Your new role

As European Talent Acquisition Partner, you will manage end-to-end recruitment across a broad portfolio of corporate, specialist and operational vacancies across the UK and Europe.Working closely with senior leaders and hiring managers, you will provide advice on sourcing strategies, talent availability, salary expectations and recruitment risks. You will take ownership of vacancies from the initial briefing through to offer and pre-employment handover, ensuring both candidates and stakeholders receive a high-quality service.Alongside day-to-day recruitment delivery, you will:

• Build talent pipelines through proactive sourcing, advertising and professional networks.
• Lead vacancy briefings and agree realistic recruitment plans with hiring managers.
• Manage screening, interviews, assessments, feedback and offers.
• Provide market insight to support workforce and resource planning.
• Use recruitment data to monitor pipelines, vacancy age, process times and hiring outcomes.
• Support improvements to recruitment processes, systems, assessment methods and supplier relationships.
• Promote fair, inclusive and evidence-based selection practices.
• Ensure recruitment activity meets relevant approval, documentation, privacy and compliance requirements.

What you'll need to succeed

You will be an experienced recruiter with a strong track record of managing end-to-end campaigns in an internal talent acquisition team, recruitment outsourcing environment or agency.

You will also bring:

• Confident direct sourcing and candidate engagement skills.
• Experience recruiting across different functions, specialist areas and levels of seniority.
• The ability to manage a busy and varied vacancy portfolio.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including the confidence to challenge constructively.
• A commercial approach and the ability to use market information to shape hiring decisions.
• Experience using applicant tracking systems, recruitment platforms and digital sourcing tools.
• Excellent organisation, communication and attention to detail.
• Exposure to a technical, engineering, property, consultancy, project-led or professional services environment.

Previous experience recruiting across more than one European market, supporting recruitment change projects or working with recruitment technology would be particularly valuable. An additional European language would also be beneficial, although it is not essential.

What you'll get in return

You will join an international business offering autonomy, broad stakeholder exposure and the opportunity to influence how recruitment is delivered across different markets.The package will include a competitive salary and a flexible range of benefits, which may include:

• Hybrid and flexible working.
• Competitive annual leave.
• Health and wellbeing support.
• Professional development opportunities.
• Employee discounts, travel benefits or other locally available benefits.
• Opportunities to participate in volunteering and community initiatives.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced recruiter who enjoys combining hands-on recruitment delivery with stakeholder advisory work, market insight and continuous improvement.

What you need to do now

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