Junior Talent Partner (12 month FTC)

PEI Group; City Of London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading business intelligence company in the UK is looking for a Junior Talent Partner. In this role, you'll partner with departments to manage recruitment processes, requiring strong communication and stakeholder management skills. You'll handle end-to-end recruitment activities and ensure a positive candidate experience. The ideal candidate is adaptable to a fast-paced environment and experienced in client-facing roles.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Inclusive culture

Qualifications

• Experience in a customer- or client-facing role.
• Ability to engage professionally via phone, email, and in-person.
• Proven expertise in collaborating across multiple departments.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end recruitment activity and prequalify vacancies.
• Collaborate with hiring managers to create job ads.
• Screen CVs and provide feedback to candidates.

Skills

Exceptional communication skills

Stakeholder management

Organizational abilities

Interpersonal skills

Ability to thrive in fast-paced environments

Tools

Applicant Tracking Systems

CRM platforms

Job description

About The Role

As a Junior Talent Partner, you will partner with various business departments to deliver sustainable and measurable results when it comes to cost, time and quality of hires through effective sourcing, pipeline and forecasting activities. You will build and maintain a strong talent pool of candidates whilst being the key individual who champions the various recruitment processes. You will constantly act as a brand ambassador, working closely with various teams to ensure the right people with the right skills and attitude are hired into the business.

Your role will be to support our full cycle recruiting processes for our specialist Business Divisions. This includes identifying hiring needs, advertising job openings online, driving down hiring costs by using a direct hire model, providing first class candidate experiences to build our reputation in the jobs marketplace – ensuring all our methods of selection and assessment, are fair equal and inclusive.

Roles & Responsibilities

Our Talent Partners act as the operational partner to their aligned business area and are responsible for all hiring activity as well as Talent development and retention initiatives including (but not limited to):

• Embed the centralised Recruitment Process across Business Divisions.
• Own end to end recruitment activity, prequalifying all vacancies in line with internal sign off process.
• Collaborate with hiring line managers to support the creation of job ads for current openings.
• Advertise all vacancies on careers pages, job boards, social networks and our ATS, Eploy.
• Support and maximise our employee referral scheme.
• Act as key point of contact with third party recruitment agencies.
• Assist and provide support to managers on a range of recruitment best practises including bias and recruitment interview coaching, onboarding, and fair and inclusive interview methods.
• Support Head of Talent with Talent Development initiatives such as Work Experience, Internships, Graduate fairs, Leadership programmes plus many more.
• Produce regular reports for HR teams and wider business using a set of agreed recruitment metrics. Ensuring EDI features front and centre in this.
• Screen CVs and applications and update candidates on hiring processes.
• Ownership of phone screen qualification calls and assisting on 1st and 2nd stage interviews when required.
• Evaluate candidates based on their interviews and assessment performances.
• Provide candidates with interview feedback.
• Liaise with all parts of the global business for business divisions including – UK, US and APAC.
• Work extremely closely with all hiring line managers in your business divisions in a coaching and consultative way.
• Working closely with Global Talent Partners to ensure a consistent and structured process is followed.
• Work closely with the Global HR Team in ensuring that key recruitment metrics are recorded and exceeded.

About You

Requirements

Essential Experience

• Demonstrated experience in a customer- or client-facing role.
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to engage professionally and promptly via phone, email, and in-person interactions.
• Proven expertise in stakeholder management, with a track record of effective collaboration across multiple departments.

Desired Experience

• Familiarity with ATS systems or CRM platforms, ideally Eploy.
• Experience in recruitment, whether in-house, agency, or a similar capacity.
• Experience supporting or coordinating work experience initiatives, graduate programs, and career fairs.

Essential Knowledge/Skills

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Comprehensive understanding of the full recruitment lifecycle.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, fostering positive working relationships.
• Strong organisational and time management abilities, with capacity to manage multiple priorities effectively.

About Us

PEI Group is a subscriber-focused business intelligence company. With our multi-talented global team of over 490 people, spread across EMEA, USA & Asia, our purpose is to inform and connect investment professionals across global, specialised markets. We identify specific high growth, high value investment sectors and themes where deep insight, strong market relationships and active capital flows are critical for success.

PEI Group provides industry-leading journalism, data, and market insight to subscribing clients via a wide portfolio of specialist brands supported by our robust and scalable digital publishing, analytics, and database platform. We also track the firms and individuals who shape markets and bring client-communities together to enable knowledge sharing, profile building and relationship development through professional networks and events. Wherever our markets are active – in New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Sydney, Hong Kong, Singapore, London and elsewhere – PEI is hard at work examining crucial market forces and shifting investment themes, identifying active investors and their capital allocations, and scanning ahead for regulatory changes, new compliance requirements and other risk factors.

At PEI we value diverse talent and welcome applications from everyone – regardless of background. We are an equal opportunity employer and our inclusive culture at PEI is reflected in every stage of the recruitment journey. Please inform us at initial stages of the recruitment process if you require any reasonable adjustments and we can accommodate this.

PEI Group supports flexible working arrangements, and we welcome career returners.