Senior Talent Acquisition Advisor

TfGM Greater Manchester (Piccadilly Place); Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 43,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous annual leave

Free travel on buses across Greater GM

Local Government pension scheme

Flexible and hybrid working

Wellbeing support

Job summary

TfGM Greater Manchester (Piccadilly Place) is seeking a Senior Talent Acquisition Advisor to turn talent, inclusion and workforce priorities into practical improvements in recruitment and candidate experience in Manchester.

You will report to the Talent Acquisition Manager and lead on ED&I initiatives, workforce planning, governance of suppliers, and use labour-market information to drive evidence-led decisions. This is a permanent role with a salary of £43,335 - £48,087 per year.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering recruitment, talent, inclusion, or workforce projects, including ED&I initiatives and workforce-planning activities.
• Ability to turn workforce, recruitment, and labour-market data into practical actions.
• Strong stakeholder management, planning and communication skills, with CIPD membership or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Deliver recruitment, talent, inclusion, and workforce initiatives from planning through to completion.
• Coordinate actions, milestones, dependencies and risks; produce evidence of progress and impact.
• Improve recruitment processes and systems; strengthen governance and supplier arrangements.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Planning

Communication

Inclusion

Evidence-led decisions

Education

CIPD membership or equivalent

Tools

Recruitment systems

Job description

Are you experienced in turning talent, inclusion, and workforce priorities into practical improvements? Are you looking for an opportunity to improve how an organisation attracts, recruits, and supports a diverse workforce?

We are looking for a Senior Talent Acquisition Advisor to join TfGM’s People Team and help deliver initiatives supporting strategic workforce planning, our ED&I action plan, talent attraction, candidate experience and continuous service improvement.

Your Role

Reporting to the Talent Acquisition Manager, you will deliver recruitment, talent, inclusion, and workforce initiatives from planning through to completion. You will coordinate actions, milestones, dependencies, and risks, while producing clear evidence of progress and impact. Your work will include improving recruitment processes and systems, strengthening governance and supplier arrangements and using workforce, recruitment, and labour-market information to inform decisions. You will also deliver targeted attraction, employer brand, and inclusion activity that improves accessibility and candidate outcomes.

For more information, please see the Job Profile.

Who are we?

You will join TfGM’s People Team, working with colleagues across the organisation to support workforce priorities and improve how we attract and recruit talent. The role involves close collaboration with recruiting managers, Heads of Service, departmental managers, Directorate Management Teams, Trade Union colleagues, employee networks, suppliers, and other People colleagues. It offers the opportunity to make a practical contribution to inclusive recruitment, workforce planning, candidate experience, and the ongoing development of TfGM’s recruitment service.

What you’ll bring

What you do and how you do it is important. At TfGM, our behaviours bring to life our values of Deliver, Care and Adapt. You will have experience of delivering recruitment, talent, inclusion, or workforce projects, including ED&I initiatives, workforce‑planning activity, and operational or system improvements. You will be able to turn workforce, recruitment, and labour‑market data into practical actions. You will bring strong stakeholder management, planning, and communication skills, alongside CIPD membership, an equivalent professional qualification, or equivalent experience. You will be proactive, inclusive, organised, evidence‑led, and able to manage competing priorities while maintaining quality and attention to detail.

What we can offer you

This is an opportunity to influence practical improvements across talent acquisition, inclusion, workforce planning, recruitment systems and candidate experience, while continuing to develop your professional expertise within a collaborative People Team.

This is a permanent role and comes with a salary of £43,335 - £48,087 per annum depending on experience

Our benefits include:

• Generous annual leave starting at 28 days (plus bank holidays), increasing with service, with options to buy more.
• Free travel on buses across Greater Manchester, plus rail or Metrolink travel for your commute, and access to our Electric Vehicle salary sacrifice scheme.
• Local Government defined pension scheme with life cover of 3x salary and options to boost your contributions.
• Enhanced family-friendly leave policies, including those supporting fertility treatment, alongside flexible and hybrid working and a special leave policy to support a range of unexpected events. Please note that qualification criteria may apply, including a requirement to have been employed with the organisation for a minimum specified period of time.
• Discover more benefits including wellbeing support, Personal and Career Development, Flexible working, financial support and more on our website

Please note we may close the advert early if we receive a high volume of applications.

NOTE TO AGENCIES we will be accepting direct applications only for this role. No fee will be paid if a candidate is hired for this position as a result of an unsolicited agency or search firm referral CV.

TfGM is proud to be an equal opportunities employer that encourages and celebrates diversity. We want to recruit and retain a workforce that reflects the communities we serve and welcome individuals from all backgrounds by committing to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. We will offer support and reasonable adjustments if required, and we also have a Guaranteed Assessment Scheme.

For this opportunity, you must be able to prove you have the right to work in the UK. Please note that TfGM is not a licensed sponsor.

Supporting Documents

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