Senior Executive Recruitment Consultant

Greater London Authority; London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A local government body in London is seeking a senior executive recruiter to drive talent acquisition and maintain diversity in hiring. The ideal candidate will manage the full life cycle of recruitment processes, focusing on complex organizational needs and senior leadership roles. This role emphasizes a commitment to inclusivity and creating a vibrant workforce. Competitive benefits include a pension scheme, travel allowances, and work-life balance initiatives.

Benefits

Final salary pension scheme

Free travel on the TfL network

30 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays

Qualifications

• Extensive 360 experience recruiting across complex business operations.
• Must have in-house or blended recruitment experience.
• Demonstrable management of complex stakeholder relationships.

Responsibilities

• Own the full life cycle of executive search at senior leadership levels.
• Implement succession planning approaches through targeted campaigns.
• Drive EVP messaging across social recruitment platforms.

Skills

Recruiting experience in complex operations

Senior stakeholder recruitment experience

Sourcing and headhunting passive talent

Planning and organizing skills

Understanding of recruitment processes

Executive communication and influencing skills

Strong Excel skills

Job description

Overview

executive EVP messaging to position TfL as an employer of choice. This will include working closely with strategic workforce planning, diversity & inclusion, early careers, talent management and executive leadership to gain an understanding of the business unit and TfL's long-term strategy, identifying critical roles and begin building end to end executive talent acquisition strategies to find top talent. You'll own the full life cycle of the executive search process at senior leadership levels, delivering successful recruitment activity to ensure TfL has the right talent, with the right skills, values, and behaviours, in an inclusive organisation, representative of London, where all talents can thrive, delivering our business plan. You'll bring your bold, creative, and strong recruitment perspective of the market and talent acquisition to senior hiring leaders, help build and transform future thinking of talent bringing to life our diversity and inclusion ambitions using creative techniques and transferable skills and industries. Through strong planning and persistent networking efforts you'll be recognised as the talent expert establishing credibility in knowing where talent sits, which employers and industry and where they sit though pre-existing relationships. Your talent expertise will also include internal top talented employees and where their potential career might take them in future at TfL. You'll work with our leaders to drive EVP messaging across social recruitment platforms and implement new processes to drive results that ensure we hire the very best talent to meet business needs.

You'll work with other members of the wider Talent and D&I team to implement succession planning approaches through targeted campaigns and undertaking a review of both internal and external talent pipelines for future priorities. You'll directly wield candidate pipelines internal and external to provide a comprehensive view of talent using creative efforts and positioning TfL as a career destination for each and every senior role. You'll have a relentless focus on priorities in a resource constrained environment, expert problem solver and creative thinker. The Talent team is made up of Organisational Development and Leadership (Talent Management), Early Careers Recruitment and Development, Future Skills as well as Talent Acquisition and Executive hiring. Each area plays a unique and critical role in defining a core arm of the strategy that enables TfL to attract, retain and develop the right levels of talent across a very large matrix organisation. This team is also responsible for developing and shaping the TfL EVP strategy and new sourcing strategies elevating our recruitment approach and practices to be inclusive.

Skills, knowledge and experience

• Extensive 360 experience recruiting across complex business operations within a large matrix organisation (essential)
• Must have either in house or a blend of in house and agency recruitment experience working with senior stakeholders or in house experience. Please specify the level and roles in your cover letter. (essential)
• Demonstrable experience is sourcing and headhunting passive talent (essential)
• Strong planning and organising in addition to strong attention to detail demonstrable experience (essential)
• Understanding of TfL recruitment process, employment legislation and compliance and controls.
• Proven success of executive level recruitment and research techniques (essential)
• A strong research background, market mapping and or talent profiling expertise (essential)
• Demonstrable management of complex stakeholder relationships and diagnosing their needs.
• Understanding of different approaches to executive compensation.
• Experience of design and delivering candidate assessments.
• External developments and best practice in talent and resourcing
• Executive level communication, coaching and influencing skills are critical to create credible and open relationships on talent
• Demonstrable experience to solve challenges with high levels of complexity (essential)
• Demonstrable strong communication skills, upwards, diagonally and horizontally (essential)
• Must have strong Excel experience and demonstrable attention to detail (essential)

We are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion. We want to represent the city we serve, which will help us become a more innovative and efficient organisation. Our goal is to make our recruitment as inclusive as possible. We are a disability confident employer who guarantee an interview to any disabled candidate who meets all of the essential criteria. We also use anonymising software that removes identifying information from CVs and cover letters to make the process fair.

Application Process

Think carefully about the skills, knowledge and experience in the advert and cover this in your CV (no more than 2 A4 pages Arial 11) and cover letter (1 page of A4, Arial 11) in addition to detailing your salary expectations. Applications without cover letters may not be considered. Applications made to this role within the last 6 months of advertising will also not be considered. The closing date for applications is Thursday 2nd October 2025, 23:59. Sponsorship: TfL is currently unable to provide sponsorship to candidates for this role. TfL keeps its approach under review in line with changes to UK immigration rules. We are also unable to provide advice or guidance on individual immigration queries and advise candidates to check the Government\'s website for further information.

Benefits

In return for your commitment and expertise, you will enjoy excellent benefits and scope to grow. Rewards vary according to the business area but mostly include:

• Final salary pension scheme
• Free travel for you on the TfL network
• Reimbursement of 75% of the cost of a standard class Ticket for National Rail travel from home or 75% reimbursement on a 28-day flexi ticket
• 30 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays
• TfL is committed to work-life balance, operating a hybrid working approach where business and role requirements allow.
• Private healthcare discounted scheme (optional)
• Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme
• Retail, health, leisure and travel offers
• Discounted Eurostar travel