Principal Talent Acquisition Specialist - Technical Roles (Edinburgh Onsite)

AMS; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment firm in Edinburgh is seeking a Principal TA Specialist to support client hiring managers with filling technical vacancies. You will leverage data-driven strategies to deliver quality recruitment services while managing stakeholder relationships. The ideal candidate has proven experience in technical recruiting, excellent communication skills, and the ability to navigate a global context. This role offers completion of recruitment processes and a competitive benefits package.

Benefits

Full training and support

Flexible working

Competitive reward and benefits package

Career opportunities in recruitment

Qualifications

• Proven experience recruiting for technical roles is a must.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to build long-lasting relationships with candidates, clients, and teammates.
• Strong customer focus and the ability to manage senior stakeholders.
• Analytical mind, attention to detail, and practical approach.
• Capable of dealing with ambiguity and ever-changing priorities.
• Global/regional experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Execute candidate sourcing and attraction plan including engaging candidates from known talent pools.
• Ensure recruitment services meet contractual obligations and client SLAs.
• Lead hiring strategy meetings with hiring managers.
• Use data led sourcing insights to determine hiring strategy for each requisition.
• Review CVs and screen candidates to present quality shortlisted candidates to hiring managers.
• Deliver excellent candidate experience from first contact to start date.
• Drive hiring decisions and lead offer negotiations.
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with senior hiring managers/stakeholders.

Skills

Experience recruiting for technical roles

Excellent communication skills

Strong customer focus

Analytical mind

Ability to manage senior stakeholders

Experience with different geographies and cultures

Job description

About Us

Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom (onsite x 3 Days/week)

Job Type & Duration: Permanent - Full Time

Experience in recruitment of technical roles is a must.

Join our World of Talent

Global, culturally diverse, inclusive, and innovative - welcome to AMS, where talent is our world. Over the last two decades, AMS has redefined the landscape of talent outsourcing and consulting. From pioneering the concept of RPO to continually revolutionising how organisations approach talent acquisition, AMS stands as a world leader in the industry.

Committed, engaged, and inspired, we feel a real sense of belonging, and all have one thing in common: a real passion for talent. Become part of this world and make a difference with us.

https://www.weareams.com/

The Role

The Principal TA Specialist will support client hiring managers with filling their technical vacancies to target start dates, ensuring all quality thresholds and SLA/KPIs are met. They will deliver excellent recruitment services to the client in line with agreed service levels, acting as the custodian of candidate quality and the hiring manager experience.

They will use a range of data led sourcing insights to determine the best hiring strategy for each requisition, leveraging data, historic hiring trends, and market analysis to find the best talent in the market.

Principal TA Specialist's will be aligned to high-touch client business units or stakeholder groups that require additional attention, this includes more challenging or senior stakeholder group, more complex or hard to fill role types, roles that have a greater strategic significance.

Principal TA Specialist's may also be aligned in cases where they are the only AMS resource in a specific geographical location.

Key Accountabilities

What you'll be doing

Recruitment Delivery

• Execute candidate sourcing and attraction plan including engaging candidates from known talent pools (Internal ATS/ CRM Alumni pools etc.)
• Ensure recruitment services meet contractual obligations and client SLAs.
• Lead hiring strategy meetings to agree on recruitment plans with hiring managers.
• Use data led sourcing insights to determine the best hiring strategy for each requisition, leveraging data, historic hiring trends, and market analysis
• Review CVs and compliantly and comprehensively screen candidates to present quality shortlisted candidates to hiring managers, coaching the managers through their candidate selection decisions at shortlist & interview
• Deliver excellent candidate experience from first contact through interview process to start date.
• Drive hiring decisions and lead offer negotiations.
• Address potential stakeholder issues and share knowledge to enhance recruitment delivery.
• Support defined future hiring requirements by talent pooling relevant quality candidates, when suitable live vacancies are not available.

Technology and Compliance

• Track candidate status and requisition updates in relevant systems.
• Identify and flag scope creep for account contractual management.
• Ensure compliance with relevant legislation and track compliance risks

Client Stakeholder Relationships

• Build and maintain trusted relationships with senior hiring managers/stakeholders. (see role purpose for description of types of stakeholders)

Internal Stakeholder Relationships

• Collaborate with Talent Sourcing, Insights, Talent Attraction, and Administration teams for a smooth client and candidate experience.

Skills & Experience

You'll need to demonstrate

• Proven experience recruiting for technical roles is a must.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to build long-lasting relationships with candidates, clients and teammates.
• Strong customer focus and the ability to manage senior stakeholders.
• An analytical mind, attention to detail and practical approach.
• Previous international exposure to working with different geographies and cultures
• Capable of dealing with ambiguity and everchanging priorities
• Global/regional experience preferred.

Other

Why AMS?

At AMS, we recognise the value of different perspectives and experiences in prompting innovation, sparking creativity, and solving problems.

We come from every walk of life, and our culture is open and inclusive. Our people enjoy flexibility, autonomy, and being trusted to work their way. We offer you career opportunities in every direction you want to explore. It's our world but you can do it your way.

We offer

• Full training and support
• High value and challenging work
• A vibrant, diverse, and collaborative culture
• Flexible working
• A competitive reward and benefits package*
• The opportunity to embark on a recruitment career with one of the world's leading recruitment companies

* Details may vary slightly depending on your location, local labour law, etc.

Our culture of inclusion and belonging.

We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, and all aspects of employment are based on merit, qualifications, and business needs. We do not discriminate based upon age, disability, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, or any other applicable legally protected characteristic.

If you require any accommodations or have any accessibility needs, please reach out via email [e-mail] or make a member of our Talent Acquisition team aware at any time.

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We take pride in being Disability Confident. This helps to ensure that you can be interviewed fairly if you have a disability, long- term health conditions, or are neurodiverse. You will be shortlisted based on minimum criteria for the role and will be offered support and/or adjustments for the recruitment process if you wish.