaging candidate communications and outreach campaigns.
- Support diversity-focused attraction initiatives and outreach programmes to strengthen talent pipelines and improve representation across talent communities.
- Share market intelligence, competitor insights, and candidate feedback gathered through sourcing and screening activities to inform hiring strategies and workforce planning.
- Maintain regular engagement with talent pool candidates through job matching, tailored communications, and proactive relationship management.
What you'll bring
- Experience managing end-to-end recruitment processes within an RPO, agency, in-house, or MSP environment.
- Strong sourcing capability, including LinkedIn Recruiter, CRM platforms, and direct search methodologies.
- Experience building and nurturing talent pipelines and talent communities.
- Ability to influence and advise stakeholders using recruitment data, market intelligence, and hiring insights.
- Strong relationship-building and stakeholder management skills.
- Knowledge of inclusive, skills-based recruitment practices.
- Excellent communication, organisation, and prioritisation skills within a fast-paced environment.
- Experience supporting contractor onboarding and recruitment compliance processes would be advantageous.
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Our culture
Our culture is driven by our valued behaviours; at Hays we encourage everyone to be:
- Be bold and curious: we are ambitious, push outside our comfort zone and experiment
- Own the outcomes: we strive for performance, see things through & always act with integrity
- Be better together: we support, celebrate and share with each other to create stronger outcomes for all
- Champion the customer: we proactively partner with our customers to build better, profitable solutions
What you will get in return:
- Culture built on rewarding success and the opportunity to influence your earning potential
- Best technology in the industry and a renowned training programme to support success and drive rapid career progression and ongoing development
- Flexible hybrid working patterns
- Opportunity to take your career globally
- Incentives and rewards to recognise performance both locally, regionally and nationally
- Broad range of employee wellbeing initiatives and benefits
- Referral bonus scheme
- Community of support networks from Hays Pride to Parents@Hays
- Paid charity day for all employees #HaysHelps and working closely with charity partners
At Hays, we know that diverse teams deliver better results, and that inclusion fuels our innovation. We’re committed to building a culture where different perspectives are embraced and where all of our people can flourish.
As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we see Diversity, Equity & Inclusion not just as the right thing to do but also as a business advantage. We welcome applicants from talented people of all backgrounds who want to grow with us & contribute to our shared success.
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