Global Talent Acquisition Specialist

Mpac Group; Church Fenton; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global recruitment firm in Church Fenton is seeking a Talent Acquisition Specialist. This high-impact role focuses on sourcing and hiring exceptional talent across the EMEA, APAC, and Americas. Responsibilities include managing the full recruitment lifecycle, developing attraction strategies, and driving direct sourcing initiatives. The ideal candidate will possess extensive recruitment expertise, strong stakeholder management abilities, and experience in fast-paced environments. This role is essential for shaping workforce capabilities and enhancing candidate experiences.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Health benefits

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Corporate Recruiter within a global organization.
• Strong experience hiring across multiple job families including commercial and technical roles.
• Track record of managing complex stakeholder groups.

Responsibilities

• Act as a global ambassador for employer branding.
• Manage the full recruitment lifecycle from role briefing to onboarding.
• Drive direct sourcing strategies to reduce reliance on agencies.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Commercial awareness

Recruitment expertise

Data analysis

Tools

LinkedIn Recruiter

ATS platforms

Microsoft Excel

Job description

The Talent Acquisition Specialist is responsible for attracting, sourcing, and hiring high-quality talent across multiple regions (EMEA, APAC, US and Canada) and business functions. Operating as a strategic partner to hiring managers and senior leaders, the role plays a critical part in shaping workforce capability, ensuring exceptional candidate experience, and delivering against global growth objectives.

This is a high-impact, fast-paced role with visibility across the organisation, requiring strong stakeholder management, commercial awareness, and deep recruitment expertise.

Key Accountabilities / Responsibilities

• Act as a global ambassador for the employer brand in all candidate and market interactions
• Develop and deliver attraction strategies for core skill areas and hard-to-fill roles
• Build proactive talent pipelines through market mapping, networking, and direct sourcing
• Support early careers, diversity, and inclusion recruitment initiatives globally
• Drive direct sourcing strategies and reduce agency dependency where possible
• Support EVP and employer branding initiatives

Stakeholder Partnership

• Build trusted relationships with Executive leadership, HRBPs, and hiring managers
• Translate business strategy and workforce plans into effective recruitment delivery
• Provide expert guidance on hiring strategies, market conditions, compensation benchmarking, and assessment methods
• Challenge hiring decisions constructively to ensure quality and consistency
• Partner with business leaders to forecast hiring demand and manage recruitment pipelines

End-to-End Recruitment Delivery

• Manage the full recruitment lifecycle from role briefing through to offer and handover to the HR teams for onboarding
• Deliver full-cycle recruitment across corporate, technical, commercial, and leadership roles globally
• Lead direct sourcing strategies using LinkedIn, job boards, referrals, and headhunting
• Conduct structured screening and interview processes to ensure high-quality assessment
• Manage offer process in line with reward and governance frameworks
• Ensure exceptional candidate experience across all touchpoints
• Support onboarding and early engagement for new hires

Recruitment Operations & Governance

• Ensure recruitment activity is compliant with employment legislation and GDPR across all locations
• Maintain clean, accurate data within the ATS
• Manage agency relationships and ensure adherence to PSL and cost frameworks
• Monitor recruitment spend and deliver cost-efficient hiring solutions
• Manage agency performance, fees, and service delivery
• Ensure compliance with recruitment policy, employment law, and data protection

Performance & Continuous Improvement

• Track key recruitment KPIs including time-to-hire, cost-per-hire, and quality-of-hire
• Continuously improve recruitment processes, tools, and candidate experience
• Implement best-practice sourcing, assessment, and selection methodologies globally
• Use data and insight to influence hiring strategy and decision-making
• Contribute to global talent strategy and workforce planning activity

Outputs/Deliverables

• Qualified talent pipelines for critical and hard-to-fill roles
• Successful hires across all role types and seniority levels globally
• Recruitment forecasts and pipeline reports aligned to workforce plans
• Market intelligence reports on talent availability, compensation trends, and competitor activity
• Candidate experience feedback and satisfaction metrics
• Recruitment KPI dashboards and performance reporting for senior leadership
• Updated and accurate ATS data and candidate records
• Agency performance scorecards and cost analysis
• Compliant recruitment documentation and audit-ready records
• Employer brand content and candidate engagement campaigns
• Diversity recruitment outcomes and early careers intake
• Process improvement recommendations and implementation plans
• Onboarding support documentation and new hire engagement materials

Core Values & Competencies

Mpac Core Values

• Integrity
• Drive
• Collaboration
• Expertise
• Innovation

Knowledge and Experience

• Proven experience as a Corporate Recruiter within a global or multi-site organisation.
• Strong experience hiring across multiple job families including commercial, technical, and leadership roles.
• Track record of partnering with senior leaders and managing complex stakeholder groups.
• Strong direct sourcing and market mapping capability.
• Experience managing high-volume and specialist recruitment simultaneously.
• Knowledge of global employment practices and recruitment compliance.
• Experience delivering recruitment in fast-paced, scaling, or transformation environments

Technical Skills and Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in LinkedIn Recruiter, job boards, and ATS platforms.
• Skilled in competency-based interviewing and assessment methodologies.
• Strong knowledge of recruitment legislation, GDPR, and hiring governance.
• Excellent communication, influencing, and negotiation skills.
• Strong data analysis and reporting capability.
• Microsoft suite experience including Excel
• Commercial acumen

Reporting Line
Reports to: Global HR Director

Direct Reports (if applicable): N/A

Working relationships with: Global HR teams, hiring managers SLT and ExCom